We have an offer on our house. The house went on the market last Thursday and after our first showing on Saturday, we had an offer. We accepted their offer. The buyers need to have an inspection done for their FHA loan. Their offer is contingent on the inspection. We have that tomorrow morning. Hopefully, everything will go well. Yesterday, we had our city inspection. St. Louis Park requires an inspection on all houses that are for sale. I was hoping Joe would have been able to be around when the inspector came, but it was just me. I did a lot of nodding and smiling because I did not fully understand what was being said. They did e-mail the results, which was helpful. The major things we need to do are to add a railing on the stairs going to the basement and painting the fascia on the house. We had a railing on the stairs before we finished the basement, but we took it off. Now, we have to make sure it is up to today's code. The rest of the things are pretty minor, like smoke detectors and attach the utility tub to the floor or wall in the laundry room. We have until the closing, August 17th, to finish the tasks. Joe will have a bit of work to do!
So, where on earth are we going to live?? We are in the process of finding and looking at houses. We are still focusing our search to Shakopee. We are looking for a newer house (our house now was built in the 1920s), more bedrooms, more closets, a fenced in yard, a deck, a walkout basement, a larger garage, and a few other things. We had been searching a lot online and drove around to the 13 we were interested in last night. We were able to see some things that were not evident in the photos online. We narrowed our list down to 8, or maybe 10, I cannot remember. There are 4 that we really like and hope to see later this week or early next week. Hopefully we will find something we like...and quick! Our realtor said we need to have a contract on a house signed by the middle of July in order to close relatively close to the 17th of August. We are brainstorming back-up living arrangements!
Walking update....no real update on that subject! Jake still loves to crawl and it is his most favorite form of transportation. He will be daring, more often lately, and take a few steps to move closer to a piece of furniture/toy/family member. He just isn't quite ready to take the "big step" quite yet. We keep hearning of friends' kids who are younger than Jake that are walking. Jake must be mentally preparing himself and will dazzle us with his talents, soon! We are enjoying the time we have before he starts going at full speed!
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