The Displaced Southerners: A Hunting we will go, a hunting we will go, high o a merry o.....

After an exhausting journey of hunting for houses and putting offers on 2 before this one, we finally hooked our house. The sad part of life here is that as soon as you mention Michigan most people automatically think, Detroit. But that really isn't what most of the state is like. It is actually a really beautiful state filled with very old cities with beautiful landscape and amazing old architecture. But off of the soapbox, overall it is depressed and mainly because 9 of the dozen eggs they had were all in one
basket.

But the good part, and what has caused us so much headache lately has been that 1. the housing market right now is ripe for the pickins, and 2. people who do have jobs are buying houses. So when it came to putting offers on houses, we would start with a really good deal, but soon come to competing for them, some going for 10's of thousands over the asking price.

All in all we look at it all as God putting us where we are supposed to be. If the house wasn't right it wasn't meant to be. So on to house #3. (the 3 is just house 3 we put an offer on, certainly not in the list of houses we looked at, that number is probably closer to 30 in person and closer to 100 online)

It's a lovely little neighborhood, 1 block from downtown farmington, so the "walkability" score on this house is superb. Date night will no longer always have to require the car. Dinner, movie, and a night on the town is just a few steps away.

Built 1918
3 Bed, 1 1/2 bath, full basement, detached garage

By now I'm sure you just want to see the pictures.... We will post more when we get em, so far we have only been in the house a few times. But the inspection is done, the finance paperwork is done, and we just have to sit and wait for all the behind the scenes stuff that comes with house to get done.