and we're getting a house...

That's right, after about 7 weeks of trying to sell our house, and looking for houses we've found one!  Let me start at the beginning...

About this time last year I saw online that there were three houses for sale in the Wheatlands.  They were a bit out of our price range but I wanted to look at them anyway.  They were KB Built to order homes that had been built and for some reason or another the buyer had backed out so KB was trying to get rid of them.  Ryan was less than interested at the time so one Saturday I went by myself and fell in love with the Montgomery model.  I tried for a long time to get Ryan to go see it.  I was in love.  I wanted to make it our house for the next hundred years...

I took many people to my favorite house in Aurora to see the model.  Kathleen, Hannah, maybe Colleen?  and FINALLY after Kathleen told Ryan about how great the house was he was willing to come with me.  We looked.  He agreed, it was great!  There was one small large problem.  They wouldn't take contingencies and we had one...a house to sell.  We knew there was no way to commit to building a house in this market when selling our house was no guarantee.  We also weren't sure what we would do during the 120 to 150 days it took to build it.  So we did nothing.

Finally in July we got hooked up with a FABULOUS realtor, Lisa. {If you're buying or selling in Denver and need a realtor, call me.  She's amazing!!}  She's so fabulous she sold our house in 3 weeks!!!  {The house next to us has been on the market for a year now...}

Anyway, as we looked for houses we always compared all the houses we saw to the Montgomery.  Finally about 3-4 weeks ago we found a new house to compare all other houses to.  We started calling it the Doane house (because it was on Doane Street...clever?)  So we put an offer on it.  But it was a short sale which meant it was going to take a long time.  Meanwhile we have to be out of our house on October 1st {EEeeek!}.

Last week we had some great friends and family come help us pack up our belongings in three containers from Door to Door.  They all went home and we realized we needed more boxes.  So we headed to Sam's club to get said boxes.  As we drove that direction we saw signs that said "QUICK MOVE-INS AVAILABLE" above the KB Home signs.  We thought, maybe they will have the Montgomery avaiable.  So we called.  No answer.  We decided to just stop over there and see what they had for a "quick move-in".   

THEY HAD A MONTGOMERY!  

So we talked and looked, and talked some more.  We went home and made a Pro/Con list to compare the Doane house to the Montgomery.  In the end, the Montgomery won.  So we met Lisa on Sunday at the KB Sales office and signed a million pieces of paper to become owners of the house.

The house had been started by potential buyers who for whatever reason had to back out.  The frame work is up and the plumbing has been put in.  The previous buyers had put in over $70K in upgrades...in our dreams we can afford that...  So we are going to the design studio on Thursday to put in our own "up"{down?}grades.  We will do some upgrades and some standard things.  We're super excited.  We should be able to move in the week of Thanksgiving!!  Hooray for having a real plan!

The pictures below are Ryan & I changing out the "available" tag to a "SOLD" tag on the property map!  Yay!  The second picture has Ryan pointing at the location.  The third picture is a better shot of the cul-de-sac.  Huzzah for having a house...almost!!