Few weeks ago, we started looking at a few houses that were within our budget around $130k-$140k. The new houses (built in year 2000s) mostly cost around $160k and above, and located North of KC. Some cheaper (but new) ones have bad location and not so great neighborhood. Even though those houses have the latest appliances installed and great looking from inside out, I couldn’t justify myself to live in the middle of highway and everywhere else to go is around 10-15 mins away.
Then, we went to see some old houses built in 1970s. Those houses have bigger space or really nice patio and backyard for gardening. But other things looked slump. I saw spiders (dead and alive and big one too) around the houses and many many cobwebs in the basement. That freak me out! And we saw large cracks here and there, and really big ones in the basement. Oh my… and in one of the houses, I saw that the owner still have the original stove (in 1970s!). I asked Helen (our real estate agent) how to use the oven since it has some weird buttons that I had no clue how to operate it, and she also didn’t know how to LOL. Ok so no to old houses!
Out of all the houses we saw, we like this one. It is very close to our rented house now. Just around 5-10 mins away. We live on 48th St, and the house is on 63rd. Easy for moving day. It is also located on cul-de-sac (meaning dead-end street), so there won’t be traffic during the day. And the huge backyard is facing the main street (not other houses) with our own fence. The house is a raised ranch, meaning it has two level, upper level and basement. Here are some photos:
Noticed the basketball hoop. It comes with the house 
The door leads into pantry room. More space for food storage.
Living room
Finished basement with a 1/2 bathroom.
We are still negotiating the price of the house and everything else. Hopefully by this weekend we’ll be done with it.
2 comments:
wow nice it looks small on the outside
Yea I think this house is smaller than your house. But the backyard is very big. I can imagine when Feyruz starts running, I'll let him out to the backyard running around until he's tired :)
And there's a pretty high slope near to the end of the fence. Amin said he wants to do some sleding this winter :D
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