Buying a Home

We have looked at the upwards of 30 homes. I know that some people look at many more, but 30 has been a lot for me. By looking I'm referring to driving up to the home seeing the bad neighborhood and driving away, hoping to never see it again. Only five houses have made the cut.  The problem is like most new home buyers we are picky. An additional issue is although Realtors are so keen to say "First time home buyers" are picky they/we have every reason to be. Like my Realtor said. "It's not like you buying a pair of shoes." This is very true at an upwards of 200,000-300,000 thousand dollars the price the most Americans pay for a nice reasonable priced home we have every reason to want to find the best option.
     An additional issue with our picky-ness, is we are late to the game. We are not in our early twenties with years to make mistakes and "discover" what it is we really want. We already know.  With our years of renting experience we have been in every type of home and we are old enough to know what we want, but more importantly what we need based on our price range.  This isn't going to be our starter home (we don't believe) but our retirement home. Based on my husband joining the Navy at 17 he retires young at 37, we still have a few years to go until we are there, but once he retires we are planning on building some roots for the first time in many years. 

We are currently waiting to see if our offer is approved. Our first one was denied we went to low. This time we will see...

 

This is it. It's cute and needs kitchen upgrades. Wish us luck!