Our New House!!

So we finally got our house!! (At least if the inspection goes well we do) Yeah!! We accepted the banks offer on Wednesday the 17th of December and found out today that we close on or before Feb 4th . It has taken forever but I'm so excited that we finally have a place of our own. I can paint and do whatever I want to!!! Anyway it's all very exciting! As soon as it's all set up how I want it I'll post more pictures.

House Update UGGHHH!!!

OK so here's the scoop with the house (so frustrating by the way!!). The bank says they have our approval letter in hand and are now trying to resolve an issue with the second mortgage that the seller has out on the house. Originally they were just going to take a lose on it but then changed their minds so now they want some $$$. So the bank offered them a price but they want more and are saying they won't play ball so our realtor, the sellers realtor and us are trying to see if we can all make up the difference. My advice to anyone that is going to buy a short sale house, START NOW if you want to be in it by August. I swear it takes forever and is more than frustrating. Trust me if we'd seen anything comparable to this house that wasn't a short sale I'd say bag this and we'll go deal with an actual seller of a house that we could just buy. However we haven't seen anything even close so that's why we're holding out for this one. Hopefully we'll hear some good news this week so we can hopefully be in our own place by the end of the month I can dream can't I? but we'll see and I'll keep you all posted.