Offer Away
So, every Saturday morning I search the jsonline website for classified home listings, looking for open houses.While tooling around Saturday afternoon looking at homes, I realized I had forgotten about one of the houses I found online in the morning. By the time I remembered, we were miles away and the open house was ending in 15 minutes. I would be really tight for us to get there on time. My first instinct was to pass on it, but for some reason I decided to check it out.
It was in the neighborhood where we wanted to live, the same neighborhood as the other two houses we placed offers on. We got there with five minutes to spare.
Rolling up to it, it was a really nice and clean Colonial. But the price was pretty low, so I assumed it was in bad condition. We were shocked at how nice it was on the inside and outside. It's only a two bedroom, but the two bedrooms are very big, and one has a huge walk-in closet. It's a bath and a half (important to me), has a nice yard that is fenced in on the sides. The kitchen is completely remodeled, the dining room has two built in china cabinets, the living room is open, spacious, and has a sweeping staircase leading upstairs.
The bad things, ...there is no bathroom on the main floor, but we're considering adding a small addition with a half bath and an additional bedroom on the main floor. The garage can fit two small cars, but it is tilted towards the alley. It looks like the back of the garage has settled in a bit, causing the front to tilt. But it looks suprisingly solid, and I really don't think it's going anywhere. The basement is unfinished, but clean. The half bath is in the basement and is not enclosed. I'll have to frame out a small bathroom, which should be no problem since we plan on framing the entire basement and finishing it off.
We placed an offer tonight and gave them almost what they were asking for. Unless someone else comes up and outbids us in the next 24 hours, it should be ours. But, I've thought that before. I'm trying not to get too excited just yet.
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