Home Sweet Home

It is ours! We heard on Sunday afternoon at 3pm that we booted the primary buyers out of contention. We will close on December 15th!!! We are VERY excited!!!!

Patience is Not My Finest Virtue

Well we put an offer in on the house that I spoke of in my previous post. We wrote the offer up last night and Sheela submitted the offer to them last night sometime after Grey's Anatomy. The offer was written to expire by 7pm this evening.

Well 7:30 rolled around and we hadn't heard anything yet. I called Sheela and left her a message. She got back to me a little before 8 and said that they sellers called her and said that they haven't had a chance to look over and talk about the offer yet. They would get around to it tomorrow or Sunday and get back to her with their answer. Which 1 makes me very uneasy, because we have to wait longer for the answer. I know that them selling this house isn't their number one priority as they already have an offer in on the property, yet I don't know if they realize the agony of waiting on the other end. We set a deadline for a reason. So Sheela said at this point we have every right to walk away. The sellers may in the end accept our offer, but we have to rework the offer contract.

UGGGGHHHHHH I am not wanting to wait at all! I am in love with this house! I know I shouldn't have fallen, but those unlucky in love knows that you just cannot help it!

Keep Ya Posted!!!!!

Decisions, Decisions.

Well we found a house that we like. So, begins the flurry of insanity. First things first, the offer currently has an offer on it. The offer has a Bump. What that means that the other buyers (them/they) have a contingency of selling their house, but if another buyer comes along (us/ours) and puts in an offer the sellers can accept ours if they aren't able to (within 72 hours) get their financing settled/change that contingency. They have the option of a double mortgage, obtaining a bridge loan, maybe their house is close to an offer, or just letting the house go. Which is sad for them, but good for us. So we are looking at the house tomorrow with my parents and if we see everything as kosher we will go ahead and try to bump the others out. I know that it sounds pretty mean, but oh well. It is the nicest house that we have seen and we really liked it when we did the drivebys. So if luck is in our favor (or if God is holding the house for us, as my mother-in-law would say) we may have a house!

Tomorrow I will take pictures and I will post them here to show it to you. I will keep you posted. Better than usual too because I am way excited about this and will talk to everyone and anyone about this! I am really anxious about it all!!

Running Around

This week has been a hectic one. We have met with two Realtors this week. We have two good ones we talked to and have to try and decide which one to go with. We really liked both of them. I have an appointment with the bank on Friday to talk about loans and to pre-qualify for a loan. I hope to learn more about the different types of loans available to us and how much house we will be able to afford. This all makes me nervous. This is a big deal! I am making sense out of it all by studying up on it all. I have 2 books that I am reading. One from a co-worker and one that I bought. They are both very helpful so I am feeling better about it all. It will really hit me when we go out on showings. Thinking about it makes my tummy tumble.

We are off to my friend Jen's wedding this weekend. Jen and I have been friends since the third grade. We haven't been that close as of late but I love her to death and I am anxious to meet her husband. The first time I will meet him will be on Friday. We are staying with the outlaws for the rest of the weekend since there house is only 5 miles from the reception hall.

Other than that trying to keep exercising and figuring out if I limp more or less with my knee brace on.

I'm So Excited!

This weekend is going to be a big weekend for several reasons. 1) My grandparents from Florida are going to be in town. Since I had surgery last year we couldn't go down and see them. So it has been over a year since I have seen them. That is entirely too long. On top of that we are getting together with that WHOLE side of the family. It will be nice to have the Ruskoskys back together again!!! 2)It is the cow chip craft fair. Which means a trip to Sauk and looking at a lot of cute crafty stuff. My goal is to find my sister something sappy to hang in her house. Since her fiancee thinks that our apt is too sappy, I am going to find something sappy to give her whenever I can! 3) While we are in Sauk my mom and I are going to scope out some neighborhoods in Sauk. Actually we are looking at houses, on the outside, to see if they are in nice neighborhoods. WE ARE LOOKING AT HOUSES!!!!!!!!! I am SO excited! I feel like we have been waiting FOREVER to buy a house. Now that Wal-Mart pumped up our savings account we will be able to find a permanent residence. We have been scoping houses out in Sauk City and Lodi since Josh accepted his job offer. We are hoping to find something and move in sometime in January. I really don't want to move before Christmas unless absolutely necessary. The plan is to talk to banks after Labor Day and see what they have to say about us and our credit and how much house they are willing to finance us for. We have an idea of what we want to spend. Let's hope that the bank tells us that is in our price range!