There's No Place Like Home

Well we certainly are not the best at keeping up with this blog.  Things have been pretty hectic lately for us though.  As for a quick catch up on the lives of William and Amber Reed:

The house hunt is on hold for the time being.  The house we were trying to buy didn't work out.  The seller was getting very impatient, and when our bank didn't have an answer within a certain time period, the seller decided to go ahead and take up her backup offer.  Six tries later, she finally sold the house to someone.  The residents next door to the house are not pleased with their new neighbors.  I told them if they run the people off, Will and I will happily move in.

After that house, we found an even better house for an even better deal!  We found a foreclosure listed at $40,000...Less than half its appraised value!  It was 1500 sq ft upstairs (3 bd, 2 bath, kitchen, living room, dining room, and office).  The mostly finished basement was another 1500 sq ft needing flooring and painting done.  There was also an unfinished bathroom downstairs needing only a toilet and a sink.  The dining room had French doors that opened onto a large, beautiful covered porch.  This house was intended to sell in a silent auction, and we had about 12 hours from the time we looked at the house to put a bid in if we were interested.  So we did.  And our bid was accepted!  After much discussion on the location of the home (45-50 minutes away from my job) we decided as much as we loved the home we needed to walk away.  So we did.  We decided to wait till February to look anymore, but after recent discussion of a possibly soon promotion, we decided maybe it isn't the right time for us to get tied down to a specific location yet. 

As for our current living arrangement, we are anxiously looking for the day we can move somewhere else.  We've been stolen from, we've had someone attempt to enter our home one morning while I was home alone.  The neighbors are in and out of jail, the police helicopter makes frequent visits hovering over our neighbors.  The neighbor's trash is constantly in our yard, plenty of domestic disputes at all hours of the night next door, and oh....lets not forget every few months the neighbors set all their mattresses out in the yard to be thrown away, because they can't seem to get rid of the bed bugs they are infested with.  And heaven forbid we have a strong wind...our home starts rocking back and forth like it's going to lift off at any minute and head to Oz.  There's no place like home...there's no place like home...