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[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Owen and I have found our dream home-- we made an offer but we are not sure that it will get accepted-- it is a place that I can see myself growing old with Owen in. I can see it snow covered, rain soaked, a little porch swing on the porch so that we can rock in the evenings. Doesn't it look like something out of Anne of Green Gables-- it is a house that NEEDS a name. And I want to name it-- the kitchen is beautiful and big, there is a bathtub that is deep and perfect for reading-- stairs with a sunny spot that the cats can lounge on.

We are going to talk to the Loan officier on monday and then submit an offer



I cannot help but thing that this house is perfect, that it is meant for us.

I hope so-- I really do.

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by the way, I checked listings

[solarbird]

I did find a small house (750 sq ft or so?) for sale right now at a mere $400k in Seattle city limits. One of those post-war single-story four-squares, which... I don't know if you have. I've seen Kentucky postwar saltboxes, they're similar in idea but quite different in style.

(This excludes bankruptcy/short-sale mortgage houses, which have indeterminate value.)

I'm from Seattle and I don't live in city limits anymore. :/ On a major transit corridor, though, which helps. (But I really miss being in town...)

Re: by the way, I checked listings

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Well this property is off of Dixie Highway, off of Valley Station-- and it's only when you get into J'town and east that you really hit the higher priced houses.

We read the stuff listed about the house, and it was bought at 74k last November and flipped--

So judging from the stuff you can get for 74k on Zillow, I can only imagine what it looked like-- which brings me to wonder if it's haunted-- but it might not be since it was built in 1992, it just looks like it's been around forever, but the molding on the outside of the house actually is throughout the house, it's really quite lovely and brings quite a charm to it.

I grew up in L.A so I know how bad housing can be-- once upon a time I had pondered living on my own while in college, and then I saw the price of the apartments and I was like "Oh gods, grandma let me live with you"-- and thus I avoided having to adult too early in life. I'm glad I don't live in California because the housing market there is insane