Good News!

Tara & Joel have had their offer on a house w/ 2 acres accepted. Pending an inspection, it is theirs! They are very excited about this purchase.

It is located on the west side of Indianapolis near exit 61 off I-74. Very convenient for the parents to get to and from. And since they both are now working nearer the northwest side, it's a better location than Fishers which is on the northeast side.

It is a 3 bedroom ranch with recent updates and improvements so it is move-in ready. Tara said that the only thing she'd like to do is some painting, installing a dishwasher, and updating fixtures in the bath (only one bath in the house). Appliances all come with the house and are fairly recent. Has a covered farmer's porch on 3 sides, a heated 2-car detached garage and a huge Morton building that Mike is dying to move here. The bonus is the acreage itself -- lots of mature trees and a creek! Downside is that there is one very close neighbor next door and one across the road (they would have preferred like what we have here, but . . .). Rooms are not huge but not tiny either. No basement but Joel said there was a "basement" in the garage. Tara didn't see it so she doesn't know how big or deep. House sits on a crawl space.

I don't know what the timeline is for closing/moving. They have a pre-approved line of credit so that should cut down on the time to settle this. Unfortunately, I am busy the next 3 weekends and wouldn't be able to help them move which sucks as I'm thinking they will want to try to move out of their apartment before their next month's rent is due (if I'm remembering correctly that would be the 13/14 of June which is my first free weekend). But we'll see what happens.

This is SO exciting!