Househunting

At this point we are house hunting pros. I'll tell you one thing that will completely ruin a couple when househunting...building custom homes for yourself in your 20's..yup.Don't do it if you ever plan on NOT building again. After that, you fine someting wrong with everything. There are hundreds of homes for sale here and only one great school district we *have* to buy in that limits us. The cost of living here is very low, so that actually is fun for a change compared to where we've been living.I consider ourselves very blessed and fortunate to be able to buy a home but my gosh...enough already! We decided we really wanted a pool, so that REALLLYYY narrowed our search down. Then we decided we can always put in a pool later. Some schools in the 1 "excellent" school district are better than others and on it goes. With fall in the air, I have a sudden surge of fall fever or something running through my veins. One trip to Hobby Lobby last week and I'm about to foam at the mouth from all my decorting ideas...and let's face it. Our entire house has been in storage now for a long time. As in, a whole year almost. How many people can live for a whole year with the bare necessities? Anyone..I found out that you totally can live with the bare essentials. I should write a book on the subject perhaps:) I swear, unpacking an entire 4 bedrom house out of storage will be like Christmas! Anyway, we are ready. Now we need to just pick something! Erik can make anything beautiful...I'm lucky like that! Here are a "few" of the Northern Indiana beauties we've seen this summer...a couple being on our "top 2" list which may get offers soon. One has a pool and needs a TON of updating but is in a Blue Ribbon school district, the house actually backs up to the school through the trees. House is what we consider very "ugly" but does have potential and it's huge-like 6000 sf huge. Room for you ALL to visit-at the same time. The other is still in the Great school district but further away, in another town even than the rest of these, making everything we do a 20ish minute drive. If you knew us in OR or CO this is nothing and we tend to always end up in areas like this so we can have more privacey. Both on half acre lots. One needs a ton of updating but is in a better location, the other needs very little updating, in a worse location. Decisions, decisions...........