I'm enjoying my time off, while I'm between jobs. I've been mountain biking, seen the new Harry Potter movie, worked on learning things I'll need for my new job, and been house hunting. In some ways, I'm discouraged by seeing that I can't afford what I'd like. But, I'm excited about being able to move out of student housing and be able to have a fixer-upper.
Max Dastrup (Brigham's Dad) is helping me find a house. I kind of feel bad for him, wanting to get me in a good home with the small budget I have. But I'm happy with what he's shown me so far. We looked around Provo & Orem today. We'll go to Springville / Spanish Fork either this weekend or next week. There's two houses in Provo that I think I could go for. One is a little big, the other is a bit small. The smaller one only has one bathroom. That's fine if it was just me, but I want it to be a place I can have a couple of kids. For that reason I want two bathrooms. The bigger one is definitely bigger. Five bedrooms. It's older than the smaller one, and might need some more TLC to make it what I want it to be. Right now I'm leaning towards the older, larger house.
Here's links so you can check these two out and give input:
Bigger House
Smaller House
Max Dastrup (Brigham's Dad) is helping me find a house. I kind of feel bad for him, wanting to get me in a good home with the small budget I have. But I'm happy with what he's shown me so far. We looked around Provo & Orem today. We'll go to Springville / Spanish Fork either this weekend or next week. There's two houses in Provo that I think I could go for. One is a little big, the other is a bit small. The smaller one only has one bathroom. That's fine if it was just me, but I want it to be a place I can have a couple of kids. For that reason I want two bathrooms. The bigger one is definitely bigger. Five bedrooms. It's older than the smaller one, and might need some more TLC to make it what I want it to be. Right now I'm leaning towards the older, larger house.
Here's links so you can check these two out and give input:
Bigger House
Smaller House
Comments
I agree with Christa: You really don't need a 2nd bathroom for your kids until they are a bit older which wouldn't be for a while. And I wouldn't anticipate that we would come to stay with you very often.
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I still think you ought to think about buying a duplex. The one we bought was basically the same price and while it was older too, it is huge, and you would have someone else paying for 1/2 of it, so you could afford a pricier place than you can without a renters help.