Tom and I have been talking about the kind of house we want for two years now. We get into these spurts and watch a lot of HGTV and stalk our favorite neighborhoods online.
But up until now, it's been this arbitrary thing of "someday." WELL! We have a timeline, friends!
Our goal is and has been to move out of Tom's parents' basement before we're married. When I moved in with his family in May of 2013, I was nowhere ready mentally for home ownership, not to mention the obvious lack of funds we had available right out of college. I've loved living in our basement home, and his parents are truly amazing people for letting us live here while we save up.
But once we hit the year mark of living in the basement, we started to get antsy. So we started doing more work on what it takes to get a house.
Aaaaand we don't know what the hell we're doing. It's all so confusing! Pre-qualification, qualification, finding a realtor, the whole bidding process, home inspection, price range?! Thank you, Chase Bank home buying webinar, for reminding us that we are essentially clueless.
Luckily we are obsessive researchers (two INTJ's in a relationship makes for a lot of that) and we are preparing.
The past couple years haven't been a lot of "What color kitchen do you want?" and "open concept?" (It took me awhile to figure out exactly what 'open concept' actually was. I assumed it was just a thing they said on House Hunters.)
It's been more about the practical stuff. We need a basement because we live in Central Illinois (AKA tornadoes.) We need a fenced-in or fence-able yard. Ideally, we would like a two-stall garage. That's it. Those are our must-haves.
What makes it harder is we have one single neighborhood we want. Just one! Places are always up for sale in there, but still. Come March when we start looking (only seven months away!!) there will hopefully be a lot of options. We're really excited to have a place of our own!
So that's what we're up to right now. A lot of house talk.
See my house pinterest board here.
Happy Thursday!
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