When we first moved to Tennessee from Mobile, AL, we rented a house (having failed to find a suitable house prior to moving). This, we hoped, would afford us time to properly look for a house. The rental house was nice enough on the outside, but had been empty and unmaintained for far too long and things like the oven did not work. And it was also, umm, design challenged; so our stay was quite uncomfortable. Add to that the fact that we knew we had to move again shortly, so we did not unpack most of our things; it felt like a prolonged camping-in.
After about 6 months of actively looking for a house all we had was a near miss – and we were getting very frustrated. We had an excellent real estate agent, and I was beginning to feel guilty about the amount of work she was putting in for us. We had almost given up and had nearly decided to buy a 5-acre plot to build on. We had talked to the builder and even had a floor plan started.
And then our agent called about a house just going on the market that week, so we drove down to check it out – more out of a sense of due diligence than out of any expectation of finding something we would like. And as Judy’s car topped the hill, we saw what you can see in the pictures below and my heart beat accelerated.
This is one of the few houses, which look good from the outside and you don’t feel let down after looking inside. We moved in less than 4 weeks after the house was put on the market.
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