Correction: That was #18
In my excitement over having found a house, I skipped over two others we looked at in the week preceding.
#16 was on a pretty big lot, but very skinny and long. House was small, there was a pool right behind it which would get in the way of expansion (and not sure we want to maintain a pool at this phase of life).
#17 was also fairly small, on 2.7 acres that we could probably have split and built on the back half. But it wasn’t a very inspirational lot. Kinda flat. Horses next door, at least for the moment, but the whole area is expected to build up rapidly over the next few years.
So, back to #18, the one we are buying (knock on wood). Signed mortgage application paperwork today. Inspection is Thursday - and then the inspector comes over here to do a pre-inspection on our house. The agent is coming over tomorrow to take pictures and wants it on the market by the end of the week, so we are in frantic clean-up and fix-up mode. The local construction business is very busy so we’ve had a hard time finding anybody to do some inside painting and minor repairs for us, even the pressure washing for the deck was going to be next week until Jeff leaned on them. So Jeff is going to have to miss more time at the McColl Center in order to paint for the next few days.
Hopefully the agent is right that the house will sell pretty quickly, so we won’t have to maintain show-house conditions for too long. Neither of us is quite that tidy by nature!