Since we have moved to Brechin we have been keeping our eye out for a place to purchase or rent that we can afford that has what we need for space. A couple of times we have come close enough rooms, etc but the house is not right.... dry mold, needs a total roof redo, water system... has no storage space or laundry room... and this has not been discouraging really until now.
The pressure has been on us to move out of our all in -one -room bachelor pad since we discovered that we were pregnant with our second child, due in October. We have come up with ideas and options, but nothing had panned out.
Recently we found a 4 bedroom home for sale at 109,000. Four bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2 living rooms a total renovated kitchen, laundry space, cellar/dungeon for storage for a basement. It was power of sale... and then today it was lowered to 99,000. Here we thought was our chance. Cheap enough for us to afford, even though a good amount of elbow grease would be required. But we felt we could do it.
We became pre approved, the monies were all set to go. A friend who was going to help us through the process decided to go by the house with Adam and have a look at it before we put in an offer. He liked it... thought it would work, until he realized that there was little to no insulation in the house. A job he says would cost 30,000. Making this house completely un afforable for us.
We say to each other every time we look at a house or option, don't get excited this might not work. But we both did this time, price was right, location was perfect and now here I sit - tears of disappointment threatening... (could be hormones!)
What do we do? ... Where do we go?
Everyone has been so supportive in this journey to find a house/space for us.... but at the end of the day when they have to give us the hard advice of "walk away from this one" they go back to a house. One they fit in...
... and we go back to our "cozy" apartment. Defeated.
Is this God asking us to trust... or us not seeing the signs he is showing us?
