offer accepted

hooray! our offered was signed & returned to us this morning.  so excited & ready to move forward with the inspection, home owner's insurance, and warranty.  hazzah!

patience is a virtue

Well, we are still waiting for our offer to be signed & returned to us.  It's just about killing me. I'm really excited though at the prospect of owning our own Avriel Shull home.  We are going to amazingly good care of it & build a story around  it.

We're the happy couple on our way to buying our first house!  Don't we look deserving of a cool house?  Come on!

waiting for approval of our offer

Last Tuesday, we came to terms with our seller on price.  However, in order to get everything settled on their end, they requested 7 days to have it signed & back to us.  I am getting antsy!  We have already applied for our loan, in order to lock in the interest rate, and we are ready to go from our end, but just waiting on their end.

It's maddening at times, but we've been in contact so I know that it will all be alright. I'll just feel better once we are officially under contract.  We can get our inspection & home owner's insurance ordered & be on our way.  Hooray!

The house looked great the last time we visited & I'm really looking forward to moving in. It looks like we're going to have to give them possession until the end of June, which will feel like forever.  Fortunately, we're closing June 2nd, so that will come up soon & it will be our house from that point forward.

second visit to the house

Tuesday we were lucky enough to have another good visit to "our" house.  The current owner was so inviting & really proud of his home.  We got to see everything from his wife's baby doll collection to his LS Ayres sunburst clock.  It was a prosperous meeting because while we were originally fearsome that the owner would not want to sell us his house just yet, he seems to be coming around to the idea.  We're going to sit down next week to talk more about a price and a closing date.  

Hooray!

waiting for a home

I feel like we've been waiting to hear about this home forever now. It's been on our mind for weeks!  We started out mid-century modern education about 6 months ago, when we first noticed the fabulous redo's in an old neighborhood in Carmel, IN.  I grew up here, ran by these houses millions of times, and never really appreciated them until I moved back about 3 years ago.  When I did notice them, it was probably because I saw the updates being made to one of them on Main Street.  

A couple started a company refinishing houses in the Thornhurst neigbhorhood, a nook of about 15 homes built and designed by Avriel Shull in the late 1950's.  There first remodels were what originally caught my eye.  So, as we're fast approaching our first time home purchase, we kept our eyes open for any homes in Thornhurst that might become available.  Low and behold, two of them did, but unfortunately they were both already remodeled in a contemporary fashion and as a result, our of our price range.

So, we took matters into our own hands. We wrote a letter describing our interest in the homes there and sent one to each of the houses in the neighborhood.  Many of the homes, we've since learned, are still in the the original owner's hands.  We got one lucky phone call and now we're well on our way to purchasing a house!

Hooray!  Well, we're not there yet because while we've visited the home once, the owner is a little reluctant to sell just yet, thinking he might like to wait a while.  We're going for a second visit next week & I hope to be able to report that he's coming around on the idea.  It's been suggested, by his son, that we go ahead and make an offer.  Once we've got our funding in place, that's exactly what we're going to do.