OK DON'T hold your breath or you might turn blue and pass out!! LOL
BUT I went through a house that I'm REALLY excited about!!!! and it's a repo.. that = CHEAP for me! LOL
structually it's pretty sound (don't worry I'm going through again on Fri with someone else to verify) cosmetically of course there are some things but nothing that's to bad!! I will prob put an offer in for it on Fri for $65,000. (it's only listed at $74,900)

so cross you fingers and pray that no one else goes through before that to make an offer!! I'll keep you updated.

oh yeah and it has almost everything I wanted in a house plus extras. basement, garage, 1200 sq feet, i level, 3 bedrooms, GREAT location, great neighborhood....have I mentioned I'm REALLY excited about this one?

Hope you'll be blessed on this find. Sounds great. Keep us updated. Everything is crossed!

Fingers, toes and eyes crossed. Good luck!!!!

We'll keep our fingers, toes and wings crossed for you! It sounds like a great house!

Good luck and keep us posted!

My --Our fingers and wings are crossed.
Sounds great.

Good luck...everything crossed.

I'm so excited for you and I sure do hope you get this house~! If it's meant to be your new home then you will get!

I am soo nervous that someone else will go through the house and put an offer in before me...
part of me wants to run over to the realtor RIGHT NOW and get an offer in but then the logical part of me says no, wait and do a second run though with someone else (the bank won't recognize an officail inspection stipulation-it's an "as is")....I went through this house on tues...it's thur now..i haven't been able to sleep at night and I swear the only thing I can think about is when I get this house! and what colors I want to paint, how i will redo the bathroom, the carpet, where cages will go....geesh...it's torture!! LOL


(is this what people mean when they say you'll know this is the house for you?....lol)

oh yeah...here is is: http://www.realtor.com/search/listingdetai...srcnt=15#Detail

If that is a dishwasher I see then check VERY CAREFULLY that it is not leaking. Dishwashers and icemaker lines for fridges create notoriously slow leaks that can wind up destroying your kitchen and even your whole house. I work for a kitchen manufacturer and I had a woman call me in tears because her dishwasher had soaked all the walls and her cabinets which grew black mold for months before she noticed. Many insurance companies will not cover water damage after it starts to mold. As far as they are concerned you should be catching the leaks before they have time to rot the kitchen.

She had already torn out her kitchen down to the studs and the restoration company was telling her even some of those might have to come out. The replacement cost for her kitchen cabinets alone? $9,000-$12,000.

Had had already spent multiple thousands of dollars having her kitchen torn out (to give you an idea a professional installer is about $100-$150 an hour to demo and about $1200-$1500 to install a new kitchen) and was looking at, from my rough estimation, at least another 25-40 grand in replacing kitchen cabinets, flooring, drywall, studs, disinfecting the whole kitchen and, of course, getting a new dishwashwer put in and the plumbing repaired.

Water lines into a fridge for an icemaker can do the same thing. With a sink leak you will tend to notice it when it is new - because the stuff under your sink gets wet, or you hear a dripping. With dishwasher or ice maker water line leak it is not always a heavy drip, sometimes it is a fine mist that saturates everything slowly which is why they aren't noticed until it's too late.

If it is possible to rent a water detector from a restoration company (they use them to check what walls have been saturated if a house floods/overhead sprinklers go off) then I suggest spending the money to do it and check ALL of the walls in the kitchens and bathrooms for traces of water.

As long as everything in the house checks out then I say enjoy!!! Make sure to post pictures as you fix it up too!

wishing you good luck, everything is crossed! LOL

Yikes!! Thanks for the Tip!! If I do get it I'll be pulling those both out right away to check and see. One comforting thought though it that it has been winterized so no water is on in the house right now anyways.

Wow what a deal. I have my fingers crossed for you. Here the houses are $235.000 and up.

LOL ohhhh trust me there are plenty of those around here too!!! The problem in this area right now though is that there are no jobs and like most other places we are getting a ton of repo's or forclosurs in the area. so if you patient (ha! that is sooo hard to do) and you look hard you might come across a good deal. I'm to cheap to want to even spend towards the top end of what I've been preapproved for. LOL

What fun it will be to make all the cosmetic changes you have in mind! I love love love doing those things. Wish I were there to help ya! Good luck.

If you lived closer I'd offer to do your kitchen at a discount but shipping to the states would be brutally expensive

Good luck!!!

Oh... before finalizing the deal have the bank turn the water on to the house and make sure the toilets flush and the shower works... or at least do that before you move in nothing worse than finding out your john doesn't work when you *really* have to use it!!! Though everyone here would have a good giggle at the video of Skipper and co potty dancing down to the local mall...

Fingers crossed it all goes well for you.

Today is the big day! Can't wait to hear what happens with the house. The house is so cute!

iT'S fRIDAY!!!! yHA Cant wait to hear how it go's

breath breath breath breath.......ok I just confirmied with the realtor that we go through the house today at 11:00. Just got my RE Pre approval form the bank so we're good to go there.....the butterflies are going dtong in my stomach though!!! i'll be back on after I go through....thanks for all the good lucks!

Good luck! *fingers crossed* (Don't forget to breathe! )

OK....I think I'm even MORE confussed about what I want to do... but in the long run I think this is what I want! I'm very much a think it through over and over several times before I make a descion kind of person... and for that reason it makes me nervous to make big finacial descions (hence why I still drive a car with 201,500 miles on it..LOL) I like living conservatively.

I know there are things that need to be done...but I still like it...why does it have to be so scary to own a house?!LOL

Part of the reason too I know; is that things went sour with the last house I had because of my divorce...*stupid ex*.. and I think that's why I'm a little gun shy....

*sigh* looks like I have a lot to pray about this weekend...

Good luck with your decision!

Keep in mind that this will be YOUR house and looking at the expected payment, if it is lower than your rent and the house is in livable shape right now, I say buy it and fix it up 1 piece at a time. This time there are no ex husbands to get in the way and ruin your enjoyment.

If you can afford it, have the skills fix it yourself and have already decided what colour to paint the dining room then please don't let a bad past experience turn you off to home ownership forever.

Best of luck in reaching your decision! You sound just like I did when I was debating buying a house Once you stand in the living room and jump up and down screaming "YIPPEE SKIPPY IT'S MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!" you'll start feeling better

If you decide that maybe this isn't the house for you then there is no harm in keeping on looking, you are in an ideal market to buy and the perfect home will pop up out of the blue someday.

As a funny side note... when I was looking for a house I started visiting everything I could afford and in one house the carpet actually CRUNCHED when you walked on it EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! There was even a realtor in the house! I can't believe they would show a house in that condition - at least tell the guy he has to clean it first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still wonder to this day if it ever sold.

I wish you the best. I will say a prayer too to help you with this big decision. Sometimes when you get so excited over something this big you start to second guess yourself and then it makes the decision so much harder. Good Luck, Julie

OK I did it! I put an offer in on the house! WHEW!

I'm thinking they won't accept the offer though....LOL I put it in for 20 less then what they were asking. (mostly a ploy in trying to find out their bottom line in trying to get rid of the house. but also because it DOES need work too. If they were to accept I will have purchased it for $54,900.so it's the wait and see game now!! they have until Tue 5:00 to let me know.

GOOD LUCK!!!

Well I got "THE CALL"......they countered my offer...they took a whole $900 off..LOL
So needless to say I passed. I talked with my lender and she said that they would perfer I look at other options anyways. Since there are so many other good sales out there that don't need work. her advice was to poss. get a 2 bedroom and add on another bedroom. so it's back to the drawing board....I'll keep you all posted on what happens next.

Good luck on your new search!

I wouldn't want to put a "damper" (no pun intended, honest) on your wishes but, isn't your town the one that has the dam that in danger of breaking and flooding the town? Please be sure this house in not in that danger zone.

I pray it is not and that all your dreams and wishes come true.

LOL....yes I am. but they have since cleared that as the flood waters are receiding (sp?) and that is in an area that we call Hamlin which is more North of where I was looking at this house. I think they were concerned more for the residents that live RIGHT on the lake and rivers in that area. not sure though now that you mention it how that would have affected that house...

Turns out though I'm not getting that one. the bank countered my offer and only deducted 900 off the original price. (even AFTER their realtor told them this was a good offer for that house) along with a list of the repairs that would need to be made. So i didn't go any further with that one. So I'm back on the hunt again!

Well Dang.
I wish it could have worked out to be THE house for you. But at least you can keep looking. I'm sure just the right one will come to you at just the right time. Things have a way of working out for the best. I like how you are keeping your head up and pressing on.

Best of luck!!!!

QUOTE (equineRtist @ Jul 3 2008, 03:36 PM)

I wouldn't want to put a "damper" (no pun intended, honest) on your wishes but, isn't your town the one that has the dam that in danger of breaking and flooding the town? Please be sure this house in not in that danger zone.

I pray it is not and that all your dreams and wishes come true.

I also will pray and I hope nothing like this happens! But it is very scary