We're buying a house! Ten years of marriage and we're finally buying a house.
It's a tiny little thing at 800 sq ft. The yard is about 3500 sq ft. The house has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. It also has an unfinished basement, so the potential for other rooms also exists. The garage is too small for our Windstar, but that means I will finally have a workshop.
One of the exciting things is that there is a lot of potential for improvements to the property. As well, it looks like we will be saving roughly 200 dollars on housing and utility costs with this move. This move will also mean I won't have to transfer buses to get to work anymore.
We are very excited about this new stage in our life together.
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Congrats! What area of town did you buy in? Staying on the south side?
Yep, still on the south side. We're much closer to downtown now though. Just south of Sixth Avenue.
Houses are both good and evil. All of your free time will now be consumed by repair and maintenance of house. Failure to do so will only make things worse. But, in the long run, its one of the best investments you can make. Hope youre a DIY kinda guy, because if youre not, things will get real expensive real fast.
Oh, I am Kurt. I've been waiting for this for a long time.
That's awesome. I doubt we'll ever be able to buy a house, with the median home here being something around $700K. But maybe we can buy an old library and renovate it.
That's the price you pay for living in Huntington Beach. But that's the sacrifice you make. Either enjoy skating and surfing, or buy a house.
We are very excited for you Kim and Mary!! Can't wait to take a look at it or at least the outside next weekend :) I bet the children are thrilled to get their own rooms now as an adventure huh? Does that mean you want tools for your workshop for Christmas now? :-D
The children are still sharing a room, but they are disappointed they won't be sharing our room. But then again, our room is quite an anomaly with the expansion. We had to explain that our new bedroom is half the size and there is no way we could fit a queen sized bed, a bunk bed a bookshelf, a wardrobe and three dressers in it.
I would love tools for Christmas. There are very few hand tools I need, so I would love power tools. The one I want the most is a table saw (particularly with mitre options), but I'd settle for a circular saw and a pair of sawhorses.
Congratulations! Home ownership is the best! 3500 sq ft lot. I see a garden in your future!
Definitely a garden. We haven't had much choice lately, so it will be nice to finally have something.
Congrats Mary & Kim, and Welcome to being a Home Owner.. I know you will love it.
Sure, there's a lot of work to it, but so rewarding...
All the Best now at Christmas and in 2006
Maxine
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