It's never a dull moment over here, there always seems to be something going on. And the past month my wife and I have been looking at houses.

And boy is it a hectic process. Between the initial meetings with the lender and the realtor, and then viewing house after house, it's one heck of a fiasco.


I'll give you guys a bit of insight as to what we're looking for right now. First it started off that we wanted a single family home with a big yard and one bathroom, didn't care what year it was built.

After viewing about a dozen houses we dramatically switched our criteria to a townhouse that was built after 1999, has 3-4 bedrooms, at least 2 full bathrooms, and includes all appliances. Oh and hard wood floors would be an added incentive to purchase as well.

I think the biggest reason we switched from older single family home to newer townhome was due to the fact of the amount of spaced offered by these newer townhomes. So much more living space and more rooms.

Eventually I would like to get a newer single family home that offered the living space of these newer townhomes, but right now in this area they are about $100,000 out of our price range.

So while we're living through this adventure, I want to see what personal house hunting stories everyone has gone through.

Has how much has your search criteria changed from the start of the process to the end of the process?

Any stories of negotiating? How many bottles of Tylonel did you go through lol!