Monday Morning

An eventful weekend.
So the house we started to envision a future in turned out to be a bit of a bust. Haha I'm sure over the next six months this will become a pattern you see on the blog. House hunting. I'm a dreamer and start envisioning life in places.

It was advertised as 2999 sq feet. Haha turned out to be 2200. Kinda a bust. It needed around 85000 in renos so it really needed to be more square footage.

We put in an offer and haven't canceled it but have no intentions of offering more. I think we are waking away. It was good for us to see this property as it gave us an eye opening as to what we want the next 5 or 10 years to look like.

We own a house in murrayville. It is a quaint 2000 square foot house that was our first real love next. It is a house that was our first taste into investing in real estate. Instant love. We will keep this house for a long long time...10, 15 or maybe even more years.

This past two years we have rented out the suite above Brent's parents business' warehouse. It has worked marvelously for our stage I life. We have had both babies in this home.. So many memories. Living here has been a sacrifice though since we own our own home.

We have saved every last penny. We have not lived a life of luxury these pat two years because we have dreams. Our goal was to save up for another home. Simple? Well we wanted to keep our other house so we would have to have at least 20% down and money saved for renos. Well do the math, ouch that is a big number to save. We did it though!!

Now we are coming into the season of house hunting. Its very fun and exciting. We chatted and are trying to figure out our 5 and 10 year plan.

We will prob buy a quaint home again with not a huge yard but big enough. Our plan is to live there for five years.

Then there will be two options.

A) keep that house and buy another so that we have three houses in five years (two being rental properties) that plan only works if the house is able to cover itself (mostly)

B) sell one house and buy a bigger property and keep one rental, on the bigger property we would have a couple suites on it as well. This is our dream. We want a acre or two on the ALR have farm status and maybe have a few animals. Have a big enough house for a suite and build a coach house to have the business out of and rent another suite out above the garage and office.

This means more saving for the next 5 years. Not to the same extent. Not being quite as much of cheapskates but similar.

Seeing that property in the ALR in murrayville gave us the dream to own something similar.

It's good to have dreams and goals. Who knows what the Lord has in store it could be different. This is the path that we are going to strive for unless God directs us otherwise.

6 years married this summer!
We are building a life together.
It's so fun to dream.
So fun to see goals achieved.
I love living this life with my best friend!


Better go finish my dinner prep while the babies nap! So many chores left to do. Oh the life of a housewife!