Real Estate Search

Hello all! Well Roo is rapidly approaching and we still don't have a place to call our own yet. The state of Massachusetts is the only state in the country with a decreasing population. I now know why! It is hard to move here. Anywho, the original plan was our house would sell quickly and we would buy a house up here and everything would be set by the time the baby came. Well, we all know that didn't happen. Plan B was to rent an apartment. I searched around for places with flexible leases etc. Found one that looked good. On Saturday the rent was ~1300 per month. I went back on Wednesday to fill out the application and the rent was now ~1550 per month. I told them to take the application turn it side ways and well most you know how the rest of that goes. I then started looking in the local paper for places thinking that a non-corporate landlord may be more willing to let us have the dogs. I literally called about 20 places and they had one of two answers: 1) No pets or 2) since you are having a baby, we can't rent because the place has lead paint. So we threw in the towel on renting. I called some mortgage folks and found a price range where we could buy and carry our mortgage down in Richmond. However, we need to move fast because we would like to have something lined up before the baby is born. Anywho, I frantically tried to use online requests for showings last Friday. By Saturday morning I hadn't heard anything. In a panic I called a real estate agent thinking they may have better luck arranging showings with short notice. That's how we met Peg. Peg was something else but to her credit she got 5 showings scheduled! So we pull up to the first house. The driveway was full of cars so we were worried about that the owners were still home. So we tried to call Peg. Well, Peg doesn't have a cell phone! Not sure how that is possible but it was. We sat there for 15 minutes before someone came out and I went up and said "Are you Peg?" It indeed was Peg. We were in front of the house and she didn't notice us nor did she keep an eye for us. Right away we knew Peg was gonna be awesome! Went through the house and were heading to the next one. Peg said to give her a few minutes b/c she has a hard time programming her GPS with her vision. After another 5 minutes, Peg came up to us and said she couldn't find the address on our GPS and asked if we could put it into ours. Ours worked fine so the agent followed us to the next house. She would follow us to two more houses that afternoon b/c she couldn't find it in her GPS. Peg also did not schedule 2 houses because she felt we would not like them. Thanks Peg, good work. To her credit she was right about one of them. Actually, one house she could not get in touch with the other agent so we did a drive by. On paper, this house looked like a steal. Now it did mention it would be good for a professional's office. So we plug in the address into the old TomTom and check it out. She tells us we have reached our destination and we're like what's going on all we see are two used car lots. And there it was sandwiched between two used car lots. A beautiful home that you would be crazy to buy. Well, long story short, the house we liked best is in Hanson, MA. It's 30 miles from Boston. It will take some commuting but I will do whatever I need to to have my family together! Talk to yous later! PS: RIP Skip Prosser :( Very tragic news for all those associated with Wake Forest. We'll miss you Skip!