Believe it or not, Debbie and I will be moving to the Oklahoma City area. Not sure exactly where yet, but at least we have advanced beyond a strong desire on my part (for the last 16 years, by the way) to actually checking out homes on the www and going to look at a couple of houses in the Edmond and north OKC area. "Looking" was limited to a drive by of one home and actually getting out and peeking through the windows of another home. I have been looking at foreclosures on the www and found a couple that were interesting enough to see what they looked like in person. There are ALOT of homes for sale in the OKC area and ALOT of foreclosure homes. Many of the foreclosures that I looked at online are located in fairly new neighborhoods. Several homes within a few blocks of each other in what appear to be new developments constructed within the last four or five years. Many of those newer homes are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac foreclosures. Sad stuff that. Also, checking out homes that are for sale around OKC. Lots of nice ones. Trying to decide whether or not to live in town or find something with a few acres.
Anyway, I am really trying to temper my excitement because I know the anticipation will drive me crazy. But, I really cannot wait to shorten our drive to work. Not just reducing the miles travelled but also the time spent each day sitting in the car. I calculated at one time that since 1996 I have travelled almost 1 million miles between Stillwater and OKC just going to work and going home afterwards. Wore out three cars with almost 300,000 miles on two of them and over 350,000 miles on one. Dang. Debbie has "enjoyed" the daily trip for the last four years.
Have a good weekend.
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Did you like either of the ones you looked at the other day??
We did not really look with the intent to buy, but just to look. It is hard to tell what houses look like just from the photos on the internet. One was in a newer neighborhood. One was on a few acres. Both were foreclosures. Not sure exactly what we want yet.
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