Home Sweet Home … Maybe Not?

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Remember I mentioned that we had an offer on a house?  Well, we pulled out of the contract.  When I tell you why you are going to laugh and then write to me in the comment box below that I am the biggest idiot ever!

So biggest rule when you buy a house I have learned …

Look at the house as many times as you can!

We went and saw this house only once before we put a contract on it.  We knew we loved it, we knew the price was right and we were stressing about it getting snapped up by someone else.  Well four weeks go by and we still hadn’t heard anything back on whether our offer had been accepted and decided, to go look at it again.  We had driven by it numerous times but had only been inside once.

So stupid!

We scheduled a time to meet up with the realtor to check out the house again.  I am driving there when Mr. Juicefairy calls …

“We have a problem.”

“What! What’s wrong.”

“The garage is too small.”

“What do you mean the garage is too small?  It’s a two-car garage.”

“I thought the garage looked kind of small so I had the realtor open the garage door and I tried to pull my car in and it wouldn’t fit.  The car hangs out the back of the garage and you cant close the door.”

“How is that possible?  It’s a two-car garage.  Aren’t they a standard size?”

“Apparently not.”

After further inspection we realized that the builder had built into the garage to make room for the hot water heater and the AC unit.  Big mistake on their part because unless you drive a VW bug you can’t get you car in the garage all the way. We pulled out of our contract immediately.

Moral of the story folks:

Always look at the house more than once.  Look at everything.  Open every cabinet, every garage door, look in every closet look at every vent and ceiling.

We are still looking for our dream house now.  Sigh.  Mr. Juicefairy says that pulling out of the contract on that house we had loved felt like ending a long term relationship.  It was a little sad.  But he also said “we dodged a bullet!”  So true … so true.