In total, we’ve seen around 25-30 houses. Matt is great about helping us to see the potential in houses and he also really seems to get what we are (and are not) looking for. We stumbled upon our (cross your fingers) beautiful house (pictured below) on Tuesday, August 16 and really liked several things about it, but it definitely wasn’t love at first sight (we aren’t really those kind of people). However, when we got home that night we couldn’t stop talking about all the great things about it… very cute, great back yard, around the corner from the elementary school, great street, the potential for great updates (that we'd love help with...wink, wink) etc, etc. So we asked our realtor if we could go back on Thursday to see it again.
We saw a few other houses Thursday, but were really still drawn to this one. However, upon our return we did discover one fatal flaw (or I suppose we more noticed it than discovered, because nothing had changed since we’d seen it two days before). The master bathroom, while nicely updated and very pretty, is impossibly small (see below). Like, seriously… NOT a functional bathroom for two adults to share. This is more due to the fact that there are no cabinets, drawers or closets in the bathroom than the actual size, but either way it is a problem. We were going out of town for the weekend so decided to wait, think on it and look back the next week.
Well… over the weekend we came up with the most brilliant idea to solve our bathroom dilemma (thank you Mommy, Daddy and Twin Oaks house). We can just add a master bathroom to the back bedroom of the house and convert that to the master. The bedroom (pictured below) is actually one foot longer than the current master and there is plenty of room in the backyard to build into and still have a great sized back yard. Our realtor loved the idea too, so we set up an appointment with a general contractor for Thursday, August 25 to make sure it was feasible and give us an estimate on cost.
Unfortunately, the meeting with the GC did not go as well as expected… it turns out the bathroom would cost more than we we’re planning on. Overall, he did not recommend making the addition. BUMMER! We thought we had it all figured out. We went home very disheartened and confused about what to with the plan to meet up with Matt again on Saturday to look at some other houses.
However, the more we thought about it and talked it over with our wonderful parents we realized that the bathroom addition really is doable deal. It will increase the value of the house AND will make it exactly what we want (which is really what’s important). We realized that we had fallen in love with the house and though we saw a few more on Saturday we really didn’t even consider them. So we sat down with Matt on Saturday night and he explained the home buying process to us. We wanted to talk and think it over a bit more (I was ready to go, but Ryan wanted a bit more time), but less than an hour later we called him... Ready to make an offer!!!
