Searching Again

We're back at looking at houses. This is seriously un-fun. It's extremely hard to find any that have anything close to the combination of features we want. 

This one (left) has a really nice feel to it, even though it breaks several feature requests, such as....there is no brick on the outside, no walkout basement, not a big enough master suite/closet, no screened porch, and nothing interesting in the surroundings. It has a really nice pool and out building. Two things I don't normally care about. But when we walked through it we found we actually liked it quite a bit. The master suite could be made to work, though it would require major modifications ($$). The pool area is really nice. The out building is huge and nice as far as out buildings go. Obviously we would use the pool some, but the out building would be mostly wasted (although we did have the idea that I could have a basketball goal inside. Hmmm..). The price is not cheap, especially when you factor in the cost of reconstructing the master suite and adding a screened porch, but....it's closer than anything we've seen, and we could afford it.

Anyone want to go swimming?

Oh, and by the way...we walked in on another resident at home. Said he never got word that anyone was coming. This is getting to be a trend. All in all we walked through about eight houses today. Two or three of them work okay (including the one above).