Shopping for a new Home
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
DG and I decided last year that we were going to put our house on the market in the spring. Well spring has almost sprung and so far we've gone out and looked at about 18 houses and have found absolutely nothing we want to buy. Every house has something that is not quite perfect. The house is really nice, but it is across the street from a major church and one block away from a major street; or the neighborhood is great which knocks the price of the house up, but the home hasn't been decorated since 1969 so it means a total gut and redo.
As we entered a house last week, I thought I had stepped into Vegas in the 70s. Every wall was mirrored floor to ceiling and had electric blue carpet throughout. The basement had hot pink carpet with red lighting down the stairs. One room had a parquet dance floor and another room had a built in couch, with mirrored walls, and lighted flower boxes filling the entire wall with fake green shrubbery. This of course was in front of the fully stocked bar with disco lights above it. As I was expecting Frank Sinatra to pour me a drink and start dealing some cards, the Mickey Mouse phone in the room rang.
Needless to say, I was cackling like a hyena when we left. And the search goes on...
Labels: house
By AllBeehive Wednesday, March 14, 2007
4 Comments:
I remember looking at all manner of unsuitable houses when I was looking a number of years ago. But, you know, it's kinda true: when you see the right one, you'll know it. But I also believe in 'sleeping on it'.
Rhea
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Classy.
My favorite house was the one that had rooms full of industrial shelving that were stocked to the rafters with the refuse from a defunct store. You could barely walk around, forget trying to imagine it as a livable space. I know it was a sellers market, but even so I'd have thought they'd haul things out to a storage unit before putting it on the market.
You just put all that work into the yard, was that before you decided to sell? Or part of your strategy from watching too much HGTv?
Thanks for visiting Rhea. I'm loving all the retirment articles on your blog.
In our market here, I have found when you find that one place that is perfect, you sit down in the empty living room and write up that contract ASAP.
Amy, the yard was not a selling strategy. We will miss is greatly! (Though we are considering keeping this house as a rental property.) Now that all of the snow is gone, we want to spend all of our time out there. What if we rent it out and then sneak back and have parties out here without our renters knowing.
House hunting can be emotionally and physically draining, that's for sure. We had a list of all the things we were looking for and we looked for about 4-5 months. We had absolute things we were looking for (neighborhood, style of house, nice yard) and a wish list (hardwood floors, fireplace, big kitchen).
We finally settled on the house we did because it had most of the
things on our list (but not all).
It was realy hard to find them all in one house. It would be so nice if you could take the kitchen from house A and combine with the floors from house B and move them all to the neighborhood of house D! :)
So anyway, hang in there and get as close to your perfect house as you can!
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