If anything was meant to be, the purchase of this house was written in the stars.
We had made a plan to make one very big circle of Oklahoma and had a dozen houses on our map to go view. We had looked at half of them the first day out and just didn't find anything that we could fall in love with.
Originally, we believed this property was located in a totally different part of Oklahoma and we came very close to passing it up because it wasn't on our map based on its proper location. We had already driven through the area, circled back to the north, (closer to the Kansas/Oklahoma state line), and was venturing further east towards Missouri, when we finally connected with the owner. Thinking the house was on our way back to the east, to Bella Vista, we were hesitant to add another 2.5 hours of drive time. Plus we would miss the opportunity to view the Victorian house in Missouri, that I had earmarked as our last place to see for the weekend. We carefully reviewed the listing again, weighed the pros & cons, then decided the house in Missouri could wait a day or two. We were looking for a place that offered up close, personal experiences with nature, (like in Virginia when we lived on the Blue Ridge Mountain), along with a quiet, slow way of life. A place to use our kayaks, garden, hike, visit with the animals on a daily basis as well as a great place for an artist to be inspired, a few acres to call our own and based on the listing, this house met that criteria.
Since the owner lived up in the area where we were currently, he also had a long drive to meet with us and we would probably never have found it if he hadn't met us out on the highway, since there is absolutely no cell service once you leave the highway, until you actually get to the house. We knew that would be a temporary thing, since we intended to have wifi, regardless of where we settled.
So, on this day, the owner made us an offer we could not refuse. I know, it usually works the opposite way, but this time, like I said earlier, it was written in the stars. We agreed to purchase, as is, the house and 8 separate lots of wooded acreage that is surrounded by wild life management forests and within sight of the lake. The last house on the left, with beautiful views, an extreme fixer upper that was soon, just a shell of itself. And so our story begins.....
We had made a plan to make one very big circle of Oklahoma and had a dozen houses on our map to go view. We had looked at half of them the first day out and just didn't find anything that we could fall in love with.
Originally, we believed this property was located in a totally different part of Oklahoma and we came very close to passing it up because it wasn't on our map based on its proper location. We had already driven through the area, circled back to the north, (closer to the Kansas/Oklahoma state line), and was venturing further east towards Missouri, when we finally connected with the owner. Thinking the house was on our way back to the east, to Bella Vista, we were hesitant to add another 2.5 hours of drive time. Plus we would miss the opportunity to view the Victorian house in Missouri, that I had earmarked as our last place to see for the weekend. We carefully reviewed the listing again, weighed the pros & cons, then decided the house in Missouri could wait a day or two. We were looking for a place that offered up close, personal experiences with nature, (like in Virginia when we lived on the Blue Ridge Mountain), along with a quiet, slow way of life. A place to use our kayaks, garden, hike, visit with the animals on a daily basis as well as a great place for an artist to be inspired, a few acres to call our own and based on the listing, this house met that criteria.
Since the owner lived up in the area where we were currently, he also had a long drive to meet with us and we would probably never have found it if he hadn't met us out on the highway, since there is absolutely no cell service once you leave the highway, until you actually get to the house. We knew that would be a temporary thing, since we intended to have wifi, regardless of where we settled.
So, on this day, the owner made us an offer we could not refuse. I know, it usually works the opposite way, but this time, like I said earlier, it was written in the stars. We agreed to purchase, as is, the house and 8 separate lots of wooded acreage that is surrounded by wild life management forests and within sight of the lake. The last house on the left, with beautiful views, an extreme fixer upper that was soon, just a shell of itself. And so our story begins.....
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