We're back from vacation and ready to buy a house!! We saw 5 more houses yesterday, and 2 of them were pretty much perfect! As a sidenote, we went back to look at the first one we'd fallen in love with and it paled in comparison. So maybe we need to just keep looking forever and we'll find the perfect house? No, we're ready to get moving.

So the two we like best are pretty equal in location, really convenient and both in good areas. Here's the first:

Not great curb appeal.

On a pond.

With a gazebo! (Not that we'd ever use it with all the mosquitoes around here)

New kitchen appliances.

No fighting over the sink in the morning!

The garage has been converted, so no inside place to park the car. Does that matter in sunny SC?

It looks like some erosion has happened. We'll have to check that out.

Anyway this house has new hardwood floors so we wouldn't have that expense, it's got plenty of space, it's got maybe too much yard but it's nothing that needs much maintaining (the grass is all pretty dead already). Most importantly, it's got motivated sellers and is seems to be already underpriced for the neighborhood (in terms of square footage, although it does seem to be one of the larger houses in the area).

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Onto the second house....

The second house had a better layout and more curb appeal.


Big kitchen but with older appliances and an ugly floor.

Luxurious bathtub and TIMED HOT AIR BLOWERS (not a technical term) in the bathroom!

Cute little yard, fenced in for privacy but a little claustrophobic I thought...Clayton liked the fence.

This is where the screen-in porch would go.

Why the ugly curtain in the skylights?

Moss on one side of the house. What does that mean?

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Anyway as you can see we're getting close. We're looking at comps for both houses and will do a second viewing tomorrow or Tuesday. Now the scary money part begins!