Breathing a Sigh of Relief

I am proud to say that I think we may have done it. We're about two seconds away from being homeowners!

After a really long, drawn out process with Mr. and Mrs. Seller, we've finally come to the end. While I can appreciate that they wanted to be sure they had a place to call home, they really dragged it out as long as they could.

Our next hurdle will be to have the home inspection completed. It doesn't appear that there will be any issues but stranger things have been known to happen to us. ;) We'll know more after it's completed on Wednesday.

Hopefully we'll be able to call Maple Avenue home sweet home soon.

Playing the Game

As I said in an earlier post, our move to Civilian Job Land is set. We are now in the process of negotiating an offer on a house. This, I didn't bargain for.

What a stressful time! I feel like I'm in the middle of a huge poker game. The only bad thing is that I don't have a clue how to play poker! This house isn't our dream home by far but, somehow, we've both fallen in love with it. It's hard to stop myself from imagining how this or that would look. I'm a dreamer. I like to pick out paint colors and make things my own. It's really hard NOT to do that yet.

We've had the seller's agent tell our agent that they intend to accept our counter offer. That was yesterday. I understand that the sellers are trying to find a home too. They didn't want to put in an offer on a home until they had one in our their current home. That, I get. It's just so hard to wait. I wanted to be in this house yesterday, not a month and a half from now.

So we wait. We play The Game and hope that it all turns out well. If not, I know there is another home out there for us. It'll just be hard to stop dreaming about this one.