Five weeks has come to an end. We both have enjoyed the weather and the lifestyle of Tucson. We have learned a great deal as well. I can say we did many enjoyable outings and just relaxed. We enjoyed having Hannah and Abigal visit us for a few. Hannah even had an extra week with teahing at Reedemer school. We were fortunate to have tow churches to visit during our time here.
Another objective of the trip was to do some house hunting. We met Mikey from Long reality. A wonderful person and a joy to be with each time we saw her. We must have seen over 25 homes. We were able to see what we liked and did not like. We also narrowed our area to the Sunflower community. This is an active community with many activities and does not feel crowed. It sits north of Tucson, but yet we can easily get to Tucson if needed. About half way into our stay we actually saw a home that we really liked. It was the week that Hannah was teaching. We were going to bid on it but someone bid on it 2 hours prior to us. But we also had not firmly decided that we wanted to purchase a home here yet. We had a glimmer of hope as there was some issue with the inspection and the buyer wanted the seller to pay for something's, that got the seller upset. But I. The end the buyer paid and the deal went thru. AZ market is very differnt than Wi. Things are in cash and go very fast. Loosing out to this home really was a lesson for us. We continued to look around. We even foud. A home for sale by owner, the neighbor actually talked with us at great length and felt a fair prince was much lower than his asking price. Each individual we talked to in the community was very nice and very forthcoming. We saw two homes with Mikey our last Thursday. One was one we could fix up...but a lot of fixing. The. For fun we saw one that was out of our prince range by a bit. It was a very nice home. We all agreed. The next day was a hike and the. Saturday we saw the for sale by owner. Also a nice home but comparing it to the other home, felt the other home was a better buy. We called Mikey and guess what...offer was placed already and accepted. Oh well...not be be...but.....
Monday we found out that the buyer had backed out...and it was back on...sellers upset. So we put an
offer in with Mikey the day before we left. Unbelievable!!!! Now the travel home. During our 3 day trip back, offers, counter offers and then the accepted offer!!!! We got it! We are really going to like this home. Mikey went by during the inspection as the owners were also selling furnature and turns out that we will purchase most of it. They also will close out the home so we do not need to go down to do that or have someone do it. Also a neighbor checks the home for use of their car from time to time. Not sure when, but at some point we will have a car. So excited and just wanted to put up the pictures of the home. Closing will be July 1st. We will take out a loan, but we can manage it. We also would like to sell our Waterloo home, but would like to have a WI home to move into. So much more to come.
