When my husband and I first purchased our rock house we knew from the beginning that we would need to add on to it. For those of you thinking of purchasing a home, this is not a good thing. Never buy a house that won't meet your needs for at least the next ten years. Our plan was to live in our home until we were desperately cramped and then add on.
At the time, however, we had no idea how difficult it was to build onto a home. It's harder than buying an already built house, by far! We invested nearly $1500 in the process only to be told that in our situation, it couldn't be done. It was more expensive to add on than to buy a new house. Needless to say, we were intensely disappointed.
Six months later,we put our house up for sale. We had several promising showings over the weeks, but the feedback always came back the same. It was too small. Apparently everyone else is a lot smarter than we were.
When you're selling your house you tend to look at it differently. You see it through the potential buyer's eyes and begin to feel a strong attachment to it. We were feeling a budding desire to stay put. We loved our house!
It's so close to the main part of town, which means we can walk to all of Wellsville's fun summer events. It's on a corner across from a picturesque duck pond that we visit daily. We can see open fields out our windows and have amazing neighbors. Not to mention--the Wellsville Founder's Day Parade strolls right past our lot and we don't have to go anywhere to see it!
We talked and prayed about it for about a month and decided to try again. It was crazy, we knew, but we were willing to take the risk. We ordered another appraisal, filled out paperwork AGAIN, and did a lot of praying. We had paid off our second mortgage and saved up some money so the number we needed to hit was (thankfully) much smaller. When we got the results back- we were only $3000 short. Perfect. We could scrounge up $3000 before we started easily enough. I can't tell you how excited we are! It was really going to happen!
And thus, the blog is back. In the wake of disappointment that followed our first adding-on attempt, I had stopped blogging. One of my main motivators (our addition) was gone. Now I'm going to keep it all recorded for whoever may be interested. I imagine I'm not the only one out there obsessed with old houses, additions, and/or Wellsville. I hope you enjoy following the journey!...(again.)
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