Making It Home

The main takeaway from the inspection on Sunday?  There might be water in the garage and basement.  Probably at least the garage.  The owner claims that they used to have a problem but fixed it was drains in the driveway and sump pumps.  However, my Dad and I are not so sure.  There were water […]

We came out of attorney review!  It took about 10 days, and those 10 days were a bit stressful.  Since Dave has been busy with work, I have been handling all of the day to day tasks such as talking to the lawyer, faxing in contracts, phone calls with Maria.  I also had my fair […]

Now that we almost-purchased a new house, it’s time to sell Dave’s house.  Looking back, we probably should have started this process a little sooner than now, but oh well.  First thing’s first – we need to start with the outside.  After two trips – one to Home Depot and the other to Lowe’s, we […]

Our offer was accepted a few days ago and attorney review is nearly over!  We’re just waiting to hear back from our lawyer.  The seller’s lawyer already responded and ours has been MIA over the past 48 hours or so.  It makes me nervous!  I spent many hours over this past week slightly stressing about […]

What an exciting day!  We took our parents to see the Bridgewater Open House around 2pm.  We toured the house for a good hour and a half, examining all the ins and outs, crawling around the basement and talking with the real estate agent.  Our parents loved it just as much as we did!  The […]

Friday night we took our parents to go see the house in Berkeley Heights.  They both really liked it.  We spent over an hour inspecting, walking around, and sketching out the master bedroom extension. The house is very cute!  Small but there is potential to add on.  The backyard is a decent sized, and the […]

Since Wednesday, Dave and I have been talking about one house… the 1,150 square foot, .27 acre ranch in Berkeley Heights. We both really liked the house when we toured. It was small. Too small for more than just two people. Yet there was something about it… maybe the living room with the huge windows… […]

We met Maria our real estate agent at 5:30 at our first stop in Berkeley Heights.  Was a 20 minute commute for me, 35 minutes to Dave!  Nice quiet street.  Very creepy house.  So much so that I could not even go down the basement by myself (Maria was outside and Dave was not there […]

After a couple of months of searching for houses in Cranford and Westfield, Dave and I have yet to find a house we really love.  Or for the right price.  Two very expensive towns with very high taxes!  It’s been fun looking around, especially since it gets us up nice and early on a Sunday […]