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“A lot of time has been put i nto it and we like what they’ve done.” “We are really exci ted about movi ng i n.” Closing is expected to take place Aug. 5. The couple plan to move in duri ng August, Radtke said. Accordi ng to a letter Radtke and P aul Weber send to the ci ty, they had been searching for a house for the past si x months. “This is a perfect house for us to make a home and start a fami ly,” they wrote. “We know thi s home and community will be a great place for us to begi n our li ves together.” They are engaged and planning to get married in September. While unaware of the city’s Home for Generati ons program before the open house they attended at the Dogwood S treet house, they are impressed by what they have learned about the program, Radtke said. Accordi ng to their letter, the couple li ke the fact that the house has been used as an educati onal tool to show resi dents how older homes can be remodeled to modern standards. “We both feel that the Home for Generati ons project is a wonderful way to i nform and educate people on ways to update and renovate thei r houses,” P aul Weber and Radtke wrote. A huge selling poi nt for Paul Weber and Radtke was the new front entryway, they wrote. “The house looks very nice from the outsi de and the entryway, new si ding and landscapi ng really gi ve the house more curb appeal,” Paul Weber and Radtke sai d in thei r letter. “The kitchen is amazing with stai nless steel appli ances, an i sland, new counters, new cabi nets and refini shed wood floors.” Paul Weber is a teacher and i s currently traveli ng wi th the Blue Kni ghts D rum and Bugle C orps from Denver, C olo., as a musi c instructor, while Radtke i s a forensic sci enti st at the Mi nnesota B ureau of Crimi nal A pprehension (BC A). “We are pleased at how qui ckly the property moved,” said Marc Nevi nski , ci ty community development director. The purchase is conventionally financed and staff feels that i t is a good offer, accordi ng to Nevinski . Rehabilitati on work had not been completed on the 109th Avenue N.W. home at the ti me of the fi rst post-construction open house in late May because as part of the sale Mi chelle Weber wanted more work done than had been origi nally planned, speci fically an 8- by 28-foot, one-story additi on constructed the enti re length of the rear of the house. The Orrin Thompson 1.5-story home was bui lt i n 1959 and purchased by the HRA for $93,664. The ori ginal remodeling budget for this home was $45,000, but the extra work for the new owner has added $12,500 to the cost, according to Kri stin D eGrande, city neighborhood coordi nator. The purchase agreement that will come before the HRA for action July 19 has a sale pri ce of $160,025. Through the Home for Generati on program, the HRA purchases older vacant/foreclosed homes i n the city, has them remodeled and then sells them.