Posted on Yahoo Aug 30

We own a nice home - wonder why we couldn't just leave it a that?
House #1 - Since the time we moved into our current home 5 years ago, we knew we would need more space someday. But the more we lived in the space, the more it adapted to fit our needs. About 3-4 weeks ago a nice property came on the market (House #2), so we went and looked at it. It is on 10 beautiful acres, but the home seemed to need some renovation. It was not priced so that we could do the renovations. We put it out of our minds.
House #3 -In the mean time, a property that Dan and I and my brother Will and his wife Jill had bought together over a year ago, came back into our hands because the contract to sell it fell thru. We will do a little fix up on it this weekend and put it back on the market.
House #4 -We then decided that since we were thinking of options for our future home, we would take our ideas for building our dream home to a friend of ours to draw up some plans.
Fast forward one more week - the sellers on House #2 home dropped the asking price, so we decided to take Dan's parents to look at it and talk about the cost of renovations. They liked it, but we were reluctant to commit right away. We were told there was not a lot of other interest in the property. Several days later, we thought it could not hurt to put in a low offer to see if the seller was motivated.
Dan called a previous co-worker to see about a mortgage and he says - I'll sell you my house. This becomes House #5 (Which of course is a nice place- move in ready).........when Dan called me this this info - I about burst! We did go and look at House #5 the next night, but decided that if we could get House #2 for a reasonable deal then that was our home! The next day the seller accepted our offer - and today I am meeting with the contractor to see about renovations on our new home!!!!
Yesterday we bought what we hope to be our dream home!
My brother says there should never be that many homes in the mix!!