Whanau Farm has been a dream of mine and my husband's for a few years. We've put in the work to build credit, find an area that we feel comfortable in, and look for properties. All that hard work looks to be paying off!
Last weekend, we met with a realtor to check out a house that was outside our budget, but she said if we liked the place to just put in an offer. The seller was a little desperate. We did not like the property.
So, we started telling her what we were really after and, much to our surprise, she claimed to have "just the place." Now, just to be clear, we've heard that before. It's never "the place." Until the time that it actually is!
She drove us 12 miles out of town, apparently convincing herself the whole time that we would hate her for dragging us all the way out there. I had seen the house online and wasn't even tempted, but as we drove past the outskirts of town, into true country, and found ourselves surrounded by Texas Hill Country, we got more and more excited.
The place is a pit. There's stuff everywhere even though no one's living there right now. The outside of the house needs repairs and sprucing up, the fences need to be mended... basically the list of what needs to be fixed and/or changed is far too long for here. It's also a lot smaller house than what I was centering my search on- 1400 square feet. But when we walked in, we were coming home. It's perfect!
A farm is a lot of work. A farm that needs a lot of work before we can actually start on the lot of work that is farm work is even more work. We can't wait!
So, this blog will chronicle the evolution of Whanau Farm. Wish us luck!
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