Thursday, April 8, 2010

In review of the house hunt

Jason and I took spring break to go and preview the town of Big Rapids, Mi where he has been accepted and will be going to grad school this fall in optometry. We got on the plane in Salt lake and the fun started from there. We were delayed in Denver causing us to miss our flight, we spent the night in Cincinnati getting in at 11pm and leaving for the airport the next morning at
4am. We did get to Grand Rapids where Jason's brother picked us up and we were off to spend a blissful week house hunting. We started the house hunt on Monday morning seeing houses that we named the dog house, the cat house, the smurf house, the hoarder house, the octopus house, the harry potter house, the hot tub house, the 2-toned house, and the Jack Daniels house. Needless to say from the names you can imaging some of the qualities that these houses possessed. But we did find one that we liked (the smurf house) built in the 1920's it had hardwood through out it was in good condition and it has a Victorian feel. We put an offer in it was accepted and then came the inspection. Termites is all I can say and lots of them. We were told if the house hadn't been built so well it would have collapsed by now. On to plan B. 2 houses came on the market right after we left so Jason's brother and sister have been doing some house hunting for us. We are putting another offer in on one of the houses that they looked at and said was in very good condition. It was built in the 70's and is a ranch style home. It doesn't have much character but with a little paint we can fix that. We hope we get it if not on to Plan C.

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