Inspection

Right now, I'm cuddled under a blanket watching Fixer Upper and feeling under the weather. (My diagnosis is strep throat, but we'll see what the Minute Clinic has to say in an hour and a half.) The boys are with my mom, and Dylan is at Sunnyside with the inspector. This could be a critical weekend for this house.

As it stands, we are already into this house for about as much as makes sense to us. Not to mention the added expenses that are sure to turn up as a result of the inspection. Add to that, we will undoubtedly have some tough decisions to make regarding the solar panels. We have no idea where the buyer stands on any of this, so it's not really worth feeling it out until we know something. Soon, we will know something.

This is the weekend that will probably make or break the deal. Do we really want to start devoting dollars toward this deal when we're already pretty maxed out? In the last few years, I've really been big on "financial freedom." I really don't want to be a slave to my job just to keep us afloat. It's a good set-up for now, but who knows what life will bring, and I don't want to be in a position where we're working a lot and missing out on the finer things in life. In other words, I'm worried this will make us house-poor.

This house might be worth it, though. What could be a more important investment than in the place where you live? Honestly, we will not find another one like it. Probably not even close. Will we regret it if we let the deal blow up when we potentially could have made it come together (at a price)? It's hard to know. Right now, we do not have the information that we need to proceed with decisions and deals, but we do have lots of ideas and worries and made-up scenarios in our brains. I guess all we can do is wait and see!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sunnyside

Image
We have gone under contract with the Sunnyside house. (The one that had the full price cash offer on the first day, which recently fell through.) I'm still hesitant to get excited because we have some hurdles to cross. I'll get to what those are, but I figured this was a good time to lay out the reasons why we've determined this house to be perfect for us. Even if we don't end up in this house, this is a major moment in our journey and therefore worth documenting. Before I begin, I think we should cover some hilarious features of this house so that we can just get those off the table right away. First, this over-the-top water sculpture featuring multiple dolphins spitting water into the pool. Where do you even buy a thing like that? Also, the house is the color of baby poo. It was built in the 1980s, and it most definitely looks typical of an 80s house in Scottsdale. But, how, why, what ever made that an acceptable color? In my next life, when we win the lotte...
Read more

The Sign Was a Sign?

We took the kids to a birthday party on Saturday afternoon, and by the time we arrived back home, it was getting dark. For some reason, I noticed as we pulled up to our house that our For Sale sign was missing. It occurred to me in that moment that it had actually been missing for a few days. Since it was dark, I thought that maybe somehow I just missed it. I put the kids to bed and then went back out with the flashlight, and sure enough, it was nowhere to be found. We even drove around the next morning to see if it had been discarded somewhere in the surrounding desert...but, nothing. So strange. We told my brother, who decided to give it a couple of days to see if it turned up, but at this point it's been about a week since it went missing. Our best guess as to what happened is that one of the guys hired to put up and take down signs accidentally took our sign down instead of someone else's. At first, I didn't think much of it. It's a been a few days, though, since ...
Read more

Just Kidding

The deal came through at the last second, and it looks like we are on track to get the house on Sunnyside. I can't believe it. We thought the deal was dead. Totally off the table. We signed the paperwork killing it...but waited to submit it until closer to the deadline. That's when the seller came back and offered just a little bit more off the sale price of the house as a final offer. I don't know how it made the difference for us, but it did. Ultimately, the seller and us were only apart by an amount of money that, while still a LOT of money, would not make a difference in the long run. We knew we'd regret it if we didn't get the house. We've been shopping for houses high and low for the better part of a year, and we know enough to know that a house this perfect for us would not come around again. The solar lease deal is not optimal, but the seller gave us just enough of a concession during our negotiations that we can kind of justify it. We will buy out the...
Read more