Buying a house was the scariest thing I have ever done! Wow! But it has been so great! As I said before, we kept finding houses that we liked, putting offers on them, and having things just not work out. And it all happened for the best. When we would spend time driving around American Falls looking at homes, or search through real estate websites, I would always see this adorable house that was just out of our price range. I always thought "I would love to be able to buy a house like that." Well, one day we heard of a house that we had looked at sell for thirty thousand less than the owners were asking. At that time, we were going through all the crap with the house that we were supposed to be buying, that we were trying to get out of. Well, I told Tyler to just call the realtor selling this house we always saw, because at that point, it was like why not give it a shot. Maybe we will get lucky and get it for thirty thousand less than asking too! We looked at it, and fell in love. Then I was mad at myself for looking at something we could never afford. But we put a low offer in, just for the fun of it. We expected the owner to counter offer at least ten thousand more than what we offered and we would have to decline. But she came back with only 5 thousand more, and offered to pay closing costs! We said we would take it, but our realtor thought he could get her down another couple thousand, which he did! We ended up getting it for only three thousand more than our original offer, which was a very low offer to begin with! When we had to back out of the first house, I was so bummed because we were giving up an amazing interest rate, and I had heard the interest rates had gone up. When we called our home loan specialist to get the process of purchasing this home going, she was able to give us an even lower interest rate than the one we had just given up! Everything seriously just worked out so perfectly! We got the house of our dreams! We feel that we have been so blessed, and we know that everything we went through was just leading us to where we are now, and we are so happy to be there!
Our house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, central a/c, a two car garage, and a huge, fully fenced in backyard. It has everything we wanted in a house. Tyler has lived in about 18 different places in his life, and this is the first time he has ever had a garage. The garage leads into the laundry room, which I love. The house has high, vaulted ceilings, beautiful pine doors throughout, and it came with all the appliances. No other house we looked at had everything we wanted. In every other house we would have either had to buy appliances, install a/c, or fence in the yard. The only thing that has dissappointed me about this house is the master closet. It is the smallest walk-in closet I have ever seen! The door can't even close with clothes hanging on the rack! Behind the door, there are shelves, but we can't even get to them. The closet door is actually in the master bathroom, so we might just take the door off, because you can't see it from in the bedroom anyways. Our master bathroom has two sinks, which is amazing! Our house in Harper had two sinks in the master bathroom, and we got so used to that. The house we rented while we waited to move into our home did not have two sinks, and I hated it! Here are a few pictures of my beautiful new home!
We closed on Wednesday, October 12. We could not wait to get out of the rental! We hoped that after we signed papers, we could move enough stuff in so that we wouldn't have to spend another night in that place. Our realtor wasn't able to get the keys to us till late that night, we couldn't get anything moved until the next day. The guy we were renting from wanted us out by the 14th, which meant we had one day to move! Tyler and I did as much as we could by ourselves, with what we could fit in our two cars. My parents came out around 6:30 Thursday night with their truck to help. Montana and Emilee weren't able to come, so we panicked a little. Tyler called the Elder's Quorum President from our new ward, and we are so grateful to him for showing up last minute, with a truck, to help. Everyone was amazing. Within only a couple of hours, we were completely moved out of the rental and into our new home! We love it!
