Well its happened. We have outgrown our humble beginnings. We thought it would have happened sooner, and we may have just chosen to ignore the fact that we were splitting at the seams, rather than later. We are beginning to scratch our heads and wonder where we go from here.
First it seems, we must part ways with Casa de Bug. She has been a happy little home over the past 8 years, but for some strange reason we can not afford to have two house payments. I will be very sad to pack up our junk and leave her behind. I am sure that she will make another family just as happy as she made us.
Houses in our neck of the woods, as I hear it to be the same most places, aren't selling very quickly. With that in mind, our plan is to spiff up the place, and put her on the market. We are just concerned that we will find something we love more than her, she will have her feelings hurt and refuse to sell and we will be disappointed. We do have a "Just In Case" plan in place, on the off chance she does sell right away (When we bought the Bug Shack, I sat at the end of our street with our realtor and watched them put the For Sale sign in the yard and made an offer before anyone else had seen the house). I wonder if we jinxed ourselves trying to be the smart ones. We will see...
Second? We have to find a new place that we will all be happy in. When we bought Casa de Bug we had very little money and were just ready to get our of our crappy apartment. Not that we settled for what we have now, but we really didn't have high expectations. Now? We want a new house that we can pick and choose the things we really want. Of course we both seem to know what we want, and as you may have guessed we don't both want the same things. We have agreed that we will have to "give and get" a little but we are both very stubborn and that may be easier said than done. Why should he care what kitchen cabinets I pick out if he will be spending much of his time in his 3 car garage.
I do think that we may have found a house that we can all agree on. It has meet almost all of our preset standards. My biggest thing was a decent sized bedroom for the girl. As she pointed out last night at dinner she will be going to college in 7 years, but it will be a much more enjoyable 7 years for all of us if she has some room to grow. Hubs was trying for Daddy of the Year by insisting she also have her own large, preferably a walk in, closet. I was indifferent to a one or two story but wanted the laundry room on which ever floor the bedrooms were on. We saw so many houses where you would have had to carry your clothes down stairs and through the kitchen to the washer and dryer. No thanks. The house we are seriously considering is a 2 story with the master bedroom downstairs, the 5 other bedrooms upstairs, and the laundry downstairs. (What we are going to do with 4 empty bedrooms I don't really know). I wasn't to keen on the idea at first but then Hubs pointed out we would not have to carry our dirty duds up and down the stairs, it would only be the girl doing the climbing with the laundry basket. And because I am always looking for one more reason to say "Because I said so", I caved on that point.
The one thing that the hubs is sticking on is he wants a huge lot. The lots that are available now are decent sized but just not quite what he wants. They will be releasing more lots in the next couple of weeks, but the houses will have a price increase right before they open up the new lots. So, did I whine and get him to give in and quite possibly never hear the end of it, or do we wait for the larger lot and the larger price tag?
I am going to call our realtor next week and make an appointment with him to come over and tell us what he thinks needs to be done before we throw caution to the wind and put the house on the market.
I guess we will see what happens.
First it seems, we must part ways with Casa de Bug. She has been a happy little home over the past 8 years, but for some strange reason we can not afford to have two house payments. I will be very sad to pack up our junk and leave her behind. I am sure that she will make another family just as happy as she made us.
Houses in our neck of the woods, as I hear it to be the same most places, aren't selling very quickly. With that in mind, our plan is to spiff up the place, and put her on the market. We are just concerned that we will find something we love more than her, she will have her feelings hurt and refuse to sell and we will be disappointed. We do have a "Just In Case" plan in place, on the off chance she does sell right away (When we bought the Bug Shack, I sat at the end of our street with our realtor and watched them put the For Sale sign in the yard and made an offer before anyone else had seen the house). I wonder if we jinxed ourselves trying to be the smart ones. We will see...
Second? We have to find a new place that we will all be happy in. When we bought Casa de Bug we had very little money and were just ready to get our of our crappy apartment. Not that we settled for what we have now, but we really didn't have high expectations. Now? We want a new house that we can pick and choose the things we really want. Of course we both seem to know what we want, and as you may have guessed we don't both want the same things. We have agreed that we will have to "give and get" a little but we are both very stubborn and that may be easier said than done. Why should he care what kitchen cabinets I pick out if he will be spending much of his time in his 3 car garage.
I do think that we may have found a house that we can all agree on. It has meet almost all of our preset standards. My biggest thing was a decent sized bedroom for the girl. As she pointed out last night at dinner she will be going to college in 7 years, but it will be a much more enjoyable 7 years for all of us if she has some room to grow. Hubs was trying for Daddy of the Year by insisting she also have her own large, preferably a walk in, closet. I was indifferent to a one or two story but wanted the laundry room on which ever floor the bedrooms were on. We saw so many houses where you would have had to carry your clothes down stairs and through the kitchen to the washer and dryer. No thanks. The house we are seriously considering is a 2 story with the master bedroom downstairs, the 5 other bedrooms upstairs, and the laundry downstairs. (What we are going to do with 4 empty bedrooms I don't really know). I wasn't to keen on the idea at first but then Hubs pointed out we would not have to carry our dirty duds up and down the stairs, it would only be the girl doing the climbing with the laundry basket. And because I am always looking for one more reason to say "Because I said so", I caved on that point.
The one thing that the hubs is sticking on is he wants a huge lot. The lots that are available now are decent sized but just not quite what he wants. They will be releasing more lots in the next couple of weeks, but the houses will have a price increase right before they open up the new lots. So, did I whine and get him to give in and quite possibly never hear the end of it, or do we wait for the larger lot and the larger price tag?
I am going to call our realtor next week and make an appointment with him to come over and tell us what he thinks needs to be done before we throw caution to the wind and put the house on the market.
I guess we will see what happens.
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