Purchases

Here's purchase #2:

Laminate "Harvest Oak" wood flooring from Costco. We have been looking around between Lumbar Liquidators, Lowes, Home Depot, and Costco and decided the best deal was Costco for the pre-padded stuff. We still do not own the house but again, we made a purchase in high hopes! We would like to eventually upgrade to hard wood, but this will look great for a few years. We will be putting it in the kitchen, dining room, living room, and hallway in the upstairs, and probably the stairs with possibly adding a carpet runner or something. We'll put an area rug in the living room, with the couch we have now and the piano. Next purchases will probably be paint and carpet. Carpet will be going in the bedrooms and downstairs, eventually putting the tv in the bonus room.

Here was our first purchase for our downstairs guest bathroom: black and white. We'll put in the black and white vinyl tiles, white walls, black rugs/towels, maybe some other black & white decor...keepin' it simple!

So now we just need the keys to our house so we can actually use these purchases!!

9/19/10 Update

Well I didn't want to post again until we were officially home owners. However, I am sad to say we still do not have that title. We signed the papers, but not we are just waiting for the lenders to sign/the money to end up somewhere (the bank?)...I am getting lost with all the extension excuses. So basically our update this time is there is no update. Tomorrow is a maybe for everything to go through. I am just not going to set a date for when to expect a house key because each time we do that, the plan is a failure. That way, when they call us up to settle everything then it will be a great surprise! Hopefully this week?!!!

9/1/10 Update

Well things are getting a lot closer so I'm just going to start dating my updates since our projects will go on for a while. Our closing date was supposed to be the 27th, last Friday. A few things came up and we didn't hear from anyone for a few days until a couple days before closing. Then they told us we needed to fix a couple things in the house, but we were not able to finalize everything by the 27th. So into this week, we turned in a few more forms, and the appraisal was updated, so as of now we are just waiting for things to be finalized and we should be able to sign tomorrow or Friday and close!

From there the demolition begins! A few walls will be torn out, carpet will be ripped out downstairs, temporary flooring in the kitchen/dining/bathrooms will be placed, windows will be replaced, plumbing will be fixed and adjusted, insulation, and onto painting. We'll clean the carpet in the upstairs (which we'll replace when we have enough money) and then we can move in! That's all just the beginning--it will be ongoing and as excited as we are now, I'm sure we will soon be tired.

We made our first purchase (in high hopes that everything goes well)! We bought a cheap vanity from Home Depot for the downstairs bathroom. There are 3 bathrooms that all need to be redone, so we just bought one that was super on sale. I'm so excited to decorate this one. I've always like the black & white look so having 3 bathrooms, at least one could have that theme! The single sink is black with white cabinets below. It came with a mirror, but they also had some more mirrors separate for $14.99, so we also got 2 of those. One is black-framed that I may use instead. Anyway, with that I'm thinking black and white tile/vinyl, white walls with maybe black trim, and black towels/floor mats. Simple and cute! It is in my head at least :)

I tried to find a picture online but they don't have it on their website so this is kind of like it but opposite in color.

So the next update will be when we are official home owners!

Inspections Update

So we have had one home/pest inspection, and it was no surprise that there was a large list of repairs that would need to be taken care of before closing. So we had Blake (Lane's brother--general contractor) write up an estimate for his list, and a plumber write up an estimate for all the plumbing issues. Basically we had to let the bank/listing agent know what the estimates were for issues that should have been addressed before, and asked them to lower the price we would pay. They originally told us they would pay $2000 in repairs, so this time they came back saying they would just up that to $4000. So that's good news. We can probably get everything that needs to be done for about that much because of all the family/friend connections we have. However, this inspection was not the FHA inspection--which is the one we are more concerned about because that's what will get us our loan. That inspection is taking place this week, but there shouldn't be a list much longer than the one we already have, so hopefully we can get all that done and everything up to code by August 27th (closing date) with out going over budget!

So...it's still not ours yet...but almost there!

In the meantime, our minds are going crazy with everything we want to do to the house. But it will be a month by month priority list, and I will have a hard time not wanting to just buy whatever matches to make it look great! **I guess we need to get the house first anyway**

Update

Well yesterday we signed the buy-seller agreement, and today we met with our mortgage broker to sign a whole bunch more paperwork. The inspections and appraisal are now being set up and will be taking place next week--and then we will go from there! If all goes well, then we will just have a few minor repairs that we can take care of prior to our closing date (Aug 27). Wish us luck!!

Tour

So here's a little tour for those who are not in Wenatchee to actually see the house. Please excuse my lame layout drawings, just trying to make it easier to understand the layout! There's a lot to fix up! (If you can't see the labels in the rooms you can just click on the picture, it should enlarge).

2537 Indy Ln

We found this forclosure home in Wenatchee: 5bed, 3bath, 2750sq ft on a 1/3 of an acre...asking price $189,900. It's a total fixer upper. We haven't shopped around too much other than the internet, so I felt we were rushing into things until I saw the inside. It does not smell good or look great right now, but I immediately saw the potential. The exterior is beautiful, like a house from a movie. Yard needs some fixing up and the garage and such. The inside needs a ton of work. We decided to place an offer. After a week of adjusting against a couple other offers, ours was accepted!! I don't think it has all sunk in yet with me. I guess it doesn't seem real yet. Now we need to pass inspection to secure our loan, and make sure all the necessary repairs can be done before closing with out increasing the price by too much!