My husband and I have been living with family for over 2 1/2 years. We were planning on trying to find somewhere to rent, but there is nothing affordable in the state I live in. We started doing some research and realized that it might actually be cheaper on a month to month basis to buy.
A month or so ago we started looking. We saw some things we liked, but when we ran the numbers we realized that they were unaffordable.
So we lowered our budget even more and saw some single family homes that needed way more work than we wanted to deal with and some condos that were okay, but not quite what we wanted.
Then we saw a condo that was supposed to be a 1 bed 1 bath, but it turns out that the bedroom was about the size of a smaller walk-in closet. The owner claims that he fit a queen sized bed in there, but it seems to us that if you put a bed in there, it would be the only thing that would fit. You’d be crawling into bed as you walked through the door.
That’s okay though, because the living room area has an honest to goodness queen sized Murphy bed.
It’s basically a studio with a walk-in closet.
But, despite it’s size, I fell in love with it. It’s been beautifully redone and seems like just the right amount of size for my husband and I to restart our lives again.
And we can afford it.
So, a couple of days ago, late at night when we should have already been asleep we put in our very first ever offer on that condo. And just a few minutes later our realtor called us back and told us that she had good news. The sellers had already responded, and all they wanted was $500.00 more. We quickly accepted this counter offer and the paperwork has been signed.
Now we need to deal with the bank assessment and getting it inspected. So it’s not a done deal yet, but so far things are moving in the right direction.

Congrats on the new place! 😊
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Here’s hoping the rest of the process goes smoothly and we’ll actually be able to complete the purchase!
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Fingers crossed!
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I am so happy for you both. I hope everything is smooth sailing moving forward and that you’ll be moving in and decorating your new space very soon. 🙂
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How exciting! I’m so happy for you both. This sounds like a big boost of good. Wishing you an easy transition into it. Happy Pepper Day. 🙂
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Happy Pepper Day to you as well, Ra! We really hope that things go well and we’re able to move forward on this. We really like this condo. If things don’t work out, we’ll just keep looking and hopefully something even better will come along. I’ll have an update either way come next Pepper Day. 🌶️🙂
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Yay! Looking forward to the updates. 🙂
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How has it been 2 1/2 years already?!? I feel like I was reading your packing up and moving posts just a little while ago…
Time is certainly funny.
Congrats and good luck!
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Sometimes it feels like we barely moved back out here and sometimes it feels like it’s been 10 years. Time is a very slippery thing.
Thank you, we’re taking all the luck and good vibes and whatever else can get!
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations to your new place!
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