Well Will It?

So we've found a house that we really like and the price is right.  We are starting the process of getting a home loan hopefully today, I'm still waiting on Wynn to get home so that we can go meet our loan counselor.  We are ready to move and I think we both feel that we have lived this way for long enough.  As you can tell by the Carson House blog we love older homes, we have vowed that we would never live in anything newer than a 1930s home and so far we have stuck to that.  Our home 190 miles away was built in 1925 and the house we a currently looking to buy was built in 1918.  There is a lot of work and that goes into living in an older home and really it's best that you have a good sense of humor, but the character of the home makes up for the work and minor annoyances that go along with it.

This house needs work, it needs less work than other homes we have looked at and even less work than the house we still have.  The carpets need to be ripped up and the wood floors need to be refinished.  It needs central heat and air and possibly some electrical work.  The rooms all need a fresh coat of paint and the library needs some serious seventies panel removal work done.  The kitchen counter tops need replacing and the cabinets need refacing but these are all things that we can do while we are in it, well except maybe the floors.  The garage apartment is move in ready except for a new shower surround and the yard is the perfect size for the Airstream dogs.  

Will this be our house?  

I really hope it will I am getting tired of finding a house and then not ending up buying the house.  After the Carson house I'm a bit more gun shy and a lot more jaded than I once was, but here's to hope and new beginnings.