Like I was saying before, April and Michelle came up with a bunch of duds at first and then shortly after, on a Sunday after church we both met with Michelle to see a handful of houses. Well oddly enough it was the very first house on the list that we fell in love with very quickly. It is 101 Adams Farm Road, Simpsonville, SC. The address is Simpsonville, but the house is really in Five Forks which is the community north of Simpsonville, closer to Greenville.

We went to several other houses that day, some were nice, but just a little too old and so did not have hardly any closet space…and we need storage space! One house we saw was a home that was on short sale….and it was HUGE! Almost felt like TOO much house, and it would’ve ended up being too much money for renovations of all the old-timey wood and appliances, not to mention having to deal with the bank and not knowing a timeline with short sales.

As we went home that night April already had her heart set on Adams Farm Road, and while I tried to be the skeptic and practical one from the very beginning, I really loved it too!

The house is 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths with a small bonus room above the garage, which could be considered another bedroom. It has a half 2nd story, with a vaulted ceiling great room.  It has a dining room, kitchen w/ breakfast nook, and a pantry/laundry room. But probably one of our favorite things about it is the awesome screened in porch that is build out of the sturdy composite decking that needs no maintenance, though the rest of the deck is regular wood.

The screened in porch has recessed ceiling with lights around the edges and a ceiling fan in the middle. The backyard is spacious and fenced in, with two garden planters in the back along with a huge christmas tree.

Needless to say we definitely fell in love with it. It was listed for $213,000 which was definitely a little above our budget.

We wanted to stick to as close to $200,000 or lower if possible. We knew we could probably get them to come down off of their asking price in this market and throwing in the fact that they were listing it for 2,000 less than they bought it in 2008…so they were already accepting the fact that they were losing money on it.

More to come in Part III……