David and I bought a cottage this week! We closed on Wed. We've been trying to get it since the summer of 2013. The place is next door to my father in law and we saw a sign in the window that it was going up for auction. After months and months of it being postponed, it was simply withdrawn. Fast forward to last summer when we kept seeing stuff being done over there and David or his dad would go over and start talking to the workers. We found out it had been sold in April and finally went on the market after Labor Day for WAY too much money.

Fast forward again to the last week in Dec. I happened to go online to see what places were for sale in that area and what do I see but MY cottage and the price had been dropped 20,000 from when it was first listed. David didn't get a chance to call on it right away, good thing too. I went to show my brother online on NY Day and saw that on NY Eve they dropped the price another 10,000. David said heck with the holiday and texted him right away.

It has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, a family/dining room, laundry area, attached garage, shed(of course kitchen, living room too) oh and a double lot so we aren't right on top of my father in law! So we have our own place, don't have to worry about him being cranky about our dogs and he can watch over it for us since he pretty much lives up there now. We're pretty excited, a lot of the things from my moms house we can just take up there now. Nobody expects a cottage to be furnished in brand new furniture, right!

So that's my big news, we're pretty happy about it. I don't think happier than FIL though since he's planning on storing a bunch of his stuff in our garage!