My name is Jaclyn and I live in Long Island, New York. This is my very first blog. I figure I will use this blog to post my ideas, thoughts, and projects. I am hoping it will keep me organized as I begin to decorate my new house. I also think this would be a great way of documenting our lives and we can look back and see how much our house and lives have changed.

We Bought A House

( sorry for the ugly iPhone pictures, new camera coming soon)

 

 

My boyfriend Sebastian and I have bought a house!! We are in contract and now the waiting game begins. It needs work, but I am happy it does because I wanted a "fixer upper". The house is not falling apart, in fact its actually very livable as is (we got lucky). The way we found this house is a "meant to be" story.

Sebastian and I have been looking for a house since January and we were not impressed with anything we were being shown. It is very expensive to live on Long Island, and the houses that were for sale were all so small and needed ALOT of work. I wanted to buy a house that needed work, but these houses were MONEY PITS.

I decided to look into Oakdale (after looking at about 30 houses) and gave my realtor a bunch of listings. After work I met Seb and our realtor and we looked at 3 houses...which I was not impressed with. On our last house of the day we pull up and saw "our house" across the street from the house we were going to look at. Seb made a joke and said " Bob, this is where I want to live". Our realtor had never seen it before and we were all curious. We called the number on the for sale sign and left a message. We quickly got a call back and were given the code to walk through the house. As soon as we walked in we knew we loved it. The house wasn't even on the market yet, we put an offer in right away!!

It is now a month later and the contract is signed! One step closer to closing and moving into our dream home.