Minh Ba, medicine and the midwest: April 2007

Since I've posted the blog of that last home that I wanted, that deal fell through, and I've been scrambling with trying to find a new home and getting all the mortgage paperwork approved. Actually, the deal never really happened, I offered, he countered by saying he's not budging from his price and was unwilling to pay any closing costs, so I had to back out. It wasn't a bad price for the house, but for what the property was valued at, I would have lost money on the resale. Unfortunately the guy who flipped the house got bad advice, bought a cheap property in a not so valuable neghborhood, and then put in too much money into it. If I had purchased the home, it would've been the 2nd highest home in the neighborhood at $120,000 the 3rd highest was at $75,000...too much of a difference. So I went back to Tulsa two more times by myself to lookfor homes, and had everything narrowed down to four. Salwa drove down with me on her way home to Arkansas last weekend to look at the houses and give me a second opinion. We stopped by the home I offered on earlier anyways, because she wanted a look at it, and on the way out there were several people staring at us strangely. Apparently it was the new "owner," he said that they hadn't put up a sign yet, but he had purchased it. I found out yesterday that the home offer fell through for him also, because the realtor called mine to see if I was still interested. My answer..."too late."

I put down on a contract last weekend, and was up there yesterday for inspections. Just a few minor things to get taken care of my the seller, but overall, the inspectors were really impressed with the condition of the home. The closing date is May 8th, and I'm stoked that this home hunting is almost over, it has been quite stressful. The house is bigger than the last one and has an attached garage, which is a plus. It has 2 bedrooms with an office (can count as another bedroom to make it 3 because it has a closet), and one bathroom. The house is in a decent neghborhood, it was also flipped by the seller, but the neighborhood value is much better and will be good for resale. It is only two blocks away from Driller's stadium (minor league team for the rangers) so that's kind of nice. I tried taking some pictures, but for some reason I was a little retarded with the camera, and they don't do the home much justice, so I combined the pics with some of the listing realtors.'