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Today we went to see two more houses. They were both better (much, much better) than the house we saw on Tuesday, but I'm not sure if either of them is the house for us. We'll see.
The first one is this one:
I'm not a huge fan of split foyers, but I thought this one looked pretty nice. It's in Taylorsville, a little far from Jason's office, but priced low enough that we could get a second car relatively soon. The neighborhood looks like a nice family neighborhood, and the house backs up to an LDS church parking lot instead of another house.
Well. It was hard to get a feel for the house because the people who live there were sitting in the living room while we were trying to look at it. It was so awkward! I felt like I couldn't ask our realtor questions, open drawers or closets, or comment about anything until after we had left. Overall, it was a nice house. It has three bedroom and one and a half bathrooms, a large kitchen, two family rooms, and a huge, shady backyard with a nice little patio. But it did need a little bit of work: it looked like the ceiling tiles in the downstairs bathroom are water damaged, one of the kitchen cabinets doesn't have a door (?), and the little deck outside the kitchen is missing a board that would have to be replaced before it would be safe for Tempe. Of course, I also don't know if any of the drawers open and close easily because I was afraid to open them in front of the homeowners. Same goes for the bedroom closets. But I guess that is all stuff we can live with until we can fix. I think we will still consider this house, but we would have to go back and see it again (preferably by ourselves!) before we could make a decision.
The second house we went to was this:
It's a three bedroom, one bath house in Midvale, which is much closer to Jason's work. The house was pretty nice. It had hardwood floors and a nice kitchen. But the location was much, much worse! It was about half a block from I-15, and it was really loud outside. In the backyard, there was graffiti on the fence and an apartment complex looking down into the yard. And as we were leaving, a guy handed something to the driver of a car, then the car sped off and the guy gave them the finger. Good neighbors... we crossed that one off our list right away.
So we are still looking. Even though we have only seen three houses, there just aren't a lot of other options, so it's kind of frustrating. We're just hoping something great will come up soon!
2 comments:
Good luck on that house hunting... Girl go thru people drawer, Don't feel bad. Ya gotta know if this is the right house for you. I wouldn't even care if they were like "oh my can you believe that couple looking at everything". Pa sha. Once again ya gotta know what works and what doesn't. and how much replacing you got to do. DOn't let the owner scare ya ... tee hee scare em back. Good luck keep posting I love looking at houses and possibilities :)
Fun fun fun. House hunting can be fun and frustrating all at the same time. Sounds like the two you saw most recently were not nearly as scary as the first one! Wow! When we moved to Bountiful and were house hunting, at one house a huge dog had SueZan and I trapped at the bottom of the stairs. The owners were nowhere to be found. Luckily they finally came and saw our predicament and we made it out unscathed!
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