Hunting for houses: Part 1

Today Corrine, Ashlynn and I went out house hunting for the first time. We met our realtor, Amy Terry at Tommy's Subs. There was 2 reasons for meeting at Tommy's: 1. It's freakin' Tommy's! 2. It's close to the neighborhoods we were looking in.

Houses are mostly out of our price range, but we thought we'd give it a shot. The first house we looked at was ok. It's a bi-level house with a 2 car garage. It could work. The things we didn't like about it were the hedge and the cramped bedrooms. The somewhat worn and broken wooden fence in the back might've been a problem except the neighbor's dogs were nice. We liked the kitchen, the deck, the 2 levels and the big freakin' garage.

Everything went down hill after that house. The next house we looked at had a really nice backyard, a huge master bedroom with a huge closet and a jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom. The downside: It had no kitchen. Well, half the kitchen was there, but the apparent flood it had caused them to take out all the flooring, half the cupboards and even the kitchen sink!

The houses after that were all in various states of ugly. One house was on a block where I expected the police to be staking out and the house itsself had foundation problems. The kitchen floor was so warped, walking on it made me feel like I was drunk. Another house had super pink shag carpet and no appliances.

We looked at a couple newer cookie-cutter houses. I liked one of them, but Corrine doesn't like them because they're, well, cookie-cutter houses. They all look the same and they're really close to each other. The one I liked had a backyard that had about the same square footage as most people's living rooms.

Next week we're probably going to look more at condos or townhomes. It seems like the houses in the areas we like are just out of our price range. The ones we could afford seem to need too much work. This has definitely dampered Corrine's hopes, because she was really looking forward to having a house. As much as I'd like one, we really can't afford one yet. Hopefully next week offers more hope.