Last week Emily found found a house being foreclosed on that she liked. Then she found that exact style house being built so we started looking for similar houses. So I contacted a real estate agent that works with Emily's sister. We then checked out several houses in the Oshkosh area that were being sold. Many of them were within our price range but were a bit towards the "high end" of it. Unfortunately the houses we liked had offers on them that looked like there were going to go through. So our night of touring homes ending sort of on a bad note.

Then Emily checked the Valley By Owner website and we found a house that was less than many of the other houses we were looking at and had everything we wanted. For the most part our only criteria was that it had to be two-stories and it had to be on the west side of Oshkosh (technically the Town of Algoma, aka not the slums of "Sloshkosh".)

So we checked the house out and a few others but decided that it was really the best house. Click to view a satellite image of the house. Also check out my photo gallery for some specs on the house and numerous images of it. All but the first image were taken by the owner and that's the best quality that they are (which is pretty low quality) so it looks waaay cooler when you see it in person.

Friday night we decided to draw up an offer on the house and Saturday our realtor made the offer to owners. After a counter offer we accepted and officially are proud home owners!

Today with my parents & Emily's sister & family we toured the house and had all the papers signed. The current home owners are building a house a ways down the road and will probably move out around August of this year, which is good since we have a bit to go on our lease anyway's. Emily and I we're pre-approved for over the house's value but we still need to find a mortgage somewhere. US Bank seemed a bit higher than we planned on paying so we are going to shop around a bit and see if we can find a better deal. Any suggestions anyone?

I guess that pretty much sums up, a pretty incoherent blog entry, eh people? Lol. Just check out my photo gallery and comment!