The poll is closed now as I have made an offer on a house and it was accepted, thank you to those who took the time to give suggestions.

For me, the home selection came down to either Baxter Terrace or Teklanika. Teklanika offered an amazing large backyard in an area I loved, a quiet community, Eagle River, away from Anchorage, and very close to real wilderness. However there were a number of areas that needed work on the house, fresh paint, work on bathrooms, and a kitchen remodel wouldn’t have been too far down the road either. Baxter Terrace, offered a more updated home, that had been exceptionally well maintained. On the down side, the home is in Anchorage, on a street where there may only be 3 to 4 unique floor plans amongst the maybe 20 homes on the dead end road, and the yard is smaller, without as much privacy as I would ideally like.

When I stepped back and really took a look at my life style, I try and get out into the mountains just about as much as I possibly can, and especially right now, I don’t have a lot of time for maintenance. So the result is, I made an offer on the home on Baxter Terrace. If you don’t like that home, don’t worry, you don’t have to come and visit.    The home inspection is scheduled for Monday, March 8th.  If all goes well I should be able to move in by April 16th, the current owner needs to find a new home.

Now that the home is pending, you won’t be able to view the listing to see photos of the home, so I saved the listing photos and have included them in the gallery below.

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So as some of you might be aware I am thinking about buying my first house in the Anchorage area in Alaska.  Rent for a nice 2 bedroom apartment is anywhere from $1,600 to $1,800, so given the much lower cost of homes compared to that of the Silicon Valley, and buying a home in the Anchorage area wouldn’t require much more than paying rent, I’m going to buy a home, if I can just find the right one, this is where you come in.  I’ve narrowed it down to 4 homes I like, this is different than love.  All of the homes have pros and cons in my mind.  So just for fun, sort of, I’d like some feed back on what house I should buy from all you out there, based on the information provided in the links below.  Thank you.

Homes of Interest (listed in no particular order)

• 3911 Astro
• 7000 Baxter Terrace
• 17436 Teklanika
• 410 Patterson

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So with working full time, and going to Grad School part time, I’m not getting out for as many of those awesome half day adventures, but I did get out today to a new spot for me, Bicentennial Park.  Bicentennial Park is located in Anchorage, just a short distance from where I work.  The park has a maze of trails, that interconnect with some of the trails in the Chugach Mountains, as well as some of the city trails.  Just a few days before getting out, it had snowed a fair amount, and was snowing a bit more snowshoeing around the trails.  A good time was had!

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