Holiday season is always one of the most stressful parts of the year. From battling shopping malls to fighting over parking spaces, house hunting is typically the last thing on someone’s mind. But for Nick and Meghan not even the holiday rush could stop their house hunt. Just a routine Christmas shopping day unexpectedly resulted in a day that would change their lives forever. The two sat down with us to tell us their Trulia Success story.
“We weren’t even planning on looking for a house until June 2013. We knew the location and area we wanted but we weren’t too serious,” Meghan told us.
One rainy December morning, Nick and Meghan decided to get a leg up in their summer house hunt. They met with a mortgage broker to see what they could afford and plan out finances. With their sights set on Danville, Calif – one of California’s top 25 wealthiest cities – they went in feeling positive, although not really sure it was a location they could afford.
“Here it is the week before Christmas and we’re meeting with a mortgage broker. We sat down and crunched the numbers and were really surprised on what we could afford, however, I know how expensive Danville is, and I actually left the meeting discouraged. I starting telling Nick that I just couldn’t imagine finding an available house in our price range, but he stayed positive.”
Later that day, the two then fought the rain and decided to hit the mall and finish their Christmas shopping.
“While waiting for Meghan to shop around, I decided to download the Trulia Android app. I thought to myself, ‘OK, let me just look to see if anything is out there,” said Nick. “I looked on the app and found this great house in Danville that was in our price range which also happened to be having an open house! According to the listing, the showing was over in 10 minutes.”
“In the midst of me shopping around with a sales clerk, Nick suddenly rushes up to me and quietly and says, ‘We need to leave RIGHT now.’ He held up his phone and showed me a listing to this gorgeous Danville house on Trulia. He said, ‘we need to go see this house right now. It’s in our price range. Are you ready?’”
With only a few minutes left for the open house, the two made a mad dash through the torrential downpour to what they were hoping would be their dream home.
“We made it just in time with just two minutes to spare. After jumping out of the car and basically running to the door, we stepped in and just looked at each other in awe saying, ‘wow this is amazing,’” Meghan shared.
The couple ended up really connecting with the listing agent and stayed at the house for a couple of hours after the showing ended. For it being the very first home they toured, the two left the house beaming.
Although they shared their amazing find with their real estate agent, their agent still counseled them on visiting a few more listings just in case. Despite additional options, the couple just couldn’t stop thinking of that initial house.
“Nothing came close to the first house we saw,” Nick told us. “We kept sharing the Trulia link with our friends so they could check it out.”
A couple days following, they couple went ahead and put an offer on the home they toured that rainy December day. Two short days later their offer was accepted – right in time for the Christmas celebrations.
“This whole experience was just awesome,” said Nick.
“It’s so crazy that it was literally the first house that we saw on Trulia,” Meghan added.
After wrapping up a successful holiday season, Nick and Meghan moved into their new home at the end of January. The couple is excited to kick off 2013 owning a home in their dream neighborhood.
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