If a home comes on the market it's gone in a day. And if it has been on the market for a while, there's a reason why. We knew this coming up here, but we really saw this once we arrived.
The first day we saw around 10 homes and none of them fit the bill. We walked in the last one of the day and fell in love. It had an awesome mountain view, and it was going to be finished being built like the week Ward was supposed to arrive. But we found out it wasn't in the best area. It was kind of heartbreaking after the disappointment of the day.
Then the next day we went to about 5 more homes and we were
literally trying to make anything work. The most interesting house of the day, we will call it the Asian Fusion house. It was in the neighborhood we loved, and had an amazing view of the inlet (please go ahead and start counting how many times I will post the word amazing on the blog. It might be more than they use on The Bachelor). It had a dropped floor in the kitchen so you could sit Indian style on the floor to eat of the kitchen bar (see where I'm getting the Asian influence). Then it had a drycleaner machine in the master closet. #nomoredrycleaningbills. The craziest part was the downstairs basement. They had cement pebble floors and cinder block walls. Talk about a cold dark dungeon in the wintertime in Anchorage. It was a cool house, but not cool for us and a little one.
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| Here's the front of the Asian fusion house |
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| Please look carefully at the cement floors and cinder blocks |
And then there were 2... two houses that would work for us that is. The first was a new build #new and the second was an older
home and way too big #oldiebutgoodie. We thought either of these would "work", but they weren't what
we had thought of as the home we dreamed about living in while we were on this
little Alaskan adventure we had ahead of us.
We went back to the hotel (no not the Motel 6 - that's
coming a little later) and we were trying to decide which house to put an offer
on. We decided we would sit down and pray knowing that we felt like God was
calling us to be up here. As always he has a plan and we knew our next house
was in that plan too. We finished praying and got on the computer to look at the
houses on the internet again. Low and behold, a house that we had previously
seen came back on the market. We didn't know how much we liked it from the
pictures. You can never judge a house by the listing pictures #photoshopdoeswonders.
But we picked up the phone and called our agent to get the low down.
She scheduled a showing for us the next morning (the day we were leaving) and wanted to make an offer on any house so we wouldn't be homeless in Alaska (what a TV show that would make). We got to the showing a little early and Ward was trying to talk me out of the house. He didn't even know if we would like it and he was already saying no.
We pulled up to #thehouseonthemountain and saw all the charm in the front. We walked through the house for about 30 minutes. Afterward, I looked at Ward and then we asked our agent if we could put an offer on the house. Two engineers made a decision in 30 minutes with no excel and no charts. Mark that on your calendar cause that just doesn't happen everyday. During the showing we just fell in love with the house. No it's not perfect, but after doing a little house hunting in Alaska you have to overlook
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| Our little Alaskan cabin |
Xoxo,
I want to see more pictures!! Or perhaps just crash there with my entire crew #threeunderthree #havebabieswilltravel ;-)
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