Palm Sunday and Open Houses

The house situation is growing. We're looking at two homes, both for sale by owner. We aren't thrilled with the realtor the mortgage company assigned us and will probably seek help elsewhere. Our realtor in TX has been fantastic at helping us out. She answers all our questions and responds immediately. Both houses are on bird named streets, go figure. Just continuing with our theme I guess. Both are original owners, one the actual builder. House 1 we looked at last year. It was beautiful then and I am sure is still beautiful now. It has a big kitchen, nice size living room and formal dining area. We don't really need a formal dining area, but that is the only place for a table. The kitchen has more cabinets than I could dream for, a large island and bar with 4 or 5 stools. Really nice! Real cherry wood floors, new carpet in the living room. Unfinished basement is not so great, but I guess it will be ok. Half bath on the main floor, large pantry and laundry on the way to the garage. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two baths and a bonus room over the garage. I think to start we would maybe continue with a boy room and girl room, leaving the bonus room for a playroom. Eventually I would put boys in the bonus room, give each girl their own room and finish the basement for a play room. We will see. Just ideas. House 2 has a huge living room and kitchen. I loved them! Ceramic tile kitchen, island, top notch dish washer and new paint. Nice half bath and separate laundry room. Finished basement with large family room. Its in an L shape. The back part of the L could be finished off to make another bedroom. Nice big room for storage. Upstairs no rooms were painted. Master was decent size with small full bath. One kid room was bigger than the other, but had a smaller walk in closet. All bedrooms had walk in closets. The smaller bedroom had a huge closet. I think I would put the boys in their and they could have a Lego room in their closet. It fits a dresser and much more! Time is up. Gotta get the troops ready for church. We're going to 4 open houses today, if we can fit them all in and if N gets off work early. Should be interesting.