Finish Line in Sight

We are SO close to home ownership. Tomorrow is the big day. It is a week late, but we are just grateful that it is happening. In truth, last night we were dead in the water and contemplating how to write a blog entry sharing that our great plan for a blog would be changing because there was no dream house.

But miracles really do happen.

We were having issues with paperwork. The lender needed information stating exactly when we'd be moving back. However, that isn't set in stone. We just know that Terry's work sent us to Boise for two years, and those two years are up at the end of the this year. Last week we thought we'd given the lender enough to make it work. And slowly from there it all fell apart. Yesterday morning we got the call from our agent that the lender had denied our loan, and he didn't think anyone else would take it.

Then this morning we got a call from our agent saying this is a story straight out of the Bible. Just like Lazarus - what was dead is now alive. Our mortgage specialist kept the faith and found us a lender who not only approved us, but wanted us to close today!

So Mary signed, and signed, and signed, and signed this afternoon. Terry is currently in Southern Idaho on business, so Mary was given power of attorney. Terry got to review the documents tonight. Minus a few clerical misspells, everything looks great so the paperwork will be processed and recorded and then... HOUSE!

We owe GREAT thanks to Mark Handy with Custom Reality and Chris Handy with One-on-One Mortgage. If anyone is going into the housing marking, these guys really go to bat for their clients.

If any of you in/near Ogden have some free time on Saturday, come on by. We'd love to give you the tour, and if you have any elbow grease to spare, we'd be very appreciative of that too.

Pictures of the inside to come soon!

We're Blogging! - and Housing!

Brace yourself - the McBrides have entered the 21st century and are joining the wide world of blogging! We appreciate all of you thinking we're fascinating enough to have a blog before now. We finally agree that we will have exciting things to share on a regular basis.

Which brings us to our bigger news, and the main purpose behind our blog - we're buying a house! If there was ever a thing that seemed meant to be it is us and this house. It was love at first sight. The story line of this blog saga is something similar to that of Princess Diaries or She's All That. The girl has a great personality which draws you to her, but she is in need of a serious makeover. So, with this blog we are going to take you with us through the story to show you the princess that is revealed in the end.

Through the negotiation process we were able to get the seller to agree to a new roof, and from the picture below you can see progress is already being made.

Fingers crossed - everything will fall in line and we close on Friday. Once that is done the real blog fun will begin. We'll show you inside the house, and share our vision for it all. Think HGTV gone digital.

More to come soon. We can't wait to share with you our diamond in the rough, and the transformation (we hope) it will go through. We are excited to have you be a part of our turning a house into our home.