We had the deposit saved for our dream home (if you are wondering what that is all about you will have to go back and read April, May 2018) and amazingly it was still for sale. (we first saw it Easter 2017)
The bank had agreed to loan us the money and so we made an appointment to go and see the house one more time. We took Leah and Andrew along. (Leah had been there before but it was Andrews first time to see the place.) Andrew was not impressed. He thought it was old and run down. We could also see that the owner had not kept up repairs on it. It was looking more run down, but we still loved it. I was a little worried about the busy road that it was on but because it was back from the road I was sure we could live with that.
Kristian and I had decided on an amount to bid. We prayed about this amount and said that if he didn´t accept that amount we would not bid over, it would be God closing that door.
We were soooo nervous after we gave our bid. Kristian and I went to the beach to wait on the phone call while Andrew and Leah just went home. When the call came it was not good news. He would not accept our bid. He wanted way more than we were willing to bid. We were so disappointed. Me especially. I remember saying to Kristian that we should just ring the bank and get the extra money that the owner wanted, as the bank had originally said we could go up to that amount.
However Kristian didn´t have peace about giving more money for the place and deep down inside I didn´t either, but I was so confused. I was so sure this was the place that God had for us. I just could not understand. Maybe in a month or two, we could bid again. It looked like God had closed that door for us.
So we continued to check the internet and look for houses.
We found one that we sort of liked. It had wonderful views out the back. (see the photo above) The house was sort of our style but we were not wildly in love with it. We could make it work if we needed to.
And we were starting to feel the need to move. The owners of our apartment had told us that the rent would be going up from September 2018. They were asking roughly £400 more a month!! It was actually better for us to now buy a place than rent. So we really wanted to find a place as soon as possible.
About the middle of June, we saw a house on the internet that looked really interesting. It was a Thursday evening and it had literally just been put up for sale. I made an appointment to see it on the coming Sunday afternoon.
As soon as Kristian saw the place he fell in love again. I really, really liked it but there were a few things about the place that I didn´t like - the kitchen for example and the windows. (I always wanted small country house windows) But I loved where the house was situated, I loved the house itself, I loved the entrance and the fact that it had an annexe that I could use as a studio or as a bed and breakfast through time.
The house was in the country, yet not totally isolated.
There was a lot of interest in the house. There was a couple out looking at it before we came and another couple coming to see it after us. We told the estate agent that we were really interested and would like to come back with our carpenter for him to check it out.
So the following Thursday we were back again with my brother-in-law. He checked the house out and thought it was a fantastic house for the money. So the next day we rang and told the estate agent that we would like to put in a bid - unfortunately we couldn´t. They still had some legal papers to get ready so we could not bid before they were ready.
So we had to wait.
While we waited life continued......
June turned into July and it was time to go on holiday. We had a weeks holiday here in Denmark with Andrew and Leah. We just went exploring places close to us. We had some wonderful days together.
It was while we were on holiday that the estate agent contacted us via mail. All the legal papers were now ready and she had sent them to us. Everything looked in order. We now had to make a decision - should we bid on the house and if so how much?!!! It was all rather exciting!!
It was while we sat and looked over the water in the picture above that Kristian and I decided we wanted to bid on the house. By now I had also fallen in love with it. So we sent the mail away to the estate agent with our biding price. We had bid £6000 under the asking price but we were willing to go to £2000 under. Now we just had to wait and see what the owners said to our bid. Oh, it was so hard to wait.
We heard nothing that day. The next morning we woke and checked our emails and phone but there were no messages for us. We went out and about and by 2.30pm we still had heard nothing. It was a Friday and we knew the estate agent was going on holiday so we really didn´t think we would hear anything that day either.
