My biggest piece of advice for anyone with a business who might buy a house one day is to get an accountant and/or bookkeeper who will keep you on track. Luckily we have an amazing accountant who keeps very tight and organized records. It’s doable, but a whole lot of paperwork is involved. On the buying side, it has been challenging because Anel and I both work for ourselves which makes getting a mortgage a little tricky.
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In tomorrow’s post, I’m going to give you a full house tour of our current home and talk more about the selling process which has been intense, to say the least, and will focus on the new house today. Every week since we made the offer, we’ve had some drama or another with either buying the new house and/or selling the old one.
That said, it has been a process and a half. Since that day I haven’t had one doubt about it being the right decision for our family. As soon as I heard that, I had a strong and visceral reaction to the thought of someone else living there and knew we had to make the move. That same night, however, the seller got another offer but told us we could still have it if we wanted. I wanted to pull out of the deal and got really emotional about it. The monthly mortgage payments are going to be higher than what we pay now, we have to move Amalia out of her daycare (which we all love), we have to leave our neighborhood where we’ve grown an amazing community and family, and change, in general, scares me. Anel fell in love immediately and we made an offer that Monday. I teared up at that moment and knew right then and there and knew in my bones that this was our house. We pulled up the driveaway and Amalia all of a sudden got super excited and shouted, “Ooooh! Home!” We hadn’t said a word about the house being a place we might live because we didn’t want to confuse her in the early stages. That weekend, I brought Anel and Amalia back to get their take. That same day she showed me a few other houses but none of them even came close to this one. The house was in our price range and didn’t need a ton of work (although it does need some) which felt like finding a diamond in the rough.Ī week later I saw it with a realtor while Anel was at work. Even though I’d been wanting to move for a while, it wasn’t even on his radar. I sent it to Anel and was shocked when he suggested that we actually look at it.
But Zillow window shopping/fantasizing is one of my favorite pastimes, and one day in early June, a house caught my eye and I couldn’t look away. Although we’d been saving up for a new house for a while now, we were planning to wait for at least another year.
We were not planning to move this year at all. We’re so excited! Did I already say that? But there were a lot of moving pieces and we wanted to make sure they were all going to fall into place before we announced it. The process has completely taken over our lives for the last three months so not being able to share it with you guys has been really hard. Anel and I have been working on selling our house, getting a mortgage, buying this house, and renovating it all summer-long. It feels so good to finally let that cat out of the bag. We bought a new house and we’re moving into it three weeks from today!
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