I haven't blogged in along time, thought about it but never did. But God's working in our lives this past week just couldn't be kept quite.
About 6 weeks ago I just had a burden to pray for a new
house, it was weird. I love our current house it is in a great location it is
more than big enough. Joey was not aware that I had been praying this.
Part 1: That God
would provide a home. I decided to pray
specifically about what I wanted in a home since I was pretty sure this was
just a far-fetched idea.
1) in
town but felt like the country
2)
plenty built in of character
3)
needed some work so we could make it our own
4) It
would be cheap
5) I
wouldn't look for it, if it was really his will it would just happen.
Part 2: God would provide someone to buy or rent our current
home for what we would need to get out of it.
Last week started like any other week, Sunday we went to
church, Monday Joey went to work, Bryce
and I chilled and Tuesday was a little different Joey worked in DC. But that
was still pretty normal, 90% of the time Joey works from home or rather coffee
shops and McDonald's but the other 10% of the time he travels between Boston,
New York, and DC.
Tuesday:
I digress so back to the story, on his way home from DC Joey
texts "Let's go look at this house".
Now for a while we have been looking at houses up for auction to
purchase as a rental, something cheap enough we could pay cash. My response was
" if you think it's the right place and its less than 35K I trust your judgment." I figured it was over.
Joey arrived home and asked again about seeing a home, my
response was the same. Joey replied, "I
really want you to see it" Again I responded I trust you. His response
"I saw this place last night and couldn't sleep so around 2am I
drove out to look at it. I really want you to look at it."
Ok I figured what does it hurt. So we drove up and walked
around the house, WOW. But Joey's self employed, I'm unemployed and we already
have a house (mortgage). My thought was I love it but there is just no way we'd
be able to get a loan. As we left Joey
said "this is like the man who found a treasure in a field and sold everything
he had". So we prayed.
Wednesday:
Joey called the Realtor and set up a walk through for
Wednesday. We meet at the house at 11:30
am and the Realtor sure didn't try to sell the house, she made sure we knew
every possible thing wrong with the house, and we would have to make some
improvement (roof, windows, H-Vac). Plus
the house only had one bedroom, but the 2nd floor contained a 32x18 foot room that would need to be split into bedrooms. We left with mixed feelings, things could get
expensive quick. So we prayed and prayed
some more. The house had been inspected
in June and it included estimates for many of the repairs. It
turns out that with the exception of one issue everything else could wait a few
years. We prayed some more.
Thursday:
We decided that it wouldn't hurt to go to the bank and see
if there was any possibility we would qualify for a loan. After about 15 minutes the bank had given us
pre-approval for the list price of the home (146k).
We prayed some more and contacted the Realtor that evening
to make an offer, now we figured they would be willing to settle between 132K and
136K so we offered well below that in hopes that a counter would be somewhere
in that range. So at 9pm that night we
made an offer on 525 Atkins Dr. (link to photos)
Friday:
Around 1pm just over 48 hrs after we first saw the house, we
got a call that our offer was accepted. No counter just accepted. The As-Is assessed value is 220K and we
purchased it for nearly 100K less than that.
Remember my prayer, part
one had been more than answered.
Still don't know what we are going to do with our current
house, but I'm not worried about it God is the God of the impossible.
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