Home Owners!

After a year of living in Emmaus and dealing with our landlord we decided to make a change.  Since the government was offering the $8000 payback for buying a house we decided to check into the market around the valley.  We found it to be a bit pricey because we live so close to NYC.  It was fun viewing so many different homes, and we were able to come across an awesome realtor.  It took a while for us to get a pre-approval to buy a home, and we were sent to 3 different people because of our large amount of debt from medical school.  Not very many banks knew how or wanted to handle a situation like ours.  We finally were pre-approved and were able to get a price range.  Sadly our price range was more in the town home category.  I was not excited about this since it had been so nice not sharing a wall with anyone.  Although, we found some awesome town homes in Breinigsville that we fell in love with.  We had 6 main criteria for a home.

1. MUST have a dishwasher.
2. A finished basement.
3. Lawn and snow removal included.
4. 3 bedrooms.
5. A yard to play in.
6. AND an end unit.

Luckily we found a home with ALL 6!!  We were the first couple to look at this home, and the lady fell in love with our little Nasharoo.  We looked at it twice and decided to put an offer down.  Another couple did the same thing and beat our offer.  However she liked us the best and gave the home to us! YEAH for NASHAROO!! 

Our original closing date was set for May 28th which is our 5 year wedding anniversary.  However it didn't go through.  During one of Darin's late night shifts he researched a special loan that not many people knew about including our lender.  The loan would give us an extra up to $10,000 on top of the government $8,000.  Because this was a weird loan we were applying for it took some extra time.  A LOT of extra time!  So this was the sign on the home for over a month....

Thank goodness the seller was willing to wait for our paperwork to process.  She was moving only 6 doors down and it gave her time to move. 

Our realtor Doug Frederick was awesome, and VERY patient with us.  Sadly his name was drug through the mud working with us, but in the end he was happy to learn about the AWESOME loan Darin had found.  He agreed to this picture only if he could stand in front of the sign because it didn't have his name on it. :)

On June 22nd we were happy to receive the keys to our first home in Breinigsville (BRY-NINGS-VILLE), Pennsylvania.

Don't we look happy... :)  The truth is we were over joyed to not be homeless any longer!

We had awesome friends who helped us out in so many ways during this LONG process.  Our good friend Christine Masick came and picked up Nash the morning of our closing and took him to her house to play all morning while we did the paperwork.  Nash LOVES Christine and didn't even bat an eye, just climbed into her car and said "bye-bye Mama" and away they went!  Our friends the Dowling's let us live in there home for 2 weeks and Darin for almost a month.  We were so appreciative of their kindness.  Here are some pictures of us moving out of their home...

Nash enjoyed playing in the trunk with Kristen's brother Josh until he bonked his head...

Our home is just around the corner from the Dowling apartment.  Thanks again Nick and Kristen for everything!

Here is our home...

It was built in 1998, it is 2100 square feet with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a fully finished basement, lawn care and snow removal and is on a curve which allows a larger safer yard.  At the present there is nothing behind us although there is a development in the process of being built.  At the most we will have one condo behind us.

The home needs a little work, we are in the process of stripping the flooring in the main level, and painting the walls.  We love our home!  We are very grateful that everything went through, our mortgage ended up being only $80 more then what we were paying for rent in Emmaus.  And the best part is WE DON'T HAVE A CRAZY LANDLORD...okay that's debatable, Darin can be a little nuts! ;)  I will post more pictures of our home as we finish each project!