Adventures in Housing!

I'm sure that everyone has been waiting on the edge of their seats to find out whether or not our offer was accepted on the house. (And by "everyone" I mean the 3.5 people that actually read this thing...haha!) Well the bad news is that we waited five days to find out that they rejected our first offer. But the good news is that they accepted our second offer two days later! Yay! We are super excited!

Now we are just waiting on the appraisal, our mortgage loan financing, and the closing date. From what I have heard about the mortgage market these days, you just about have to promise them your right arm to prove that you are capable and prepared to actually make your payments. Luckily, our mortgage broker assures us that we should have no problem getting approved. So for now, we are still just waiting to find out where to sign next.

In the meantime, I've started trying to watch some of those really lame HGTV design shows to try to get some ideas for the remodeling that we will have to start almost immediately after we close. I have a few ideas, but whatever we end up being able to do will pretty much all boil down to money. I'm already getting stressed about it, because we're in a bit of a time crunch at this point. After our apartment lease is up at the end of March, the longer we stay in our apartment, the more money we'll have to waste on rent (which will be at an exponentially higher rate than our regular rent because we'll have to pay the month to month rate.... stupid greedy apartment management.) I'm sure we'll get it all figured out in the end, but I'm expecting the next few months to be a busy, stressful roller coaster!