Looked at a house today

-T- · May 2013

We looked at a house today. It has a building on the property that is big enough to fit DH's work truck in. (He sells tools and drives a big truck around.) From the pictures, the house looked really nice outside and pretty dated inside. Well, it is nice outside and it is VERY dated inside. It's such a strange layout and the washer/dryer was in the kitchen.

We don't need to move, but I wanted to love it so bad! The location is good, that building was good, the house just stinks. I'm bummed now.

Ricola · May 2013

Oh bummer. House hunting can be so frustrating! I hope that the perfect house pops up for you soon, T!

laken256 · May 2013

I'm sorry! I've so been there. Before we bought this house, we looked at another one that I wanted to love. It was in a perfect location, had a huge garage, the owner was a professional builder, so I knew the house was built good, beautiful area, etc. But when we went inside, it was much smaller than I had imagined and was severely dated. One of the bathrooms still had blue porcelain tub, sink and toilet. All baseboard heat, panel walls, short ceilings. Dh and I both pretended to love it for the each other bc we had fallen in love with the outside and didn't want to disappoint each other bc of the inside. Thankfully, we both came clean about our hate for it, and found another house, in a notquiteperfect location, but the house is bigger, more land, two garages and we both love it. Just give it time. Your perfect house will come up, probably on complete accident just like ours did! Don't give up!!!

designer303 · May 2013

Sorry T house hunting is no fun at all. We went yesterday and I am so confused by the current market. 3 of the 6 houses we were supposed to look at had gone under contract between when we made the appointment on Saturday and went to look on Sunday. Then we were in one house that we kinda of liked and as we are leaving our agent tells us that two offers just went in on it and if we want it we needed to make an offer right then and there, which we were not prepared to do, mostly because we didn't LOVE it. I am just seriously not used to this, houses are lasting less than 3 days on the market- so I don't even know how people are buying them that quickly we don't even get to see them most of time. So I agree booo to house hunting

-T- · May 2013

It's just crazy. I can't believe how few houses there are out there right now. When we were selling our first house, there were so many houses!

We have officially decided that our current house is not our "forever home". It helps me to refrain from dumping more money into it, but now I feel like we HAVE to find something. We don't, we could take our time and save up, but I just have that limbo feeling which I hate.

Now we need to decide if we want to build or not and which town we'd like to live in or near. I have my opinions, DH has his opinions, and they don't match Oh joys!

MesmrEwe · May 2013

I don't envy you one bit!! House hunting SUCKS! Then there's all the stuff you find out long after you move in...

As for building, look into the local zoning, you want to have the most free and clear building rules/regs. for where to move to, that might bring you closer to some agreements. We thought we were good only to discover that the size of our lot they only let people build a detached garage to a certain size, which sucks because we'd like to expand ours to have more functional space (i.e. wood shop, gym, and licensable kitchen for me, and a place for DH to park his replacement vehicle - which I discovered after last night's attempt to mangle my car when he was backing into the garage, will require a garage door large enough for the rest of us to parallel park in and store his research paperwork)...

-T- · May 2013

MesmrEwe:
I don't envy you one bit!! House hunting SUCKS! Then there's all the stuff you find out long after you move in...
As for building, look into the local zoning, you want to have the most free and clear building rules/regs. for where to move to, that might bring you closer to some agreements. We thought we were good only to discover that the size of our lot they only let people build a detached garage to a certain size, which sucks because we'd like to expand ours to have more functional space (i.e. wood shop, gym, and licensable kitchen for me, and a place for DH to park his replacement vehicle - which I discovered after last night's attempt to mangle my car when he was backing into the garage, will require a garage door large enough for the rest of us to parallel park in and store his research paperwork)...

The whole building rules are exactly what is making us think of moving to another town. If you build new in our town, you can't build the type of garage we need. That's the reason we're considering an acreage, no one can tell us what we can or can't do. I don't really want to live on an acreage, but if that's what we need to do, I'll learn to love it...

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