We bought a home!
I haven’t been blogging much lately, but one reason is because we bought a home!
We’ll be moving into a townhouse condo in Fremont in September. It’s under construction at the moment. We’ll be living on a new street named Paso Cedro Common. My freshman dorm was Cedro. This is something like fate, I guess.
This is the first house Kolina and I have purchased and it certainly won’t be the last. It’s definitely true that the Bay Area has ridiculous housing prices. Homes we went to around the area were gone the next week with numerous offers and counter-offers raising the price by 100K in some cases. Hundreds of people would flow through homes at the price range we wanted and inventory itself was pretty sparse. Open houses were more like parties, with some real estate agents bringing cookies, dim sum, and soda/wine for guests.
I’m glad we found the home we did. For me, it’s a great combination of location (Mission Schools), price, and location. It’s a bit far from work but we can luckily take the shuttle to work. It’s near power lines but the disclosure says there’s no scientific evidence that proximity to power lines is associated with health defects :)
In the meantime, it’s time to become an expert in home furnishing pricing and features. I’m glad Kolina and I agree on making our home look like something out of Restoration Hardware / Pottery Barn.
