Burger...Like HamBURGER: Home Sweet Home...

Dustin and I have been on the hunt for our first house since we moved to Lakeport over a year ago. I can not remember how many houses we looked at. We put an offer in on a couple of them and never even got a eye bat in our direction. We were always beat out by people buying the house with CASH (who has that much laying around these days). We started to look at houses without any excitement or expectations until we saw this one.

This house was perfect; in our price range, in town (even though Dustin wanted Scotts Valley), down the street or around the corner from Family. I was in love, Dustin just wanted a place to put his tools and park his Rock Crawler.

We are lucky enough to know a FABULOUS realtor, our friend Heidi. She is great! We found our house and she fought for the Seller to look at our offer and sure enough they picked us. THEY PICKED US! We couldn't believe it, a year later and we finally were one step closer to getting our very own house. We hammered out the details and the negotiating. In the end we agreed that the Buyer would fix up the Section 1 and Section 2 of the Pest in order to pass for the FHA Appraisal and the Seller would pay closing costs and buy down our interest rate. So technically we were putting money into a house that was not ours yet.

We had to fix the side deck and some other random issues one of which included the toilets (we ended up buying brand new ones, one of which is a handicap height, for us tall folk).

We had a total of 3 date extensions (1 for us to be able to get the deck done and 2 because the Escrow company was so backed up), Finally after almost 3 months of waiting it is finally ours!

Here are the Pics from the Real Estate Listing...