Waiting Game

So it is July 1, 2 days away from my 30th birthday and one of my life goals is one step closer to being complete. I always said that I wanted to own a home by the time I was 30. I might not own one by 30, but I put an offer in today (click on offer to see the house). I have been looking for quite some time. Online looking started back in December, actually taking trips out with my Realtor started sometime in late April. I hadn't really found a place that felt like home to me. Everybody kept saying to me, "Oh you will know when you find it. When it is THE ONE, you will just know." I thought that was a load of crap.

Those sayings have never made sense to me. "You will know the right man instantly, or within a few dates, you will have a feeling about the right wedding dress, you will know the second you enter your home."  I trust my gut on a lot of decisions but I also don't think I will instantly know some of the larger of life's decisions, just like that.

With this house, I kind of did just know. I had looked at it online a few times in December of 09, right after I got offered the job. I started looking at homes to see if I wanted to rent or buy. I found this house. I loved it from the pictures. So when it came time to get serious about looking, I looked for it but I couldn't find the house again. Then one night I was just messing around on some sights and I found it, under contract. :-(  I was bummed, but moved on. Then a few weeks ago I was back to looking online and found it again. I instantly emailed my Realtor and told him I had to see this one. So we went yesterday and saw a few places. I spent an hour looking at this house. I wasn't ready to leave. But we had to go see the others. I spend 1 hour after looking at 6 other houses. They just didn't compare and I didn't need to waste my time. So I had my brother-in-law go back last night and look at it again. And of course, I had to see it again. I came home (after seeing Eclipse of course) and talked it over with him and heard his thoughts. An offer was drawn up this morning around 10am.

The house has a lot of history. It is over 100 years old and has been redone by the state. At one time the house was parceled with the School of Blind here in Lansing. The school was up and running around 1859 and a guesstimate is the house was built around 1870. It was used as the Principal's house. It has since been renovated on the interior, but all the old woodwork/detail, and hard woods are original. The school is now closed and the State owns the campus (almost directly across the street from the school). They are looking to develop it into urban lofts or town homes. But the history is still there and will remain with the house.

So the offer is in, and now we wait. Of course my Realtor and I wanted to get it in before the Holiday weekend, hoping to hear something before then. But you never know and now we wait....and wait....and wait.