We have a house!

[pne]

Well, the bank has a house. What we have is six figures of debt.

But it's kinda the same thing.

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[wodentoad.livejournal.com]

Well, I believe the plan is to trade them off, so that the bank has six figures and you have a house. That's the idea anyway.

Good luck and enjoy your house!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well, I believe the plan is to trade them off, so that the bank has six figures and you have a house. That's the idea anyway.

Yep. Though I think the bank's first figure will be larger. C'est la vie. (Or C'est l'interêt.)

Good luck and enjoy your house!

Thanks!

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That is very exciting!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm kinda scared myself, at the moment :) It's a huge step to take.

But I think owning is good; rent is unlikely to go down.

[asciident]

Congratulations! :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lnbw.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

HOORAY!!

[pne.livejournal.com]

That will remain to be seen :)

I'm certainly all butterfly-in-my-stomach-y at the moment.

But Stella's done the maths, and a friend of ours has had a good look at the place as well, and the stairs from the first to the second floor (US: second to third) are really good.

(The floor plan seems to have been pretty popular; it's nearly exactly the same as the one of the house my father still lives in, and I spent most of my childhood in. The second floor is really an attic, originally reachable only via a hole in the ceiling and a ladder. But some people make a proper room out of the top and install some method of reaching it -- a spiral staircase off the "children's bedroom" (my father's study) in our case, a hatch with a fold-out ladder in another house we looked at at one point, a self-made and slightly rickety-looking staircase in the case of friends of ours, and a really nice staircase in this case.)

It'll definitely be an adventure, at least the moving part :)

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

It'll definitely be an adventure, at least the moving part :)

Not just the moving part, I promise.

Wait til you start referring to the home improvement store as the toy store.

[pne.livejournal.com]

That would be Stella's prerogative :) She's the handy one around the house.

When we were talking to the lady from the bank this afternoon, we asked her to set up a new account, which the installments for the loan would be drawn from (and where the part of the loan for home improvements would be paid to), and she asked in whose name the debit card should be made out to.

We weren't sure, since we didn't know whether we would need a card at all, but when the lady prompted, "for example, if you go shopping at a home improvement store" we both immediately agreed that it should be in Stella's name!

[zonikita.livejournal.com]

Ich gratuliere! Grosser Schritt! Ist es auch euer Traumhaus?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ich weiß gar nicht, ob ich irgendein bestimmtes Traumhaus im Kopf habe, oder ob meine Frau eins hat... aber auf jeden Fall ist es eins, was wir uns leisten können (das schränkt das Angebot doch schon recht stark ein), und es ist unsers, und groß genug für unsere Familie.

Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass es schön werden kann.

Und vielleicht ein wenig nostalgisch -- der Schnitt ist praktisch derselbe wie bei dem Haus, wo ich aufgewachsen bin. (Damals war der vermutlich extrem beliebt :D)

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I just did the buying-a-house thing this winter and it is indeed butterfly-y. But you'll soon get used to it. Put up pictures!

[opal1159.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your, uh, American dream! ;)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Heh :) Thanks!

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

Congrats indeed!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[leighbug]

Math and I will be there on June 30th! Yay exciting!!! Congrats to you all!

[pne.livejournal.com]

And to you!

[afuna]

Congratulations!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[wingflutter.livejournal.com]

lol i know how you feel, but CONGRATS! :D

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

(And cute userpic!)

[wingflutter.livejournal.com]

lol thanks, very fitting ;)

[connie]

Congrats, and best wishes on the moving/home improvement. :-)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats!
Hubby and I are still in the "Looking at offers and calculating what we can afford"-stage. We'll see the first house on Thursday, but now that we know it's right next to the Autobahn, we probably don't want it.

How many houses did you look at before you found yours?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats!

Thanks!

How many houses did you look at before you found yours?

I myself looked at two houses and one flat.

But Stella had been checking the Internet for quite a while, and I don't know how many places she evaluated.

(Though I think she didn't go inside any more houses than I did, but she may have checked out some other possibilities from outside. I told her I didn't want to be bothered with possible houses all the time, since I'd really prefer to stay where I am - I like things staying as they are.)