Don't get me wrong, we were planning the pregnancy, but it did put a twist on upgrading our house. However, one random Sunday when my parents were in town, we were cruising around one of our "desired" neighborhoods and saw a couple of houses that we liked. Once at home, we looked up the price and thought that that was going to be too much of a difference between our current mortgage to the new mortgage. At least, that's what we thought. Unfortunately, we cannot let anything lie and thought we'd pursue the house if they were willing to do a house swap...
A month later, we have "swapped" our starter home for a new home! A house swap is where we buy a new house and the builder of that house buys our house. The benefits are pretty much a win-win for both the builder and for us. We didn't have to list our house, pay a realtor, clean our house, have our house inspected, or worry about the listing price. The builder got nearly full price for their new home (obviously making a profit) and they are going from a larger mortgage to a smaller mortgage. We did have some difficulties with the negotiations but finally settled on a price for both the new house and on our house! We close on October 14th!
4 comments:
Can't wait for a tour of your new home. Congrats and wishing you many happy times as you make this house a home! Yae!
Congrats! A house swap sounds like a brilliant idea! The house looks amazing!
P.S. you're like the cutest pregger ever. :).
That is great! House swap instead of wife swap. Ingenious. Can't wait to see the inside, I love that kind of stuff. Im so happy things are falling into place for you guys. Great things happen to those who wait. Love you and cant wait to live closer and of course love on Kinley!!!
Congrats on the new house! We moved 1/2 of our stuff when I was pregnant with Leah and the other 1/2 when she was 2 weeks old, not the greatest planning on our part, but somehow things always work out. The nice part about being pregnant is you don't have to do any heavy lifting and you can just tell people where to put stuff, plus it will be so nice to bring home a new baby to a new house! Congrats again!
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