That saying "The third times a charm" wasn't true for us. It was the sixth time! We finally found a home to buy! This is house #6 we have tried to buy since January. Let me tell you...it feels so good to know that we will have a place to go at the end of July. The inspection went well and now all we need to do is get the financing set in stone and show up on our closing date.
Getting this house [well actually it's a condo], wasn't what we expected when we started this search. However, we are convinced that the Lord is faithful to provide what we need, not necessarily what we want. We found this place Sunday, as it had just hit the market that morning. There was an ad in the paper that there was to be an open house, so Stephen and I decided to go to it after church. We weren't thrilled with the idea because it's a 2 bed/2 bath/2 car garage condo and we have always desired at least 3 bedrooms, a yard and an actual house. As we have learned through this process, we can't eliminate options, especially at this point. So we went to the open house.
When we walked in the place Stephen and the seller recognized one another and it turned out to be someone who works in the school district that Stephen first worked at when he started teaching. Furthermore, her daughter walked in the room and Stephen remembered he had taught her years and years ago when she was in 8th grade. She is now graduating from college! That was pretty neat. By the end of our "tour" we felt we should make an offer on the place, so we did just that, that evening. The next day we had "heard" that the owner and her realtor would be going over our offer, possibly tweeking it. Later that day our realtor called us and told us that the seller had 2 other people who were going to place offers, yet she told them not to because they wanted to look at ours first. Wow! It's rare to refuse other offers. After looking at ours she decided to take it pretty much as is, because she had prayed about it and felt the Lord was telling her we were the right people to buy this place. We thought this was pretty amazing and such a Godsend.
All we needed was the inspection to go smoothly, but having been through what we have, we were not counting on anything at this point. The Lord worked it out though! We had the inspection this morning and it went very well. So we believe this is the place He has for us and even though it's not what we had envisioned when starting this house buying journey, it is HIS vision. We believe the Lord will bless it. It does have some features we just love [lots of windows and a small, private courtyard and it's a non-student community]. It also needs alot of painting and all new floors, but nothing that we can't handle, as we are very familiar with remodeling. :o)
So hopefully the drama is over for now and the next 3-5 years at this place will have many treasured memories!
Getting this house [well actually it's a condo], wasn't what we expected when we started this search. However, we are convinced that the Lord is faithful to provide what we need, not necessarily what we want. We found this place Sunday, as it had just hit the market that morning. There was an ad in the paper that there was to be an open house, so Stephen and I decided to go to it after church. We weren't thrilled with the idea because it's a 2 bed/2 bath/2 car garage condo and we have always desired at least 3 bedrooms, a yard and an actual house. As we have learned through this process, we can't eliminate options, especially at this point. So we went to the open house.
When we walked in the place Stephen and the seller recognized one another and it turned out to be someone who works in the school district that Stephen first worked at when he started teaching. Furthermore, her daughter walked in the room and Stephen remembered he had taught her years and years ago when she was in 8th grade. She is now graduating from college! That was pretty neat. By the end of our "tour" we felt we should make an offer on the place, so we did just that, that evening. The next day we had "heard" that the owner and her realtor would be going over our offer, possibly tweeking it. Later that day our realtor called us and told us that the seller had 2 other people who were going to place offers, yet she told them not to because they wanted to look at ours first. Wow! It's rare to refuse other offers. After looking at ours she decided to take it pretty much as is, because she had prayed about it and felt the Lord was telling her we were the right people to buy this place. We thought this was pretty amazing and such a Godsend.
All we needed was the inspection to go smoothly, but having been through what we have, we were not counting on anything at this point. The Lord worked it out though! We had the inspection this morning and it went very well. So we believe this is the place He has for us and even though it's not what we had envisioned when starting this house buying journey, it is HIS vision. We believe the Lord will bless it. It does have some features we just love [lots of windows and a small, private courtyard and it's a non-student community]. It also needs alot of painting and all new floors, but nothing that we can't handle, as we are very familiar with remodeling. :o)
So hopefully the drama is over for now and the next 3-5 years at this place will have many treasured memories!
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