Dream House

We found our dream house today.

I spent the morning perusing Craigs List for a crib for Cooper. Given our stay has been extended a lot longer than we anticipated all of our stuff is in storage. It’s time for Cooper to get a real bed. I found a listing for a nice crib that met all m criteria and it was dirt cheap but she didn’t show a picture. So after looking at 517 other listings I couldn’t find another one so we had to make the 30 minute drive out to a town called Creedmor just to look at this bed. We knew we were getting there when we turned onto the dirt and gravel road and passed a somewhat disheveled man on a tractor with a few labs running in his yard. We pulled into an almost 5 acre lot surrounded by cattle fencing. First time I’d ever heard of it but it supposedly keeps the animals out. The driveway was lined with a cool log type of fencing and we pulled up to this gorgeous house. It is 3 bedrooms with a loft that overlooks a saltwater pool. Each bedroom is huge and has it’s own full bathroom. The pool has been designed to have a large section of just 3-4 feet and then a whole deep end section. (Did I mention there is a button you can push that turns the salt into chlorine if you want?) There is a huge playground and then a huge garage that has an office, a woodshop type place and it has a kid playroom with chalkboard walls. (I could home school in there!!!) And the master bathroom it was like its own bedroom.

I felt really bad for the woman because she had moved down here from Boston and the building of the house had wrecked her marriage so she has to put it up on the market in a few weeks. Doesn’t that just seem too good to be true?? Alas she is asking for about 200K more than we are looking to spend BUT we did some comps and she clearly doesn’t know the market so maybe just maybe when she gets a real estate agent and prices it right we can negotiate!!

Everybody think positive thoughts for us. Not sure if you can tell but I really want this house!!!