Today’s the day and I’m still nervous
Yes, I am a little shaky today. Wondering what is going to happen to our living situation. SmockDaddy is going down to the courthouse today to watch the proceedings. A man showed up yesterday at the door wanting to do a walk through of the inside of the house and then measure the outside. He said he had been given paperwork to appraise the house; I thought that was interesting since we were told there would be no appraisal. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but that does make me wonder what else we were told wouldn’t happen that will happen and what would happen, won’t happen. Besides the fact that I was thoroughly embarrassed by the way my house looked yesterday, I made sure he knew the double oven was NOT staying and that the brown bathroom had one rotten wall.
I am still very distracted by the house we saw Monday. As much as I would love another bedroom to make it four, I know that by adding a fourth bedroom the price of a house jumps dramatically. Anyway, that’s reality and I can’t seem to keep my head out of dreaming about this house. If you want to look at it, you can clickety click right here; be sure to check out the photos of the inside linked at the bottom of the page. I love the colors inside the house. I’d really like to see it first hand, to do a walk through of the house and see what the photos don’t show, like the bathrooms and closets. (Of course after what happened I’d use the agent we used when we first moved here if we could.) Years ago, when I was still a student, a friend and I used to go do walkthroughs just for fun on Sunday Open Houses and new homes being built. That way we could have fun and not have any commitments; we were students just enjoying what some day might be all the while there were no temptations or covetous situations because we were students and NOT looking for something to live in. But now, as much as I still enjoy looking at houses just for fun, it’s just too hard to do it in our current situation. And I want more than ever to get out of this house now anyway: the smoke in the house is beginning to seep through the paint (it wasn’t painted properly) and I’m starting to have some asthma attacks again and the mold and mildew in the cabinet and wall in the bathroom is making me sick as well. If we could buy it and fix it that would be another story - I’d stay. The house on Arizona isn’t in the best of neighborhoods or school districts, but we homeschool so that’s not as important as it could be. The neighborhood isn’t as bad as some I’ve lived in and right around the house seems like it’s not too bad; it’s a couple of blocks over that it seems to get bad. It’s on the corner of a busy street, but the backyard is fenced - a white picket fence, I might add. How Americana is that? The house is about 80 years old or so. It has a shed in the back that has a small, but bumpy (needs fixing) drive up to it and the driveway to the house leads to the side of the house and there is not garage or carport. I don’t have a big problem with that - we don’t use the one we have now anyway. We use the carport for the storage of bikes and junk. Look at me, writing all about it and we not only don’t have it yet, but we will never have it. UGH! That’s my problem.
Anyway, back to reality - I need to go cook breakfast so we can get on with our day and I can watch the clock tick slowly away as I pace the floor wondering what will happen. At this point, I expect a For Sale sign in front of our house in the next week.
If it is any comfort to you I’ve been praying for ya’ll’s situation. Hoping all will work out in the end for you.
I love the house on Arizona. Must have big bedrooms with that square footage.
The bedroom in this house are soooo tiny that is one of the main things I would like, bigger bedrooms even if it’s only three bedrooms.
Yes, I also love those colors. That’s kind of the scheme we are trying in here; however, we have somewhat of a “situation” in the master bedroom now with a color that turned out too dark for my taste and an attempt at limewashing that didn’t go so well…!
Mrs. B and I checked that house out when we fell in love with the other one around the corner…the Arizona one’s slightly better located, and the price is MUCH better, even though it’s smaller….when we checked on it, there was a contract on it. But this real estate adventure, light as it has been, has been pretty irritating, and so it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s not really the case.