We are thanking Jesus for His unmatchable kindness and generosity towards us today!
Um... I'm just going to get straight to the point and say... WE GOT THE HOUSE WE WANTED!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so you know how we got approved for less than the desirable amount and were having to look elsewhere? Well, we asked our Realtor, the brilliant Esther Greaves, if it would be stupid to put a REALLY low offer on the house we wanted. We had been approved for $125,000, so making an offer of that amount on a house originally listed at $175,000 is pretty laughable.
However, Esther said it wasn't stupid and that she would contact the sellers to see what they would be willing to do. Meanwhile, we searched for houses in the area that fell into our price-range, but we came away disheartened. Many of them were nice, but the problem still existed that nearly every house we looked at had the same amount of square footage as our current house (not ideal when you want to adopt a bunch of kids), and would require a whole lot of money to fix up.
Then we got the phone call from Esther. The sellers were willing to sell the house to us for $130,000 as-is if we would cover the closing costs! Evidently they had raised their kids in that house and really wanted to sell it to a family. They had poured their blood, sweat and tears into that house for a long time, and hated the thought of selling it to investors! The fact that we were a young growing family wanting to do the same with the house won their hearts.
So yesterday, we put a contract on the house, giving them 24 hours to decide before the offer would expire. At 2pm today, we got the text: THEY ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!!! We are blown away! We are hoping to close either on or before May 25th, but we just found out that we have to be out of our house the second week in May, which means we need about $4000 to cover closing costs, and a plan as to where we are going to stay before we can move into the house!
If any of you have any suggestions as to what we can do for a temporary living situation, we'd be more than open to hearing options. My in-laws live with us, so we need to figure something out for all of us.
It's a whirlwind, but we are so thankful and know the Lord is carrying us through this whole process. I don't know what to do with myself right now!
Carrie
p.s. if any of you have any extra medium to large size cardboard boxes for packing, I would LOVE to take them off your hands!:)
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CARRIE AHHHH! that's awesome. when you wrote the last post i was FOR SURE you were going to get that house even though you were offering a low amount. it was strange how for sure i was. this is such a great testimony! you'll get the money. no big deal for the Lord after all that. way to push through and come out un-offended and with more faith in your hearts! ian and nedra rutherford are in a temporal housing thing right now because a tree fell on their house that they're waiting for their house to get fixed up. they're staying in coachhouse apartments. you could probably ask them how their deal is for doing that temporarily if you want.
ReplyDeletewow!!! that is so awesome!!! i am bursting with joy right now- praise the lamb! i'm so proud of you guys for fighting and fighting for this without being offended! rach
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