House Found!!??

Ok ok so I'm a little excited we since got a new Realtor, looked in a new area - Bergen County and found a cute little home with lots of charm on a shady tree-lined street right down the block from the bus service. We had a bit of a frustrating holding pattern with the strange and inappropriate seller's realtor! I was about to burst just thinking about the lack of work having to be done to this home! That was frustrating that they were stalling! But we got the call and they are going to ink our offer! Oh my goodness, the things to do are as tall as the Empire State Building!!! Just before we got the good news, the old and totally inept realtor called sniffing around. My husband has made it a vow to call and jeer here once we walk over the front threshold of whatever new home we buy!!!

*sigh* This has been a weird process, we started out looking for a 2 family and were completely unprepared and unresearched for what the market was like on those homes. We really thought that we could find a home in the 470k range that was palatial for 2 families! What a laugh, that's what 1 families are going for these days so the 2 family would have to be around 800k and that was a price that none of us could afford. So now its the in-laws looking and we might have found.

Now its all systems go, I'm out the country and back and right to a closing possibly in late August. *whew* I feel like I am about to put on my shoes for a the 5th Ave Mile! The gun is about to blast. Mortgage to be secured, inspection, apt to offer up for rental, kitchen to finish up and off!!! I'm still on the Condo board so we'll see what happens wow!!! Lets do this!

The 2 Step

So our Realtor is chomping at the bait and waiting with baited breath for us to make a bid! Make that bid! But we're making her sweat it out, my husband doesn't want to call her for about 2days. ha I find it funny. Not even to say thanks, nope don't call not even as courtesy. Oh well, I know that the owner might not go for the price that we will throw, so whatever - keep it moving, seems like our realtor wants a fast sale, quick closing and boom get her check, but I've a feeling she's gonna have to work for this money.

Everything we're seeing are just NOT 2 or multi families. In the desireable neighborhoods - nope! They're all uneven, huge space on one level and practical servants' quarters on the other. Nope! don't want that. And the ones that do fit the bill; well they are tore up from the floor up and and need so much work they'll turn into money pits. The most promising so far is 605 Broad but he'd have to drop that price from 489k to about 400k for me to even consider 'cause that upstairs needs so much help!

So we press on, lets get the next batch or head for Middlesex! Stay tuned!!