Back again...and with another home to look at!

So Dear Reader,


Last time I left you with the white house in mind. Not "the" White House...I believe that one is already occupied and its not a short sale either. Since then, we have been busy little bees! we went back to Lake Elsinore to look at homes twice and out of all that trekking, we found one house that we liked. It is a little older than the white house, built in 2002 and has a peachy exterior. It is right in the neighborhood that we have wanted to live and it is near a grade school, middle school and within walking distance to a park with a community pool and community play jungle gym thingy. It is on a cul-de-sac and well, here's a picture of it!

And if you would like to see it on Google earth, here you go: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=31946+Honeysuckle+Ct+Lake+Elsinore,+CA+92532&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.716829,56.689453&ie=UTF8&ll=33.657174,-117.257016&spn=0.005501,0.00692&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr


Lets see, what other tid bits of information can I share with you about the house.... Well, it has 4 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The bedrooms are all upstairs and the half bath is downstairs near the kitchen. The house itself is 2,284 sq. ft. and the lot size is 6,098 sq. ft. So, not a lot of "yard space" and well, it's not Prunedale acre sized lot, but that's a lot less mowing to do! There are two living rooms. The formal living room/dining room is to your left when you walk in, then you see the staircase and on the other side of that is the informal living room with a fireplace. The kitchen is to the right of that and there are two, count em, two pantry closets! Muahahaha...the plans I have for that space! If it only knew...


Upstairs is pretty simple, there is a larger than expected bedroom to the left and next to it to the right is the master bedroom and bathroom with a separate tub and shower and a walk in closet. To the right of that room is a hallway with a bedroom, the laundry room and the upstairs bathroom is across the hall from that. Then at the end of the hallway is another bedroom.


Here are some pictures of the inside of the peachy house. Now, some precautionary words of warning: the people who are currently residing in this house have been trying to sell it for 7 months. They have lived in the house for a year and a half. They have not cleaned the house for at least 7 months, if not the full year and a half. So, dear reader, I say this for your own safety, do not look beyond this point if you can not see beyond the clutter. Wait, let me rephrase: do not look beyond this point if you can not see beyond the disastrous mess and grime and see our apartment furniture in the dilapidated sofa's place, or see freshly painted walls over the smudges and tile in place of disturbingly dirty carpeting and a clean, scrubbed kitchen and well, the list goes on. So, dear reader, I do apologize for the shock that I am sure that you all will suffer. You may think we are crazy for wanting to embark on such an adventure, but crazy I am sure we are. I did warn you, so don't come crying to me when your eyes are burning and you are suddenly consumed by the unnaturally strong urge to clean your own home or mail me a bottle of bleach.





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This is the point of no return
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The is the formal living room and dining room area, which is currently being used for Foosball and computer space and has lounging capabilities.

Here you are standing in the formal living room looking towards the stairs, the informal living room (with red sofas in it) and to the right of me is the kitchen and breakfast nook area as well as the sliding glass door to the back yard.

Here is the disaster of the kitchen. It extends a couple of feet beyond the stove to the right. One of the pantry closets is open in the hallway to the left of the fridge. To the left of that is the half bath and to the right is the other pantry and the garage.


Another view of the kitchen area from the informal dining room.


Here is the breakfast nook area and the sliding glass door to the outside world.



I swear this house has actually gotten messier since the first time we visited! Here is the master bathroom- to the right it the sink area, the "throne" and the walk in closet.

This is one of the other bedrooms (not the master) and is the biggest of all of the "kids" bedrooms. We are envisioning an office/work out room for this space.

Dear reader, the picture portion of this blog has now been completed. Hopefully you have been able to see past the external things of this house and can dream with us of its potential

So, what has happened with the white house you may ask. Well, I will tell you: not much. We put an offer in to the listing agent and we were one of two offers on the same day. We bid, they bid, he asked us both for better offers, then they bid again and we bid again. Then, silence. Our real estate agent tried contacting him multiple times to no avail. We assumed that the other family had the higher offer and we were outbid on the house. So, we moved on. We then put an offer in on the peach house and that offer went to the bank right away. The last buyer had fallen out of escrow, so the listing agent was eager to have someone take their place. We found out a short time later after our real estate agent made one last effort to communicate with the listing agent of the white house that we actually did have the highest offer on the house. Does he actually want to sell the house or was he hoping that we would read his mind about the whole thing? So weird. So, now white house is on the back burner. Besides, we don't have high hopes for any level of communication with this agent. Anyways,we had already put in our offer on the peach house and then we did the waiting game and we did some praying about the house. A short time later, we received the happy news that our offer had been accepted! Yay! Happy dance! But, we must calm ourselves, for now is the most treacherous of times...escrow. What unforeseen dangers are in our path, what potholes and pitfalls are out to catch us unawares?!? Exciting stuff huh? You will just have to stay tuned to see what happens along this road called escrow. Will the Hulls successfully nab a house that is in desperate need of a magic Eraser, elbow grease and some TLC and be rewarded with keys to a fabulous home or will the hunt have to continue after much disappointment? Who knows...but stay tuned for further updates and so, until next time dear reader...