My wife and I just bought a new house since our old house value shot up enough in June. When it is all said and done, we made a whopping $26 on the deal, yessss!
It's a house in Beaverton, OR (west of Portland suburb). Built in 1997, 2,340 sq. ft. 4 bedrooms, 2.1 bath, 3 car garage and the biggest master bedroom for a house under 500K
For the record, buying and selling a house at the same time is nuts
Thankfully my mom was a mortgage underwriter and got me a part time job after college (10 years ago now, woah!) as a mortgage closer so I'm really familiar with the whole process and I caught a $4,000 error from the mortgage lender
Anyway, here is the tour:
Front Of House:
Entryway Stairs:
Entryway:
Living Room:
Kitchen A:
Kitchen B:
Kitchen C:
Kitchen D:
Dining Room A:
Dining Room B:
Garage A:
Garage B:
Master Bedroom A:
MasterBedroom B:
Master Bathroom A:
Master Bathroom B:
Master Bathroom C:
Master Bathroom D:
Upstairs Hallway:
Guest Bathroom:
Sewing/Craft Room A:
Sewing/Craft Room B:
Guest Bedroom:
Gaming Room/Office A:
Gaming Room/Office B:
Backyard A:
Backyard B:
Thats the tour!
We're really happy with the house, it cuts my commute in half (15 min. now!)and my wife works at the elementary school that is literally 1 1/2 blocks away. The best part is we moved away from the entry level housing where basically everyone in the 'hood were renters 👎 Our old, let's just say, 'foreign' neighbors were so loud we had to call the police on them at least once a month.
When we bought our first/old house our loan officer let our interest rate lock expire so we got an interest rate of 5.15% instead of 4.75%. If it wasn't for the $8,000 first time home buyers credit we got in '09 we wouldn't have moved (our old apt. had A/C and HUGE kitchen, bigger than this house even). But now we got 4.625%, we locked right after Bernake said the gov't might, maybe begin to slow down on buying bonds and everyone freaked and interest rate went from like 4.2 to 4.6, thats human behavior 101.
We are 95% done with moving in. We had to install ceiling lights in ALL of the bedrooms, the closets all had lights but not in the main area..wth!? And we are installing a new chandelier above the dining room table and replacing the entry chandelier this week. I also had to put a coax in the office (for NFL Sunday Ticket of course!) and I made an ethernet drop from the office to our living room so streaming netflix on our Tivo looks better..wifi just doesn't cut it even with FOIS. So now I can race GT5/6 on a 50meg FIOS Gigabit home LAN 👍
We also had to pain the sewing/craft room and my gaming/office room as they were pink and neon green
Jerome
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Oh well...
