the story of our (almost) house...

Within a few days of moving to Vancouver we started looking for houses. We looked at 7 in one day, and not one of them was "it". The first 7 we saw proved this too us so we decided to put the looking on hold until after the wedding and keeping our fingers crossed that Jason would have a job.

Then one week before the wedding Jason was "looking" online and found it...our house. It is perfect for us in almost every way! We looked at it the next day (Saturday), put an offer in on Monday morning and got the call on Wednesday night telling us they accepted our offer, while we were on the way to my parents for a wedding celebration which turned into a housing celebration! Since the wedding was 2 days away and I needed to sign some papers...we did the only logical thing...had the realtor come to me...at the nail salon on Thursday morning!!! Yep, I signed the final agreement and addendums to our first house the day before the wedding while getting a pedicure! Life is great!

Now in some fairness, the realtor is a family friend so she actually stayed around a while and talked to my Mom! But none-the-less, that is awesome customer service!

We have our inspection tomorrow morning :-) And hopefully after that we'll be able to settle on a closing date. We have to give notice to our apartment by the 11th of this month if we don't want to double up on rent/mortgage payment...which we don't! I am going to take plenty of pictures tomorrow so I'll get one up soon! The first things on the agenda with the house is cleaning the carpets and washing all the walls and painting some...there is this hideous purple in the family room...which does not fit in with our Cougar style :-)

And now, in hind sight, it is a lucky thing we are getting this house. We know we can afford it on just my salary...thought we'll be living on a little love ;-) So in a few years down the road...if we are lucky enough to have children (and Jason a good job)...this house will not only fit us, we'll be able to still afford it if I do decide to take some time off...