After about three months of spending many spare moments driving around and looking at dozens of houses, today we made a deal and signed a contract on the Lawnview Avenue house in the Suncrest area of Morgantown.
"Scumcrest," as my kids used to call it (must have been some Wiles Hill/Suncrest rivalry going on at the junior high or something, don't ask me). Where doctors, lawyers, politicians, college professors and retired college professors live, well, at least the ones who don't want to drive to Cheat Lake.
And they're letting us in? How can it be? I guess the 1960's suburban houses are finally aged enough that they've lost some of their lustre. And Suncrest has its seedier parts; we're only a block or two from a lovely gentleman's club, for example, and there are a few ratty apartment buildings not too far away. That's town life, and we love it.
The immediate neighborhood and house are pretty darn nice, though. And it has a big, LEVEL back yard. (In Morgantown, level is hard to find.) And hardwood floors throughout, a new furnace and lots of other niceties. I even like the paint colors OK.
But I especially love the big old maple tree in the back yard. Yes, it has a maple tree! And lots of other trees! And even a hammock between two of those trees!
The house has large and open common spaces, good for parties.
(Bill says, "What are you talking about; you never want to have parties." That's not QUITE true. Not never.)
It also will be a great place for the kids to come and visit and the grandchildren to run around.
So, I guess my blogging days are over, at least blogging about house-hunting. Perhaps I will segue to another subject, like "decorating my new house," or "selling my old house," or . . . perhaps I won't.
For now, I think it's time to start cleaning out drawers and getting rid of junk: Time to purge!
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