Gpmo
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So I joined the wonderful world of homeowners today.
Its been a long PITA and i'm glad this part is over. We started looking in Late April, my wife and i looked at over 55 houses. We gave up looking in the first week of July as our rental lease was up and we wouldn't be able to close in time. Well we found two houses to rent and on July 14th agreed to the first. When my wife went to sign the lease the guy forgot.... so she called the second guy who was all about her signing the lease when he saw she was a Doctor.. well he blew her off 1 hour later. As she was going into work our agent called and said the place we had put an offer in on March 12 had approved our offer. So we accepted signed the contract packed and moved in to my parents house.
So fyi living in your teenage bedroom in your parents basement at 32 with your wife isn't exactly as exciting as it was back then. Love my folks and am very very thankful for their sacrifice in letting us move in. But man is it hard to do.
Anyhow the house is a HUD and we got a 203k rehab loan and its taken forever to complete. We still have around 30 days of repairs to complete before we can move in though. But after it all i will have a 2 car garage all to myself, the wife and I agreed she gets to do all the interior decoration and i get the garage. No storing anything no crafts nothing but her car.. We haven't had a garage in over 10 years its sooo exciting. My bike will be parked at home and not a garage across town.
We will get some before and after pics up of the garage
can't wait. Need to choose paint colors and choose building a workbench vs buying and a lift oh and floor.. so many fun things.
Anyhow getting rambling here i'm just excited.
Its been a long PITA and i'm glad this part is over. We started looking in Late April, my wife and i looked at over 55 houses. We gave up looking in the first week of July as our rental lease was up and we wouldn't be able to close in time. Well we found two houses to rent and on July 14th agreed to the first. When my wife went to sign the lease the guy forgot.... so she called the second guy who was all about her signing the lease when he saw she was a Doctor.. well he blew her off 1 hour later. As she was going into work our agent called and said the place we had put an offer in on March 12 had approved our offer. So we accepted signed the contract packed and moved in to my parents house.
So fyi living in your teenage bedroom in your parents basement at 32 with your wife isn't exactly as exciting as it was back then. Love my folks and am very very thankful for their sacrifice in letting us move in. But man is it hard to do.
Anyhow the house is a HUD and we got a 203k rehab loan and its taken forever to complete. We still have around 30 days of repairs to complete before we can move in though. But after it all i will have a 2 car garage all to myself, the wife and I agreed she gets to do all the interior decoration and i get the garage. No storing anything no crafts nothing but her car.. We haven't had a garage in over 10 years its sooo exciting. My bike will be parked at home and not a garage across town.
We will get some before and after pics up of the garage
can't wait. Need to choose paint colors and choose building a workbench vs buying and a lift oh and floor.. so many fun things.Anyhow getting rambling here i'm just excited.
enjoy dude.
