To read my first review go here: Part 1: First Contact.
After the troubles with the first contact, I was referred to a realtor. Since then, house hunting has been going great. We gave the realtor our wish list and he updated his website which automatically gives us houses to look at in the areas we are searching for and in the price range we indicated.
Due to the uniqueness of Louisiana's school zoning laws, my wife is going to travel to Barksdale two months prior for a couple of days and look at homes; and possibly put an offer on one we like. The zoning laws complicated our search because we must be living in a zip code to attend the schools that we want. The school system will allow us to use Barksdale's Temporary Lodging Facility's (TLF) zip code but the respective schools aren't ranked well. So we are going to try and get an established zip code before we get there so our kids can go to the higher rated schools. Louisiana's public schools aren't rated that well and as you get further from certain locations, it gets really bad really fast.
In Part 1: First Contact, we initially set up a pre-approval and then I called to get it increased before my wife gets there. I just called the mortgage center and it only took about 10 minutes and the representative was really nice. Things will move quickly once we put an offer down on a house and as promised, I will keep this blog updated.
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