House Hunting

Dear Shell,

As I said in my last letter, J and I went to look at a house. The house is in great shape, has everything we're looking for, and is in a price range we can afford. J has started the process for the VA assistance for home buying and we should know soon if we are approved by the VA and then we need to get approved for a mortgage.

We don't want to just settle on the first house that we look at, so we are looking at other homes as well. But so far, we're leaning toward the first house still. Today we went to look at another house. It's about $10,000 less than the first one, 300 less sq feet, higher taxes, and.... a lot of water damage visible in the basement, plus other visible damage from animals. So we're crossing that one off the list.

We have three more houses on our current list to look at. I drove past one of them on the way back from looking at the other house today. I have a feeling I can cross it off the list already without J even looking at it. He is dead set against living off a gravel road, and there's about a 3/4 mile of gravel road to go down to get to the subdivision where this house is. The subdivision is paved, but the paved drive stops just before the house that's for sale.

The other two on the list are about 3 miles south of where we currently live, in a decent subdivision.

So far, I'm definitely liking the first house we looked at. It's a good size, not too big, not too small. Has a partially finished basement. Just over one acre of land. Garage. Three bedroom, three bath, kitchen with breakfast nook, dining room, and a large living room. Plus a room off the back of the garage that could be used as a den, office, craft room.... something of that sort.


On the search for a new home,
Shell