Updates...

Okay so first I know you are wondering about a house. We did put a new bid in on a different house. This will make the 3rd house we've put an offer on. The offer was accepted and the first round of paper work has been signed, sealed and sent. We are now awaiting the okay from them to start inspections. As soon as it passes inspection then we can finalize our loan and set a closing. We should hear back about when we can do inspections between Wednesday and Friday this week! This house is over in Foothillls. Its a double wide, with 4 bedrooms and two baths. We hope this is "the one".

As for us, we are chugging along. The girls and I have been sick for a couple months now. Starting with influenza B at the beginning of last month and (hopefully) ending with a nasty cold we are in the process of kicking.

Baylie and Daisy are still in preschool and loving it. James is still with L&H and loving it. I'm still at home and trying to figure out if I want to go back to work this fall after Baylie starts Kindergarten. I am just about to start a business at home selling Passion Parties. So I am working at building some clientele before I beginning the selling part.

Other than that we are gearing up for PJ's first birthday in 13 days. I cannot believe that my baby is 13 days from being one year old :o( It makes me sad to think about how fast they grow up. She is trying to walk, and I know once she does we will never have a calm moment in our household again!

That's the news in the Soesbe House!

We like it!

We went and saw the first house today. We REALLY like it! Its just right for us and so we made an offer. Same process as the first time. We made a low offer- and we will see if they come back with a counter offer or if they accept it. Fingers crossed, if we reach a price agreement we could get the ball rolling asap!

I forgot my camera, but I will be asking the agent if we can go back to look again so that I can take some pictures. But we are both very excited about it!

Happy Saturday!

Hi all! Today is going to be a very productive day for the Soesbe house. I have a load of dishes washing, a load of clothes washing and I am getting ready to hit the shower so I can hit the Cam-Plex garage sale! I have a box of clothes to drop off to a friend and then home to help feed kids lunch and then nap time. Then James and I are going to look at two houses! I am super excited for this. We have been waiting all week to look :o). Then the afternoon will be spent relaxing before we have some friends over for supper (spaghetti with Kielbasa sausage and garlic bread). I will post later about the houses we looked at. If we decide to make an offer you all will be the first to know! Ta ta!

Prospect

This is a house that the old man and I are very interested in seeing very soon.

***UPDATE: we have an appt to look at this house on Saturday at 1!

On the road again- going slowly...

So there's another house we have asked for a showing on. I have no idea how this one will be- but the locale is SUPER! Its in the 4J subdivision and I have been eye-balling it for sometime now. James is calling to see if we can look today. So I guess that means we are back on the road again, but taking it slow. Our pre-qualification on the loan lasts until July. But if we don't find one that suits our needs before then thats okay too. The place we are trying to get into see is an actual house house. It has a swamp cooler for a/c but thats no big deal- we can make it work until we can afford to have central air installed. The square footage is smaller but it does have 4 bedrooms and a nice little back yard and a garage. And as I mentioned before- location location location! I expect that it will need some love but we aren't afraid of hard work so long as there are no health issues (ie MOLD!) There's another house over in Westover that I would LOVE to look at too- 3 beds but an unfinished basement! Soooo....one thing at a time! Happy weekend to all of you out there!

Probably not....

So it looks like our journey into owning this particular house is coming to a screeching halt. The agency informed me yesterday that the a/c unit is our responsibility to replace. So now we are talking about 1500 [*correction* the estimate from Powder River Heating was $3000 to $3500] to replace and install, then the mold issue that could cost a min of 3o0 or so but as much as 1000 or more depending on how bad it is inside. Soooooo......we just dont have that kind of cash laying around. And yes we could get it added to our loan, but we are not sure

we want to do that. It may be possible to buy a new double wide and a small lot for about the same price as the house and we wont have to worry about the health issue. See the thing is I am super super allergic to mold. Its one of the many reasons I didn't stay in FL with my family. The thing with mold is that you may think you got it all but you may not have and then it comes back. So we are taking one last look at the place tomorrow morning with my step dad. But I think we have already both made up our minds that this is not the place for us. And since it didn't really pass inspection we should be able to get out of this with our earnest money. It sucks though because we had so many hopes and dreams put into that house alreadly. And not to mention boxes packed. But it is what it is. Better to find out now then to find out later when my family gets sick. I hope everyone is having a good Friday and a good first day of April. ALSO April is Autism awareness month!! So the picture at the bottom is for my Baylie Renee.

Today's word "Issues"

Sooooo... The house has some mold issues, some drainage issues, an air conditioning issue, and a sprinkler issue. 1. MOLD. It appears that in the laundry room the water damage we saw was actually caused by what appears at the moment to be a slow leak some where. There is mold all around the back side of the laundry, into the hall, the pantry and in the master bath by the shower. It will require tearing out the lower two foot of wall and plastic-ing that part of the house off while it gets sprayed down with bleach and dried out properly. Then the wall that's been torn out will have to be replaced and repainted. 2. DRAINAGE. The back yard kind of drains into the house- or rather the skirting in the house. Not a big deal it will just require some dirt/drainage work to be some this summer some time. 3. AIR CONDITIONING. The house is listed as having "central air" and it should- but it doesn't. At least it doesn't any more. The previous owner or some other person removed the a/c unit. Thanks a lot dickweed! I am calling to get estimates on how much it is to replace the unit- but my guess is some where between $1000 and $1800. Can we say OUCH! Well it does have the house listed as having it so we may not be responsible to replace it. 4. SPRINKLER. There is an automatic sprinkler system- yay! The system on the back side of the house is put WAY to close the house. I mean they point into the yard, but the sprinklers are seriously less than 3 inches from the house. That will cost about $200 to have fixed professionally. I took some pictures today to take you on a full photo tour of the house via facebook. We will have to decide now if we want to go ahead with the sale of the house or if its going to cost to much out of pocket to fix. Yet an other issue is money- its limited! So tonight when James gets home we will talk about if we want to move forward or scrap it and start over. I HATE ISSUES!!!!