Meanwhile, back on the ranch
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primsongOn another front entirely, we've still be househunting until we were sick of it. Just as we were about to give up and just settle for some cookie-cutter mass-tract house just to get it over with a house came along!
Now, don't ask me why it has taken me so long to find it - it was on the market for months, apparently, then taken off and just put back now. I drove over that way - I can't even say why - to see what the little realty sign was pointing at. It was a loooong driveway going back into trees. Intrigued, I turned my galumphing stationwagon onto the grass and gravel track and followed it. Behind another house that hid it from the road, I found a 5-bedroom daylight ranch surrounded by pines and firs - it's on almost an acre of land! Right in the middle of our overdeveloped suburbia! A little old man sort of popped out of the bushes to one side with his dog. I asked him if I could look around a bit, to see the back yard and he says "You want to just look inside?" You bet I did! He gave me the grand tour. I ran back home and grabbed hubby and then this man unlocked the (vacant) house a second time for him. Turns out he is the dad of the owner, who moved to CO, and knew the man who built the house himself (it's very homemade and unique). Then we had a third round with the Realtor and kids... Realtor is coming over this evening to fill out papers with us. Here's hoping...!
It's a dump, in some ways - It is sound enough but really needs a lot of "cosmetics" done to it. But hey, I can live with bit-by-bit fixing, done it before, and a big house on a big lot in our price range is not to be missed, even if it does need some help. A room for each of kids! Yay!
Eeeee.....! Happy, excited, anxious, hopeful - it's all there....
Now, don't ask me why it has taken me so long to find it - it was on the market for months, apparently, then taken off and just put back now. I drove over that way - I can't even say why - to see what the little realty sign was pointing at. It was a loooong driveway going back into trees. Intrigued, I turned my galumphing stationwagon onto the grass and gravel track and followed it. Behind another house that hid it from the road, I found a 5-bedroom daylight ranch surrounded by pines and firs - it's on almost an acre of land! Right in the middle of our overdeveloped suburbia! A little old man sort of popped out of the bushes to one side with his dog. I asked him if I could look around a bit, to see the back yard and he says "You want to just look inside?" You bet I did! He gave me the grand tour. I ran back home and grabbed hubby and then this man unlocked the (vacant) house a second time for him. Turns out he is the dad of the owner, who moved to CO, and knew the man who built the house himself (it's very homemade and unique). Then we had a third round with the Realtor and kids... Realtor is coming over this evening to fill out papers with us. Here's hoping...!
It's a dump, in some ways - It is sound enough but really needs a lot of "cosmetics" done to it. But hey, I can live with bit-by-bit fixing, done it before, and a big house on a big lot in our price range is not to be missed, even if it does need some help. A room for each of kids! Yay!
Eeeee.....! Happy, excited, anxious, hopeful - it's all there....
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Date: 2004-06-02 05:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-02 06:09 am (UTC)We have a long list stuck to our fridge now... paint this, remove that, replace the other...
But ooooo - the yard has a lot of very nice established plants and bulbs in it, I can see them under the overgrown holly, etc. Columbine, rhodies, lilies, roses... There's even a small grape arbor, a prune tree, 3 cherry trees and 2 apple trees by a teensy little greenhouse. Lots of diggin' coming up this summer I think.