Jane's Journal

Jan 2007
5:10 AM EDT

January 22, 2007 Here’s what was transpired over the last 2 weeks in my efforts to find a house. The offer I made on a very nice house was not accepted. The lowest price they would accept was $ 10,000.00 more than I has offered them. My original offer was already stretching my budget and I just didn’t know if I wanted to pay anymore. I agonized for days over this. I decided to leave this house behind and start looking for something else. I started looking an older home on the main drag in Athens. It was a nice house but had some killer steps going upstairs!!! It was a 3 bedroom home but only 1 room was actually bedroom size, the other 2 I thought would make nice walk in closets. I toured the house twice trying to decide if this was the place for me. There was also another house for sale by owner in town. I really did want to go look at it because it was a fixer upper. My Mom finally convinced me to go look at it. Well I was pleasantly surprised to find out is was not that bad of a house. It does need updating but structurally it was very sound – no serious problems. After deciding that this house had some real potential I had to ask the Million Dollar question – how much???? The lady said that the fair market value was $ 50,000.00 and tax assessed amount was $ 42,000.00 (I’m thinking blah blah blah, how much for the house?) she said they were asking $ 35,000.00 because they realize it needs lots of work. Well, that’s all I needed to hear and decided this would be a GREAT house to fix up. I made an offer the next day and they accepted it in less than 2 hours. I should close on the house at the end of the month and then I will begin the project of remodeling it. I am very excited!!! Jane

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