2004-03-25 17:12:13

As I've been saying all day, "Holy crap! We bought a house." Yup, we started our house search on Saturday and, here it is Thursday, and we have a house. Well, sort of.

Saturday, we had our buyer's agent come over and ask us a bunch of questions about what we wanted in a house. Monday, we looked at two "crack shacks" as I told my mom. Tuesday, we looked at our "dream home." Wednesday, Pat looked at a house, and then we went back to said dream home and put in an offer. Thursday morning, we heard back that said offer was accepted, with just a few contingencies. It's just too unreal.

Pat and I went there last night to take one last really close look around and to place our offer. Our agent said she likes to take a picture of her clients in the house in case they get it, so they can send it to friends and family members. We had her take two: one of us looking happy and one of us looking sad - just in case we didn't get it. Well, she emailed us this morning with a subject line "Cheer up," and I open the email and I see she put the frowny-faced picture in it. I thought for sure they turned down the offer and I almost puked. But it's all good.

Pat and I are still quite concerned about all of the things that can happen between now and closing, but for all intents and purposes, the house is ours, kinda, but not really.

It's in Brighton, and it has four bedrooms, a dining room, living room, family room, huge kitchen, one-and-a-half baths, and all of the appliances are included. And seriously, it's so nice that I feel ridiculous moving our ratty-assed orange furniture and ragga-muffin kids into this palace. Maybe this is that extra step Pat and I need to class ourselves up a bit. You know it's been on our to-do list.

Here's "our" house

-Fran