The house hunt is over!

 

I've been a little hesitant to post about the ongoing selling of our current house and looking for a new one.  Call it superstition or just plain old paranoia.  I wanted to make sure all of our ducks were in a row.

Our current house is now under contract and the option period has passed.  Yea!  We received an offer within the first week of our house being on the market.  Luckily, everything worked out through negotiations and all.

So we started our new house hunt.

We looked probably at 10 houses before we put in our first offer.  The house we put in our first offer on didn't end up working out.  The guy selling it wasn't motivated to move and wanted top dollar for a house he let fall into a bit of disrepair.  Andrew and I weren't about to fall for that, so we walked away.  After much debating on where we wanted to live and what schools we were comfortable with, we put in an offer on a second house.  After a little negotiating, we have a signed contract on our new house!  The family in this house was definitely motivated to sell.  They upgraded a lot of the house, so we won't have to do very much at all.

We will official move the family right before Halloween.  I'm very excited and nervous.  Moving is always a big stressor.  Just thinking about packing up the house gives me the willies most days.

Prayers that everything goes well through the end of next month would be greatly appreciated.  Our new house will only be a few miles away from our current one.  We will have a lot more room as well.

This will be our new house.