The home buying process was only a tiny bit stressful. Ha!
If you know either of us, you know exactly how picky we can be, especially with something as important as a house. We knew that living with my aunt and uncle was going to get old quick (and so would a diet of junk food), so we looked into a few apartments, but they were higher than our mortgage is now!
We knew that Jackson was NOT an option and narrowed our options to Madison, Flowood, and Reservoir areas, but ultimately vetoed Flowood and Reservoir because of Lakeland traffic. So Madison. It’s not cheap.
Patrick is brilliant, but not so handy. We needed something move-in ready or with minimal updates (paint, etc), and everything we found that was older needed significant changes. Brand new kept sounding better and better. From there, we switched agents, and narrowed the search down to two neighborhoods. Our first agent was very sweet, but didn’t know some basic information. The neighborhoods were very comparable, and are less than a mile from each other.
He found a house that he loved. It was ok, but missing a few things that I thought were essential, like a nice entryway. I found one in the other neighborhood, but Patrick thought the bedrooms were too small. We waited. We looked. We thought.
Finally, another house popped up in the neighborhood I liked. It was a little above our original budget, but still within a comfortable range. It was love at first sight. As we walked through the house, Patrick said “this is it, Angela’s sold on the kitchen.” He was right, except that it was the kitchen, the brick archway, and the backyard that sold me on the house. We made an offer and moved in on Halloween.
I’ll do an actual house tour once we have it a little more finished, we still have plenty of empty-ish rooms, but for now just look at the front.
