So, if you are keeping up with the drama that is “Marmets need a house in Milwaukee”, last we left of we had a very sad call from our realtor Sunday night regarding a house we had put an offer in.
Every night at 1am, we get a new listing from our realtor of what went on the market in the past 24 hours. Although we really want a house, that email would remain unread until 7:30, when I would open it and look through the houses.
On Monday, I got to work around 7:30 and opened the email. I wasn’t really expecting too much to have come on the market- remember Milwaukee had hardcore rain almost all weekend. 5 houses had come onto the market. I looked through them and noticed that one of them was only a block north of the house we had the battle over the day before. I called our realtor, and asked if we could get into the house. She said, what about after work tonight? So we met her at the house at 6:00.
We were actually a little early, so we got out and wondered around the house before Colleen got there. The front is cute, with trees and a basketball hoop. We wondered around the side and noticed that there was some really nice landscaping that had been done- nice perennials. Having spent a small fortune on plants at our old house, I appreciate having nothing to do with that in the future.
We get around to the back of the house, and there is a huge deck, and a hot tub on the deck. We are impressed with the yard. Our realtor comes as we are walking around the other side, and we go into the house. The first thing I notice is it is clean. REALLY REALLY clean. Not a I cleaned for this open house clean, but a I keep my house open house clean all the time and then I cleaned again after that.
It’s a nice house- the paint colors aren’t something we would choose ourselves, but its done well, and clean. We walk through- its spotless, it’s a decent space, and has just about everything we are looking for. Despite the monsoon Milwaukee had over the last 3 days or so, the basement is totally dry. We spend an hour there, and then tell our agent, I think we may want to make an offer on this one. She says she’ll draw up the paperwork and get it to us tomorrow.
Monday night, I don’t sleep at all. I am tossing and turning. I am wide awake. I am worried that this house is going to turn out just like the last one. Tuesday, I get up. I am tired. I go to work and look through the email of new houses. They all suck. Big time. This reinvigorates me- I want that house we looked at last night. I call our agent and say- Lets get the offer in. She tells us that they have 3 more showings set up for the next 24 hours. John drives over to my office, and we meet her there and we sign the offer. It’s a good offer, but it is less than asking. Its also been on the market for 48 hours. I am nervous. John goes back to work, and we wait.
At 8:00, we get a call- the sellers have accepted our offer as is! No renegotiating, no counter- just signed it! We close on the house on July 31!
We have an inspection next week, and I will take my camera along and get some pictures up. There are some pictures online, but they aren’t so great. For once, the house actually looks better in person that in the pictures (instead of the opposite, which we saw a lot of before.)
http://www.shorewest.com/vp/ListingServlet?SITE=SHOREW&ScreenID=LISTING_DETAIL_P&EXCEEDLIMIT=null&totalFound=0&cd_MLS=1097141
** Please don’t write me and tell me we don’t have escrow in Wisconsin. I know that. It is an obscure reference to an episode of “the Gilmore Girls”
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