So we're doing this house thing...
We hadn't really even started looking for a house so to speak. Robin had JUST landed a WFH job literally days before, so we started kind of poking around the weekend of June 16 in a small mountain neighborhood called Pinewood Springs about 30 minutes or so away from where we currently live in Longmont, Colorado, a bedroom community of Boulder. We stopped by an open house and scheduled to see another in the neighborhood the next morning.
And that night we rechecked to make sure there wasn't something more we wanted to see- and we saw THIS HOUSE! At about the same price as the other- well under market.
So obviously we scheduled a showing. Along with a parade of other people that next morning. And it was just as amazing as we'd hoped.
We went up against 4 other parties with our offer barely 24 hours after this house went on the market. We crossed our fingers, and threw some fairy dust around. Oh, and we wrote a letter as to why we loved the home that referenced our personal histories in Western PA and Canada and Danny's obsession with detail in his craftsmanship, among other things.
So, you never know whats going to work in a multiple offer situation, but some combination of this did. We were lucky to get an agent who knew the area and was able to understand how to compete in this situation. And we know from speaking with the *amazing* sellers we got it in some part because the current owners two grew up in Dravosburg and Cheswick, just about 30 and 40 minutes respectively from Robin's hometown of Murrysville, PA. Who knew?!
So yea, we moved to the mountains and now we're REALLY moving to the mountains. It is isolated but not entirely in the middle of nowhere; it is in fact just 15-20 minutes to Estes Park and 10-15 to the vacation community of Lyons, CO. And we'd love to have our dear friends and family visit. Here's our lovely guest room and some drone footage of the house:
Dog friends: We will be promptly replacing the carpet so the house will be very dog friendly. The creek pools have been fully dog-tested and approved, though the granite can get slick in spots.
The community is rather amazing. Here's an article Pinewood Springs-it was heavily impacted by the 2013 floods:
https://www.denverpost.com/2013/09/23/pinewood-springs-residents-thrive-as-they-survive-flooded-isolation/
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