FINALLY HOMEOWNERS!

Yep! You heard me correctly! We are finally homeowners!!! We put in an offer on a short sale home on October 5 and as of Friday, January 14, the home is ours!!! For those of you counting that is about 102 days to close....Let me explain...

If you don't know what a short sale is a short sale is when an owner basically has one option before being foreclosed on...also since it is a short sale it is listed as low as the bank will possibly let it sell for...also since it is a short sale the bank makes ALL the major decisions....

Okay so we put the offer in on October 5....about 2 weeks later we signed some more "offer" paperwork with the sellers real estate agent...the next day the paperwork was shipped off to the "decision" maker...THE BANK....we heard from our Real estate agent the week of Thanksgiving letting us know that the right "person" at the bank had the offer and hopefully we would have a decision soon (Did I mention the current "owners" agreed to the offer but once again since it is a short sale the bank has all the decisions) then we waited some more and waited some more...the week prior to Christmas we got the call...THE BANK APPROVED IT!!! OUR WAITING PAID OFF!!! WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!! So we immediately start talking closing dates with the bank...well apparently, once again, since it is a short sale, the BANK has the final decision on the selling date and it is not negotiable...SOOOOOOO we closed 102 days after we made our initial offer!

We got the keys on Friday morning and immediately went into the house and washed the walls.  Saturday was our paiting partay! :) Kim, Jen, Josh, Tews, Jaydyn and Randy all came over...I will have pictures later...but the basement was BRIGHT orange...so Kim, Jen, Tews, Jaydyn, and I tackled the basement...one coat of primer...lunch break...then first coat of paint :-) While the girls were painting queens (Did I mention that we also primed the bathroom and got it ready for painting?) the guys had their own projects going on....they changed all the door knobs and locks on the front door, back door and even garage door...then the kitchen had a random "L" shape counter that the previous owners had put in...it needed to go! Soooooooooooooooooooo the guys took that counter OUT :-) Then Sunday (today) Pete and I went back to blair and put the 2nd coat of paint on the basement, painted an accent wall in the office, starting priming the bedroom, and then Dad helped Pete Rake the snow off the roof...yep...lots of snow on the roof!   So in the last 48 hours we have completed the basement, the office is 3/4 completed, the bedroom is 2/4 completed, and the bathroom is 1/4 completed....and when I say completed I mean painted :-) Now all the rooms were painted but the previous owner had ALOT of colors that just weren't our style! So we are painting machines!!!

Watch for the before and after pictures which I will post soon!!!

YEA FOR US BEING HOMEOWNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!