Home Sweet Home

This weekend we are traveling to the Dickinson area to do two things, 1st Tyler has a job interview at Steffes (I don't know if I spelled that right) and 2ND to look at homes in the area that we are thinking about buying. There are a few that we have found online that we like a lot. We got a hold of Tyler's aunt Shirley Dukart from Home and Land Company and we are going to look at these homes on Friday as well. The two that we are really interested in are both in New England, one is in town and the other is a farm home seven miles south. Tyler really likes the farm home because it has the perfect amount of land for our dream home.
This farm home is $95,000, it's on 40 acres of land and it has a really nice Quonset for Tyler to use as a large garage. The garage on the land needs to be demolished and there are grain bins that are on the land that we don't get with the purchase but we have to put an egress and ingress to get to it. The inside has been updated a little bit but not much and there is still a ton of work to be done. This really would be a great home if we only wanted one kid 'cause it only has two working bedrooms. The other room is in the basement and we would have to finish the basement and put in egress windows before we could even think about using it. Still it would make a good home, we would just have to work REALLY hard and put A LOT of money into making it our perfect home.

I really like the home in town because I think it's a good buy for the amount we can afford and I think it would be a good home to raise a family in.This home has a nice big yard for Angela to play in that wouldn't need a lot of replanting. It has a good two stall garage for our vehicles and spot next to the garage for Tyler's impala plus an alley in the back for more room to park. The inside is completely remodeled and there are more bedrooms than we have furniture to fill. It's $89,000 with more square footage than the farm home and we wouldn't have to buy any appliances other than a washer and dryer. It's across the street from the school which is a perk. The down falls to this is that it doesn't have the big acres of land outside of town that we wanted, it might only have one bath(can't figure out if it's a type-o or not from the pictures), and it's not that far from the Women's prison in New England. Both homes have their high and low points, and Tyler and I can completely understand why each other likes the other house. We are looking at a bunch of others in Richardton and one in Dickinson. Our viewing on looking at homes in the smaller towns is that it may be more difficult to sell in later years so we want one in a smaller town that we can live in for years, maybe never move out of. If we end up living in Dickinson, we would only live there for a few years until we find something we can't live without in a smaller surrounding town.

I am so excited to go this weekend and possibly get things going, but I don't want to get my hopes up. We have a couple of loans out that we are in the process of getting rid of so that the approval for the home can go smoother. One of them however is a co-signed loan on a vehicle where the person is constantly late on payments. We've been struggling to get hold of them but they won't answer our phone calls and they have to be the one to file for a credit check with the bank to re-finance the loan and get it on their own. I just think they are too lazy to do such a think and it's making me really upset.

I am praying that everything will work itself out in time for us to hopefully move into a place we can call our own by October 1st. I am praying and I hope you will pray for us to that thinks work out the way we would like.