Yes, we found a house, made and offer which was accepted and we are now in escrow. Although not a done deal at this time as there has been no home inspection, but it looks promising. Getting to this point has meant traipsing through numerous homes and ruling them out for one reason or another. Actually the one we chose we had ruled out about a month ago because it only had a two car garage and no shop space. We came close to making an offer when we first saw it, but after sleeping on it we initially ruled it out. But Marianna, our realtor never gave up and found numerous houses for us to look at. We were pretty interested in the Williamson Valley area, north of the city a few miles. Rural with most properties an acre or more it became our favorite area, so Marianna focused our search there.
We put an offer on one house that had everything we wanted including a RV garage. The problem was that, because properties sell so fast, that it was felt we had to move fast. We offered more than the asking price and gave the seller till noon the next day to accept. That night I had second thoughts, I just don't like being under the gun like that, especially with such a momentous decision. In the morning I was hoping the seller would reject our offer or let it expire. They did let our offer expire and we were off the hook
We kept coming back to the one we saw a month before. The seller, who showed us the home told us at the time he would lower the price $50,000 for each week it was on the market, so the price had dropped $205,000 since we first looked at it. One issue with the property was, although the house sat on 1 acre, there was an adjoining .8 acre that had to be included in the sale. That made the property out of reach for us.
We were saved by our son Eric, who always looking for investment property, decided to buy the adjoining lot. He says he just might build a house on it so he can keep and eye on us. So, next week a building and well inspection will be done and if there are no major problems, we should be ending our homeless situation.
There is still the issue of not enough garage space and no shop, but with the lower price we should be able to remedy that with a new building in the back yard. So here's a little information about the home:
