So, unexpectedly, I found it. The house.
Put in an offer. Liked their counter. Ratified the contract yesterday.
Inspection this week. If all goes as planned, closing before the end of February. Yikes!
The interior of the house is amazing. Completely re-done. All new appliances. Very energy efficient. The front landscaping is nice, but the backyard needs work. New fence, some sort of storage shed, etc. Going to be pricey, but not as expensive as it could be. Now I’m debating how much money to put down. I want to keep a decent amount of cash on hand for the extra work I want to do. But I also want to keep my mortgage costs low. I’ve been using an online calculator to figure out just how much my payments will be. Next step is to start looking at the mortgage rates being offered me. Cross your fingers that everything goes well!
Seriously exciting! The single best “calculator” option to help evaluate your options is the Mortgage Payment Calculator by Vertex42.com It’s available for Excel or Google Docs. If you search for it, it should be one of the first results. The best part is the multiple columns and extra section for additional principal payments. Since you’re a PF junkie, I thought you might love it as much as I did.
Congrats!!!! Hope the inspection goes well ! Hope everything goes well really! Really happy for you 🙂
Congrats! Can’t wait to see/hear all the details 🙂