Well, after seeing eight houses last week, we have found one. This happened to be the last one we saw, and it was nice that it was. We don't have plans to be in this house forever, so Eric did some compromising. I really wanted somewhat of a neighborhood for the boys. Dane is LOVING riding his bike now, and in Lowell we just don't have anywhere for him to ride it (except around the living room, which he actually enjoys!). We can take the kids for walks, but they have to be in the wagon because all the roads are quite busy. I would love some neighbor kids for them to play with, and also for us to become friends with. We have hopes of building in Allegan/Otsego someday, so Eric is perfectly fine with a neighborhood for now. Grandpa Jorgensen will only be about 10 minutes away, and he has 40 acres, so we can always go over there if we need to stretch our legs.
Of the first six houses, some were nice, and some not so nice. There was a foreclosure that we saw, and we were VERY TEMPTED. I mean really tempted. The layout was very cute, and the whole basement could be finished to double the square footage of the house. It wasn't in terrible shape, but it would certainly need some work and improvments. If we were at a different point in our lives, we probably would've done it. But after Eric has totally redone the house that we are in right now, we just didn't think that it would be right for us. We would constanly feel like we should be doing something to the house rather than just relaxing and enjoying the kids.
The few houses that we saw after that were not for us. We were getting kind of frustrated, partly because we wanted the foreclosure, but knew it wasn't the right time. All the houses we looked at were fairly close to busy roads, althought they were in subdivisions. The first thing we noticed when we walked outside of all of them was the road noise. We live on a busy street now, and so that is something that we didn't want no matter what.
Then we arrived at Pinnacle Court. We had looked at this house online, and kind of thought is was too good to be true. So, we prepared ourselves for something worse than what we saw. It is in a quiet 30 house neighborhood across from Pine lake in Plainwell. It is new construction, with a beautiful view of the lake from the front room and kitchen. Very quiet and peaceful. The lot sizes are pretty nice, and the back of the house is wooded. There is deeded lake access with a cute little beach. After the realtor left, Eric and I walked around the neighborhood, and we felt like we were in the movie Funny Farm when they were trying to sell their house and they said "cue the deer". The houses were all very nice, and we saw a ton of "Big Sweeties" (our term for big lovable dogs - labs, golden retrievers, Saint Bernards, etc.). It felt like it was meant to be.
They have accepted our offer, and we have an inspection on Friday. If that goes well, we are good to go. We will be much closer to the Benn family, the VanDuine's, and probaly even the Oliver's. Not to mention much of Eric's family. We are very excited, and thankful that it all went as well as it did. We will keep you updated and post pictures when we can.
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Awesome! Our sub only has 30 houses too, which is nice, because you get to know most of the people in the sub. Funny about the Funny Farm reference...hopefully your new neighbors weren't as nosy as me & my neighbor when people were looking at the house directly behind us. We'd be on the phone to each other the whole time sizing up the couple and if we thought they'd be "cool" - hopefully Eric was on his best behavior and didn't wear his flame shirt.
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