Mike,
@GOLDMYN I’ve been looking at properties with realtors in TN during the past 3 years, trying to find the “right area” that my wife and I both liked, and had nearby amenities that fit into our lifestyles. Middle Tennessee is the area we liked the best. With all the visits we made this year, our searches became more serious than in our past visits, knowing we were committed to leave IL and it’s extreme high cost of living for a new location where we could have a better way of life and to no longer worry about the daily pressures of life we’ve worked through during our working years.
The home we purchased sits on 3.5 acres, 2500 sq ft. and has a 2 car attached garage and another 2.5 car detached garage, with heat running water and air hose lines plumbed into the walls. My new neighbors mentioned the last owner used the detached garage as his man cave.
We seriously tried to find a property with a pole barn, but those listings only seem to last as an active property on the market down here for about a week. We missed out on 2 other properties last year because of how hot the TN market is.
The house we purchased had a contract placed on it 1 day before we had our scheduled time with the realtor to view it. The realtor was reluctant to show it to us, but I insisted. All the other homes we saw that week weren’t as nice or the location was not ideal. So, we left TN, expecting to come down in the summer to look again, but before we left, I asked the realtor if something changes with the contract on this house, to call me.
Well, 2 weeks later on a Monday, I get a call at my office from the realtor who informed me the contract on the house fell through, and the house was going to be relisted the next day. I called my wife to let her know the news. We discussed it and called the realtor to let her know we decided to make an offer, which the seller gladly accepted.
As luck would have it, for once I was in the right place at the right time, even though it was 2 weeks earlier and I didn’t even know it.
Since the closing, we’ve been down here 7- or 8-times bringing stuff from our current home in IL to TN, as well as spending time doing some minor updates and of course now, being here for the pole barn build.
I still need to sell the house in IL and the building where my shop is located, but that’ll be after the pole barn is done so that my cars, parts, tools and all the other junk I’ve accumulated over the years can be brought down to TN.
There’s still an awful amount of work that still needs to be done before we are 100% relocated to TN, but it will be worth it once we look back on our move.
The pic below was taken from the tree line in the back of the property.
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