November 20, 2009

River house
River house
view to the river
Girlscout house
outdoor area
pond
Got up early this morning to jump into the car to head back to Defiance for a last try to find a house there. Our Realtor Michael had 3 more houses he wanted to show us before we are heading south. Well got on the road and 5 minutes later remembered that we left our cell phones at home. Turned the car around and ....I tell you it is really easy to go to Phil's house, straight ahead and at the T intersection we go right...but we had our head up our a.s and turned right before the T and got so stupidly lost that it took us a solid half hour to find our way back even being less then a mile from the house. Man, we sure are tired of driving and looking for directions. Thanks to our trusty GPS we finally got back, got our phones and went back on the road.
In Defiance our our Michael was waiting with a handful of print-outs and promised us some good properties. The first one was a flop, nothing either of us wanted. The 2nd one was more interesting and hot, hot, hot. A house with a girl scout camp attached. 10 acres with a 1 1/3acre pond/lake with a golf whole on a little island in the lake. A huge covered outdoor area attached to the house for grrrrrrrrrreat outdoor entertainment. A 1000sqft finished basement for a rec room or additional guest rooms. And a delightful old house with wood floors and an adorable 3 season sun room I could use as a studio. WOW. We were just about ready to make an offer but the price was a bit higher than we wanted. We could though make a lower offer, but Michael found out that the owner just about owed that much to the bank so had nothing extra they could lower the price for. So we went to the next property.
Old house, huge barn but trashy. Next property to small, to close to the road, not good! So on to the last of the bundle of print outs and...
WOW! An almost new house on 4 acres with a huge pond with a fountain in the middle and on the Maumee River. Huge river, with a dam about half a mile down streams so that it was more like a like in front of our property. Perfect for kayaking, water skiing, fishing and in winter ice skating! The front porch is halfway into the pond so you can also fish from the porch. Crazy. The house is pretty, but with a lot of dark burgundy walls and white carpet but it is so inexpensive that I could afford to rip all the carpets out (all pretty new though)and replace them with wood floors and have the whole house painted. There is a huge attached 2 car garage and a huge detached 2 car garage which also could be a barn. Then there is this sun room the lenght of the front overlooking the pond and river which would be my studio. Then over the garage is this huge room which could be made into 2 additional guest rooms in addition to the 3 existing bedrooms. The house is a bit to new for me but I think that I could countryfy it enough to make it homey. WOW, WOW, WOW!
So we went all to this cool diner to have late lunch and to brainstorm. Which one, the girl scout house or the river house??? I had to see the girl scout house again. So we went back. Oh my, I can't make up my mind. Michael the Realtor was already late to go to a fundraiser dinner and David and I still wanted to see some properties south so we decided that we would take off tomorrow to go south. Michael was going on vacation for a week leaving tomorrow. So we will cruise the south for a week and if we can't find anything else we will return the Sunday after Thanksgiving to Defiance and make an offer on the river house. Yeah!