I loved our house hunting... and not in quite the same way as the previous poster ;)
We really enjoyed looking at all the possibilities available and discussing the pros and cons of each one. The only thing we didn't really enjoy was our Realtor. He did a very good job in general, but he was older and more formal then we would have liked, and he was out of town on vacation the week we wanted to make an offer on our house. He left for another vacation directy after we signed the papers for the house, and was unable to help us with some problems we had (the previous owners left half their stuff at the house, including a junk car).
But... aside from the Realtor, househunting was fun!
Oh, that doesn't surprise me now. Our house had it in the basement... and on every other floor in the house. The lady that owned the house had all of her stuff in boxes, and the boxes were piled high in every single room. You couldn't even walk through some of the rooms. We had no idea if some of the rooms even had electrical outlets.
Her daughter and daughter's boyfriend were using the house, and the owner lived elsewhere. The daughter let her cat just go wherever. Neither of them were very good housekeepers. There were dirty dishes and dirty clothes everywhere.
I bought one of those Hoover Floormates, and it's a godsend for cleaning those floors... and they were absolutely filthy. Everything was filthy. The cupboards were disgusting.
The thing is... all that filth made the house so much cheaper to buy!
Ironically, when we first saw our current house, it was outside of our price range. But we really wanted it, so we sat back down and recalculated our finances. When we realized we could actually afford it, we went to place an offer only to find that another offer had already been accepted.
About a month later, I was browsing through the regular e-mail listings our Realtor sent us and lo-and-behold, I saw the house - back on the market.
Turns out the previous offer fell through.
Long story short, if it was meant to be, it will find a way.
We really enjoyed looking at all the possibilities available and discussing the pros and cons of each one. The only thing we didn't really enjoy was our Realtor. He did a very good job in general, but he was older and more formal then we would have liked, and he was out of town on vacation the week we wanted to make an offer on our house. He left for another vacation directy after we signed the papers for the house, and was unable to help us with some problems we had (the previous owners left half their stuff at the house, including a junk car).
But... aside from the Realtor, househunting was fun!
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Her daughter and daughter's boyfriend were using the house, and the owner lived elsewhere. The daughter let her cat just go wherever. Neither of them were very good housekeepers. There were dirty dishes and dirty clothes everywhere.
I bought one of those Hoover Floormates, and it's a godsend for cleaning those floors... and they were absolutely filthy. Everything was filthy. The cupboards were disgusting.
The thing is... all that filth made the house so much cheaper to buy!
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About a month later, I was browsing through the regular e-mail listings our Realtor sent us and lo-and-behold, I saw the house - back on the market.
Turns out the previous offer fell through.
Long story short, if it was meant to be, it will find a way.
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