Progress Update

A crazy few weeks have passed! Not much happened with the house search, since we weren't sure if the government shutdown would get in the way. But this past weekend we started looking at places again and I think Mr. Cap found his "happy place".

Unfortunately, said happy-place was located on a hill. And to get to the hill the house was on, you had to drive up a series of ill-maintained (and very steep) roads. Happy-place house had to be crossed off our list purely due to its location. In the winter, it would be dangerous both coming and going. And the town the house was located in isn't well-known for improving their roads.

However, it was an absolutely beautiful piece of land. The house was a tad out-dated, but for what the yard looked like, it would've been worth the money to update it. Bad roads can be a total deal-breaker, though (especially after living off of a bad road for 15+ years. All the cars on the street were in the shop constantly for repairs). 

We did find another place this weekend (a condo this time, instead of a house) that also made Mr. Cap pretty happy. So today we're going to try to put an offer in on it. It's only been on the market for a couple of days, and there are already a couple of other offers out on the place. So we're going to cross out fingers and hope that our offer looks more appealing than any of the other people. We don't have any contingencies, so I hope that looks good to the seller. But if someone offers more than we do, we'll probably be out of the running. It's kind of exciting yet stressful.

Currently we're waiting for our agent to finish writing up the offer letter so we can sign it and send it over. I really hope that we make whatever deadline the listing agent has set up!