The Google street view is helpful to see what is around, I agree. It was more that the pictures that were included in the listings were SO deceptive! Our realtor is really on-top of things and helpful, she worked w/ us to buy our last vacation house down there... These houses we're looking at are a little bit outside of her usual area. Next time we're going to have her preview them in person before we go down, she offered to do that and we'll take her up on it. When we first got an offer on our house, we looked at four houses and would have bought three of them. Unfortunately, we wanted to wait to make sure that the deal closed before we bought and they were all gone. Maybe it is just the time of year that resulted in all the bad houses w/ deceptive pictures. It seems like the good houses go to pending w/in a day of going on the MLS which is really hard when we are out-of-town :( I just wish the pictures would have showed the houses inside as they actually look, and basically all 14 of the houses did not do that! Maybe just a bad batch if I'm the only one having this experience...

I'm a brand new, ink is still drying on my license agent. However I would like to add a point that has not been addressed. What about safety? I WILL not go show up at a house to meet a buyer I don't know without said buyer showing their face and meeting me at the office first. Now, that sounds paranoid and probably 99.9% of the time unnecessary. Now, after we meet and if they want to be prequalified I will show them all the houses they want to see. If they don't want to do that and need to feel more comfortable with me before doing that I will show them one house. They still will have to meet me at the office first because my safety is more important than a potential sale. Linda made excellent points and seems like a great professional that puts her clients first, I don't see any problem with anything she said. Angieanders: Congratulations! It's great when the end turns out like this.

Here are a couple more...one has a peninsula instead of an island (Amy2202 #2) and the other has a flattened island w/the shallow cabinets along the LR wall that you really seem to want (Amy2202 #3). Both move the oven stack to the office wall and have a corner cabinet Message Center across from the office door and next to the garage entrance. They also both eliminate the tiny pantry. #2 puts a dish hutch in that cubby area extended into kitchen area by 24". It also has 42" of pantry cabinets on the refrigerator wall (the other side of the MW). #3, instead, recesses the MW into that cubby along with a counter and base cabinet below the MW. It also has a pantry on the refrigerator wall, but it's now 45" wide. I like #3 best except it doesn't have any nearby landing space for the refrigerator and pantry. BTW...there is plenty of room b/w the office wall cabinets and the Pantry/Refrigerator...42+ inches. One other thing in #3....I took a 21-inch portion of the cabinets on the LR wall and made it a utility cabinet for brooms, mops, sweepers, etc....unless you already have a place for them. Then I put a similar looking cabinet the same width on the DR end to balance it out. Then, perhaps put glass-fronted upper doors in the cabinets b/w them. +++ Amy2202 #2 +++ +++ Amy2202 #3 +++

From my phone I agree that the picture I found online to post of my wallpaper doesn't look navy :-) The wallpaper has a white background with a navy geometric pattern on it. I don't want white in our entry with our weather and little kids :-) We just did a whole house remodel so we are planning on staying here for a long time... if not, the new homeowners can change it given the small size of the room (25 sqft). Odds are given what I've done with navy in the rest of the house, someone that doesn't like the color won't buy our house anyway ;) With the bold wallpaper and big white baseboards, I was loving the idea of a pop with the dark navy floor...