The No Brainer

We can't stop looking! No matter how many times we talk about how we aren't ready, we really don't have the money, James finds houses. He can't control himself. So today we lumped off to Whidbey to look at 3 houses.

They were all drive by's. One we already looked at. It's $270,000 and on 5 acres. It has a downstairs all set up to rent out. It calls itself a "nursery mans dream". It actually says that on its flyer. It sucks. But it's "cheap" and has a money maker built into it.

The next property was nice, except for the horribly ugly garden art everywhere. Hippies. I could have made it awesome but the house, well, it was pathetic. It was dinky and just looked cheap. They were asking way too much, $320,000, it was awesome yard for a shitty house.

Then we were off to our old neighborhood Possession Shores. I was so excited to buy a house here and then become a pain in the ass to the homeowners association. They wouldn't let James and I get married on the beach there because it was the first day of crabbing season. We looked at the house though and drove right on. Too small. No acreage. Wah. Wah.

We decided to go to the neighboring community, Sandy Hook, and look for places that were for sale. We really like it there because when you live there you have a public pool, 2 playgrounds and some tennis courts. It's a sweet place for kids, you get a killer view of the sunset and beach access. We saw one house for oh, $500,000. Then we left. We told ourselves we just aren't there yet. There's no awesome houses out there for dirt cheap.

Then we took a spontaneous turn. Then we saw a for sale sign. Then the man with the corgi dog caught up to us and made me roll my window down. In 30 degree weather. With two sleeping kids in the back. Where he proceeded to talk to us about his life for 20+ minutes. We did hear the neighbor lady was a bitch.

James the whole time worked his phone while sweet talking the guy. He didn't know much. Knew it had been up for a month, wasn't sure why it was HUD, and thought the previous owners had family problems. We left. It was a cute home. No yard.

Turns out its $180,000 and potential buyers have 4 days to put in an offer. SCREECH. What? $180,000???? There's a house literally up the street selling for $500,000. We got on the phone immediately and called our agent. She knows it. She thought of us when she saw it but nixed it because it has no land. Smart woman. Meanwhile we are going crazy over its price. Do we need a yard for a house that cheap? Lets remember deer will eat all my hard work. No Brainer. Looking at it on Tuesday.