The Chicken House

Well, we made another offer on a house today. I think this is the 5th offer we've made. This is by far the largest house we've looked at. It is huge with a 3 car garage, 5 bedrooms, 2 on the bottom floor. It has a sun room, attic storage, large rooms, huge windows with great cross ventilation and A/C as well. The house is traditional, not as fancy and modern as most we've been looking at, but we just haven't been able to get into any of these. This house is by far the best investment as its size alone will send it way up once the market turns around. We'd never even be able to think about a house like this if the market weren't so awful right now.

This house is a La Mirada, zoned for horses area. These few houses that can have horses have huge backyards. They are much more rustic, meant for animals. This house only has chickens, which we personally really like. I had chickens when I was a kid and so did Connie. It's nice having those fresh eggs every morning. The house also has an aviary for parakeets. We aren't very interested in having that, but we might turn it into a large dog kennel. It is plenty big, certainly bigger than the kennels and dog runs we've thought about in every other place. Also nothing for the dogs to bark at here! It's so big.

In the back yard there is a pool that needs some work. And a few other things, mostly some cleaning up. But it will be great for having a vegetable garden. It has over 25 fruit trees! Yum. So, at least the grocery bill will go down.We made a serious offer today. Hoping they will take it.