The Hunt for "Home Sweet Home" - Part I

Now that we know what color to paint the nursery, all that is left to do is pick up the paint and buy the home - in reverse order.

This weekend Lina and I went on a tear throughout the Peninsula looking at houses we'd hope to call home. We loaded up on coffee (decaf for Lina) double high octane for me, punched in the addresses into our GPS and set out for what would be an exhausting 8hrs. of sorting through, well lets just say...some nice and some not so nice homes. Feels like some people are late to the over-inflated property party - listing shacks for embarrassingly (for the seller) high numbers. After many hours we finally found a diamond in the rough at Hope Diamond prices. Its spectacular and is the only house which we could visualize ourselves making home. Lina stood in the kitchen and said, as she peered through the window, "Oh, I could watch the kids play in the backyard from here." While its a long shot, we're giving it the 'ol college try and putting together an offer. We've done most all we can to woo the Realtor and learn what we can about other interested parties, their offers and the preference/state of the sellers.

...more to come as we pull out all the stops and make our move, which includes getting the house cheaper than the best offer - now that would be magic.