McKinney, Tx...Here we come!

I spent 3 days in Texas looking for a house. Going into it I was super excited...I've never looked at houses before and I thought it was something that would be a piece of cake. Boy was a wrong! I basically had 2 days to find a house so that Eric and I would have a place to live when move next month.

Day one started off really bad...the first 5 houses my parents and I looked at were awful! They were old, falling apart, dirty or very small. There was even one house that I wouldn't go into b/c it was so gross. At the end of the day, the very last house we saw was actually pretty cute. It wasn’t in the exact neighborhood I wanted to live in but it was nice. Big backyard, Open floor plan, 4 bedrooms and the previous owners took good care of it. So...thinking that this was as good as I was going to find, we put in an offer. Needless to say, someone else put in an offer that day as well and the seller wanted us to come back with our best offer. Eric and I counter offered with a price that was over our original budget and then we waited. I went to bed that night feeling very unsettled. I wasn’t happy with the price we had offered, I didn't really love the area the house was in and I just didn’t have that feeling that this was our home. So....the next day I called our awesome realtor Wayne and asked if we could go back out.

Day two started off much better. All of the houses that we were looking at were in the neighborhood I had wanted to live in and they all seemed to be better taken care of. The 3rd house we pulled up too instantly gave me a good feeling. The neighborhood was nice, it was close to schools and the yard was very well taken care of. From the minute I walked through the front door I knew this house was ours. It was absolutely beautiful and I could picture raising a family there! What is more amazing is that it requires NO work on our part. The paint colors are the same colors we have in our Az home, the kitchen has been totally remodeled and they have hardwood floors on the bottom floor and carpet upstairs in the bedrooms. OH, and let’s not forget the backyard. It is so huge! You could seriously fit 2 pools in this backyard. I could tell the owners really loved their home and cared for it. I told Wayne to call and put in an offer and to forget the other house. This was our house and I just knew it was the one we would be moving into.

God is good and he DOES provide! We got the house and I cannot wait to move.