What do pregnant women in their 3rd trimester typically do? Nesting, of course! I, however, never do things the typical way. Nope, not me! I like to be difficult! So how do I nest, you might wonder? Well, by moving, of course. Yes, that's right, 3 weeks away from my scheduled c-section we decided to move. We have been trying to decide what to do with our condo for about 2 years now. At the time we bought it we were thinking that it was wise to start small and not buy something too expensive that would stretch us too thin. We didn't want to waste money on renting anymore either. So, we bought it with the intention of only staying there a few years, building a little equity and then selling it and getting into the house of our dreams. (This all happened right before the housing market crash...of course!) We thought a condo would be a good purchase for our first home since if things go wrong and need up-keep the Home Owners Association would pay for the necessary repairs, right? WRONG!! Little did we know that the developer that went through and remodeled all of them basically just made everything look pretty so he could sell them and he pocketed all of the money that everyone paid into the association when buying their condo's leaving the HOA penniless. AWESWOME! Fast forward 4 years to now, we find ourselves in quite the predicament. Our growing family is getting rather cramped in our small condo but no biggie, at least we have a roof over our head. We can stick it out until we can sell it, right? Well, no, not really. We looked into selling it over the summer, however since the market crashed we currently would have to list it for $25,000 LESS than we owe. Oh, and by the way, come to find out, our condos are not FHA approved either so nobody can get a loan to buy it even if they wanted to because lenders aren't really being as free with home loans anymore. GREAT! Oh, even better, several of the units need some very costly repairs such as, new septic tanks & new siding. Those repairs will cost about $250,000, divide that by 26 units and we're looking at owing almost $10,000 more. Perfect, now we're $35,000 in the hole. Oh and that's not all of the repairs that need to be done either, those are just the pressing ones needing to be done right away, there are several more in the near future. What to do , what to do? We have quite the money pit on our hands! If we stay we're just getting in deeper and deeper. So, we finally decided to talk to an attorney and our best option is to foreclose on it. It's the only way we can get out without getting into serious amounts of debt over something that's not our dream house. It will screw up our perfect credit for a few years but we don't really have another option right now. So, last week we went and found an apartment that we liked. It's conveniently located almost right across the street from where we were living and they had a 3 bedroom available right now. We decided it would be easier to move now instead of waiting and having to move with a 2 year old and an infant. So we started moving in on Christmas weekend and we're pretty well settled now. Here are some pictures of our new place...
It's been so cold that the waterfall outside the clubhouse is frozen
This is our building, right by the front gate
Dining room and kitchen
Ginormous pantry
Kitchen and living room
Living room
Back porch
Our back porch overlooks the basketball court and playground
Our guest bathroom a.k.a Skyler's bathroom, I love that the counter is big enough for his changing table pad
Don't you love all of the monkeys!!
Master bedroom...we have a HUGE walk in closet and a bathroom in our bedroom
Rich's office is still a work in progress
Skyler and Dylan's room....Skyler loves standing on his train table and watching the kids play basketball out his window
We took the side rail off his crib yesterday because I realized that in 2 weeks after having a c-section I'm not going be able to lift 30 pound Skyler in and out of his crib for a few weeks
He likes that he can climb in on his own now, the trick is keeping him in there
We have lots of nice amenities here. The hot tub is open year round and we are right by the clubhouse so it's quite conveniently located to us.
We have a pool to swim in this summer :)
A gym that's open 24 hours
And we can reserve the cabana for free, so we can have birthday parties and baby showers and whatever else we want. Pretty sweet!
We are really liking not having stairs inside our house anymore and are enjoying our new living situation. Well now you're all up to date. Come by and see our new apartment sometime :)
