It was November of 1993 when I started on my own search for a home. Months before, I had seen a picture in the newspaper of a two-story looking home and posted the picture on my refrigerator. My hopes were to one day have a home similar to the picture.
I began my search with a real estate agent and looked at many homes which were not what I wanted. Until the day we stumbled across a home which seemed too nice for us to afford. How crazy was this...it was the same house I had posted a picture of on my refrigerator just months before.
My real estate agent could not get in the house as it was being foreclosed and the owner of the house would not let us in. The real estate agent wouldn't give me the paperwork of the bank who now took over the house.
I was very disappointed as this house was in a fabulous neighborhood and the asking price was within our price range but still a bit high for our budget.
That evening, I was looking over the house specs from the sheet the real estate agent gave me. He did not realize that the name of the bank was on the sheet so I called the woman at the bank and told her that I wanted the house. She said, "but you have not even seen the house" to which I replied, "I don't care, we want it".
My husband and I looked at the house and loved it. It had a huge back yard, very modern kitchen and huge master bedroom. Although the other two rooms were small but it did not matter...it was what we wanted!
It had a double wide garage fitting 3 cars and built-in cabinets in the garage as well as built-in cabinets in the den as well as a "bar". So, with a few hundred dollars down, we closed on the house in late November and moved in the house in January 1994 with a baby and his older sister. We are still there today and had 3 more kids to share it with!
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