house update
May. 25th, 2004 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joflasherWe got our written acceptance. The Boy set up a housing inspector for Thursday afternoon. We (hopefully) close on the 28th of June, which means we don't have to move twice. This is a good thing, since moving the salt water aquarium even once is going to be a nightmare. All that's left is inspection, any renegotians if something doesn't pass, and getting the morgage which we are pre-approved for.
The house is 30 year old gambrel colonial ... basically a box with a barn roof and no real attic. It has a fireplace in the living room and a mixture of hardwood, tile and carpetting on the floors. The master bedroom is HUGE and has a walk in closet bigger than some bathrooms. The upstairs bedrooms have those weird, poky out windows. It also has an oversized 1 car garage for the Boy to make into a wood shop. The garage has a partial second floor as storage space. The basement is fairly large and apparently will get wet if it rains long enough.
The best thing about it, as far as I'm concerned is that its sitting on 1.38 acres of mostly useable land. The front and back yards are big and lovely. To the left of the house are wetlands, part of which belongs to the property. They aren't really active swamp...even with the rains, I didn't see any standing water, but the ground is definitely spongey and everything is overly green.
Most of the land extends out behind the house and is scrub land. Apparently it used to be yard but the old owners got tired of mowing all of it. They planted a row of pine trees showing where the back yard ends and left everything behind it grow up. That was about 20 years ago, so its fairly grown now. There are two fruit trees, an apple and a peach (I think), and a lilac bush in the yard proper. Out in the scrub land, I saw raspberry bushes blooming. I plan to go walk the scrub land when we do the inspection and find out what's all back there besides a plethora of birds. Hopefully I can clear a small portion of the scrub land for my garden. I don't want to touch the yard. The Boy keeps talking about putting a sand court in but we're short on players.
We initial passed over the house in the listings because the picture made it look pretty shitty. I wanted to see it soley for the land. We were pleasantly surprised when we got their and saw that the house actually looks 100% better than the pictures. Normally the opposite is true.
Now if nothing goes wrong....
The house is 30 year old gambrel colonial ... basically a box with a barn roof and no real attic. It has a fireplace in the living room and a mixture of hardwood, tile and carpetting on the floors. The master bedroom is HUGE and has a walk in closet bigger than some bathrooms. The upstairs bedrooms have those weird, poky out windows. It also has an oversized 1 car garage for the Boy to make into a wood shop. The garage has a partial second floor as storage space. The basement is fairly large and apparently will get wet if it rains long enough.
The best thing about it, as far as I'm concerned is that its sitting on 1.38 acres of mostly useable land. The front and back yards are big and lovely. To the left of the house are wetlands, part of which belongs to the property. They aren't really active swamp...even with the rains, I didn't see any standing water, but the ground is definitely spongey and everything is overly green.
Most of the land extends out behind the house and is scrub land. Apparently it used to be yard but the old owners got tired of mowing all of it. They planted a row of pine trees showing where the back yard ends and left everything behind it grow up. That was about 20 years ago, so its fairly grown now. There are two fruit trees, an apple and a peach (I think), and a lilac bush in the yard proper. Out in the scrub land, I saw raspberry bushes blooming. I plan to go walk the scrub land when we do the inspection and find out what's all back there besides a plethora of birds. Hopefully I can clear a small portion of the scrub land for my garden. I don't want to touch the yard. The Boy keeps talking about putting a sand court in but we're short on players.
We initial passed over the house in the listings because the picture made it look pretty shitty. I wanted to see it soley for the land. We were pleasantly surprised when we got their and saw that the house actually looks 100% better than the pictures. Normally the opposite is true.
Now if nothing goes wrong....
