Home Sweet Home

I feel bad that it has taken me this long to do an update on our house hunting. But I'm happy to report that we are under contract on a house right now!!! I can't tell you how excited we were to find this house. As my sister put it, "it is a diamond in the rough." By that she means that out of all the houses in our price range we actually found one in a nice neighborhood AND in nice shape. It seemed like for awhile it was one or the other not both together.

Shawn saw the house first on a Wednesday evening and I went and looked at it the next day and fell in love. Shawn had picked out two that he said he would like to put an offer on so I was going with the idea in my head that I was going to have a tough decision to make. The first house I went to with Crystal was the one we are buying. While I was in there I was walking around just merely looking at it but meanwhile keeping in mind that there was still one other to consider.

As Crystal was driving me to the second one I started to get a not so excited feeling. We were driving down 6200 S headed for 5000 W. So technically even though we were headed to a "West Jordan" home, we were driving straight through Kearns. When we turned on the street that it was on off the busy road my feeling of disappointment grew and I knew no matter how nice this house was (from what I saw in pictures and what Shawn told me) I wouldn't live in that area. I walked through the whole house, that had been completely updated I might add, with only one thought in my head, "I hate the neighborhood." How is that for helping me decide between two nice houses?

I told Crystal I don't know what Shawn was seeing, I said he must have fallen in love with the inside to completely disregard what the neighborhood looked like. We decided to drive around a little and I was reassured even more that this house won't even get a second thought. So naturally I let my heart do what it wanted to do the minute I saw the other house. Dream of it being our "home sweet home."

Our soon-to-be new home is in Taylorsville (the zip code changes that just recently occurred changed it from West Jordan to Taylorsville). It is in a very cute neighborhood, not too far from where we both work, and was safe enough for little kids to be out running around together at night without parents watching too closely. Not to mention we know (well kind of know) people who have lived in there a long time. My ex-roommates parents live in there, my sister's friends live in there, and my sister's other friend's parents live in there. I'm so excited.

Now what you really look at any blog for, the pictures.

How cute is this house???? I mean seriously!!!

Upstairs living room (split entry house)

Kitchen (yes ALL appliances included)

Dining Area (nice and spacious)

I think this is the basement living room, can't remember.

Master bedroom (it has TWO closets, heck yes!!!)

Upstairs bathroom (we have 1 1/2 baths total)

2nd bedroom (4 bedrooms total)

Backyard (Soon Meeko's favorite place to be. Notice the cute deck)

We are suppose to close Aug 31 if everything continues to go well. The inspection is done and the seller is fixing the four items that we requested them to fix. The appraisal just came in today and it all looks good minus the furnace didn't start up, so they need to address that problem before the appraisal can be finalized. It might be because the house was so hot in the first place but who knows. Secretly I am hoping they have to buy a new one and there is no extra cost to us, here's to hoping.

The only thing I am really worried about now is our whole apartment situation. We might just have to pay out $1400 to get out of our lease TWO months early. Well technically it would be like a month and half (giving us time to move out and clean). But thankfully we won't have a house payment due until October, so that somewhat helps.

Maybe next time I post about our house will be how happier we are in our new home.....FINGERS CROSSED!!!