Our First House

It has been a whirlwind the past week for us. I had to make myself sit down for a few minutes to fill everyone in…as if most of you have not heard….

WE OWN A HOUSE

I am sitting in the local coffee shop writing this because we have yet to move in and don’t have much at the house right now. We do however spend as much time as we can and love it.

Long story short….

Some of you know we started our house hunt about 6 months ago thinking we would take advantage of the $8000 credit. After searching for awhile we decided to put the search on hold and wait till I got a job. July 7^th I started my job and July 8^th Scott started his own house search…haha :)

Mid August we decided it was time for us to really start our hunt again and start it fresh – new realtor and all. Which was by far the best thing we could have done. This time we had a realtor team (husband and wife) and they went above and beyond for us. Even offering to go to the bank with my when Scott was out of town.

We found “the one” (felt like I was wedding dress shopping again)! 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, 1800 square feet, conservation lot (wooded/government land behind our grass line that will not be built on), 2 car garage, mud room (I was told in FL you call them laundry rooms), community pool, front porch and everything we could imagine.

We put our offer in, it got accepted and we shut our mouths - telling our parents and not many more. We decided we didn’t want to jinx it. The house was bank owned which means that at any time in the process the bank could have called it off. We didn’t want to get our hopes up just in case – Scott wouldn’t even let me talk paint colors, décor, nothing. He was pretty funny about it.

Last Wednesday (omg its been over a week already) we sat at the closing table for about 2 hours signing a book of papers. Then walked out owning a house!!!!!!!!!

So, last weekend I spent deep cleaning from top to bottom and Scott spent doing “manly” chores. We got our butts whooped on Saturday – we were in bed by 9. Sunday we were both really sad that we had to leave to go back to the apt. We were ready to move in then.

We spent a few nights there through the week finishing up some projects.

This weekend is a list of some more chores…..the cable guy is coming out (we get free cable in our neighborhood) and we are getting the carpets cleaned for sure. Then we get to decided were we want to go from there.

We are so excited to make this our home and have so many ideas of what we want to do.

In the midst of all this house stuff Scott had a Birthday!!! We did spend some time celebrating!!!

We will continue to keep you all updated on what we do with the house and how we make it ours :)