Buying a Piece of Idaho History

In just a few days my wife and I will be signing papers on the purchase of a piece of Idaho History.  We are buying a home built in 1927.  I am sure there have been many families who have lived in this house. Many people have come in-and-out its front door. Many dreams were dreamt in its rooms, and in this house’s case, many renovations.  The most recent renovation came 80 years later when they added a huge addition to the back of the house.  This house has been through a lot of changes.  For my family it brings a change that marks a new chapter in our lives.

Six years ago we bought a brand new house. In the Bothell, Washington area. We watched it being built from the ground up. Picked out the many options that we wanted to see in our house, and enjoyed having the interior painted in “our colors.”  We enjoyed a few Christmas’s there and even had a lot of snow in the few years we lived in it. But change would come and we uprooted our family and moved to Idaho.

With the economy being in the tubes like it was and still is, we felt we just needed to rent for a while and wait and see if God would open doors to homeownership in the future.  Earlier this year, we visited a local bank and found out good news and delayed news.  The good news was that they could definitely get us a loan, the delayed news was that it wouldn’t be able to happen until October of this year. So we put buying a house on the backburner and started attending several open houses, waiting until the day we could offer on it. 

We had chosen three homes during that six month span, only to watch two of the three become sold and the other was still out of our price range and it’s owners pulled it off the market for a while.  That left us with searching for a house that we would like. 

There were some really good things that happened for us while we waited. One was that we were able to know exactly what we wanted in a house.  Like how many rooms we really needed and since we are not fixer-upper people, we needed a house that was basically done for us.  The second really good thing that happened for us was that the interest rate had fallen a full percentage point and that made our house a lot more affordable.

What we’ve learned through these past few years is to “trust God no matter what.”  To really depend on Him to comfort us, provide for us, and direct our steps.