We had a horrible morning. Awful. I broke down and sobbed before lunch. There were just too many things going wrong. Let me start at the beginning. Before our realtor picked us up this morning we got an e-mail saying that our temporary housing wasn’t going to work out the way we had planned and that after the first thirty days it was going to cost us $3,000 a month to live there since it was going to be furnished. Obviously, we aren’t going to pay $3,000 a month to live somewhere so Sean asked if we could have an unfurnished apartment. E-mails went back and forth and they decided we could but we would have to break the lease agreement from the first apartment and that was going to cost money as well. More e-mails went back and forth and then it was decided upon that we could stay with the same apartment, just without the furniture.
So while all of that was going on we met with a woman who does house loans. She was trying to give us the hard sell and was going on and on about this, that and the other and at that point in the day I was worried that we didn’t even have an apartment to live in…we just weren’t ready to talk house loans and we especially weren’t ready to lock in or get the hard sell. From there we went to look at houses and that went pretty well.
Our realtor dropped us back off at the hotel and Sean and I regrouped. (That’s when I broke down in the car.) We then went and had a FABULOUS lunch at an Italian restaurant near our hotel. We then headed off to look at houses and schools on our own. What helped us narrow down our decision was the schools. After looking at the two schools we were choosing between (based on location and things we’d read on the internet about them) it became obvious to us which school was the best choice for us. One was very institutional, we had to have a map of the school just to figure out where things were, the class sizes were larger and we just didn’t get a warm and fuzzy feel about it. The other school was exactly the opposite. Loved it!!! The bonus was a parent stopped us outside and told us that it’s a wonderful school with tons of parent support. SOLD!!!!
Then we went to the subdivision we were interested in that feeds into that school. We really like the houses there; they have a similar look and feel to our current house (without the basement). We think we are going to build. We have picked the floor plan we like and the lot we like. Now we just need to decide when and if we are going to take the leap.
We are going out with our realtor again tomorrow, so we’ll see what that brings…