House Hunting

I never thought we'd ever be able to buy a house in the bay area. But since the prices went down so dramatically, we believe that this is a perfect opportunity for us to try to find our nest.

Since I had never been involved in buying a home, I know nothing about the procedure. Talking to an agent is like speaking a foreign language. Good thing Len speaks it.

We've been looking at the houses for the last few weeks. We know that in our price range, we won't be getting a mansion. But the places we've seen were in short - depressing. First, our agent would drive us through a beautiful neighborhood only to pass it and park her car between the cemetery and... our potential home. All we heard was: this is your last chance. If you don't buy this one, you won't find another one like that.

But last Sunday, we found it: a beautiful 4-bedroom home (we changed the agent by the way). First, we saw it with our agent in the morning. We fell in love with it right away (with the home, not the agent). We were advised to go back and see it again that afternoon during open house hours. I promised myself not to get attached to places that are not ours but didn't know that it was impossible. By the time we got there in the afternoon, I had all the furniture planned out and was thinking about what food to serve during the house warm up party.

To our surprise, there were tons of people falling in love with our home. We stayed there for up to 10 minutes and saw at least 20 potential buyers viewing the place. While Len was talking to the selling agent, I kept looking at all these people thinking: "Please, don't get too comfortable; it's not your place yet."

We made an offer on that house the next day and quickly learned that there were 3 other offers way higher than ours. And although we thought that this was it, the dream home, we have to believe that God has something better in store for us.

So, our house hunting continues...