Finding the Right Home

Today was very exciting! Marito and I went out with Peter, our realtor, again to look at more houses in the area. We saw a total of 10 houses, all gorgeous and wonderful in their own ways. After viewing them all, we narrowed them down to our top few houses, which in turned narrowed it down to our top two.


House number 5, is in a nice neighborhood literally down the street from our hotel. It is Red and Yellow on the exterior, and has at least 5 lemon trees growing in the back. The driveway is long, and beautiful, it has two gates on the drive way- one at the entrance, the other halfway down. Apparently there is an apartment for the landlord attached to our house, so this prevents the landlord from parking in our park of the drive way. Anywho. There isn't any grass, which is kind of a bummer, but also maintenance free. Not much of a front porch patio, but that wasn't a big selling point for me.










We get inside and immediately I see the character this home has. Soft yellow walls, with kitchy wall paper boarder around the entire house it seems. I look to my left and I see these crazy and interesting curvy walls that separate the stairs to the upstairs, and to the downstairs garage.











Beyond these walls is this great kitchen. We asked Peter for bigger kitchens and he delivered. It has furniture already in it, which we can keep or have removed, but I walked in and I could picture my family cooking in here.





Go to check out the rooms upstairs, and there is a wrap around porch, bathroom tubs (not just showers), and just a nice layout. I was giddy.

Bring on a few more houses then house 8. House 8 has a front yard and a side yard (no back yard). Garden maintenance is included, and speaking of garden, the side yard looked like a secret garden sort of.














As soon as marito and I walked in the open floor plan drew your eyes on the HUGE kitchen. The style was that out of an Ethan Allen Magazine (the style not the color choices or wood finishing).






This house was open, and big. Didn't expect it to be in our budget. As we make our way through the house, we wind up going to the third flood. Marito just found his little slice of heaven. a Man Room.



Picture a Front Room Over a Garage in the states, now add a personal bathroom and there you have Marito's man room. He was sold.

We went back to the hotel, had lunch, and discussed our top picks, being the ones above. Peter picked us back up and took us back to these two homes so we could better see what we thought was right for us.










The 5th house was in a younger neighborhood, no yard, no man room, but still everything we needed. Whereas the 8th house was in an older neighborhood (More established with grown kids), a yard, and more space than we really truly need. The choice wasn't completely clear but it also wasn't hard to determine what was right for us.

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FIVE!

We are very confident in our pick. We met the neighbors, kids laughing in the back yard in the pool with other neighbors, secure location, and an overall great home to start a family.

Our realtor is going to start the paperwork and then we will begin the negotiation process! Should be interesting. So hopefully we can begin to move in before the end of next month!

I think we will be ok here =]