We closed on our house! This process was so smooth and just meant to be. When I was in Olympia late May, I stopped at Trader Joe's to pick up snacks for my hotel room (y'all know I need my snacks) and there was a realty company in the shopping center. Van Dorn. I walked in around the end of the day to ask a question about neighborhoods and this wonderful woman named Allison spent the last 30 minutes of her day with me. I had a bicycle path map that broke down the neighborhoods and towns better than any other map I had seen thus far. She was so nice!
I asked if they had preferred loan servicers and she gave me a few, but said she really liked Dallon from Evergreen Home Loans. I thanked her and said if I got the job I would call her. Five days after that I accepted the position and I was calling both Allison and Dallon to start our house search!
Matt and I did all kinds of investigating and narrowed our search to a couple specific neighborhoods. When we told Dallon our price range and what we were looking for, he laughed and said, "But you qualify for so much more! Are you sure you don't want something bigger?" Oh friend, that's how people get in trouble! Plus, I'm not trying to clean a whole lotta house. And, I would much rather spend $$ on traveling and taking the girls places and visiting framily. I was super appreciative that he didn't push us, just wanted us to know our options and if we saw something we could go up. Thus, the search began in earnest, as we wanted to have a few houses in mind for when we planned to visit for a weekend.
Every couple of days, we'd send houses to Allison that we liked, Dallon would draw up a pre-approval letter, Allison would contact the sellers' agents, and the house would be gone before you knew it. About 3 weeks later, the week we were getting ready to fly up here, we found this house. It had been on the market for 2 days with no offers. Allison set up a showing, Dallon got the letter, and we set up meetings with the zoned school. Two days later we were here, looking at the house. It was the second one we saw that day. And we knew! I was immediately sold. Matt wasn't convinced until he met the school admins, then he was all in. With each nugget of info revealed, I fell more in love with this house soon to become our home.
-Down the street is a Christmas Tree Farm.
- Across the street are trails through a forest
-Easy freeway access
-Under budget!!!
- Awesome school
- 3 toilets (a luxury one appreciates after having been a 1 toilet home the last year and a half)
-and the piece de resistance...there is a cupboard under the stairs!!! I kid you not. I don't joke about Harry Potter details.
What made this ironic was that going in to this search, I was adamant about wanting an older home with character and charm, no stairs, no HOA fees, no condos. And the house was built only 10 years ago, is a townhome, with delightful neighbors on one side, has stairs, and has a super cheap HOA fee. I'm sure God was giggling herself silly.
We put our offer in, then spent the next day touring 4 other houses. None of the other houses felt right and we had decided if we didn't find anything that weekend, we would go the rental route. That night, our offer was accepted, with the sellers kicking in some closing costs and requesting a 5 week escrow instead of the 4 week we asked for. Are you kidding me? Sold!
So where are we living now, you might ask?
When we drove up, we moved into a fully furnished guest apartment on campus. Matt flew back to Carson and has been staying with Aunt Kitty & Co. Tomorrow the movers arrive and Saturday my momma will be here! We could not have planned this any better...it was meant to be.
I am so excited to make this our home! Bring on the diy and countless trips to Lowes!
If you would like the new address, please email or text us, though you know if we have your address you will get a cute postcard update probably some time in September :-)
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