Friday, September 2, 2011

Proffered an Offer

Well, we've gone and done it. Ryan and I wrote up an offer on a house!  Or rather, our real estate agent did, and she is going to present it tomorrow. It's a 4-bedroom, 2-bath stucco house just south of downtown. It's not nearly as "exciting" as the last one I posted about, but it's MUCH bigger, and we like to think of it as a clean slate ready to be spiced up!

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We first looked at the house last Sunday - it's the one I said was too expensive for even the small amount of work we'd need to do to it. But on Wednesday, they dropped the price by $13,000 (!) so we offered full price and a deadline of Sunday at noon to respond. Why Sunday at noon? Because their open house is scheduled for Sunday at 1:00! See what we did there? lol

Now, we wait. I'll let you know what happens.

2 comments:

Katy said...

Twila, I hope you get the house!

The cabinets don't need much prep work to paint. Depends on if they are that standard builder-grade oak...usually there isn't much finish on them. You just clean them and prime...you can sand a little but it's not really necessary.

I added lots of trim (a little crown molding at the top and some trim at the bottom) of the cabinets and then glued beadboard to the inset panels to make them look totally different.

The sky is the limit with paint and trim. good luck!

TwilaO said...

Thank you so much, Katy!