Finally, we have a HOUSE!

Not that we were homeless before but now we won't be renting James Wong's house anymore. It has only taken 2 offers, 1 rescission and almost 4 months of this craziness but today I picked up the keys to our new house. Mike and I are so happy to finally be moving into our new house. We made an offer on a short sale at the end of October and then waited and waited and waited some more. Then a week before Christmas when we had all the snow we went to check up on our house as we had been practically stalking it (don't worry the old homeowners had already moved out). We discovered they had not paid the power bill and the power was turned off. With the temperature being in the 20's and no heat who knows what damage was being done to the house. So Mike and I decided to start looking at houses again. The only problem was everything, I mean everything on the market right now is a short sale. So the only other option was new construction. Which we have no problem with we just have always lived in new construction and we thought we were going to break the pattern. Anyways, we were looking in the Lake Stevens and Granite Falls area to be closer to Mike's parents because Eva watches the boys 3 days a week while I work. Mike's dad had heard that the builder in there neighborhood was taking all reasonable offers. So we decided to look at the houses even though they were out of our price range. We found one we really liked and made an offer for $70,000.00 under the asking price. They came back with $60,000.00 off and we took it. Anyways we love the house and are really excited. We will be 2 houses down from Mike's parents so it will be really convenient for the boys. The house a lot bigger than we thought we wanted at almost 3300 square feet but we like the floor plan a lot. I will post more pictures after we get settled.