We bought a house!

After over 40 houses viewed, we finally found a house that we just love in Severna Park. Yesterday we put an offer on it, and the owners accepted! It has electric blue carpet! And ducks everywhere! And we LOVE IT. Welcome to my blue house. With ducks.

OK, so we don't love the electric blue carpet. But! We got $20K less than the list price, and a $5K carpet allowance, however, so we'll spend that $5K on carpet before we ever move in. The house is wonderful - the space and light are amazing, the kitchen has granite countertops, there is so much openness to it. Plus it has a huge fenced backyard with playground equipment. There are four bedrooms upstairs, and the basement is partially finished. And it has a wood-burning fireplace! And water priveleges, since it's so close to the Bay.

And OK, we don't love the ducks. But they are everywhere. There's even a duck stained-glass window. I looked at that thing and thought, "Can I live with that duck window? How much will it cost me to replace it? And what if they take that great playground equipment?" You can imagine how thrilled we were to discover that the duck stained glass window is in the exclusions. They're taking the duck! And leaving the playground equipment! Wa hoo! We briefly considered stipulating that their porcelain bulldog had to remain in the house before we'd agree to buy it, but then we thought better of acting like punks.

Time for a new chapter of our lives.

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