Found a House!

Jodie and I found house! It's a ranch that has been renovated, and is only a few minutes from our current apartment in Manchester. The house is actually in Hooksett. We're under contract and only need to complete the inspections and other paperwork for closing. Maybe we'll be in the house by the end of February!

The house hunting process was fun at first. It was nice to look a bunch of houses, but the process became more stressful as we kept looking and didn't see anything we really liked. Then we found a great house at a great price and made an offer. Unfortunately, the seller went with another offer even though we offered their full asking price. It was very disappointing to lose that house, but there were several houses on the market we hadn't seen yet, so there was still hope the right house was out there for us. When we made an offer on this house that we are now under contract with, I was very stressed. At that point, we had looked at basically every house on the market in our price range and location requirements. It was a very unsettling feeling to think "what do we do if we don't get this house". Thankfully, the stress ended last night when we got word the seller had signed our contract even though they received two other offers last night. It's a very good thing we got our offer in early (the house had only been on the market two days).