House Hunting! Part 1

After weeks of looking for houses online, we finally set up a date to look at houses.  We spent the last week choosing houses to visit.  Our list consisted of a handfull of nice houses.   The houses were a mix of older, remodeled homes, forclosures, HUD homes, and new builds.  Here are the houses we looked at!



The first home was a beautifully remodeled home with a fun basement.  It could use some work on the outside of the house and it backed up to a busy road, but overall it was really nice.



The second home was a very large, but neglected house.  Every inch of the walls and ceiling needed to be repainted.  Every inch of flooring needed to be replaced.  The kitchen needed a full remodel and it had about 10 feet of yard in the back of the house.  It is not something that we are prepared to handle. 



The third house was a new build.  It is a beautiful, completely upgraded 3 bedroom 2.5 bath house on an oversized lot in a new neighborhood.  It also has a basement that can be finished later on.  The drawbacks are that the appliances and a deck are not included in the house. 



The fourth house was another new build in the same neighborhood.  It was another 3 bedroom 2.5 bath with beautiful materials and upgrades but the floorplan was disjointed and it was on a corner lot.

The fifth house was another new build, but it wasn't actually built yet.  It was supposed to be on a sub-prime lot, backing up to an extremely busy road.  Because it was not built and there is a waiting list, there is no chance of being in the house until at least August. 

The sixth house was the most terrifying of all of the houses we looked at, although it was one of the largest.  It was a forclousre that has been on the market for a long time.  The house was a bi-level that smelled like mold.  Every surface was discusting.  It was painted the most ridiculous colors (I know, I know, easy to fix...) and the entire kitchen needed to be remodeled, along with all of the bathrooms.  We didn't even bother to look at the second floor of the house.

The seventh house was the last of the new builds.  It is not completely finished and the neighborhood was nothing to get too excited about.  The lot backs up to an old apartment complex's parking lot and the yard was not very big.

The day left us with a lot to think about....