All in a Garden Green

Good plan. When buying our house, I forgot the lesson I learned the first (and only) time I bought a brand new car. I thuoght "I'm paying a helluva lotta money for this, shouldn't I get exactly what I want?" Apparently not, unless i wanted to wait an extra 3-6 months, which was untenable at the time. I ended up with a different color, and an automatic instead of a standard. Our house was _very_ close to what we wanted, but it wasn't in as good a condition, and it wasn't on as much land. Went for it anyway, and even offered about 5k more than the asking price, because we were sick of looking and it was 'close enough'. :}
.. I hope that wasn't preachy.
lots of luck to you!!
*hugs*