One Foot in Front of the Other

Before I get on with the house stuff. I tried a new recipe I found on another blog for Chicken Corn Chowder. The picture is below. It was really good and enjoyingly different from Clam Chowder.

Just to give you an idea of how long the process takes to buy a bank owned property, it is now September and crossing my fingers we will be closing the transaction tomorrow. Buying a house, especially a foreclosure, short-sale, or bank owned property, is not a piece of cake. Yummmmmm cake! Oh, and it takes even longer if your Realtor has to converse with India, as ours did. The emails took twice as long, there was a language barrier in some areas, and they just didn't really care that we were new buyers trying to get in a home.
So we waited, and signed documents as soon as they came in and returned them. Thinking that would speed of the process. WRONG. Altisource (the outsourcing to India), took their sweet time on everything.
We had to order a House Inspection, which we did on time. He found a lot of things that needed fixing, hence the "beater on the block". For example the roof slopes and has 4 layers of roof tiles on it, as well as the new windows not being square into the window holes. The list goes on and on. But the good thing about the house is that it doesn't leak, the furnace does work, and its going to be ours. :) To give you a better idea here are some pictures.

So its not pretty, but it will work and we get to make it our own. If all goes well, we get to take possesion today! Stay tuned to find out what happens. :)