This post probably should have gone up before the first one.  Below is a basic list of what we’re looking for in a house.  However, please keep in mind that we already have a beautiful 3 bedroom townhome in a very nice part of north Reston that my dad helped us buy 4 years ago (that story is a blog post of its own).  We’d like to take advantage of this buyer’s market to look for the home of our dreams, or at least something very nice to get us to the home of our dreams in one or two sales.  We also think that, once the twins are a little older, it will be years before we’re able to keep a house clean enough to sell it again.  Okay, now to the list.

Things that our next house must have:

• 4 or preferably 5 bedrooms
• 2 car garage
• decent size yard (.3+ acres)
• good sized kitchen with a view of the backyard
• back porch for grilling
• sidewalks and some type of grocery type shopping center within walking distance
• central heating and air conditioning
• basement (finished or unfinished)

Things that we’d like our next house to have:

• a front porch
• a screened-in porch
• hardwood
• Verizon Fios

Let me know if you know of anything that matches these criteria and is in the sub $515k range.