Nick Eff (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
roadrunnertwice) wrote2017-10-02 02:58 pm
roadrunnertwice) wrote2017-10-02 02:58 pm
Entry tags:
A house
OK, so, Ruth and I bought a house. It is the house across the street from our current rental.
We were not planning to buy a house!
It went something like this: Ruth came home from a kayaking trip, and the next morning she noticed an open house sign across the street at Brad's place. (We'd had no idea he was selling.) So we went to check it out, and were like... "Would it be dumb to NOT try and do this?"
Ruth's parents had just bought a house in Portland earlier this year, so we called them in a panic and were like "give us your people!" So we got on the phone with their (our) realtor and mortgage agent, got pre-approved for a loan, and got an offer in that day. Then our offer got accepted, and then there was a month of furious nailbiting. Anyway, we got the house!!! Holy shit.
We're moving in in November. There's not much work to do in the grand scheme of things (it's a recent building), but we're painting the whole interior and installing wood floors in the upstairs, which is gonna keep us busy for sure. I'll try and post pictures at some point.
It's a very good house, or at least it will be as soon as we banish the carpet and the hell-beige/poopbrown paint job. I have a good feeling about this.
We told our friend Kathleen about all this, and she got on Google Maps to refresh her memory of which house we were talking about. Then she texted us and said she saw a cat in front of it on Street View.
There was totally a cat! And... we're pretty sure it was Frankie, because she was also friends with Brad and liked to hang out at his house whenever she wanted a change of scenery.
Imagine that. A little digital blessing from our departed friend.
We were not planning to buy a house!
It went something like this: Ruth came home from a kayaking trip, and the next morning she noticed an open house sign across the street at Brad's place. (We'd had no idea he was selling.) So we went to check it out, and were like... "Would it be dumb to NOT try and do this?"
Ruth's parents had just bought a house in Portland earlier this year, so we called them in a panic and were like "give us your people!" So we got on the phone with their (our) realtor and mortgage agent, got pre-approved for a loan, and got an offer in that day. Then our offer got accepted, and then there was a month of furious nailbiting. Anyway, we got the house!!! Holy shit.
We're moving in in November. There's not much work to do in the grand scheme of things (it's a recent building), but we're painting the whole interior and installing wood floors in the upstairs, which is gonna keep us busy for sure. I'll try and post pictures at some point.
It's a very good house, or at least it will be as soon as we banish the carpet and the hell-beige/poopbrown paint job. I have a good feeling about this.
We told our friend Kathleen about all this, and she got on Google Maps to refresh her memory of which house we were talking about. Then she texted us and said she saw a cat in front of it on Street View.
There was totally a cat! And... we're pretty sure it was Frankie, because she was also friends with Brad and liked to hang out at his house whenever she wanted a change of scenery.
Imagine that. A little digital blessing from our departed friend.
no subject
That is the sweetest anecdote! <3
And congrats!
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED. :O
no subject