Journals for the Kids

I've decided to get each of the kids their very own "Moving" journal.  They might write or draw pictures.  I wanted them to have a place to record how they see the process.   I gave them to them today, and they were totally excited.  It will be nice to have a record from each of them.

What a Whirlwind!

Wednesday we met with the seller at the property.  We talked about property lines, where we'd like the well dug, the access road/shared driveway.  He has owned the land since the sixties, so he was full of history about the area.

After we were done talking to the seller, Gary from Adair met us out there for the site visit.  We hadn't had time yet to put the flags out where the home is going to sit, but we had given him a site plan.  At this point Muffin decided she needed to go potty - which means she and I drove down to McDonalds to use their restroom.  Mr. Chaos and Gary continued to talk through things, like how big the pad needs to be and more details on the OTDs (owner to dos).  By the time we got back, they had gone over almost everything.

After Gary left, we staked out where we thought we wanted the house.  Muffin was a good helper - holding the measuiring tape and flags. We came home and adjusted the plan a bit, so we need to go back out and restake it - the trees are a bit bigger than we had accounted for.  (the smallest has about a 24 ft diameter!) and the lot is slopy-er than I had remembered.

Mr Chaos has put in calls to a few contactors about bids for septic, electrical and site prep. 

Feels like things are moving!

Monday Morning

Wow!  Things are starting to happen.  We have an appointment to meet at the property to confirm the property lines on Wednesday and we have an appointment to order our house on the 15th.

We drove out yesterday at looked at it again.  There's still no direct access to the property and we didn't want to cross the other lots to go stand on it, so we stayed in the car, but I did take some pictures :) 

cows and horses in the distance

the old red shed is the north-east corner (we think)

Pretty view, no?

The lower edge of the brown line of grass is the south-west corner (we think).

happiness!

Offer Accepted!

Our counter offer was accepted by the seller!!!  whoo hoo!!! I am totally excited!  (can you tell?)  Monday we get to start moving forward again!!!  Yeah!!!

:)

Counter offer recieved...officially...

We finally recieved the official counter offer from the seller yesterday.  We immediately sent over our counter offer that our Realtor had all ready to go.  She emailed it to the seller's agent first thing this morning.  Now we wait.

Any bets on how long it will take to get a response?

In the meantime, the Mr and I have decided which floorplan we want.

It's called the 1920.  Imagine the garage off the dining room.

and we're playing with where to put the house on the lot.

The Mr. played with his computer and drew this picture.  The dark blobs are two trees.  They are huge!  One is a cedar tree that smells wonderful and the other is a massive evergreen.

Still Waiting....

Yup.  we're still waiting.  We finally heard from the seller's realtor over the weekend that the seller had changed his mind and would be countering our offer.  We were supposed to get paperwork on yesterday.  Still haven't seen anything.

On a happier note, on the finiancial side of things we're all set.  Loan approved and ready to order an apprasial on our project....we just need a project....

So, really this is a non-update.

and....we're still waiting

We submitted our offer....and waited. and waited. and waited.  On Monday our Realtor got an email from the seller's agent.  Which said, basically that the seller liked our offer but went to the hospital for a day surgery and it would take a couple of days to get the paperwork signed.

okay.  that's fine. we completely understand.

Yesterday our agent sent the seller's agent a message asking how it was going, and he responded that the seller (who's 84) was still in the hospital recovering from surgery, it wasn't an in and out thing like he orginally thought.  and the seller didn't want to deal with the sale until he was feeling better. 

okay. again, we understand.  no big deal, we're in no real rush.

have I mentioned that I have no patience?