November 27, 2009 /Yeah we found it!!!

House 2


House 1



Was below freezing this morning with an occasional snowflake falling. The sky was gray and heavy with clouds. We got up at 6:45 because we were supposed to meet a realtor in New Concord about an hour and a half from our RV park by 10am. By the time we finished breakfast and were ready to load up the car with maps, snacks, Trina and her diaper bag it was raining. Looked like we got the first bad day!
Arrived at Carol's office on time while the rain had already stopped about half an hour into our trip.
Carol is one interesting lady. Her family owned some oil fields in Bakersfield,CA and after she sold her share she moved here to Ohio. She got into farming and land development and real estate. She is an animal lover and shares her farm with 10 dogs, 100 cats, a herd of goats and a 700 lbs pig who lives in the garage. Those are all stray animals she takes in or people bring to her or she finds in abandoned or repossessed homes. She said her pig eats 4 gallon of dog food every day and she goes through over 800 cans of "Fancy Feast" cat food per month. Woah!
Anyway we brought her some print outs of houses we wanted to see. She added a few of her search after messing with her non cooperating computer for an hour or so. Then she was hungry and since it is custom for Ohio Realtors to invite their buyers to lunch we had to go and try the food at this awesome BBQ place.
So finally we started out to look at houses who were all about 45 min. apart. Number 1 sucked, number 2 ditto, number 3 the same and then the next one was one we wanted to see since we printed it out in October at home.
WOW,WOW,WOW! An old farm house, 2575 sqft (wished it would be a bit bigger) on 28 acres with a big metal (wished it would be wood but more sturdy) barn with 12 stalls, hay loft, 2 foaling pens, tack room and much more. There is also a detached 2 car garage. But oh the house. It is this funky painted old style farm house built in 1900 but still with 3 full nice baths, old, old beautiful wood floors, some painted and all those built in cabinets. Oh my, I love this house! And guess what, David loves it too and of course the barn and acreage. It is on a hill so not all the land is usable and some is also wooded. But enough for some goats and a couple of Alpacas. And it is priced that we still have a bit of money left to do some upgrading and buy a tractor! Yeah people, we got our self a farm.
Meanwhile it got late and we had one more house we decided to see since it looked promising too. So raced there and got a glimpse of it just before dark and .....dang it another WOW house. Also old farm house with 33 acres, a bit larger then the last one and a detached garage with a huge finished room on top. Also old wood floors, funky kitchen and a load of old fashioned built ins. It got dark and we couldn't real check it out totally so we will go back tomorrow and spend an hour on each house looking and checking. The homes are both vacant and ready to move in. Oh what am I going to do??? It will be difficult to make a decision but we will buy one of them for sure. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!!!
Oh by the way the properties are both belonging to Coshocton, a town of 11000 people and picture book beautiful. Will let you know tomorrow where we stand!