A couple weeks ago I found these brand spankin' new houses that I fell in LOVE with. Even though I only saw them on the rmls website, I still knew that I loved them. The only downfall...LOCATION. They are in Estacada, which is about 30 min from where we are currently and adds a bit more to both of our drives for work. I finally convinced the hubs to just go look at them because I was willing to forfeit the location for these houses. We went and looked at them today and I would still have been willing to forfeit a better a location because these houses were so beautiful and new and we would get to build our own too which I think is fun! Of course, the hubs disagrees. He doesn't want to live in Estacada (it is a bit ghetto) but these houses...I just love them!
Our best friends, along with a couple other of our friends, live in a housing development of townhouses. Mike has been really anti the townhouse and for the most part I have been too. There were definitely things I liked about them but in the big picture I was saying no. There has been one particular one right across the street from our best friends and it's been a joke that it was meant for us because it's the only one that hasn't sold, out of the ones that have been built. The prices have dropped so drastically on these townhouses that Mike actually wanted to look at them so we went and looked today and he actually liked it! So now we had some decisions to make... The hubs has ALWAYS wanted to have rental properties and with the price being so low and below our budget on these townhouses it would be a perfect investment to live in a for a few years and then turn it in to a rental...OR we look at houses and spend probably a good 30,000 more... Decisions, decisions.
We decided to at least do the pre-qualification and see what our interest rate would be and potentially next weekend go put money down on an empty lot and have our new little home built! I know everything will happen how it's supposed to and if it's meant to be, we may be moving into our newly built house in August! The whole process makes me a little nervous because I want to make the right decision for us and this could potentially turn into us owning our first home!
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