About the house....

Well we went to look at the house today and I have to say that the outside and yard areas of this acreage are a dream. It even has a small building that would make the perfect playhouse for the kids and a small fenced in area for the kids to be able to go outside and play when I was trying to sew or whatever. So from that part of it, its perfect. Now for the downer side of it.
The kitchen is smaller than I would like and has close to NO cupboards. There is work that will eventually need to be done but all in all it would be able to walk in and live which is a must in the price range we are looking at. It has gorgeous hardwood floors, original trim work and some gorgeous build-ins. There are technically 4 bedrooms but one would not be able to be used as a bedroom really as you have to walk through it to get to the upstairs bedroom. There is a nice glassed sunporch that would likely become the home of my sewing room until we were able to upgrade a building that I have dubbed the future sewing studio. And man would it ever be an awesome studio. I could have all my machines set up, my fabrics could all have homes and its out by the garden and the apple trees and grape vines. What could be a better place to have a sewing studio. I am sure I would get lots of inspiration from nature out there.
BUT before that could happen there would need to be some work done on the floor and we would have to make sure that it was tight from weather OH and we would need to add a way to heat and cool it. The cooling is easy we have a window a/c but Im not sure what to do for heat as I don't want my fabric to smell terrible either.
We also discovered that even tho this is the home of the highest spot in Iowa there was water in the basement. Now we are not talking about just a wet floor, no Shane stepped in and there was close to 4 inches of water on the floor. Now granted the owners have never put a sump pump in so it should be a rather easy fix, that was still not what we wanted to see when one of the things we DON"T like about where we currently are is the WATER issues. So we shall just have to see on that.
On Sunday we are going to go look at another acreage, it has 2.8 acres of land and a 4 bedroom 2 bath house on it as well. And it is priced about 30,000 less than the other one. So that is a plus but its quite a bit farther from work for Shane too. Right now he can be to work in less than 15 minutes if he needs to be and this would be between 25 and 30 minutes to get to work. That being said we can live with that as its still less distance than he was when we lived in MN.
So that is where we currently stand on the house.
The realtor is going to bring us the name and number of the mortgage broker so that we can get ahold of her and start working on the stuff to see what we can even do as far as a mortgage goes. That will be nice to know even if these houses don't pan out, we will at least we will know what we are getting into when we do find that PERFECT house!!!