Wednesday is another day...

For house hunting! We have asked our realtor to take a look at these properties for us...I think we have now like 4-6 homes we want to take a look at. These are some ones we are interested in:


Oakwood Pl $189,000 (Desirable Wood Streets area of Riverside, has a studio guest house in the back of the property, that might be cool!)



Burnside Ct $135,000 (In the same neighborhood as I grew up in)



Quebec Dr $134,900 (Right near Arlington High School)



Nelson St $185,000 (only a 1 bathroom, but it's worth a look because of the neighborhood)



Arch Way $196,000 (pretty high priced, so we will see what it actually looks like!)

Kendrick Dr $195,000 (In Canyon Crest, so that's why the price is so high)

More houses

We looked at 2 houses today... not 3, but we looked at this house on Mallorie Way:

It is going for $142,500.... which wow seems really low. It's really close to our church and not too far from where we work. Andrew seems sold on the house because of the price. The house needs some real TLC from top to bottom, but it doesn't even have central air installed. This is not exactly my "dream home" but Andrew is sold on the property. I would still like to keep our options open. We haven't heard anything back on the Le Conte houses yet so once again.... the search continues on still.

More Houses

So we placed on offer on Friday to the Le Conte house, but as we assumed we are still waiting for word on whether or not they accepted our offer.

In the meantime, we are continuing the house search. We are planning at looking at 3 more homes tomorrow. They look very promising,  but we will see once we get in. Those darn pictures they post online can be veeeerrryyyy deceiving lol.

Le Conte House

So this is the 2nd house we REALLY love! It really is everything we are looking for as far as space and layout and location. It is a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom, with a pool. It is located in Canyon Crest part of Riverside, and right around the corner we have some really expensive $400,000 homes. The house is going or $169,000, and it is extremely low for the area which is why the house already has a couple of offers on the table. It has a lot of cosmetic work that needs to be done, but really that is what we really wanted. Putting a little money into the house would make it instantly appreciate from the sales price purely because of the location. The pool looked like a swamp, but it just needed to be emptied and filled back up again. We are putting in an offer tomorrow for higher than the asking price. We don't expect to get this house really, but if it's meant to be then it will be. Keep it in your prayers!

**Update** Possibly looking at buying this house?

**Update** So we met the realtor for this property last night and to take a look at the house and everything looks so great and yeah it is pretty small but it will be our first home it's not like I can expect a brand new home for our first one. Anyway, after some talking about it and crunching some numbers we still think it would be better at this point to wait a little bit longer and continue to save for a better home in better condition than this one. Keep us in prayer as we continue to save.


This property came up for sale recently, and it is a short sale which means that they want to try and sell it as quickly as possible but also means that they will be more willing to drop the price more. As you can see it is only a 2 bedroom 1 bath house and is pretty small in square footage but would be a great stepping stone to getting in the housing market. We are keeping it in prayer and leave it up to God to see if this is something we will be able to do. God has really and truly blessed us so much already that if we don't get it that will be exactly God's will. Very exciting and also pretty scary at the same time, Yikes a mortgage!!