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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Welcome 2011
2010 was a great year!! I married my best friend, gained an amazing extended family, and was able to go on many trips including Mexico for my sisters wedding, Hawaii for the best honeymoon ever, and of course Arizona to see the family--which is always a GREAT time!!!
We celebrated the Christmas holiday in Marquette, NE, at Grandma and Grandpa Kirby's house...which is always a very relaxing good time. We spent Christmas day with family and taking walks around the camp and country around grandma and grandpas house. Here is a picture to show you how awesome and peaceful it is at grandma and grandpas house:
We spent this past weekend at Derek and Martas for Christmas Saturday night and then Grandma and Grandpa Hultgrens house on Sunday. Always a good time to go to their house and relax and hang out with the awesome family. Saturday at Derek and Martas I brought the Wii game Michael Jackson: The Experience...here is photo of my mom, sister, sister in law, and I doing the Michael Jackson dance off the tv...it was so much fun! But man it was a crazy workout!
We rang in the new year in Blair at our good friends house, Jen and Josh. Every year we have a Christmas party and this year we decided that New Years Eve was about the only day that would work for everyone...so it was a Christmas/New Years Eve/Christmas Sweater Party....it was a great time!! We also played "Minute to Win It" almost all of the night...it was SOOOOOOOOOO much fun!! It was a great night full of laughter and great friends.
This is at the beginning of the night posin with the Dana College Blanket :-)
Welcome to 2011!
We celebrated the Christmas holiday in Marquette, NE, at Grandma and Grandpa Kirby's house...which is always a very relaxing good time. We spent Christmas day with family and taking walks around the camp and country around grandma and grandpas house. Here is a picture to show you how awesome and peaceful it is at grandma and grandpas house:
We spent this past weekend at Derek and Martas for Christmas Saturday night and then Grandma and Grandpa Hultgrens house on Sunday. Always a good time to go to their house and relax and hang out with the awesome family. Saturday at Derek and Martas I brought the Wii game Michael Jackson: The Experience...here is photo of my mom, sister, sister in law, and I doing the Michael Jackson dance off the tv...it was so much fun! But man it was a crazy workout!
We rang in the new year in Blair at our good friends house, Jen and Josh. Every year we have a Christmas party and this year we decided that New Years Eve was about the only day that would work for everyone...so it was a Christmas/New Years Eve/Christmas Sweater Party....it was a great time!! We also played "Minute to Win It" almost all of the night...it was SOOOOOOOOOO much fun!! It was a great night full of laughter and great friends.
This is at the beginning of the night posin with the Dana College Blanket :-)
Welcome to 2011!Who knows what 2011 holds for us but we know it is going to be a fantastic year!!
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