3rd Times a Charm

Jay and I spent another day looking through homes last weekend. After the first two outings I was a bit nervous. We decided this time to look inside the city and at a couple in Dunwoody. We were really focusing on Brookhaven and Ashford Park. We weren't sure what to expect since you definitely can't get as much home for your money downtown, but were pleasantly surprised when we finally pulled into the area. We LOVED Ashford Park. The green space they have there, all of the fun restaurants and wine bars and coffee shops everywhere. Hopefully we are going to see a couple of other things this week and then start getting serious about what we want in that area. Here is what we saw....

This house was terrifying! We walked in and it smelled like smoke, the floor boards were rotting and we thought we might end up going through them into the basement. There wasn't any electric going to the home, which is normal if the bank owns it, but someone was living in this house! EWW! He had never taken the trash out. We were definitely open to a fixer-upper, but this house would divorce us! Too bad too, the neighborhood was great.

We liked this house because of the back porch and yard and definitely the living space, but the bedrooms were set up kind of funky. The expanded too many times and nothing made since in there. Besides that, the owner was rude and asked us to wait to see it when we were on time for our appointment. He said he had a couple things to do. Don't let us do you any favors bud!

This was a great house. Plenty of space, gorgeous yard, and right across the street from a park. But, everyone in the neighborhood was wicked old and ready to move into a retirement home. Not exactly the trendy young neighborhood we were looking for!

This was one of my favorites!! It needed a little bit of help, just cosmetic things really, but the backyard was an amazing space and we just loved the feel of the house. Taking the rents back to look at this one.

This was mine and Jay's favorite of everything we saw. They had already done all of the work on the inside of the home. They had a great set up and the house just flowed perfectly. They did a great job on the backyard and had an awesome entertaining area. We are hoping since it has been on the market a while that they will lower the price some and we can go from there. We shall see!!

We saw a couple of things in Dunwoody too, but nothing worth mentioning since they were homes in track neighborhoods and not exactly investment material. Keep the prayers coming, we hope to find something by fall!