Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Good News

We bought a house! We've been looking since late 2008 without much success - with three separate houses they sold or were pulled from the market right before we could make an offer. We thought it was a buyer's market, but apparently that doesn't apply to foreclosures in our area - they are selling like wildfire when they're at the right price. My sister Megan is our fabulous realtor and she took us to see a listing, a foreclosure that had just come on the market on Saturday. We fell in love with it as soon as we walked in the front door. There's almost nothing we need to change, and it's big enough that we can potentially stay there forever (assuming I don't have sextuplets next time we do IVF.) The yard is large for the neighborhood and already landscaped. We were anxious when we heard that there were other offers but figured if it was meant to be it would work out. We heard from the listing agent this morning that we were tied with someone else for the highest offer, so we increased our offer by just a little bit hoping it would be enough. Apparently it was, because we got it! We're closing in February.

And now you know why I didn't blog about it before, because the details of real estate transactions are only interesting to those directly involved with them.

Here are some pictures - that's less boring, right? I'm already thinking about how I'm going to decorate. Once we save up some money after blowing our life savings on the house itself.

Exterior

Front hall staircase

Living/Dining Rooms

Kitchen/Family Room

Kitchen

Breakfast Room/Solarium

Deck/Backyard

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

17 comments:

  1. WOW!!! Congratulations! Next month? How am I supposed to redeem myself from being the worst VT in one month??

    I'm really happy for you guys, but very sad that you'll be leaving our ward. I'm quite jealous of your huge house, too. It looks gorgeous! Yea!!

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  2. It is gorgeous! Congrats. And now that I know how close you live to Dulles, I'll have to stop by next time I visit out there!

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  3. It is even better in person. I am so glad that they accepted our offer! Cannot wait to send Caroline there for a weekend sometime soon. I would love to help decorate too!

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  4. I totally LOVE it!! I love that red room as well as all the windows in the kitchen. How perfect!! I'm so glad something worked out for you! How exciting!

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  5. Wow, that is HUGE! You'll need a maid now. :) It looks beautiful and I love the kitchen and wood floors! And the staircase. :) I'm so happy you found what you wanted in the area you wanted. You must have a fabulous realtor! :) Hooray!

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  6. awesome!!!!! i'm hoping to be in your shoes some time this summer. you will have tons of fun decorating.:)

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  7. Hurray! How exciting. It looks gorgeous.

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  8. So amazing! Congrats. The house looks awesome!

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  9. Yay hooray! It looks fabulous!

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  10. Congratulations! The house looks beautiful, and plenty of room to grow. Moving is exciting (but very stressful). You guys will be in my in-law's ward. Maybe we will see you guys there sometime : )

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  11. That's so fantastic!!!! Congratulations. Where is it??

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  12. That is so exciting! I'm so glad you posted pictures - I love being able to visualize you there. Congrats again, but we will miss you! Good thing you won't be too far.

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  13. Wow! What a fabulous place!!!

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  14. I am SO thrilled for you. And as I said on Venus, I adore that house. It is FAB-U-LOUS. I'm jealous. I can't wait to see it once you've moved in!

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  15. It's a gorgeous house. And, it has solarium. I'd just sit in there and soak up the sun all day long.

    Congratulations!

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  16. I love your house, I don't even need to tell you how jealous I am.
    That breakfast room area kills me! It's so amazing. Congrats again Chelsea!

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