We have been renting a house from my sister-in-law and her husband. We love this house and really want to stay here. But… they need to sell the house and we need for them to be just family and not landlords. Our lease is up in January but the house is already on the market and we have been showing it for a month and a half. This is not fun! On the other side we had not even started looking for a new place. I think some of that was because we really like living here and part was not wanting to face having to move again.

Last Friday we bit the bullet and started looking at rental properties. And let me tell you, they were awful. Bad neighborhoods, no appliances, bad paint jobs, old, no backyards for our daughter, and at one, the air conditioner had been stolen. We could not go home as there was a showing happening here so we had to find something to do. My mother-in-law suggested we look at one last place a friend of her’s had suggested and this friend happens to be a real estate agent. So we did. And we loved it!!! It was everything we were hoping to find: nice neighborhood, good schools, close to family, close to my daughter’s day care, clean, just the right size, came with appliances, had a nice backyard and was the right price. With fear in my heart (because we wanted it so bad) we put in our application.

Yesterday we heard back: WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!