We Got A Loan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fsugirl]

HAHA !! ROBIV- You in Florida too ???!!! I totally hear what you are saying ! haha !!

[13inOR]

Holy Crap, Jeep Mom! Thats a great house, here in Central Oregon it would be 600-800K depending on how much land. Starter homes here are 275,000, I mean about 1000 square feet on a small city lot.
Cool! I hope you get it!

[lrprn]

Lovely, lovely house, JeepMom! There are so many wonderful advantages to living in a small rural town in the midwest - affordable home prices are just one of them. Happy to see that things are going your way - you give the rest of us hope there is the chance of a normal life after bk. Thank you so much for that.

[SinkingFast]

Gosh! JeepMom!! It's GORGEOUS!! Beautiful architecture!! And very Homey feeling too!!

That's why we love the MidWest and would not leave. Hubby get's paid the same no matter where in the Country he works. Just a function of his type of position.

Why go to one of the coasts where people can't afford to live when you can fare decently well in the MidWest??!!

[tinroofrusted]

How about we all have a Christmas part at JeepMom's house this year?

[robivi3]

I honestly wonder if you realize what a home that is for 96k.

In Davie Florida or Redlands down in South Dade that home is 600k. The construction would differ somewhat, but an equivalent home is 600. I know you are young but you are blessed to find that. My insure now is going to near 4000.00 per year and i am told will go up again in six months. A standard lot here for a 325k home is 75X100, you get more... unheard of. Not for 325, insurance 11,000.00 to 17,000.00. that is right folks, and we don't get insured for the mortgage cost, only reconstruction cost. Contents ONLY Insurance, for 20k ONLY, 1400.00.

If you can raise your family in peace with good work prospects then you have been blessed out of your socks. I really thank God for your family, if at that price you can be at home with your children so much the better. We struggled when the kids were young, and the wife stayed home and made those Dixie Cup popsicles and all, and we were broke at times, but man I'd live it again any day! And, it's like I tell my boys, no amount of money could be traded for one of those memmories. I am really happy for you. My wife is now starting to say that we need to pack it in here. I am at 30 bucks an hour, but now with taxes and insurance I will live better in Tennesssee on 12 dollars an hour and not come home angry from traffic. I think it's just a matter of the boys graduating and then see if I'll ride out the three remaining years to get full pension.

Anyway, this is your day, enjoy it!

[JeepMom]

Hubby makes decent, not great money for what he does. He's only been out of school 5 years. We're both under 30. We figure by the time the baby is in school we should be sitting nicely.

I stay at home. *CATION-COULD BE OFFENSIVE* I think women should stay home and raise thier kids. I understand things happen and what not. But if it's possible at all moms should stay home. I say that's part of the reason kids are so messed up today, their moms weren't there when they should have been.

[JeepMom]

How about we all have a Christmas part at JeepMom's house this year?

Who's chippin in to finish the basement?

[robivi3]

JEEP, YOU SAID IT. I'll tell you, a man can get far if a woman will make home her business and if the two of them agree on it. It frees his mind of MANY worries. Hunker down and get through it, the memmories are well worth it. Lincoln had it down, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the Nation".

Please, I know some have to work and some want to but all in all I will NEVEr be swayed from the belief that morality, modesty and decency are best taught by mom. My worst moments as a child were fidgeting and shopping while hanging on to my mothers dress, now they are great memories.

I'll never forget my older brother on line at the grocery store "look mama, that's the kind of beer daddy drinks"! My mother was mortified and embarrassed but laughed about it later. Back in the sixties it wasn't polite.

If you folks are wondering why I'm here right now I've got Tuesday Wednesday's off. 24 years, and those days off! Overtime, when the Federal cash truck backs up to the building OT comes to the two fella's with T/W off, and when it rains it pours in about $1000.00 weekly extra and right now with one in college and two prepping, it helps.

[13inOR]

wow, Rob, $4,000 for insurance??? Yikes, is that because of the hurricanes and stuff? Thats one thing, even though houses are very expensive here, my homeowners for a home valued at about $300K with adequate contents replacement is about $300 a year. But I guess our spot is pretty safe, no tornadoes, hurricanes, or flooding.

[SinkingFast]

Hubby makes decent, not great money for what he does. He's only been out of school 5 years. We're both under 30. We figure by the time the baby is in school we should be sitting nicely.

I stay at home. *CATION-COULD BE OFFENSIVE* I think women should stay home and raise thier kids. I understand things happen and what not. But if it's possible at all moms should stay home. I say that's part of the reason kids are so messed up today, their moms weren't there when they should have been.

No offense here, JeepMom!

I stayed home because we did not want our children raised by strangers. With strangers' morals and values. We wanted our kids to learn what we value. What we believe. And strangers just cannot teach that.

I agree with Lincoln, Robivi. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation. Possibly even the world.

[Minnymouth]

You guys just remember " If momma ain't happy, nobody is gonna be happy"!!!!! And yes, the hand that rocks the cradle, RULES THE WORLD..... in any nation................ just look around and notice......

Little ones are best raised by their mothers if at all possible.... Mothers are the teachers of the world....... (at least most are)... (some could care lesss).....

And in my lifetime I've seen many men that were 'GREAT MR. MOM'S'........

By the way,

BEAUTIFUL HOUSE........... I'M JEALOUS NOW.........

but I still love my little home, it's ME................

[robivi3]

Nearly ALL Insurance companies have pulled out of Florida. You can only get Citizens, a state run fiasco. they are under strict guidelines not to offer dcompetetive pricing. $4000.00 is cheap now, my replacement cost is 127,000.00, my house appraises at 244k (just refi'd). A 600,000.00 home here is about 17k to insure. Nearly all of us at work got our cancellation notices from POE on last saturday. So that was the talk at work. My 1100.00 insurance vanishes August 16th, my 4000.00 insurance starts that day.

Check City-Dataforum.com if you think i am exagerating, as policies expire this year many higher priced paid off homes are going without insurance. I understand why people think it is an exageration, but it isn't. My realtor in Tennessee owns a 2 bedroom condo in Pompano near the beach, he is dumping it, $11000.00 Insurance, CONTENTS ONLY. The problem was that unlike Andrew and Katrina the damage from Wilma believe it or not was far more widespread though not as severe, yet because of this they say it was more costly. many people here are still waiting for roofs. These imbeciles are worried and clamping down on Mexican illegals and they are the ONLY PEOPLE here to the work. Whole Condo divisions like Sunrise Lakes which stretch for 10 City blocks and houses 30,000 retirees have serious roof damage, downtown FT' Lauderdale was trashed along with hundreds of condos and apts. The blue tarps are still here, the big insurers like POE aren't answering the phones and everyone in Florida with POE, something like 2 million homes, are cancelled JULY 1. I was told by the agent that 6 month policies will likely be issued in August with it doubling at the end of that term.

This ain't a brag, just listen. I make in excess of 30.00 per hour, work in rail. I can never be fired, my pension can never be touched. I accrue 240 hours of annual leave per year, never lose one hour and have to be paid for it all at my hourly rate when desired. I accrue 96 hours of sick time per year and NEVER lose one hour, it collects year to year, yes I get paid for when i leave. And overtime at times during the year. WE NEVER LOSE EMPLOYEES, we have other benefits most people never heard of.

We used to laugh at the jokers in Atlanta offering us $18.48 per hour to leave. These are guys and gals I have known most of my life, some from high school, transit family is very tight here. In my group of 35 techs we lost two stricken from the payroll to Atlanta this week, wives still here to sell the house. A good Hatian friend is bugging out for Huntsville ALabama to work for Goodyear at 10.50 per hour while he waits for Transit to open up, he will get hired. I am likely leaving as well, if I wait the six years i get about 4000.00 per month to live on, at the current rate plus 3% per year in eleven years i get 200,000.00 drop money plus about 6000.00 to 7000.00 to live on. And yes even with that hanging in front i likely won't make 30. Florida is done for for a long time. Speak up fellow Floridians tell folks what's being done to us!

[JeepMom]

The offer is in!! We has our realtor over last night. So, now we sit.

We know we're going to get a counter offer, we made an extremely low, low- ball offer. They have until 8pm tonight to accept or counter.

Our realtor mentioned they may want a longer closing time. Normaly around here it's 30 days. They may want 45-60 days.

At least the ball is rolling now!

[miss puff]

Your new home is beautiful Jeepmom. Great plush grass and yard for the kiddies to run around in. I absolutely LOVE the front porch! I hope your counter offer comes back not too high.

I also agree that if you can stay home with your kids to do so. I am staying home with three, ages 4, 6 & 9. It hurts financially sometime but I am hoping that being home, tight on the pursestrings and just being there for them will pay off more in the long run then bringing home a paycheck.