If you looked up the definition of crazy, you'd probably find Hannah and David Klinginsmith. As if adding a third child to our family wasn't crazy enough, we decided to buy a bigger house. Yes, you read that right. At just one week postpartum, we were under contract on a new house and our current house.
For the last two years, we have tried to move. The problem hasn't been selling our house. In fact, we almost did two years ago. The problem has been finding a house. Since I'd worked from home for less than two years, lenders wouldn't use my income towards a loan approval. As a result, we were stuck at a lower purchase price and there were very few homes in that price range. The few that were in our price range were all sold for well above asking price.
Like most people, we are always thinking of the future, which includes a bigger house. We talked about waiting until spring to look again. Then interest rates started creeping up (and are projected to continue to climb). We decided that it would be worth taking another look. So four days before Jack was born we got approved for a home loan that would allowed us to buy just what we've been looking for. We began looking the next day.
Our new house was the second one we looked at, but we weren't sold on it right away. The location was perfect and there were several pluses, but there was also the huge yard. So we kept looking. We looked about nine more houses, but there was something wrong with every house. The yard was too small or not flat. The house smelled like smoke or rotten eggs or animal pee. There were power lines were too close. It was on a busy street. There wasn't a walk out basement.
We kept thinking about this second house and the more thought about it, the more perfect it seemed. It had four bedrooms, three car garage, huge yard, a walk out basement, and it was in a cul-de-sac. It had absolutely everything we needed and wanted and every room was bigger. It also went to to same grade school as our current neighborhood. We couldn't find a more perfect home. So, we made an offer and put our house on to market.
On our eighth wedding anniversary we put our house on the market. That day we had eight showings (and one second look). By morning we had two offers and by the next day we were under contract.
Inspections and appraisals are done. All that is left to do is pack, hire movers, and pick paint colors so that we can move in on Jack's two month birthday. It all happened so quickly and feels surreal. We are so excited to begin our life in our new home.
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