We signed on a house in South Bend! After flying out on Sunday we spent most of the day on Monday looking at housed with our realtor. We narrowed our favorites down to 3 and went to look at them again on Tuesday. We visited the bank and signed our life away again (though a $120,000 loan doesn't make us too nervous considering our $160,000 in school loans already). We returned to the realtor and she drew up all the papers for us to sign to make an offer. The seller accepted our offer after it was presented and we got a call from our realtor shortly before 10 PM with the good news. We have a bunch of inspections planned for the next couple of weeks and if everything goes well we are scheduled to close on June 6th.
Melissa and I were very excited when we looked at this house and ecstatic with the listing price of $120,000. We were pretty much sold on the house but didn't want to have to pay out a bunch of money up front so we made an offer of $119,000 with the seller agreeing to pay $3500 in closing costs expecting the seller to counter with $120,000 with closing costs, but to our delight our initial offer was accepted. We learned that the sellers realtor had advised them to counter our offer, but they were very happy with the offer and didn't want to hassle with the whole thing anymore. We could have probably gotten the house for less, but the seller could have certainly gotten more out of us (we would have paid the full 120 plus closing costs if pushed) so we feel really good about it all and apparently the seller does too.
We are now in Pikeville for the graduation festivities. I'm somewhat happy to be here and somewhat disgusted to be here. The only reason we're here on Thursday with graduation on Saturday (night) is because I'm sure the school has some unwritten deal with the city that they will spread graduation out as much as possible to fill the hotels and restaurants this week. At any rate we left the kids home with grandma and I miss them dearly.
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Great house, congratulations!
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