Ok, I don't want to jinx us by this post, but after the first deal fell through we shopped around some more and found a fine old twin in great condition. We've had an agreed selling price, and started the gauntlet of mortgage application, and had a home inspection. We are currently waiting for the seller's response on some repairs. We are on tenterhooks. To some degree, and depending on what type of loan (FHA vs. conventional), parts of these negotiations are out of your control. I know that from past experience, both as a seller and a buyer. Suffice to say, Sallie and I both really want this house.
Because when we walk through the house, or sit down in the kitchen, or dining room, or feel the space in the finished attic, Sallie and I both know that we are home. It feels like home. It already feels like we live there even pending arrival of our furniture and removal of the existing furniture which maybe we're not too crazy about. Doesn't matter. This "it's home" feeling is obviously something quite intangible and hard to characterize, but almost every home buyer feels it, and occasionally the feeling may even fly in the face of practical wisdom about the house, even though practically speaking this house has been very well maintained and can be moved into without renovations. It needs work; most old houses do, but nothing in the way of intense labor other than what we want to do for ourselves (like an enlarged bathroom with a claw foot tub). We'll have a garden and have a reading room in the attic and 2 bedrooms upstairs and a separate room to watch Netflix and "Mad Men". And a space in the basement for the animals and to work out, and a porch. And maybe someday we will build our own greenhouse and have our own.... our own.... goat!
More to follow once we know if we definitely have the house and are moving.
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