Journey – Home Edition – The Fit Wife

The other day Evan and I went for a very long walk. The weather was perfection and the fall leaves were breathtaking:

We walked to our favorite coffee house for a lunch date with my dear sister and on the way we walked past this house:

The house that started our house hunting journey. Believe it or not it is in better shape than when we originally found it. It was around the block from my mom’s house (an ideal location) and it needed so much TLC but it was priced so low that we felt like we could make it work! It was the jump start we needed, that little push that put wheels in motion to buying our first home. I could not help but take pictures of it on our walk because we have come so far from the day we first looked at this home – a short sale late September 2012 just one short year ago. I still remember sitting in the car with Evan while Hector ran around trying to peak in the windows (which have been replaced) and the excitement on his face that we might start this journey.

We ended up not even looking at the interior of our house because our Realtor looked at us and said many wise words, “you have a 3 month old baby, you never know when this sale will go all the way through and the financing will be different if you need to put money into a home- that house needs a lot of work I’d hate for you to have unfinished projects as it is as is, lets look around.” The house was a little too small too only two bed one bath and an unfinished basement. She said she’d show us the house anyway but had a hard time scheduling the showing. The rest is history, we only looked at houses ONE day. The day before I was done with maternity leave. I swear it was just meant to be this house, we looked at a total of 3 houses that day and put our offer in same day and two days later we were under contract.

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(the day Hector handed in our earnest money… Look how LITTLE my baby was!!)

Buying our home was a crazy wonderful experience and it is neat to look back and see how lucky we were with the whole process. We had an amazing crew backing us up and it really was as seamless as it could have been. My suggestion? Hire a broker, attorney and Realtor it is so worth it. Seriously.

I’m excited that someone has bought the house that started it all and started giving it some TLC. I’m glad it is in the neighborhood I live in and I can watch the progress, funny how you tie memories to objects. The day Evan and I went for that walk I seriously walked with him for 5 miles taking in just how blessed we are to be where we are. How blessed I am to have a loving/kind/wonderful/handsome/etc. partner in Hector, the family I have, the son I have, the job I have and the home we share. Here are some pictures of the literal little journey we took that day: