House Hunting.....

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.....

Buying a new home as many of you may know is one of the most stressful times in our lives and at the same time it is also one of the most exciting of times.

We have sold our apartment in Florida and as Arvid so fondly says we are now homeless in Florida......

In today's market you would think the easiest thing to do right now is to buy...prices are good and there are tons of deals to be made.  The problem we are facing is that even though we ourselves are Realtors we always have to go through another realtor...the one with the listing.

This sounds pretty straightforward and simple...and the truth is it should be.  Well surprise.  Not really the case.  There are so many Realtors out there that never return your call.  Never even answer back on an email.  This makes it a lot more difficult to see properties...but not impossible.  Our strength lies in that we are persistent and we divvy up the work so we get more accomplished.

Being a Realtor allows me to access properties listed in the MLS.  Our search takes us to Fort Lauderdale Real Estate....which is where we are looking for our new place again in Florida.

Fort Lauderdale is beautiful and the weather can't be beat in the winter months.  For that reason we will soon be leaving Chicago and heading back to the warm weather in sunny Florida.

With that in mind Arvid and I are heading out to Florida (Fort Lauderdale) for the next three days....we are going to search for a place to call home again in Florida.

Will be a few hectic days packed with tons of properties to see.  Excited about seeing them.  Being a Realtor we know many of the buildings but when it comes to choosing our own home I really want to see it before we make an offer...:)  There is so much to look at so in the next few days we will have to really be on the ball and just go...go...go..

With this in mind we are looking forward to seeing what we can get for our money and hopefully we will be able to find something we both like and would one day call home again.....it has to have a view and a window so that Brutus can sit and watch the boats go by like he did before....

For now it is off to finding ourselves a home in Fort Lauderdale......we are having a wonderful time through this whole process.

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

until next time...