Housing Search

We spent all day Friday looking for housing to live in when we move out here to Texas in June. While doing our research at home, we found a building company called Legend Homes that does lease-to-own options on some of their houses. The builder had paid cash for all the land he bought so he is still making a profit in the tough housing market. Instead of loosing the money as the house sits on the market, he decided to start renting them out so he could have some cash coming in.

There are 3 of the little communities in the Katy area where we want to live. We were visiting Kyle's school yesterday morning and a few of the administration ladies suggested to us that we did not want to live over in the Katy area because of demographics. It surprised us and made us question our decision to live over there, not because of demographics but because they seemed afraid when they told us about it. After driving around for a little bit and looking at the areas the people at Kyle's school had recommended, we decided that we were going to take what they said with a grain of salt and go look in the area we had been thinking and praying about for the last 3 months. (When we did get over to the area, we felt nothing of what the people were talking about...it felt like an area for us, low key and down to earth. The areas that they had recommended were gated communities and we all know that would not be the place for us).

These building communities were really cute. They are close together and there is not much yard space to think of but they are great for starter homes for our little family. We ended up finding 5 houses/layouts that we really liked. Our favorite is a 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage one story home. It is not huge by any means but it feels like it to us after living the last year in our small apartment. One of the criteria for housing has been that there has to be a place for an office. With both Kyle and I working from home when we move here, we have to have a place that we can go and close ourselves off from Gabbie and do our work where no one will disturb us or vice versa.

The second house is a little bit smaller than our number one but it still has all the needed space. Number three is just a different version of our number one without some of the nicer things. Numbers four and five are the same model. These are our last choices because they have a lot of dead space that we would have to figure out how to use, no yard at all, and you can touch the next door neighbors house by extending your arms.

We filled out all the application paperwork and turned it in to the office last night. The leasing agent said we can know by Monday or Tuesday whether we will qualify or not. Then at that point we will pay a hold deposit of a months rent. This will take the house off the market and we will be able to move in when we get here in June. This money also goes straight towards a down payment when our 12 month lease is over.

Hopefully we get our number one choice but any of the houses would be great. We just want to have something secured and locked up before we leave the state on Tuesday afternoon. Keep us in your prayers please as we wait and pray ourselves that things will work out, and hopefully in a timely manner.