Helloooooo Dolls!!!
I'm extremely excited to share some amazing news with you.
**drum roll please**
We are the proud new 1st time owners of this beauty!!!! Eeeeeeekkkkkkkk
(Purchased April 2013)
(Here's a tour)
(Front of the house)
Let me tell you how we stumbled on it. First of all we were renting a house that we had a 2 year lease on. We had currently been living in this house for 1 year & 4 months. My plan was since the lease was up in November of 2013 we can start looking at homes in the summer. We figured our next step was to buy a home. Since we were already renting for the past 4 years ever since I moved to NC from FL (my husband decided to ruin my life & reenlist lol) we decided that renting wasn't going to continue to be an option.
The fact that we had great credit & we were still renting really bothered me.
(Back of the house)
My husband on the other hand was mortified to own a home... WHY, well I have no idea.
He says it's because of course as an Army family you move around often. But that happens with any military family.
For me that wasn't about to stop me.
But I gave in & left the whole home buying thing alone.
I remember packing up to go to my sisters wedding in Florida & out of the blue I receive a call from the property manager saying the owner who was stationed in Korea decided he wanted to sale the home so we had 30 days to move.
Yes 30 DAMN DAYSSSSSSSSS! 30!!!!!!!
I swear I thought I was going to have a heart attack (mind you I have heart problems as it is)
I called my husband in tears (he was at work) & I told him. My husband said ok baby so what are you going to do???
That's right!!! What am I going to do because he had no clue on how to look for an apt or home lol
**cue horror music**
(Living Room, it's pretty big the picture doesn't show that to well)
Everything ALWAYS falls on me. My husband says I'm the brains of the operation & he's the muscle
(At this point I needed his muscles to pick me up off the floor as I was sobbing lol)
I remembered my friend she was a loan officer & her husband was a realtor so I text her asking her WTH should I do. I mean if you think about it, it takes 30-45 days to close on a home & I was scared we were literally going to be homeless.
My girl was amazing!!! She called me & we did the whole loan process over the phone. We got pre approved & she asked me if I wanted to start looking that day.
I told her I was on my way out of the state but I made an appointment with her husband, sent him a list of over 20 new homes & he set everything up for us.
(Kitchen)
When we came back home to NC from FL it was game on!
With in a week of looking at homes we stumbled upon our home.
It wasn't on my list but we went to go look at a home that was my top choice. When we get there the house was still being built!!! If I wanted the house I had to wait 2 months. Uuuuuuggggggh I was so stressed out I broke down.
So our friend Carlos said what about that house. I told him NOOOOOO if it's not on the list I don't want to look at it but he walked over with my husband to this house & left me behind lol I had no choice but to walk over.
& OMG this house had EVERYTHING on our must have list. The only thing missing was an island in the kitchen & a 5th bedroom (which was going to be my husbands gym)
(Bar & Breakfast Nook)
I was completely SOLD!!! All the houses after that were nothing to me lol
I wanted this house & I wanted the house NOW!
The house had a pending status... It sat their for 1 whole year because someone built their dream house but there financing fell threw. That's just heartbreaking!!!
But the way I saw it was that this was gods push for us (especially my husband) to not let fear lead us.
The house was waiting for us.
We put in our offer & they said YES!
(Formal Dinning Room)
This is how amazing our friends were. Instead of closing within 30 days we closed in just14 days!!!
We moved in the day after we received the keys.
Then get this!!!!
The owner said that he didn't want us to move because it was going to cost him money!!!!
Get the heck out of here... I told him we signed papers already & we had already purchased a home... 6 1/2 months later his house is still sitting there with a rent or buy option.
(Loft Area- Turned Man Cave)
(Master Bedroom)
(Master Bathroom)
(Master Bathroom)
(Master Walk-in Closet)
(Bounce Room-Turned Office)
The house is beautiful & full of tons of space. We don't have kids yet, we had decided to wait. It's been already 6 years & now we're ready to start our family.
Our plan for now is once we get started god willing we can have them back to back.
We want 4-5 kids so this house is perfect.
The house is 3500 sqft. 2 car garage, laundry room with a big storage closet, a huge linen closet, a huge walk-in coat closet in the entrance, 4 bedrooms all with big walk-in closets (master bedroom/2 guest bedrooms & a nursery), kitchen with all stainless steal appliances, a Formal Dinning room, bar & breakfast nook, a huge bonuce room (turned office), a family room, upstairs loft (turned mancave), 4 bathrooms, a screened in porch & a huge fenced backyard.
We're absolutely in LOVE with our new blessing!
Our 2 yorkies love love love it! We can't wait to hear little foot steps running around making memories.
Have you made your 1st home purchase yet?
Feel free to leave a comment & share your story.
Smooches ~Bets
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