Getting Real (Estate)
 

My wife and I are putting an offer on a home today. I have this knot of tension in my gut. We really, really want this house. More details later.

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good luck.

Good luck - hope its smooth sailing!

nice looking place. good luck!

Very nice looking house. I'm scared to ask, but how much is it? What city?

My wife and I put an offer on this house today.

http://www.movoto.com/real-estate/ho...3_F1794868.htm


Good luck! I hope you get it.

Good luck to both of you!

Smooth that is a very California looking house.

Radar, I love the flooring details and the pool. Nice.

Wow, smooth! Gulp! What a beautiful place!

Thanks wolf. Smoothmoniker's looks very sweet too. It looks like a giant Hacienda or something. It's probably WAAAAAAY out of my price range.

I hope he gets it so I can say I know someone that rich. :)

Very nice looking place, SM.

Radar, I could have sworn I've seen the place you linked to redone on one of those home improvement shows...

Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone. The house is a Spanish Revival style place in the Sierra Madre area, just east of Pasadena. It looks more impressive from the front, because of the gates and ivy, but it's a fairly mid-sized family home. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2,100 square feet.

my friend from school lives in the glendale hills near la canada if that is interesting

Wow! how exciting for both of you! Best of luck, Smooth and Radar.

ooo, just saw radar's link. Nice place!! I love the conifers!

You know that song, Everyone Has Had More Sex Than Me? could one of you music-types do one that goes Everyone Has A Better House Than Me?

If you find an artist and a distributor, I'll write the song. Lord knows I'm gonna need the extra money!

That would be pretty cool. It has Travertine floors, and has had a lot of work done to it. I looked it up on Zillow, and it sold in 2007 for $930k. I may be scooping it up for $375k.

Right now we're debating about the pool. Pools are another expense to take care of. This pool takes up the entire back yard so there's no room to really entertain or have a cookout or for our daughter to play. My wife and I are also scared our daughter will get back there and drown. Plus, we'd rather just have a nice patio and yard area to relax and occasionally entertain.

We'd like to rip out the pool and put in a yard with a patio, but my father is telling me it will reduce the value of the house, and will be really expensive to do. I may even have to take down the brick wall on the outside to get the equipment in. Either that or hire a whole bunch of guys from the Home Depot, hand them sledge hammers and wheelbarrows and put them to work for a week or so. I may even rent a jack hammer.

Then I've got to buy dirt, and have it tamped down pretty well.

My dad says we should keep the pool, and teach our daughter how to swim at an early age. The San Fernando Valley gets REALLY hot during the summer time so a pool would be nice during those times.

Thoughts?