Blessings From Home

House Hunting

     Yesterday, while making my rounds online, I went to another real estate website, Remax, and found a house for sale that looked promising. It is a mobile home, but it's got just about everything we're looking for in a home. It's in our price range, it has 4 bedrooms and 2 baths, it has 2 acres of land with it, just what we were wanting, and it has a few different outbuildings for different things, one of which will make a nice goat shelter. It's out in the country, but not too terribly far out of town. And what's best, is my husband really loves it! We went and looked at it yesterday afternoon. He is a picky guy and is very slow to like anything. If there's something wrong, then he'll find it. But, except for the fact that it's a mobile home instead of a brick house like he had originally wanted, he really loved the place. And it's also right next to a very nice Mennonite family that we already are aquainted with. Here's a few pictures...

Front of the house

Back of the house

Kitchen/Dining Room (Not loving the blue walls, lol)

Family Room (That's a shadow on the carpet)

There aren't any good pictures of the outside buildings or of the bedrooms and mudroom.

It's not what I would call my dream home, but it's probably the closest thing I've seen to it. We wouldn't be able to have a huge farm, by any means, but a small scale farm with some goats,  rabbits, chickens, a nice big garden, and some fruit trees will fit in quite nicely out there.

We're taking my parents out there with us to look at it either today or tomorrow, and if it all looks good, we will make our offer. I know in my mind that it's still possible for things to not go through, so I'm trying my best to not get my hopes up yet. But it's hard to not get excited about owning our own home again. We're just trying to pray that the Lord's will be done and whatever His plans for us are followed as best as we can.

I'll update as I have more information.

Blessings, sara

something to think on

{ 01:57, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 } { Posted by Illoura }

I'm really happy for you - to be able to have aplace to call your own is a true blessing!! I hope it all goes smoothly...
Having lived in a similar home several times... I wanted to bring something to your attention so you can plan for it: center of the room kitchen lighting is BAD for any food prep!
The light will always be behind you and will cast shadow over any space you're working in. I suggest a trial use of the home-- when you do another walk-thru, go in late afternoon so you can test this - and getting good easy-to-clean desk lamps for your counters if nec. will save you many headaches.
Another thing: shade/AC: the worst summer of my life was spent squirting a garden hose to the rooftop air conditioner to keep from feeling sick from heat.
I would hate a nice dream to be ruined by things that seem small but really eat at you after a while... just keep LIVING in mind as well as homesteading plans.
Good luck!