We bought a house

We bought a house!

After a long tedious 3 months (not a long time for looking for house, but it felt very long for us), with ups and downs, the argument, the "I like it but you don't" or vice versa, the are we super picky or are we trying to make the excuses of the flaws we saw, the despair every time we saw a nice ad but the price is waaayy above our pocket.

Finally, as cliche as it was, it came when the least we expected... umm actually we did expect it. But the process happened very quick on this one. 

Wednesday night we saw the ad in the website and noticed that they will have their first open home the next evening. So the day of the open home - my slightly paranoid (he would prefer to say that he is very well prepared, and boy he was!) husband really did a lot of great preparation, he called up the mortgage and the bank, lined up the building and pest inspection as well as did whatever he can find about the information of the property, as if we are sure that we will sign the contract when we attended the open home.

So we arrived there and the house (a townhouse to be exact) looks exactly as we expected. It didn't look particularly 100% fuss free and shiny spotless like some other places we've seen. It is not a new building and definitely needs some work on it. But we both like it.

We were the only ones attended the open home. Then after that had some serious talk with the agent to make an offer.

The next day (we still very much afraid to jinx it), we had some problem with the solicitor who did a crappy job and at the end of Friday COB, my husband was even trying to draft the contract himself. Luckily a solicitor who he worked with helped us with his advice etc.. so ppffff at least one problem solved.

Saturday came and we went to their first official open home (they do most open home on saturdays), and keep praying that there aren't anybody else interested and trumped our offer.

We arrived there, a bit nervous, because there were several couples, they look interested and not young (which equals to - lots of cash), but cut the story short, we still went forward with our offer, and at the end of that day, we got a verbal confirmation that the offer was accepted.

Oh boy what a relief that was!

Then the next day and the next day after, we keep being tied up with one worry and another - worry if the building and pest inspection reveals ugly truth, if we can't meet all of the condition of the contract, getting furniture etc.

But the big homework done..now we just need to shift the gear and become an even more boring couple with a brand new world of how to select dishwasher, the quality of mattress, which furniture store not selling us rubbish and charge us gold price etc etc.

Really good Christmas for us, after all.. muchas gracias al Señor!