Well, that was scary.

[bzarcher]

Just made an offer on a house!

Oh, holy crap, i just made an offer on a house.

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[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

Pfff.


Wait until the closing. Then you'll know what scary is.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure you're right, but still, wow.

Of course, I don't know why I'm worried - if we get the house at the price we're suggesting (give or take) and the money down we intend, we're gonna be paying less than the apartment...

[jcobleigh.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[angeljester.livejournal.com]

it's even more scary come the walk thru/closing...*wicked giggle*

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, belike...

[angeljester.livejournal.com]

teehee

[demeterschild.livejournal.com]

WOO!

Guess I should be thinking about when you want me to come help you pack, eh?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Probably going to want to talk about that in a bit, yep.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

MUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

Welcome to insanity :)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you, that makes me feel much better now.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Hee :)

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

There's not much I can say beyond, "dude."

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

"Dude." is pretty appropriate. :D

[las.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Which house? Do you have the MLS number?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

We ended going to Cape Coral Ln, over near Rome-Hillard Road. For all the good things about the house on Pacific, they just wanted too much money, I'm afraid.

But, here's the MLS: 2609373

Of course, it's just the first offer, so who knows...the world is a funny place.

[las.livejournal.com]

Looks like a nice place!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

If all goes well, I'm looking forward to having you guys over there. :D

[las.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[joriel.livejournal.com]

Hehe... I know how you feel, I bought mine more or less by accident. The bid offer freaked me out. I was sitting there talking aobut thousands of dollars I don't have as if it was nothing. LOL

You have the closing money saved up, right? We had 2 grand of ours paid for by the seller in our bid offer, and we still had to cough up another $1500 on top of that.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Alex's family and my family are going to help with our downpayment and closing costs, so that, fortunately, we don't have to worry about too much yet.

[joriel.livejournal.com]

*nods* I got to break up my $1500 too, I paid my house insurance directly instead of at closing, since I'd gone and arranged all that earlier, but nearly ended up paying it again by accident becuase they didn't know that it was paid. The communication in my closing was creepy.

Once you hit closing, that part is easy. LOL Sign your name 8 million times, hand over money, and get your keys. :)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that reminds me, it's probably time to call State Farm...

[joriel.livejournal.com]

You should wait until the bid is accepted and the financing is finalized in my opinion, but you can do it early if you want to. But you'll need all sorts of information, we gave htem our house inspectino report and they took it all off there. We wouldn't have known any of the answers without that report.

Did you get the clause that you can opt out if inspection doesnt go well?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Yep, we have that clause.

We'll probably be having an inspector go in soon, I think, and I guess we'll go from there.

[joriel.livejournal.com]

Do you guys have The Home Team there? I don't know if they are local or a chain, but they were very good, they went over every litttle detail. I hear it's better to be there when they go through, I have heard horror stories about people who just had it done and then had fires or something else go wrong the first week that should have turned up on inspection. So I went to mine, and watched them poke it all. And they explained to us everything that needed done for the things they did find. :)

And I'll finally have another first time home owner to chat with! WOOT! I'm only two months in myself. :)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I'll certainly take a look - our buyer's agent also mentioned he had inspectors that he would reccomend as well, but it never hurts to have options!

[joriel.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* Just be glad you're not in Pennsylvania where my dad got his cabing and boat inspected. LOL
It was BAD.

OMG

[cair-anam.livejournal.com]

You're like a total adult now! Soon you'll be able to use phrases like 'morgage payment'. How freaky is that?!

Anyway, squee with the grats and stuff =)

I hope you end up exactly where you're supposed to be.

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[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey.

You're a minister. I'm pretty sure you know EXACTLY where I am supposed to end up. ;D

(Thank you, though! OMG - ADULTHOOD.)

Re: OMG

[cair-anam.livejournal.com]

Dude! You get to come to the fun place with all the rest of us heretics.

Because if the crazies are right about who's going to hell? Its going to be one awesome party!

Re: OMG

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Heh. OK, true. :>

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

The bid is freaky.

The counter bid is worse.

The actual closing - sheer panic.

Well, it was for me. OMG HOUSE!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

That's about right. :D

We'll see - we may end up going to offer on a different house if things keep going the way they're going.

OMG, DUELING HOUSES!