Our New House!

Yup! It's official folks. Trevor and I are buying a house! We've been looking at houses online and driving by them forever, but funnily enough, this house is the first one we ever actually looked at the inside of. We had a list of houses to look at, and when we saw this one--how big it is and then the price, we knew it was a deal and HAD to see it. We called our agent and he scheduled us a showing that very night. Good thing. We made an offer the next morning, and the owners accepted it. Of course, this house is a short sale, which means that owner's bank needs to approve it, as they are taking a loss on it. We are getting it for about thirty thousand less than what the owners owe. So we made that offer just before Labor Day weekend. And we've been waiting FOREVER to hear back from the bank! Finally our agent called us on Thursday with good news! We had it inspected on Friday, and were happy so see that it had no major problems. We should be closing on the 24th of October. Ah!!! So here's a really crappy picture of it--this is from the inspector's report. I haven't actually taken any other pictures of it yet! It's 2600 square feet, and on a quarter lot in West Jordan, close to Westvale Elementary. It's 12:30 right now, and at 1:00 Trevor and I are going to go scope out the ward. What better way to feel out a ward than to watch a testimony meeting? Anyway, we are so excited we can hardly stand it. I'm sure this blog will be FULL of updates as we get access to the house and start making repairs. It will need a very good cleaning, lots of paint, and as the inspector said, "some TLC." It's definately a fixer-upper but shows a lot of potential! Hooray! Homeowners at last!