Those of you who keep track on me via twitter or facebook may have seen statuses about Michael and I looking for a house. We were thinking about purchases but decided to rent. We found an amazing rental that we positively loved last week but I have been waiting for our credit/background check to pass to blog about it. All that passed with flying colors this afternoon (our FICO score is 792 and we don’t have criminal records, so it was never really a worry for us…)

This Friday we will be signing the lease and getting the keys to the house! I’d post a couple pictures from the craigslist posting but they do not do the place any justice (which I am kind of grateful for, we were on a short list of applicants.) The owner seems to be a great guy (he called me today asking what color I wanted my fridge and if I had any oven preferable, how cool is that?)

The house, oh my gosh, SO BEAUTIFUL and in a nice neighborhood. I has a large fenced yard with a detached two car garage (with a workbench.) The yard is pretty much a blank canvas, I can do whatever gardening I choose with it. It does have a swing set and a large wooden deck in the back which is lovely. Everything inside has been redone, the main floor has two bedrooms and one bath, a large kitchen with and open dining room by the deck doors, and a living room of course. It has an unfinished basement with the laundry (we will need to purchase our own washer and drier though) and two extra rooms, one of which will probably be my bulk food pantry. It has an attic too which seems fullsize with the large windows you can see from the front lawn. We haven’t been up there (you get to it through narrow steep stairs in a bedroom closet, little bit creepy! Extra storage space if nothing else though.) Forced air natural gas, new carpet and stone tiling, did I say it has a big yard? A yard!

We are officially signing the lease on Friday and receiving the keys. Our lease is up in our current place at the end of March so we have plenty of time to move and switch services over. SO EXCITING!!!

(A couple people have asked if we need anything so the new place, which is really sweet. Since we have lived together for several years we are pretty well stocked (except for gardening items I suppose!) But if you want to check out any of our wants or needs they are all on our wishlist.)