Homeless

Well.... I tell you what.

I has been one ... heck... of a week.

Last week headed to NW Iowa to look at a few houses that we had found online. We drove around for a couple of hours Friday morning just looking at a few houses from the outside, just to get a feel for what we wanted. On Saturday we met with a Realtor to look at a house just south of Sheldon. Uuuugh.

9 Acres, and a house that was built in 1901. 6 bedrooms, 4 bath. HUGE brick, antique corn crib, new windows, recently sided... $110,000. NW Iowa ground is selling for ~15,000/ Acre... You couldn't even buy farm ground for this price... It was a DREAM of a house. The only problem: the people who were selling the acreage had started to re-model, but then quit. The house was in pieces. Literally.

That house had an estimate of another $100,000 worth of work that needed to be done. But this was a DREAM house. Like I told Brad... If we were rich, and looking for a "project" to make into our dream home, and had $300,000 just chilling out, I would have jumped on this property in a heart beat... But. We don't. Not only that, but the bank would NEVER give a 23 and 25 year old the loan to remodel a house like this.

We also looked at a house near Hospers, which has a 3 stall garage, and the entire main floor has been re-modeled and all new windows and siding. This was another awesome house. This was a 6 acre place, and I really liked it, but Brad wasn't quite sold on it.

Oh well.

I have an interview on Friday, and another one on Monday. I just NEED to hear back from somewhere to figure out where we need to find a place at.

On Saturday afternoon, Cathy and I headed down to Ames to get the rest of the house packed, and everything organized. Bill and Brad came down that night too.

Sunday morning we went and rented the U-Haul and stuffed it. A 17' U-Haul was COMPLETELY PACKED. There wasn't very much room left in that truck! When we headed back towards NW Iowa, the weather decided to get really crappy. 4 hours into the trip we stopped outside of Storm Lake to clean off our windshield wipers, and Cathy locked the keys IN the RUNNING U-Haul. ... 45 minutes later the tow truck guy came and let us back in, and then we slowly made our way into town. We ended up staying at a Super 8 because all of the roads were shut down. Monday morning we finished our trip to Hospers and unloaded the U-Haul into a storage unit. A 10'x20' storage unit was almost packed full. There was a lot of "air" space open above all of our junk, but it took up a large chunk of that unit.

Monday afternoon Cathy and I headed back to Ames, yet again. The roads were mediocre at best, but we made the trip in 4 hours. We cleaned a lot of the house on Monday, hit up some supper, and headed off to bed. Tuesday morning we went to HyVee and rented a rug doctor and I cleaned carpets while Cathy cleaned the rest of the house. We then closed on the house yesterday afternoon, ran the checks into the bank, and headed back to Sioux County.

I am now staying at my dad's place for the time being, at least until Monday when I have the interview in Fort Dodge. I am really hoping to hear back some GREAT news from the Sioux Center interview that I have on Friday and I am REALLY hoping for that job, but, only God knows what the plan is for now! If I don't get the job in Sioux Center then I'm more than likely going to take the offer at AMVC, farrowing sows, at least for the time being until I do find something more permanent and something that applies my education a little bit more. I'm just following the Plan that God is laying out in front of me. Letting Him guide me through life.