We love our new home. We have been very, very lucky. Jordan got a job right as the housing market hit bottom, we moved to a city that had crazy low house prices, and we pretty much bought our house at EXACTLY the right time. And by "exactly the right time," I mean that two months after we closed, I got a call from my real estate agent who said that in the time since we've bought our house the market went crazy. Most properties are selling for $20k-$50k over the asking prices, and if we wanted to sell our home we could easily make $20k. The house itself is wonderful. As of right now, it's on the bigger side. We have a fourth bedroom that we have yet to unpack, simply because we don't need it yet (and I'm too morning sick/pregnant to care). Of course, we won't ALWAYS say it's too big for us, but it's perfect for our growing family. We will easily be able to live here for the next 10 years.
The area we moved to is very nice as well. North Phoenix, just west of the Desert Ridge area. Would you like the hear one of the craziest things about us buying this house? When we were looking, Jordan and I spent a lot of time trying to decide WHERE in Phoenix we wanted to live. Jordan's job and our apartment were 1 mile apart in a very nice area of Scottsdale. We LOVED living that close to his work. And we, ideally, would have loved to stay in that area. However, Scottsdale is very expensive. A house in our price range (which were few and far between) would need a TON of work, in addition to being at the very top of our price range. In the end, we moved about 15 miles East down the 101, which isn't a bad commute at all.
Well, after all that discussion and ultimately deciding to move farther away from Jordan's work, his office very recently announced that they are mostly likely moving... 5 miles down the road from our new house!!! Now, it's not for sure yet, but it's very likely. How angry would I be now if I bought the house I didn't love just because of the location of Jordan's office, which would ultimately move to the area I really wanted to live?
Anyway, we love our house. It stays cooler during the summer with lower electric bills than we ever paid in our apartment, it has tons of space, a green backyard that Clara loves, it's in a beautiful, quiet neighborhood, and soon it will be even closer to Jordan's work (we hope!).
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