We did it. We bought a house. Barring an inspection disaster or a loan snafu, neither of which I am expecting, it will be ours in November! I can't wait. I have been decorating it in my mind all week. We had a little trouble getting the deal done, which was ridiculous. We made an initial (sorta lowball) offer and they countered. We were happy with their counter but we wanted closing costs so we went back and added $5000 to their counter and asked for the 5k in closing costs. They said fine but stipulated it could only go to closing and not prepaids (escrow account including taxes, insurance, etc). Really homeowners?! You obviously don't understand how this works. That 5k will be included in our loan and is therefore OURS. We'll be damned if you are going to specify how it is used. My husband was livid. It was going to add 2k to what we would need to bring to closing, which we have and truthfully were expecting to spend, but it is the principle! Plus, if something happens to one of our jobs that is an extra mortgage payment. Do you want to sell your house or not?! Our realtor had to call theirs twice and threatened that we would walk on the second call and that did the trick! We feel like we won! Their house had been on the market for 120 days and they wanted to fight about something that has absolutely no effect on them. Silly!
There is one problem with the house. It is only a problem due to our status. Childless and IF. Sigh. Here it is:
I am a little worried about its potential effect on my emotions as this TTC journey drags on. It sucks that something like this has to have a negative effect. To a normal couple TTCing, this would be a huge selling point. I guess I know I will have a child one day, one way or another, so I should look at it as a picture of my future. :) Plus, hubby watches SpongeBob so it probably isn't a stretch to find him on it!
Otherwise, we LOVE the house. It really will be a good distraction. We probably won't move until December to give us time to paint, clean, decorate, etc. Our rental goes until the end of January anyway. New adventure, here we come!
Good for you guys! Moving and decorating and arranging furniture will definitely take your mind off IF stuff.... until you go in the backyard. It`s not so much of an eye-sore as a constant reminder of your struggles. I would feel the same way. It`s a beautiful backyard by the way! My parents had offered to give us the play structure in their backyard at one point and I`m SO glad we never actually went ahead and moved the damn thing! After three years of TTC for us... it would have been a horrible every-day reminder for me. I wonder if you`ve thought of selling the play structure... and then buying one when the little kidlets come along!!
ReplyDeleteI'd get rid of it if it wasn't such a darn nice one! :)
ReplyDeletemaybe you can spend some time imagining a toddler playing in
ReplyDeletethere, I know it sounds awful and possibly hurtful, but it may be a good reminder that there WILL be a baby playing in there one day...and there will be. Sometimes its good to feel a bit of optimism, even though its SO SO hard some days.