Anticipation

We close on the house in two days! What a whirl-wind of activity that has been going on here. I've got our "non-essentials" in most rooms packed and we plan on taking those up shortly after closing.

There are lots of things, of course, that I'm going to miss about this house in Gilbert. One of those things is our apricot tree. We just picked two huge bowls full of apricots this week. I had big plans for drying some, or making jam, but instead we ate every single one of them. They were that good!

Gorgeous sun-ripened apricots right off the tree.

We'll also miss our garden, which is also doing awesome right now. The tomatoes are finally coming in!

But all in all, I'm excited for our new adventure.

Inspections

Here it is again, our soon to be home.

We went up to Prescott this last week for the inspections. The owner of the house stuck around and we actually got to meet her (she's always been gone before now). It was a bit awkward because here we are looking at her house and discussing what we think is wrong with it and what we're going to change.

I took a good look at the inside again and I'm already preparing for some major painting as I think every wall in the house is brown or orange. The owner was nice enough to show us some plans she had of the house which will hopefully help us get the breezeway addition plans to the county for a permit quickly.

I never know what to really think about official home inspections because one would think the liability faced by the inspector (from both sides) makes him act pretty conservatively. But our inspector was nice and he found a few things that are pretty minor.

Of course, he didn't mention anything about the peeling paint on the siding (quite honestly the siding is super horrible stuff and needs to be replaced) or the water-damaged window in the master (that was disclosed to us by the owner). It makes me wonder what other horrible atrocities he may have missed.

Our Realtor had another property pop up just recently that he thought we might like, so we swung by there as well - just in case we liked it better. While it probably needs slightly less repairs, it just didn't work for us. We did like the goats on the property though (and the huge, preexisting goat pen).

Looks like we're still on!