House Hunting

s517

SUCKS.

We started looking a little while ago, but hadn't really found much we liked. H talked to the mortgage guy last night and I'm not sure what he did or said, but he got our budget up almost $100,000...so now there are real options! We have to keep our house which means there isn't really a timeframe on when we have to find something.

 We are looking in West Chester, Media/Middletown, Glen Mills/Garnet Valley, and Marple Newtown/Broomall. We could get so much more for our money in DE, but we're both ready to go back to PA- since you guys are the only ones we know in DE, haha.

I feel like every night all we do is look at houses online. I wish someone would just pop in and say "Here's your new house" and I could just get on with it!

Okay. Rant over.

dlemon

You are right.. house hunting does suck! We were looking for a while and just gave up because we couldn't find that "perfect" place and really didn't want to settle for something we weren't 100% sure about. That is good that you don't have a real timeline for when you have to move. Good luck! Hopefully you will find something soon so that you can have your evenings with your hubby back.

amccul20

I didn't realize you guys were going to move.  are you going to keep your current house and rent it out?

good luck! are you working with a realtor yet?

s517

amccul20:

I didn't realize you guys were going to move.  are you going to keep your current house and rent it out?

Yeah. The market tanked after we bought, so we'd never break even if we sold it. There are already 2 houses right next to me renting, and they both found someone right away.

good luck! are you working with a realtor yet?

Yeah! We've looked at 2 houses (both in our old price range), but both were a definite NO.

mana8503

Jeff and I sometimes wonder if we could have gotten more land etc if we didn't build a house.  We really just skipped over the house hunting thing.  I would look online... but never went to a house or got a realitor... everyone says how much house hunting sucked so I don't feel like I missed anything.

Good luck though!  WC is a fun area!

janma529

queensteph17:

I feel like every night all we do is look at houses online. I wish someone would just pop in and say "Here's your new house" and I could just get on with it!

Maybe that will happen now with the new budget!

Olalala157

I really enjoyed house hunting, H hated it though. Fingers crossed you guys find what you are looking for.