We are home owners...WHAT?????????

So for the past six months or so, Eric and I have been looking for houses. We started looking in Charlotte, NC. I wanted to be closer to my parents, the job market looked better, and the weather, well where can you go wrong there?

So we went down there for Spring Break. High hopes that something was going to work out. Well something did work out, just not the way we wanted it to. All said and done, the economy started really showing its true ugly colors and the place Eric was going to transfer to was soon starting lay offs. Surprised? Slightly.

So I figured to just stop our Nc dreams there.

But then they came alive here in Batavia.

We decided renting is doing us nothing, we need to be homeowners and the $8,000 extra for first time home buyers is pretty nice.
So we looked, and looked and had a really hard time finding something in our price range that was not built in the 1800's or early 1900s.

Then we found the log cabin. The perfect location farm fields everywhere, woods surrounding most of the lot, a hot tub inside, beautiful wood everywhere.

In our price range.
We tried to claim it and put in an offer. There was already another offer but it was also a short sale. The dirty game realtors play, allowed us to find out what the other offer was. So we waited. One month passed and we knew nothing.
I researched and researched and knew this was going to be a painfully long wait.

six weeks passed and we find out they have not even looked at our offer.

Eric and I always seem to make really big decisions by water. He just so happened to come home wed night. He is working two hours out of town during the week. So he comes home and we go walking and of course we are by water and woods and really start talking about all the work that this log cabin needs.

Eventually we still want to move to NC. So we decide we are backing out.
The next day we go to look at a nice cape cod and we love it. We put an offer on it, and six hours later it is ours!

Its amazing how when something is meant to be yours, it is. It all just falls right into place. All the pictures of the house are on Facebook!!