My wife and I just spent 178,000 dollars today!

[mainegreen]

Or more accurately, just spent a boatload of a bank's money in the form of an IOU and bought a house!
Pretty excited about it actually!

We bought this:


Spent the half the day cleaning, and I have to say WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???
Good lord, it's clear these people must have had a deathly allergy to sponges, terrycloth and soap because yuck, yuck, yuck. You do not want to know what I found lurking beneath the stove top. Also found a very nasty, stinky bottle of Kentucky whiskey. I can't abide by whiskey, and certainly not Kentucky whiskey.

We've got three weeks to call the contractors, get some work done, call the family, get MORE work done and move all our stuff over there.

I'm wicked excited!!!

I'm no longer a renting stiff!!!

[HopeHoops]

1. Nice looking place - Congrats!

:party: :toast: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[mainegreen]

5. Thanks! The sellers threw in some beer, so we celebrated while cleaning!

:D

[HopeHoops]

10. BONUS!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Wicked cool, hon! Congrats! *hugs*

[mainegreen]

6. Thanks! We'll be barbecuing in our OWN YARD this summer!

Whoooooooooooo!

:woohoo:

[flvegan]

3. That house looks familiar.

Is this one you've been thinking about and posted before? I swear I've seen that place in the past. Weird.

Nice looking place, regardless. Congrats!

[mainegreen]

7. Yup. Posted it on DU a while ago.

We were thinking about getting it. We did, and are glad to have done so!!!

[petronius]

22. It should look familiar - it's the one from that news article

You remember, the really gruesome shocking horrible story?

;)

[mainegreen]

23. Bah. Wouldn't bother me. Our last apartment, the previous person committed suicide in our tub.

Never bothered me. The bugs however, did.

[petronius]

28. Whoah, that's creepy. However, for good rent I'll put up with any number

discontented spirits...

Congratulations on the new house! :toast:

[flvegan]

26. You know, it is a northern barn architecture...like the Amityville house.

Say hi to Jody the pig for me! :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

Congratulations!

You want my Home Depot card? I don't need it right now. No balance. I can transfer that bad boy right on over. You'll need it. :D

[mainegreen]

8. Good lord no. My wife already has plans.

I'm trying to reign them in, but fear I am fighting a loosing battle.
:D

[seaker]

4. It is beautiful!

Congrats!:toast:

[mainegreen]

9. Thanks!

We really love it!

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Nice post, Heloise.

Congrats on the closing!

[mainegreen]

12. Thanks!

Our view is interesting. We're in Westbrook, and looking out our window, over the trees looms very large the SAPPI/Mother Warren mill. It no longer stinks, so it's just lights, pipes and the ever present smoke stack. Oddly, I love that view. I always enjoyed a view that was a combination nature/industry.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. I can't imagine Westbrook without the scent of S.D. Warren.

Heck, we smelled it on the peninsula frequently enough. It's funny because other than the off-odors and the industrial areas it was a nice small town-ish place to live with some pretty neighborhoods.

[SallyMander]

14. Congrats! It's a lovely house!

:hi:

[mainegreen]

16. It is! And it's home now!

:D :D

[malta blue]

15. Looks gorgeous!

Congratulations! :toast:

[mainegreen]

17. It's a really neat place inside.

Clean layout, but not boring. Amazing large inside, considering how small it looks outside!
We love it!

[fizzgig]

18. excellent!

that looks like a damn fine home :)

[mainegreen]

20. Solid bones.

Damned solid bones. They do not build them like they used to.

[AlCzervik]

19. Congratulations!

Enjoy your new home!


:toast: :party:

[mainegreen]

21. Ayuh. The big questions are which room is ours, and which is our son's!

Now that is going to be a tough decision.

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. I've found Advil really helps the writers cramp after the closing

Congratulations. May it bring you joy, and a minimum of annual maintenance expenses.

[mainegreen]

25. Good lord, the forms. So many.

Initial this, sign that, middle initial please, date this, now sign that. Signature this....

Wheeeee!

[OmahaBlueDog]

27. I've been thru 3 closings

You have no idea what the Hell you're sining. None. Even if you brought an attorney, you're taking his word for it.

[NMDemDist2]

29. I tell ya I was SHOCKED how many papers we had to sign when we bought our house cash

after two mortgages, we paid cash for this one (selling at the height of the Arizona bubble gave us plenty to do so)

ready for it


3 papers, one signature each.

one for the land, one for the mobile home and one for the water co-op share.

that was it.

I had planned a couple hours that morning, took 8 minutes total

:rofl:

[NMDemDist2]

30. congratulations!!!!! and thanks for doing your part for the economy LOL

:yourock:

[RB TexLa]

31. Wow! Great looking house! Congratulations!

[Minimus]

32. Congrats!! Nice looking place you got there!

[kwassa]

33. wow! you can buy a house for $178,000?

Congratulations!

Around here that might get you a two or three bedroom condo.

nice looking house.

[midnight armadillo]

34. congratulations!

I hope to be joining the club later this year...