1-26-09 Week in Review

Let's see. Our house officially hit the market on Monday. We also had a radon inspection, realtor showings, buyer showing, appraisal, and major component inspection...basically a continual stream of people going through our house. It really makes it seems less like your home, especially since it has to be show ready at all times, kinda like we are only half living here.

Friday Jodi and I headed off to Ceder Rapids to see Chris Tomlin. A bit strange of a concert...it was more like a worship experience. I think the audience did more singing that Chris did. It was cool. The only bad thing is that by the time we got tickets we were like 25 rows back (not our normal first few rows) so it wasn't quite as intimate as I'm used to.

Afterwards we headed up to Cedar Falls. Saturday we looked at homes. It was quite disappointing. Of the few homes that generally met our criteria, most of them weren't really what we wanted at all. We breezed through lots of homes with no interest. By the end of the day we had only two that we were interested in. After taking another look we had only one that we felt OK with. On Sunday we made an offer and after a little negotiating got it with reasonable terms. While we are both satisfied with the purchase, neither of us is very excited. I think we would have needed to spend an additional $50k to get something that met our needs and we were excited about.