Fingers Crossed

Since we did not look at houses last weekend, we scheduled  an appointment for yesterday. After reviewing our options, we decided to broaden our search once again. This time, we started looking in the Roswell area. I'll call that our hard limit as far as living that far from Atlanta metro.

We spent last weekend driving around Roswell, seeing what was around and what neighborhoods we could see ourselves living in. We were strangely comfortable with the area, even though we'd sworn for years that we could never live that far OTP. 

As luck would have it, yesterday we found it. THE house. 

I don't want to jinx it, so I won't post any pictures until we are approved. The house is a foreclosure, so not only do we have to get approval from our bank, but also approval from the bank with the holding. Our realtor says this might be a bit of a hassle, but leave it to us to pick the house that will be a pain in the ass…

And, along with a foreclosure house, comes all the wonderful things that we have to fix/replace. Every room needs to be repainted. All of the floors and carpet need to be replaced. There are holes in the wall,  the kitchen is missing appliances. It manages to be just scary enough.

However, this leaves us with some great options. We can pick the hardwood and carpet we want. We can pick the exact appliances we like, then rework the kitchen in our style. I also have ideas for built-in bookshelves, new fixtures, and paint colors. The basement is even private enough that my mom can  move in as soon as she'd like. And, it's big enough that she has her own living room and bathroom.

It's the perfect combination of everything we want, yet in a condition that we can work with and afford.
Fingers crossed that everything goes in our favor. Please don't take my house… :)