5 hours and 7 houses later, I don't feel any closer to being in a home than before we went out yesterday. Pretty much every house we went to had things that we loved and things that were show stoppers. For example, the first place we went to, had a great floor plan, a nice pool, a fantastic yard, a lovely front porch, but it had 2 pretty big strikes against it. 1 is that it smelled like smoke which gave me a headache within the first 5 minutes of being there. 2 is that is was right next to a trailer park that Tim remembered a couple of his policeman friends had told him before was notorious for drugs and crime. As we were leaving, we noticed a county water employee shutting off the water to the house across the street. Bummer. So, we left to go to the 2nd house on the schedule, and as we pulled up next to it we noticed the neighbor had a sign in their yard that said, "Join me at the Crossing Church" which is our church! When we were in the backyard, we saw who the neighbor was - a great guy who worked with the kids in the kids' ministry at our church for years!! So all the kids were like, "We want to live here!" It was on a beautiful lake - all great things! But then we went inside, and there was just so much work that needed to be done it was depressing. And on and on it went for 7 houses. Things we LOVED and things that were show stoppers. Last example - the last house we went to was really nice. The kitchen was to die for - Kraft Maid cabinets, all new top of the line appliances, a great floor plan, 4 bedroom 3 way split, 3 baths, but the taxes were sky high due to a CDD (which I still don't know exactly what it means except a lot of money out of our pocket!). That one was my fault - I knew the taxes going in, but I really wanted to see the house and it was empty so we didn't have to schedule around anyone and we were already near that neighborhood. But also, as we were leaving, we noticed a big gash in the roof! What was that about? No trees near it - I don't know. But, the Lord knows, so we are trusting Him to reveal His will. There is this one house that Tim absolutely loves and I like a lot, but we felt it was out of our price range. But now that our interest rate is down to 3.75 it actually could possibly work out. I showed the pictures of the place to my dad when we were down there for my mom's birthday and he called us the next day saying, "You need to slap an offer on that thing first thing in the morning!". So we're praying about that. I'll leave you with some pictures of the place:
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