After several fails on finding the 'right' home, my sister and I decided to just look around her neighborhood for fun, as luck would have it, we found a house a couple streets over from her home. I quickly followed up with Doug's mom about looking at the house, and before we knew it, we had an appointment to check it out. Doug was busy with work all the days we viewed it, but trusted our opinion, and put an offer down before even seeing his future home.
Our house was originally bank owned, and had quite a few problems to fix. (to be continued...)