Finding Our New House

I wanted to share with some of you the story about how we found our precious little house.  We found out in December that we would be relocating to Lexington. We immediately began using every possible online house search possible, we set up meeting with a realtor that we suggested to us by our friends and the hunt was on. Lexington has a real estate market that rivals Greenville. A house comes on the market and in less than 7 hours it is gone. We made the trek to Lexington ( 6+ hours) with Lillie about 4 times in the next 4 months. Often times with Richard's schedule we would go up Saturday morning, look at houses late Saturday and early Sunday morning and drive back Sunday. We were exhausted and so defeated by the whole process. When our Greenville house went under contract, we were frantic to find something that would line up with our timing but more importantly Richard's start date at the hospital.

Helping mama unpack

Back sometime this winter, I was added to a Facebook group of Lexington Moms. I put out a desperate plea sharing that we were coming up, looking for a house and listed all of the specs we were looking for, the price range and the area of town we were living in. I asked the Lexington Moms to let me know if anyone was getting ready to put their house on the market and were willing to let us get a 1st look. I was flooded with messages from folks. The moment I got a message with pictures and a message from the previous owner, I knew this house was it! Richard immediately loved it too. We drove to Lexington and were graciously welcomed into the house for a look. It was just what we were hoping for, less than 2 miles from the hospital and in our price range. It had the old house charm that we love (the house was built in 1925).  We made an offer the next day and were thrilled when they accepted.  When we met the owners, we felt as if we had made some new friends.

We love our new house and are so glad it worked out how it did. When Richard was in orientation for work, he met people who shared that they had tried countless times to find a house but they were stuck renting because of the fast turnover.  We really lucked out and are excited about our new adventure in this sweet little tudor home.

Let me know if you need our new address and know that we have already had our first round of visitors (Lee and Melanie). Kara, Michael and sweet Greta are next on the visiting list and we cannot wait to have the cousins reunited after not seeing one another a year! Know that there is an open invitation to our friends and family.  We'd love to have people come visit and help us explore our new city.  As always, thanks for reading and following our adventure!