We finally have a HOUSE!!
No we did not buy, we signed a 12 month lease. I know I was so determined to buy but that is only because we were never able to rent a HOUSE and have an option to stay longer than a year. So I wanna brag on God for a moment and show you how this all went down...
Monday we were suppose to sign a 6 month lease to another apartment, a place that as ususal was going to be too small and setteling for the "mean time" whatever that was even meaning. Tuesday night we faxed the lease at church, only to get home and have the man tell me he only recieved two pages of it and needed all of them. My love faxed once again Wednesday night after church and since we did not hear anything we assumed it had gone thru. That brings us to Friday!! FRIDAY we were to transfer the deposit and get a key the next day. Around 3pm my girlfriend/realtor called and said she was going to look at a house that one of their realtor freinds had available to meet her over at it. We pulled up in front of a all brick house, with a carport, fenced in back yard and screened in back porch. It also is in the neighborhood we really wanted to have bought in, which happens to be three streets over from that same girlfriend :)
I naturally already told myself it was out of our price range but went in to look and talk to the lady anyways. Three bedrooms, two baths, separate dinning room and an actual mud/laundry room, the two MAIN things I wanted in a house if we were buying. First things first I asked her what she was asking so I didn't waste her time and her response "this is what I pay monthly to keep it running but what do you want to pay?" Did she really just ask me what I wanted to pay? Too good to be true right? Yea I was kinda thinking the same thing. The only things I could find to complain about would be cosmetic silly stuff like just needed paint and the counter tops were a little dated. Dumb stuff really. So she told me to go home talk to my husband and if we decided we wanted to take it call her Sunday to meet with her.
Her main concern was getting a family in there who would act as if it was there own. Stay as many years as they'd like with no increase in rent, and just take care of it. That is what I have wanted from the day we got married, I had said if we could ever find a house that we could stay in longer than a year and not have to pay more each year we would stay there, be stable. I finally had found the place!! Within minutes after walking out the door that day I knew this was it! Exactly where we were suppose to be. I hurried to call my love and ask if he had deposited that money yet into the other guys account and he said he hadn't made it to the bank yet so I told him not to. When we got to church that night the administrator came in to let us know the papers we faxed two nights before never went thru. What?! How crazy is that! So we were now not held to anything with the other man, which was the only 'problem' were going to encounter or so we we were thinking. God just took care of everything! We signed the lease two days later and moved in the 30th.... During the only ice storm we've had in the past few years I must add!
I wanna thank my friends and family who helped us with the moving in the ICE storm! Thank you thank you thank you! Gods timing is always on time. It seems to me He does things quick when it actually starts rolling, the process might seem like eternity I'm the worst for feeling that way but really for us it has usually happened insanely quick when you really get down to it. I am growing in my faith, we both are it's definitely going to be a great year full of blessings I already know this!
The boys LOVE our house and their room, they love running around the table in the dining room, they love looking out the sliding doors at Buddy. Speaking of Buddy he is one happy dog! He gets to roam around in the yard all day, dig, use the bathroom whenever and be a DOG!!! I'm so excited!!! I love our place and the landlord!! So so thankful!!
