So it was a rough day again but I'm in contract on the House of Love IV!!!
And yes, it is definitely a House of Love as opposed to the other one.
There was definitely a reason why I couldn't give it that name, or any other, and when it comes down to it everything about the house was just wrong and would have cost so much money to have fixed yet never have been worth it.
Now I did have to up my offer even more. But I'm just not in a position right now to lose out on this one.
Sure something may come up in the inspection but quite frankly, this one feels good.
It feels solid.
It makes me happy inside.
And even though it will take a few years and some decent scratch to redo the bathrooms and the kitchen, I know that every day when I walk out onto my deck, and down onto my brick patio under the 3 magnolias, and out to my car parked in my garage, and down my street of nicely maintained homes, every dollar spent now will have been worth it.
And believe me, I'm not kidding myself that this is worth it. I'm going to totally feel it in the pocket book for a good 2-3 years at least.
But there really isn't anything that can give one piece of mind like this anymore.
It was so long in coming.
Here's hoping that all goes well with the final aspects of the sale of the House of Love III tomorrow and the purchase and acquisition of the House of Love IV over the next 2 weeks!
Grammar Nazi says:
Piece of my mind
and
Peace of mind
are two different colloquialisms involving homonyms.