Hooper House

What can be more appetizing than orange-yellow sidelights, with mismatched/ broken front porch lights and the original aluminum single pane window? (not to mention the boarded window)

well lets try a desperate looking "screened" back porch... with decorative caution tape

the cheerful entrance to my future salon

But we may have our own cherry tree in the front yard (if that is what this is), and we for sure have a pear tree in the backyard but it has some years to go before its an established tree (its the second tree from the left side pic below kinda looks like twigs coming from the ground)

The best part of the place is the quiet dead end street, and the big .5 acre lot it sits on.

There are two lovely half burnt sheds on the property that I plan on patching up to make one into a chicken coop

and have the other for lawnmower storage.

 

I also saw this at Down East and think it would be a beautiful addition to the kitchen, It would probably take some convincing for Jared to think so too but I kinda love it.

Let the hoop jumping begin!

I don't know why I blog sometimes, its just going to cut into my time, but its also kinda theriputic so thats probably why. Its an important day, we found out the banks counter offer for the home in Hooper and although its slightly off thier asking price they sure didn't try too hard to make a big adjustment. If I felt like the market was still slow I would be okay with going back and forth with more offers but I want the place too bad to do that so we plan on accepting their counter offer and moving forward with the house. So its really good news, we will have a final destination in this venture and I dont have to painfully look at other homes in less desireable locations. Todays agenda was to notify billers, and utilities of the move. I did all that I could and now Jared will need to do the rest of the billers that under his name (so stupid, don't they know that I was the one who set up the account originally in his name... and would you like to be paid? if so, let me tell you of our address change) sometimes being a wife really doesn't hold much water. Since we will be purchaseing the home under an FHA 203K we will have an extensive number of hoops to jump through and part of that is fixing pieces of the property so that they meet someone elses warm and fuzzy feelings of what a house should or shouldn't have. We have plans on all but gutting the place and making it nice, so I'm not trying to live in filth, but I hate paying someone else to do things that I can perfectly figure out how to do on my own. One thing I don't do is windows and this home has been blessed with some lovely single pane aluminum windows that we will be figuring into the 203k loan part, tomorrow I've got an appointment to get an estimate on windows (and doors) for the place. Were thinking that we will acid wash the cement floor in the basement and re-carpet the whole upstairs. The bathroom will get a new vanity, sink, floors and tub surround (probably tile). The whole house will be de-wallpapered, painted and the popcorn ceiling in both of the upstairs bedrooms will more than likely be removed. So simple right? This isn't including the backdeck that lacks stable stairs and is overall a nice eyesore. Tomorrow I'll have my mom come out with me and we'll create a healthy to-do list of anything I've missed. But hey if we can get through all of financings hoops the rest will be cake! Wish us luck! ps I'm so sorry I can not spell to save my life and I don't have time to doctor what i know is probably spelled wrong.

Thoughts and such

Today we had another showing, the buyers are going back and forth with us right now and so I'm anxiously awaiting for news on the offer tonight. So I had an appointment and still would be around during the showing, so the lady came through with the realitor, then left then she came back with her daughter and told me that I did a great job on this house. I said thank you, I have it all just how I want it and now I'll be moving, She then said that she hopes that the current buyers sale falls through because she wants our place. I love hearing that other people love my home too. It has been 5 and a half years of piecing it all together, and scrimping and saving for the next project on the list and I truely do have it how I envisioned it should be. One way or another we will most likely be able to sell our place. I did get some good news yesterday, it looks like we can qualify for the mortage on the house we have agree'd upon. Its in Hooper and it needs a world of help but I'm so excited for a project and can't wait to place a bid on it. I talked with the nieghbor of the house we like and she gave us more insight to the home and its previous owners. Funny thing is that she not only knows my inlaws, she may have taught my husband in preschool! I have a good feeling about the place and hopefully we can secure it before someone else does. When we start bidding I'll give you more details of the place and possibly pics, but I really don't want to advertise the place until its almost mine!

Moving a whole new frontier

I am a cloud of emotions, If all goes as planned we will need to be move out of our home shortly after April 26th. I think we've found a place that will fit our needs for several years to come, unfortunately with the job change it will take some time and tweeking to get the financing just right. Anyway, I don't even know where to start with packing, its going to be an immense job. any tips or suggestions will certainly be welcome!

Its all gonna be alright

I've had yet another crazy week and instead of sharing all of my fears and stress on here I've let things play themselves out over the week. Jared will be starting a new job yet again on April 9th, his current job is reducing its workforce to ten people and the rest of the postions will be covered by new employees in the Phillipines. He had an interview today at Wayfair in Ogden and it went well and Jared feels good about going there to work. I feel good that he will have a job right after this other one ends. We've had a bunch of showings lately (another one tonight too) and I think the count is now up to 6 in total, I'm greatful that people are interested to see the inside of the home. We'll see if we get any offers here in the near future. I am now at 21 weeks in this pregnancy so its all downhill from here right? I've been feeling really great, theres just more belly to me right now. Even with all of the craziness with Jareds work outsourcing, us selling our home, and my pregnancy I've been given a nice sense of calm, that we will be taken care of and that everything will all workout because the Lord is mindful of my little families needs.

What I really Want

To date we've had two showings of our home and another lady is interested in taking a look, I'm hoping that once things green up and warm up we'll get even more interest. With the chance that we may find someone interested sooner than later I've been thinking about what is really important for me to be happy with a home for a long time. I love that I can look up homes online and be specific about what I really want, it makes the job of finding a place easier. The big things I want in my next home are first over 2,000 square feet, preferably with at least 4 bedrooms. If that doesn't narrow the results my $150,000 cost limit and desire for at least .25 acre definately does. There are two homes that are really on my list and others I wouldn't object to visiting. What will really make me happy is if I can either have fruit trees already on the property or be able to add some trees to it when we move. I really have grown to love my pear tree's, my kids love the pears and I enjoy having more than enough to bottle and bake or cook with. The last thing I have on my list is being able to raise chickens, Jared isn't convinced yet that we will ever own chickens but I'm stubborn so thats to be determined. One of the homes I like is in N. Ogden and I know that an ordinance has been passed in N. Ogden allowing 6 chickens, the other home is in Clinton and I just read that chickens are also allowed in residential zones with the limit being 6 too. I went with my parents yesterday to pick up 13 baby chicks from IFA, they are adorable!! We chose 6 different breeds in total so it will be fun to see how they each grow up. In the past we've raise Road Island Red chickens and white Leghorns so in addition to those two breeds we have one plymouth rock and 3 other breeds that I can't remember :).

Time to drown my sorrows

Robert Montgomery is a prick. He was the one who called the animal control for both of my stupid tickets, and although they were able to ignore the second ticket, I got to pay $85 in court today for the stupid first one. I have such little faith in this judicial system, they don't care about what happened, all they want is for you to pay your huge fine for the pathetic ticket and move on to the next person. So I will be drowning my sorrows in chocolate and shopping tonight, we did get our tax return and since I never really feel like I can purchase $85 dollars of things I or my family needs but yet I can drop $85 on a fine after dropping $50 to license a pet, $13 dollars and stress in getting her a rabies shot. I need to run away.