I’ll say it – I’m 100% addicted to Redfin (www.redfin.com).  It’s a great website and it has to be one of my favorite apps on the iPad.  So easy to browse and look at homes.  In fact, ever since we bought our current home, I’ve always been looking at other homes.  Joel and I have always said that if we found the “right home” that we’d likely jump on it!  However, we’ve never really seen something that’s been perfect for us.  Sure, a few properties here and there, but nothing that really made us want to move.  That’s when we threw into the idea of building a home instead.  So we increased our search scope to include homes and vacant land.  And, after discussing the possibilities we fell in love with the idea of building exactly what we were looking for.  But we still kept the idea of buying a home already done if it were perfect for us in our back pocket.

We limited our search to Issaquah, Sammamish and Redmond because we enjoy the hometown family atmosphere that these cities provide as well as having excellent school districts (Issaquah & Lake Washington).  We also have had a lot of friends recently move to the Sammamish area, so staying near them and our family is also important.   For commuting reasons, we needed to keep close to either 520 or I-90 as the commute east/west to Bellevue is much better than traveling north/south on 405.

This blog will let you see our journey for moving up from our concept ideas to our final days of moving in!