Member-only story
An Unexpected Answer To Prayers
I actually have good news for a change!
Surprise! My husband and I are homeowners again!
This house seriously found us, and it all happened so fast that we are still trying to process it all.
The papers have been signed. The massive downpayment has been paid.
It’s been ours for over a week, and it still hasn’t really settled in for me.
So, how did we end up with a completely unexpected house?
“Should we buy a house and build when the economy MIGHT get better?”
We weren’t really looking. We had bought almost six acres of land two years ago. Plans to build were hardly ever discussed, but we still believed they would happen one day. We were just waiting and hoping the market would change for the better.
We started our lives in a town over from our land. We found our church. We made friends. We became comfortable. The plan to move to a mountain over a half hour away didn’t sound so great anymore.
A huge snow/ice storm that happened this past winter made us doubt our land even more. I was stuck in our apartment for a week. If we were on a mountain, I would have been stuck inside for even longer. Tennessee weathers needed to be considered more.
We began looking for new land on our own. We weren’t serious about it. We were just looking.
We had a few conversations here and there. We wondered if we should buy a small house and build later on. We weren’t serious about it. We were just talking.
My husband and I would look on Zillow. We just wanted to see what was out there. We just wanted to see what prices were like. I loved seeing the tiny mobile homes listen for over 500k. It was entertaining. We weren’t serious about it. We were just entertaining ourselves.
Then, one day, my husband showed me our now home. “I pass this on the way to work, and I have thought about driving up just to see it.”
