Hopefully buying my first house

CrazyJoe

Holy Crap! Suzy and I are putting in an offer on this house.

We saw it this past weekend and just loved it. We love that it is a two story (since the yards down here in Florida are hella small, a two story has a smaller footprint, so the that leaves more yard space) has some brick on it (most of the houses down here are stucco and bland colors,) and has some huge oak trees out front for shade. Trees that are not Palm Trees are also a bit more rare than they are up North. That'll make the roof last longer since it is not in direct sunlight and also help with the AC bills.

Ivan

primesuspect

Woohoo! Good luck, man! That bathroom is awesome, and I love that bay window!

Thrax

That is one nice-lookin' abode!

CrazyJoe

Yep, we loved the bay windows and Suzy loves having the big garden tub. We'll definitely be installing some Champion 4 toilets though.. ;-)

Kwitko

Very nice! Good luck!

Tushon

Great!

CrazyJoe

So the lady that is selling the house straight out declined the offer and said that the $209,000 she is asking is the lowest she would take. I am sorry that she bought the house for $300,000 in 2006, but it is not worth that much in today's market. So no house for us.

d3k0y

We had something like that on the first house we put an offer in as well. Guy wouldn't budge on his asking price, so we walked, even though our offer was only 5k less than the asking price.

primesuspect

Sorry Joe :(

CrazyJoe

It happens. It just wasn't meant to be. Something better will come down the road.

CrazyJoe

And so here goes try #2. We are submitting an offer on this house this afternoon. Decision will be made on all submitted offers by Friday. Hope this one works out better than the last one. It's a Homepath home, so no PMI and only 3% Downpayment required.

lulufitzgerald

Good luck. It's a nice looking house.

MAGIC

Good luck there man. Mortgage insurance is a load of bullshit, and not paying it for 5 years is awesome.

CrazyJoe

Thanks. The waiting part is the worst.

GHoosdum

That's what Tom Petty said, too.

CrazyJoe

We got the house!! Closing is set for April 26th!!

PirateNinja

Congratulations!!!!!

CrazyJoe

So {IC} Move all Joe's Shit Spring Break Party in Florida in May?

Jokke

Congrats!

GnomeQueen

CrazyJoe

Home inspection tomorrow. The neighborhood is also having a community garage sale so I'm going to go walk around and meet some of the neighbors.

CrazyJoe

Here is another link to the house if anyone hasn't seen the pictures yet. We're getting really excited.

CrazyJoe

So it turns out there were at least five other offers besides ours. There was one higher but with Homepath homes within the first 15 days of a listing you have to be buying the house with the intention of living in it (we had to sign a form stating this as well.) It turns out the one higher bid was lying on that form and they owned several other properties so our bid won out.

CrazyJoe

Home inspection yesterday went well. Only minor repairs needed. Things like fixing the automatic garage door opener, hooking sprinkler system pump back up, fixing exterior lights, etc. Onward we go towards closing!

Jokke

That's a very nice house! I really like the hallway (I assume it is the hallway) with the chandelier. Also, the garage is so spacious!

CrazyJoe

The Chandelier is in the dining room. Here is a floorplan I drew up of the house to send to my family back in Ohio.