Moving On

Well, we went on a tour of the inside of the house and wow, did it need work! Much more than we anticipated, not to mention it wasn't given a true description. It was a two bedroom and not a three bedroom which makes a difference for our needs.

We went with the realtor to see another house just a few blocks away with a higher price tag but one that supposedly had ~everything~ done to it with ~tons~ of money poured in to it. We weren't looking for something like that, but figured it would just give us a better idea of what x amount of money will get you in that neighborhood. I don't think it was much better than the first house we looked at.

We looped around the neighborhood a bit more and I just had the feeling like we were missing something.

"Do you mind if we loop through a bit more? Let's go back up to x street and zig zag through those streets... I just have a feeling like we're missing something."

The kids were sitting like little angels in the back seat and my husband wasn't entirely eager to head back home so he easily agreed to my request.

And sure enough... we happened upon this neat little area that we hadn't seen before and found a fixer upper house just a block away from houses that are priced at over a million dollars. We had called on one of the large homes for sale just to compare prices... needless to say we about fell on the floor of the car in a state of a heart attack when the realtor told us the price.

So, we're going back tomorrow to look at this other fixer upper home... but that's the fun of all this hunting. Trying to find the icky house on the block that you can put a bit of elbow grease in to and then turn it around later and sell it.

There's some odd rehab that's already been done to the house that we already see as something that needs to be addressed and then there's this strange door off the second story of the house in the back... a door off the second story that opens up to nothing but air. Rather strange. My husband thinks it must have been a walk up attic access...

Guess we'll get a better idea of things tomorrow when we see it. Appointment is at 5:45pm!