So our new journey is buying our first home - yipee! Since Adam is a law enforcement officer we get to participate in an awesome program called Good Neighbor Next Door (GNND). The program allows us to enter a lottery on selected HUD homes and if we are chosen we get to purchase the home for 1/2 the list price - yes 50% off on the appraised value of a home - double yipee!
We have entered 4 lotteries (about 11 months of doing this) and never won - we were very discouraged and actually put an offer on a 'normal' home because we were so sick of losing but we were outbid on that home too - bummer! Then we found this gem of a home on the GNND program and tried our luck for the 5th time and we won - triple Yipee!
We are in the process of getting inspections and appraisals done and then we are getting a rehab loan (called a 203 k) to help with renovations. So this journey is going to take several months but here are the before pictures:
Home sweet home (almost)
Pink Kitchen (original pink stove/sink/Formica counter tops) - love them and leaving them - in super good shape!
Dining room (love the carpeted baseboards:)
Pink Bathroom
Living Room
Patio
Pink tub - love it and keeping it:)
Original carpet (CRAZY!) and super awesome blue finish on the walls in master bedroom
HOT Pink bedroom with black trim - classy!
Downstairs family room
Original carpet on stairs - Awesome!
Items that will be renovated:
1) complete rewiring of electrical (not grounded currently and only 8 breakers for the entire home!)
2) carpet in living/4 bedrooms/stairs - bye bye green shag
3) paint entire interior, shed, patio, and door frames
4) tile in bathroom/kitchen/dining room
5) repair chimney
6) new exterior doors
We are so super excited! Much more to come:)
1 comment:
Congratulations!! That is so exciting! Gotta love the vintage carpet. ;) It will feel brand new with new paint/tile and carpet! I bet December can't come soon enough. :)
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