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The Story: We had been searching for a while, and as usual, Jim was just looking for a home that "felt right" - and Carolina had made an extensive list about layouts and tile and rooms and storage and separable common space... and who knows what anymore. We hadn't really liked anything very much, but there were three properties that we thought "could work". It was 1am on April 25th and we were sitting in bed having the following conversation:
J} You know, honey, the way things are getting snapped up, if you want to make an offer on one of them, we better jump on it. C} Well, in this one, the bedrooms are a bit too small... and in that one, we'd have to knock out that wall... and in the other one, I am really worried about that roof. I really can't see myself in any of them... and I don't want to spend a pile of money on something that I can't even see myself in. J} OK, we don't have to buy right now... we can keep looking... but honey, you know that the house you want - with all those qualifications - is not just going to fall like an apple out of the sky. A few minutes later, Carolina checked her email updates one last time...
and this house had just had its price lowered into our range. (no lie!)
J} Honey! - this house, I want this house! Call Jason right now! This is the house I want! I want to see it right away! C} Jim, it's like, 1:30 in the morning...
Twelve hours later, almost to the minute , we made the offer. For about a year, we called it "Falling Apple House", but it really became a sanctuary. Contact us: safe (at) fallingapplesanctuary (dot) org
