First of all, how do people adult? I mean, we both have 40-hour-plus careers, but we don’t have kids and our social lives aren’t nearly as demanding as they used to be when we were whippersnappers with livers of steel. How does anyone work, care for a house, raise children, and accomplish … um, things?!…
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Having a house under contract, a story in GIFs.
From Kate: At first you think, of all the people, we’re the ones who have this house. That’s right. You’re a big-time, home-buying WINNER! But then you start thinking about what the house doesn’t have. Or what you’ll have to pay. Or what will happen if you find out that everything is a rotten mess…
Waiting
From Kate: 5 minutes. Abbie is calling in 5 minutes and she may or may not be telling us our offer was accepted. 4 minutes. And *I’m* judging me for wanting a semi-busted townhome. I wanted this enough to offer high before it went on the market. But I *think* I won’t be heartbroken if…
Putting Down the Offer
From Kate: Today is the day. We’re putting down a formal offer on a townhome. We’ve had our eye on this community since before we really began looking at homes. It’s an HOA-simple little collection of attached homes, usually 1200-1500 square feet, each a bit different from the next. The homes were built in 1983…