Jeff and I put an offer on this house today!!! Should be under contract by the end of the week and we should be moving in by the end of the month. It was a hard decision because we had to realize we were buying it for the sake of the house and not the land. When we first saw it we were so excited because it was just what we were looking for; a small fixer-upper house and some land for the flower fields. And then the next day we found out that no they had divided the land so that the steep land was with the house and the tillable land was being sold for $22,000 an acre. Way more than we could pay and really way over the market. We were so disappointed. It took us a while to get back on our feet and decide that we could still lease land around to use and at least we would have a house to live in without paying money into the black hole(rent). The four acres that it has with it is not really useful for our purposes (although we may put a few sheep out there). But are hoping to make do and possibly with the real estate market dropping off we could offer to buy some of the land around at a more reasonable price.

Don't get me started on the price of property here. It is ridiculous what people think they are going to get even with the market like it is. But I guess it will catch up with them.