Back to the Drawing Board

The house we had a strong inclination for and had almost decided to make an offer on received "a very good offer" yesterday. And we didn't find out about it until this evening (when my husband finally found time to check messages on his phone)... So, it's probably going under contract pretty soon and now we're back to square one.

Again, I'm not extremely upset, just a little bit. It is a townhome (one we had seen on the first day and thought expensive and to which we'd returned last Thursday), so it has no yard whatsoever. And it isn't much bigger than our current twin home. The kitchen is tiny and right in the middle of the living/dining/family room area, thanks to its open floor plan.* It does have a garage (we don't have one), tons of closet space (two walk in closets, one in the master bedroom and another in the second bdr), laundry on the second floor, and this awesome, breathtaking bathroom with a large whirlpool under a window and a skylight. Tiled, nonetheless, similarly to the way that ALL bathrooms are tiled in Brazil (I have to write about bathrooms sometime, I've been putting it off for quite some time now). And the price!! It had been just reduced for the second time. This was one of the major attractions for us since unfortunately we do have to worry about prices and the other homes we liked so far are just too high up in our price range.

Well. I guess I'm OK with it, it just seems like this house hunting process will never end. We were all excited that tomorrow we were going to show this townhome plus two other houses to my parents and my mother-in-law who's here, but now this one is out of the game, and in is the 1 acre of land/ tiny but perfect house one of you inquired about (this one also underwent a second price reduction -- I guess we might have to act quickly). Anyway, we're still going tomorrow. I'll try to write about this issue again soon. Oh, yes, and we're going again (hubby and I) on Monday. Then, if we need to go again, we'll have to take the boys, since my parents are flying to China on Wednesday night... Oh well, o que será será.**

* Open floorplans are nice and all, but I sometimes think that average Americans just don't cook, period, or else kitchens wouldn't be open like that to the rest of the house. We Brazilians cook from scratch a lot and I really don't like to have the whole house smelling like food. That's basically unavoidable in any apartment or home in this country. In Brazil kitchens have doors sometimes.

** I've been inspired by Mami Hen, who blogs at the greatly named blog Bilingual in the Boonies to start throwing in more Portuguese words and expressions in my posts, what about that?