So I was just going through my three thousand something emails and saw some notifications from this site. I figured I'd post an update if anyone here even remembers me. We closed the last week of october. They did end up dropping the price (someone had broken in and stolen some copper piping from the basement and they were being stubborn about not doing anything about it). We had to push closing back a few times because they dropped the ball on some paperwork, but after I bugged the recorders office, they managed to speed it up for me. Long story short,
the house is ours and we've been here for almost 3 months.

We did
replace the boiler (not 100% necessary but it would have to be done in
the not too distant future anyway), replaced the missing pipes with pex,
and there were some bursts that needed fixing. One burst was an adventure to fix for my husband as it was under the only part of the house that doesn't have basement. Instead there is narrow and maybe only 18" tall carved out trench type space in the dirt below part of that room. The plumbers were both larger men and couldn't fit through the "window" that lead from the basement wall to that little area. As that's done, the only
other issue in this house is a family of southern flying squirrels that
made themselves at home in the walls. My cat killed one, I caught one
alive, and we're working on finding and sealing entrances so we can set
up the last entrance to get them out. The driveway may need to wait until spring as we
started cutting the cement, but the cold got the best of us so we're not working on it at the moment.

I love the neighbors. We basically camped out in the house the first few days, and when the neighbors heard we were still working on the plumbing, 3 of them went and grabbed space heaters to lend us as that week was very cold. They're always offering to help, and I continue to hear nothing but good stuff about this area. My daughter loves her new school, and I love how well her teacher communicates with us about her progress and school work and such. The train that runs behind our house is awesome to watch and surprisingly quiet. I'm loving how convenient this area is and keep thinking how lucky we are to have actually gotten this place :)

Bonus - we found an oil company with great prices :)