J-Sin

What an exciting day today was. After a weekend that really began on Thursday evening--with a fun adventure for work that was unexpected and potentially unwelcome--who would have believe today could have been so interesting!?

Well today me and the wife went out to Gainesville to see if we could find any houses that we might be interested in. We want to move into a bigger house, well a house that could actually fit us as opposed to our current townhouse (oh my god I didn't call it a townhome!). So after a couple of days of internet eye-morphing we went to the belly of the beast. I was totally blown away. We went into exactly four houses and really, REALLY liked two of them. The others were certainly nice, but not everything that we wanted. Here's the dilly--we want to either build our own home to our own specs, or get a lavish expansive bit of yuppie-heaven that we could call our own.

The market sucks to sell but it apparantly means that builders are willing to shave off $100 grand and offer plenty of incentives to buy too. Which is amazing. The house we really liked had about 2800 square feet, a finished basement with a bar, rec room, plenty of storage, plus a kid's room, a two-car garage, an expansive kitchen with two stoves, plus a gas range, and tons of cabinet and counter-top space, a breakfast room, a nice living room, a pleasant dining room, 4 bedrooms with a master suite that had a sitting room, a jacuzzi, walk-in closets, and a loft. All for the just-under $700k range. Which is right around our budget. Nice!

I'm excited. I want to move out yesterday already. I really am excited to move into my final--or twenty year--home. I don't want to move again for a long while and I always knew that this home was more of an investment than anything else. What have we done with said investment? About nothing flat but then again that's the problem. When you know it's not a house you want to live in for forever, what's to make it not just a rental? A mortgage? Boo.

The commute will suck but if it means that I get to have my dream house--WITH A BAR AND A BUTLER'S PANTRY DUDE--then alright, no biggie.