Decided to blog about our experience with our new house in Germantown.
It is now March 2013 so I thought it best that we do a quick summary.
2011- 2012 - Spent a lot of time cleaning up my credit. Surprised at some of the crap on my credit report.
May 2012 - We're pregnant. Time to settle down and find a home.
July 2012 - Began searching for houses. Oddly enough Vicki Robinson (the Realtor that helped us find our rental house in Frederick) gave us a call and asked if we were thinking about buying. We knew that we would use her based on our previous experience with her.
Mid July 2012 - Aug 2012 - Searched for houses in Frederick, Damascus, Germantown, Gaithersburg Urbana & Clarksburg. Probably about 25 houses. Put an one offer in Damascus, it was overpriced so our offer was rejected.
Aug 2, 2012 - Got laid off from Lifetech. End of the house search. After all we can't think about buying a house with a baby on the way and one income.
Aug 7, 2012 - Got a phone call from Vicki that we were still qualified for a $350K home loan. So we continued to look for a house & a job.
Aug 23, 2012 - Maja told Vicki that we liked our old neighborhood in Boyds. Vicki sent an email letting us know that a house only 1 mile away from our old neighborhood was available
Aug 24, 2012 - Toured house and decided to put an offer in
Aug 25, 2012 - Put in official offer and it was accepted by owner (It was only on the market for 1 day)
Aug 26 - 2012 - 10 5,2012 - Suffering through the worst experience ever with the worst finance company in the world. Don't use Doug Benner with Embrace Homeloans in Rockville MD. (In short- we had 6 different settlement dates, did not want to be copied on emails to help solve issues that his office was having, emailing & calling from Germany to explain simple bank transactions. I even had to write to the VP of customer service just to get the closing done. There were too many problems to list them all, but trust me they suck)
Oct 8, 2012 - Moving day
Home Projects begin.
So far projects completed
New Electrical breaker box. & installation of whole house generator interlock kit (we had some bad experiences with power outages in this area before & we wanted to make sure we had power this winter with the baby coming.
Remove wall in kitchen to make room for a larger refrigerator.
Installed a whole house water filter
Installed a water softener
Built a closet organizer for Maja
Built a closet organizer for Me
Painted Joshua's Room
Painted my man cave
Insulated recessed lights
Foam insulated Plugs
Sealed basement
