Hello all! Jennifer and Justin have welcomed their new son Evan Joshua last Sunday June 24, 2007! He and mommy are doing well! So we are an Aunt and Uncle again! All nephews so far. They are all to sweet and adorable! We love when we are able to see them! Well, it's been another busy week for us. We follow all these leads about homes and land, so far no luck. We have looked at several, but nothing panning out. On Sunday we heard about a 3 bedroom ranch coming up for public real estate auction WEDNESDAY! AAAHH! We needed a good chunk of change down so we needed to see the property ASAP! The owners daughter couldn't show us monday so we got ahold of the auctioner and he was able to show it to us. So, we brought our " home inspector/ advisor" ( Dad Slagenweit) to help us see if it was worth while. Nice area, nice peice of land, not bad of a house. Needed a little work, but we were interested. So next task was to come up with the down payment! Because it was such short notice , what we were planning on using we couldn't get ahold of! David took off work Wednesday went all over pretty much all day and finally came up with the money!! We new then at least we had a chance. Well, we were excited and I was so scared, and excited! My Mom and Dad came, then Mom and Dad S. came to be there in case we got it. Well, I guess it wasn't meant to be. We didn't even bid on it! It went over what we wanted to pay. The last bid was $112,000. The family would not accept that, they wanted even more, they were looking for $140,000! The home had been appraised for that. No one ended up with it so it will go into real estate. Come to find out they had taken out a reverse mortgage and have to get that $140,000 out of it because the bank owns it and they need that to pay off the bank. Well, lesson learned. Now we really know what we want and since David did all the running Wed. for the money search. He finally realized how much I take on, and now he's helping so much more!!! God taught us a good life lesson. Now the search continues for hopefully, land. We both still would much rather build. We have a few Realtors helping us now. So keep your fingers crossed!
