I want this house!!!! (updated with more photos!)

We have been looking at this particular house for months now, wondering why it hasn’t sold. So this weekend we scheduled a walk through with a local realtor and the house is awesome. Everything we want. The total square feet of the house without the basement is 2,615 sf and with the basement once it’s finished brings the total square foot of the house to 4,500 sf. HUGE! The colors that the previous owner painted the house is a disgusting light bluish green and beige and the window coverings (only in the family room) are a dark green and burgundy. Nothing major though, a little paint and some TLC would make this house beautiful!
When you walk into the house to the left is an open office (which would be mine!) and a formal living room and dining room. To your right is the stairs upstairs which are open with high ceilings. To the back of the house is the family room and kitchen and somewhere (I forget where) is the laundry room off the garage. I love this type of family room that is right off the kitchen. Ours now is in the back of the house and the family room is in the front of the house. Yuck. The kitchen is huge with high ceilings and tons of cabinets, a full pantry and a built in desk with all the hookup for tv and computer. Plus a full deck.
Upstairs is the master bedroom with a 5-piece bathroom with a roman tub and a huge double shower and a walk in closet. There are also 2 other bedrooms which J & O would still share until we had the basement finished. Then Henry could have his own room down there.
In the basement which the previous owners started to finish is huge!  Totally excavated 1,900 square feet! Larger than our entire Arizona home! The basement has plumbing for an additional bathroom, a full bedroom and a huge game/family/tv room plus a walk out to the back yard. The only downfall to this house is the backyard is small but there is a park directly across the street and a few houses down.
So the reason this house isn’t selling? It’s a short sale. Wonderful. The realtor told me today that there is one offer down and two in line so I think we should put an offer down for the full asking price because  this house will be worth it and it’s only $250,000. Plus it’s in the neighborhood we have been looking at for a year now. Jason isn’t too fond of any other neighborhood either and at this time this is the only house for sale there.
Here’s some photos

This is the front of the house which to be honest doesn’t have much curb appeal. If we got this house, down the road we would definitely change the colors!

This is of the family room in the back. What you don’t see is that the kitchen is directly to the left of this room with a sliding glass door to the deck. The back yard has tons of trees. (see the ugly window coverings?)

This is the from room and the dining room. The dining room is where the ugly brass and glass chandelier are. Directly to the left is the office and bathroom. The only thing odd about this house is the bathroom next to the office is a full bath which normally the main floor bath is normally just a powder room with a toilet and sink but this one has those plus a tub and shower. Weird.

Dining room with the stairs next to it.
This is the master bedroom. Through the doors is the bathroom and if you look at the right side of the bathroom it has a pantry that can be used for a small television or some people have a coffee bar set up. On the other side of this room is the sliding glass doors to a balcony that is only accessible to this bedroom and its private. Nice.

This is the master bedroom with the sliding glass doors with the private balcony.

The master bather. The toliet is seperate and has it’s own room! I like that especially with three boys and no privacy!

The kitchen, we would need to buy a fridge and that’s it. I love the hardwood floors. It’s the nice durable real wood and not the laminate type that scratches which we had in this house when we moved in.  On the other wall you can’t see is more cabinets and a huge pantry.

The back of the house with the balcony from the family room, the entry from the basement and to the left you can see the balcony from the master bedroom.

View of the backyard from the balcony. I love this house. I want this house. *sigh* this whole process is so frustrating!
Anyhow, gotta see what hubby says. Wish us luck!


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