I think I’m moving…

I guess I’m moving to Ohio. We found a house in Boardman (or something like that) it’s in the $120k range, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2000 sq ft and it’s on a little over an acre of land. The house was completely remodeled and it includes everything we were looking for. Hardwood floors, spacious rooms, large patio (even has a built in gas grill) there’s also more than enough land to expand so in the future we can put in a pool and the kitchen does need a little bit of updating but that’s based on the fact that it doesn’t really match the rest of the house. I’m sure it did back in the 50’s but oh well.

Knowing that I’d like to remodel the kitchen, to my personal standards, I did some poking around the Internet and found the absolute perfect setup, I’m not big on the vent in the middle but I’m sure that could be done differently depending on who’s actually going to build it for me. I measured things out and in order to do a kitchen this large, I would have to lose some space in another room but considering I see no point in a “family room” that needs to be 20×20, I figure knocking it back to about 20×10 would be more than fair. All you really need is a TV and a bit comfy couch, you know?

There aren’t any views of the bathroom, I’m getting in touch with the Realtor to request more pictures. Sean and I are going to pool our money together so we can get his car looked at and we’ll then take a trip over to Ohio and do a walk through, he’d also like to visit his brother and luckily, the house is about 10 minutes away from where his brother lives so I assume there’s going to be some frequent house guests. Especially with the addition of a pool, and a larger kitchen for me to do quite a bit of cooking in.

The lot to the back of the house is massive, we’d also have to get a shed or something so that we can pick up a lawnmower because at this point in time, I really don’t trust hiring anyone to do the work for us. I’d rather go out there with the lawnmower thanks to the morons we’ve got working in this complex. They barely touch the lawn, what’s the point in having to pay these people if they don’t do any work?

There are still a lot of things to work out, on top of the actual purchase we’re going to have to work on just how we’re going to move out there as well. Up until this past Saturday a smaller uHaul could suffice for all of our things, now that we’ve got the new bed – we’re going to need to invest in something much larger. At least we know that we’ll have the help when we get out there.

I’m just not sure if I’m ready to pick up and move again, especially with Cancer ripping it’s way through my family at the moment, not sure if being 4-hours further away from Glen Cove would be a good idea but I’m sure there’s a reason behind me finding the house, lets just hope the loan comes through on it.

Our monthly budget is going to be about $1700-$2200 in bills. Sean and I are going to have to average, and/or maintain, approximately $3500-$4000 a month in order to live. It’s $990 on the mortgage, then there’s gas, electric, water, sewer and other things to factor in. Then there’s the car insurance, and an emergency fund that’ll have to be shoved into savings from time to time. I just hope we can handle it, I really do.