I May Have A Home

I haven't blogged much lately. Mostly because what has been going on here has centered around house hunting. After the last fiasco, I felt like I might have jinxed us by talking to much about it, but we've reached a point where I think we are ok. Welcome to our new back yard. The weekend after my birthday, which was fantastic (see Kitten's blog for details), we traveled back to Florida for some serious house hunting. After looking at about 12 or 13 properties, we settled on our top five and offered on the one at the top of the list. We were told that other parties were gonna make an offer, so make sure that ours was the best that we could do. They accepted our offer, but we had been through this before so we insisted that the appraisal was to be done before we spent any money on financing or inspection. The appraisal finally came back yesterday 25 grand less than our offer price! Florida real estate is a mess. Anyway, Kitten and I agreed that we weren't going to pay more than the appraisal so the whole shebang was bounced back to the owner. We found out today that they have accepted the new price! So now I have a job and a potential place to live. Hopefully we can close quickly so that I won't have to live in a hotel very long. Kitten closes on her house at the end of May, so we also don't want to have to move twice. All that is left now is for Kitten to get her job situation worked out and then we will be Florida residents!