Sunday, June 28, 2009

We bought a house!

It's official. We accepted the counter-offer, and tomorrow we sign all the papers. It will take a month to close, but by the family vacation we will be home owners! Yay us!

The house is on a corner lot (oddly, both streets are named Utica) on the edge of a housing development. It's not on a cul-de-sac, which Danielle really wanted, but it's removed from the main roads, which is a nice compromise. Down the street to the south is a large open space. Across the open space (almost a mile away) you can see the main street and the beginnings of the construction of a new WalMart. We think that they'll eventually put tress up to block the view a little, and hopefully they'll put a path so we can walk to the store.

The interior of the house is spacious, with three bedrooms and 4 bathrooms (the master, a full bath upstairs, a 1/2 bath on the main floor, and another 1/2 bath in the basement). The basement is one large room, with a small bathroom off the side, and two large crawl spaces for storage. On the main floor we have a long, narrow front room which leads to a very nice kitchen and living room. Off the living room there is a hallway leading to a bathroom, laundry room, the basement, and the garage. Upstairs there are the master, two decent sized bedrooms, a bathroom, and a loft.

We're super excited!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Awesome!! Congrats! I expect you to have a lot of pictures to show me at the family vacation!

Rachel said...

Congratulations! That's way exciting news! Looks like you might actually be settled in CO for a while... Poor Mom and Dad - kids leaving left and right!

Sabrina Gardner said...

That's so exciting! :) We're happy for you. Is this house any closer to work than your apartment?

Bob said...

We won't have pictures of our own at the family vacation. Our possession date is August 3rd. We can show you the pictures the previous owners put on their ad, though.

The house is a few miles closer to work. It will save maybe 5 minutes of drive time.