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Brilliant_Rock
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NEL - hope it''s the one!
I was going to join in this thread, but we''ve found and bought our house already! We started casually going to the occasional open house over the spring/summer to get a better idea what''s out there and what we like. Found a real estate agent the beginning of Sept, I started looking 2 weeks ago with her, we took DH to see a few things on Sat, and we purchased our first house on Tuesday evening, 1 week after I started looking!
It''s totally awesome, though we want to add a door and closet to one of the basement offices, and we want to add a shower to the basement bathroom. It''ll be the guest room initially, and later on a teen''s bedroom. The guests will have to stay in the 3rd floor den at that point. It''s in a fantastic area of the city, right on the subway, right near parks. It was the upper end of our budget, but what the hell, we weren''t going to find anything that we liked that much in the location we really wanted anytime soon. Next step will be sorting out our future changes and trying to book contractors to get it done at the end of Jan, after we take possession and before we actually move in. We''ll keep our apartment till Jan 31st, so that shouldn''t be a problem, and if the changes take a little longer, they''re just in the basement and that''s not too tragic.
I was going to join in this thread, but we''ve found and bought our house already! We started casually going to the occasional open house over the spring/summer to get a better idea what''s out there and what we like. Found a real estate agent the beginning of Sept, I started looking 2 weeks ago with her, we took DH to see a few things on Sat, and we purchased our first house on Tuesday evening, 1 week after I started looking!
It''s totally awesome, though we want to add a door and closet to one of the basement offices, and we want to add a shower to the basement bathroom. It''ll be the guest room initially, and later on a teen''s bedroom. The guests will have to stay in the 3rd floor den at that point. It''s in a fantastic area of the city, right on the subway, right near parks. It was the upper end of our budget, but what the hell, we weren''t going to find anything that we liked that much in the location we really wanted anytime soon. Next step will be sorting out our future changes and trying to book contractors to get it done at the end of Jan, after we take possession and before we actually move in. We''ll keep our apartment till Jan 31st, so that shouldn''t be a problem, and if the changes take a little longer, they''re just in the basement and that''s not too tragic.