Home Sweet Home
Just over a year ago, our lives changed dramatically when Mr. Roberts was offered a new job. We both decided that this was a door we had to walk through and all the pieces fell into place. Within one week, he was offered the position. On that Friday, I listed our house on Craigslist until we had a chance to find a realtor the next week. Someone called Monday to view the house and by Thursday they were ready to buy. It was an amazing time.…until we tried to find a new place to call home.
We started looking as soon as Mr. Roberts was offered the job. We looked in Huntsville; we looked in south TN. We looked in subdivisions and little dirt roads in the middle of nowhere. It soon became apparent that we had to move out of our old house, and Mr. Roberts had to get an apartment.
The search continued... We looked online and in the papers. We did a drive by of every potential house only to have reality be less appealing than in print. All this time, we were living about 2 hours apart, visiting on the weekends as our schedule allowed.
We saw one property where the price had been lowered into the range we wanted to pay and decided we should get a realtor and take a look. If anyone knows Mr. Roberts, he has no patience for shopping. We went to the place and checked it out. After we left, Mr. Roberts told the realtor to write up the papers. He was done looking and was buying that house.
I wish I could saw it was all easy from there, but buying the house was a huge struggle. Even 3 days after we signed the closing papers, we weren't sure we legally owned it. Finally, almost a month after buying the house, we moved in.
We joke that all we bought was a 25 year long to-do list. The 10 year old house had only subfloors, some plumbing problems, ugly bathrooms and broken appliances. There was no landscaping and dead trees and brush were filling what should have been a yard.
Around 14 months later after moving in, we have floors, the bathrooms have been remolded, and all the appliances have been replaced. We are slowly clearing out the dead trees, mowing the grass, and slowly starting to create landscaping.
We own 7 acres of land in kinda the middle of nowhere. Here is our new home sweet home (It looks much better in the snow).
The best part is honestly the old barn. We both loved the barn as much or more than the house. We are estimating it is around 80 - 100 years old. It needs some work to repair and upgrade some things, but it has character. The place even has a little creek. The view from the front porch makes this place amazing!
