We feel very blessed to have found such a great piece of property with minimal effort - it is in a nice area and school district, near many of our friends, 4 minutes from Andrew's job, 10 minutes from our church, about the same distance from my parents as our current house and the farmhouse is in excellent condition. Some non-essential rooms will need some updating and minor work, but for the most part it truly is in move-in condition. There was a brand new kitchen put in a few years ago, central AC, a fenced in yard and even a swingset for Ben! The house was in the process of being foreclosed on so we were able to obtain it at a short sale, which is another wonderful blessing.
Here is a blueprint of the property. Hard to read, but the dark "blob" near Church Rd. is the farm house and the rest of the delineated pentagon is the property. You can see that the Indian Creek runs through the back of the property, with about 2 acres of undevelopable land behind it. So we will always have woods behind our house.
Some pictures of the outside of the house from all angles. Here is the side of the house.
The backyard. Ben enjoyed our walk-through with the realtor since there is a swingset and a huge sandbox filled with Tonka trucks in the yard that he played in as Andrew and the realtor went back inside to take some detailed photos.
The front of the house. There is a nice covered porch that leads to the patio. We just need to repair a few of the floorboards and repaint the porch and then it will be ready for use next spring.I tried to show some of the best shots of the inside of the house and will take more pictures when we visit again. Because this is an older home, some of the upstairs rooms are difficult to visualize via photo so it's hard to tell what you are looking at. So I didn't include these rooms and just gave a sampling.
Here is one (two) of the prettiest bedrooms upstairs. As you can tell from just seeing the kitchen photos, the previous owner was very into toile! There are basically three 2-bedroom suites in the house and an attic bedroom.
We will keep everyone posted on the progress of this exciting purchase. The bank has requested a 75 day closing, which puts us somewhere in October. So, until then we will be busy getting all of our ducks in a row for the new house/land, sprucing up our house to put it on the market by 9/1 (hopefully) and then packing. I have never had to go through a full move myself since I never moved growing up and had minimal belongings when I got married (ie college stuff and a bedroom set!). So, we'll see how deep we have dug ourselves when we start to pack all of our belongings!
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