The House Hunting Adventure

So it seems like Michael and I will talk about things forever and never really do anything about it. Eventually we will browse around online and find something we like and the ball just seems to start rolling. We live in a 900 sq ft town house style apartment, the three of us and dog make for very tight living. Our lease is up at the end of September so we started driving around looking for a bigger place to rent. Well to rent anything bigger then what we live in we are looking at almost doubling the price we are paying for rent which just isn’t do-able with our budget. Michael started looking around online and found a house for sale in our area in our price range. He called his Aunt Susan to have her look up info on it for us. Susan called the realtor the house was listed with on a Monday and found out that the house was being put up for auction that Wednesday and in order for us to stop that action we had to make an offer on the house by Tuesday evening. It is a beautiful 2 story 92 year old house that has 3 bedrooms 1 and ½ baths. It has a living room, den, dining room and a small but livable kitchen. It is a foreclosed house so needless to say the house needs some lovin’ in a big kind of way but after the home inspection we found out that that all of the really expensive hard to do stuff like replacing the windows and blowing insulation into all the walls has been done. The house does need some work there are about 8 light switches/ plugs that need wired and installed, there are some gas leaks that need to be repaired but they are at fittings in the pipe so odds are they just need to be tightened and the chimney needs to be lined where the natural gas heater vents so that eventually the carbon monoxide doesn’t seep into the house and kill us. These would typically be very expensive things to have done but we have men in the church that have stepped up and volunteered their time to fix these things for us. We wouldn’t be able to have this house if it wasn’t for the dumb luck that we had in finding it and looking into it when we did we would not have had the opportunity to get that house. God has really and truly provided for us in so many ways and I love when he gives me a story to share with other people about the way he always provides. I am so thankful for my faithful God!