Our New House

That's right folks, three days after we closed on our house in West Lafayette we put on offer on another house here in Columbus. You might be thinking to yourself- you're crazy. I agree. Heath and I like to call our life "crazy town" but when God orchestrates something, you have to walk into it. It is unbelievable to us how God so ordained for us to have this house. Let me tell you the story.

The housing market in Columbus is unlike anything I have ever experienced. A house will go on the market and a day or two later it will be sale pending. That's not the case for all houses of course, but usually there is a good reason for that. So finding a house hasn't been the easiest of things for us. We have looked at every house in our price range and there was nothing. There was one house that was on the market that we really wanted to look at before we went under contract on our WL house, but we had decided not to look here until we were under contract there. Of course by the time we were ready to look-Sale Pending. Bummer.

Last Wednesday we set it up with our real estate agent to go look at a house. He said another one had just come on the market that he wanted to show us too. I wasn't thrilled about either of them just from looking at the pictures so I wasn't super excited to go see them. We show up at the first house and our real estate agent tells us that the house we really wanted to see when we first moved here but was Sale Pending was about to be put back on the market because the finances fell through. How did he know? He was the listing agent. No one else knew it was about to come on the market. He asked us if we wanted to go see it last and we said YES!

We went to look at the second house he had lined up for us and while we were there the seller of the other house called our agent. The people who were going to buy it wanted to rent it from him until they could get their financing in order. They were going to pay his mortgage. Our agent told him he was about to show it to us and he would call back.

We walk into the house and we love it!! Did I mention it is in one of our favorite neighborhoods? It has a great floor plan with four bedrooms so we can grow into it and it is way under our top dollar of our budget. We have a decision to make. The guy needs to know the next day if we are going to put on offer on it because he moved and needs his mortgage to be covered so if we don't want it, it's going to go back to the original buyer. That stresses me out! I do not like making rushed decisions like that.

As we prayed about it and thought through it, it became clear that this is the house God wanted for us. No other agent would have know it was going back on the market, no other agent would have the key to get in (the key box was already gone from the sale pending), we set up a time to go look at a house we knew we didn't really want and it "happened" to be in the 1 hour window before the seller rented it, this was of God.

The house is going to be perfect for us. There are lots of cosmetic things that this house needs, but nothing a little TLC can't help. We will close the end of August, get some things done the first few weeks of September and hopefully be in it mid-late September. We are so thankful for God's provision in this! Here is a sneak peak of what it looks like.

Now all we need is sweet Baby Racine to bring home!! So thankful for God providing this house as we  go along on this beautiful journey!