The Holtonian

House hunt update

For those that are interested in our house hunt or those who are sickly interested in our personal life... an update on the house search. We have thrown in the towel on our dream home. Well not necessarily. We found a home on Signal Mtn that was in our price range and had everything we wanted and then some. It had a few major problems but nothing the Holtonians couldn't handle. We were bideing our time trying to get my folks down here so they could see it, and also devise a strategy to buy the thing with our realtor. It was looking up since the records were showing that the seller had over inflated the value of the home and that he was trying to sell the home for more than it was worth. Homes in the area were running around 50 to 60 bucks per square foot this house was more than that and was in far worse shape than any home on the block. So things were looking like they'd go our way well then this morning and I was going to talk to my folks to lure them down here this weekend, well so much for that.

I left work a little early to go talk to our agent and the house had already had an offer close to the asking price. This pretty much shuts the window on the house for us. We can't afford a bidding war and we don't think, in fact we know the home is not worth near what they are asking. It has a lot of wrotten wood around the roof, all the windows have to be changed, mater bath needs a new floor and some tile work, the house has no laudry room meaning if the people who buy it want to keep the washer and dryer where it is now they're stuck with an upright that is 10 plus years old, and the worst part was the house has no storage for yard equipment. All of these problems we were going to take into consideration with our offer but oh well. Unless for some odd reason they decline the offer tomorrow (That'd be the seller) we'll just consider other options. We have had no luck with finding any other homes we like anywhere here in the vicinity of chattanooga. I may talk to a contractor or architect to see if we can maybe build, but wifey is very against it and I'd have to find a super choice lot for cheap to convince her. Its kind of a bummer, we went to O'Charlies (The only sit down restaurant besides Bucks in Ft. O) to drown our sorrows in horrible food, please never go there it sucked. But we're tryign to be Calvinistic about it and realize its all in God's will, which really comes in handy when things don't go your way. See while the non-calvinisitc person who bought the house is going to kick themself for paying too much for a house that needs a ton of work and regretting the "decision" he made I'll be laughing all the way to the bank with my confidence and pride in check because I know it was providence that kept us from buying the house. Now watch the sales agent call us up tomorrow and tell us the offer was a bluff to see if we'd make an offer. That'd be funny... in a weird way.