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Yeah, he's not a very welcome guest but it was three right in a row so we should be good for awhile again hopefully!
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Here's a couple of quick pictures while everything is still clean and organized! This has been our 4 year remodel project!!
This is the day we moved in. Whole house including kitchen and bathroom had blue carpet. The walls had blue and white striped wallpaper and the stripe was so narrow it made you dizzy to look at!
This is a close-up of what we found under the carpet. Original maple floors that had some kind of gross varnish.
This is what it looks like now! We stripped the wallpaper, painted, added the wainscotting and redid the floors.
This is the other side of the living room.
This is our bedroom with the quilt my grandmother made for us. When you put it into photos, it doesn't look like we did much but it's been a long haul for the two of us!
Now, keeping fingers crossed that it sells
This is the day we moved in. Whole house including kitchen and bathroom had blue carpet. The walls had blue and white striped wallpaper and the stripe was so narrow it made you dizzy to look at!
This is a close-up of what we found under the carpet. Original maple floors that had some kind of gross varnish.
This is what it looks like now! We stripped the wallpaper, painted, added the wainscotting and redid the floors.
This is the other side of the living room.
This is our bedroom with the quilt my grandmother made for us. When you put it into photos, it doesn't look like we did much but it's been a long haul for the two of us!
Now, keeping fingers crossed that it sells
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WOW! Great job!!! 
TanksHill
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Those floors are gorgeous and will help that place sell in no time!!
good luck!!
gina
good luck!!
gina
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Not even any lookers on the house yet. I wouldn't be worried except for the time frame we're on. I know miracles happen but also subscribe to the adage that the Lord helps those that help themselves. So tomorrow I'll be researching leasing agencies, meeting with a mortgage broker, and talking to an insurance agent to find out more about what it would take to rent the place out.
Kinda makes me sick to my stomach, the thought of being a landlord. But there are benefits. We would have to refi our loan because our current loan states that the owner must be the occupant. I think due to interest rates we could do a 15 year and be right at our current payment. I'm not sure about how the insurance works though.
The advantages would be someone else continuing to build our equity in the property plus a little cash in our pocket monthly. It would put us in the time frame of being in IL by the start of the semester instead of having to wait until January.
The disadvantages being having to deal with repairs and problems from 300 miles away. Having strangers on our property that may not maintain it. What if they get laid off or injured or just decide to break their contract and then we have to go through the process of releasing... What if they decide to get a cat anyway?
Had a great 4th, and had our ultimate favorite date... Dinner at the baseball game!
Today we're going to look at an enclosed trailer listed on CL. When we move, we've found it is helpful to either build or buy a trailer prior to moving because as you get boxes packed, they can go right in and be stored until moving day. Then, when we get where ever we're going, we sell the trailer. By buying right, we've always been able to come out $ ahead on this deal. I just don't see the logic in renting a u-haul and having to worry about loading, moving, and unloading in such a short timeframe and paying them the rental fee. This time, because the move is a fairly short distance, we'll do 1 trailer rather than 2 and just make 2 trips. The first will be household, second will be shop items and tools. That way, if we end up without a garage or good storage, the trailer can be the storage until we're more settled.
Garden notes: Made green salsa for the first time last night, we'll see at breakfast today how it turned out! First zucchini and cuke yesterday. Cherry tomatoes so yum on fresh salad! First ancho pepper and baby watermelons on the vine the size of my thumb! Have a great Monday everyone!
Kinda makes me sick to my stomach, the thought of being a landlord. But there are benefits. We would have to refi our loan because our current loan states that the owner must be the occupant. I think due to interest rates we could do a 15 year and be right at our current payment. I'm not sure about how the insurance works though.
The advantages would be someone else continuing to build our equity in the property plus a little cash in our pocket monthly. It would put us in the time frame of being in IL by the start of the semester instead of having to wait until January.
The disadvantages being having to deal with repairs and problems from 300 miles away. Having strangers on our property that may not maintain it. What if they get laid off or injured or just decide to break their contract and then we have to go through the process of releasing... What if they decide to get a cat anyway?
Had a great 4th, and had our ultimate favorite date... Dinner at the baseball game!
Today we're going to look at an enclosed trailer listed on CL. When we move, we've found it is helpful to either build or buy a trailer prior to moving because as you get boxes packed, they can go right in and be stored until moving day. Then, when we get where ever we're going, we sell the trailer. By buying right, we've always been able to come out $ ahead on this deal. I just don't see the logic in renting a u-haul and having to worry about loading, moving, and unloading in such a short timeframe and paying them the rental fee. This time, because the move is a fairly short distance, we'll do 1 trailer rather than 2 and just make 2 trips. The first will be household, second will be shop items and tools. That way, if we end up without a garage or good storage, the trailer can be the storage until we're more settled.
Garden notes: Made green salsa for the first time last night, we'll see at breakfast today how it turned out! First zucchini and cuke yesterday. Cherry tomatoes so yum on fresh salad! First ancho pepper and baby watermelons on the vine the size of my thumb! Have a great Monday everyone!
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Thanks Wife! I'll be making a bunch of phone calls tomorrow. Information is free right? Then we'll have a little bit better idea of how to proceed and evaluate the decision.
Well, we didn't come home with the trailer because the decision maker for the business decided today was a good day for fishing
. It had a couple of little problems but nothing major so we enumerated the bad points: tires, dented fender, a couple of popped rivets, and slight damage near the roof by the door. We also left a lowball offer and asked the secretary to have the owner call us if he was interested. Well, he accepted! So I think we made a pretty sharp deal! About $400 less than we've been seeing on CL and ebay pretty much across the country so we were pleased. MyT Man will go down again tomorrow to pick it up.
Watermelons grew today from the size of my thumb to about the size of a half dollar! I think they're so cute at this stage with all of their little stripes and peach fuzziness!
Oh, and the green salsa turned out great!!! Just need to tweak the recipe slightly... halve the lime and double the pepper!
Well, we didn't come home with the trailer because the decision maker for the business decided today was a good day for fishing
. It had a couple of little problems but nothing major so we enumerated the bad points: tires, dented fender, a couple of popped rivets, and slight damage near the roof by the door. We also left a lowball offer and asked the secretary to have the owner call us if he was interested. Well, he accepted! So I think we made a pretty sharp deal! About $400 less than we've been seeing on CL and ebay pretty much across the country so we were pleased. MyT Man will go down again tomorrow to pick it up.Watermelons grew today from the size of my thumb to about the size of a half dollar! I think they're so cute at this stage with all of their little stripes and peach fuzziness!
Oh, and the green salsa turned out great!!! Just need to tweak the recipe slightly... halve the lime and double the pepper!
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Homemade fresh rhubarb cobbler for dessert tonight!
My kombucha got messed up about a month ago and I've fussed with it and coddled it and finally got a drinkable batch and scoby going again! SO YUMMY!
Walked to the backside of the neighborhood to the foreclosed house with apple tree and picked a few apples to put in the dehydrator tonight. They'd locked the gate recently so I'll have to go back with a ladder this weekend to get the rest. They also have a pear tree that's loaded and looking ready that I'll check out. The house that had the peach tree now has renters in it so I may have to stop by and introduce myself!
Baby eggplant, tons of tomatillos and cherry tomatoes in the garden.
My kombucha got messed up about a month ago and I've fussed with it and coddled it and finally got a drinkable batch and scoby going again! SO YUMMY!
Walked to the backside of the neighborhood to the foreclosed house with apple tree and picked a few apples to put in the dehydrator tonight. They'd locked the gate recently so I'll have to go back with a ladder this weekend to get the rest. They also have a pear tree that's loaded and looking ready that I'll check out. The house that had the peach tree now has renters in it so I may have to stop by and introduce myself!
Baby eggplant, tons of tomatillos and cherry tomatoes in the garden.
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Sweet fat drops of rain have been falling all day today. It was a much needed blessing! I was so excited that I refused to use my umbrella. (I even stomped in a couple of rain puddles out in the parking lot before work!)
MyT Man got the trailer home successfully last night so now we just need to swap the bad tires that are on it for the 75% tires we picked up at the junk yard.
Found a listing on CL last night for an appliance repairman so called him & he's coming this afternoon to fix the wash machine. I hope it works because doing laundry at the laundromat is just rediculous.
MyT Man got the trailer home successfully last night so now we just need to swap the bad tires that are on it for the 75% tires we picked up at the junk yard.
Found a listing on CL last night for an appliance repairman so called him & he's coming this afternoon to fix the wash machine. I hope it works because doing laundry at the laundromat is just rediculous.
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We're meeting with the leasing agent this morning regarding our house. Still no showings on the for sale listing. Our agent keeps reassuring us that it is the current local market that no one was looking at anything. We have had independent confirmation from a couple of other realtors so I don't think she's blowing smoke. I just hate this. I know that if we're supposed to wait to move until spring semester, that is what will happen and if we're supposed to be in IL in 5 weeks, God can send a buyer in 4 weeks with cash in hand. I just like having a plan
Anyway, picked 8 pears from the tree last night and another helping of blackberries to make another bb crisp. MyT Man likes it just as much as pie and it's so much faster to whip together some flour, oats, br. sugar and butter than to make a pie crust and roll it out
I also cooked my cherry tomatoes and ran them through the separator to get the paste. Let it cool in the fridge overnight and this morning I'll blend with salt and basil as per Noobie in the dehydrating thread. Pop that in the dehydrator before work and see what happens!
This weekend I hope to trade a passel of tomatillos for some sort of something from my boss. She just got back from a cooking class in Santa Fe and told me "Why don't we barter because this dish has like 50 ingredients and is really complicated and I know you'll never make it!" She's so funny. Her food always does taste good but very "restauranty" Should be fun. She also can't figure out how I'm eating double the volume of food that I used to and dropping inches. I'm now officially a size 10 in Levis which has always been my gold standard of measurement
Anyway, picked 8 pears from the tree last night and another helping of blackberries to make another bb crisp. MyT Man likes it just as much as pie and it's so much faster to whip together some flour, oats, br. sugar and butter than to make a pie crust and roll it out
I also cooked my cherry tomatoes and ran them through the separator to get the paste. Let it cool in the fridge overnight and this morning I'll blend with salt and basil as per Noobie in the dehydrating thread. Pop that in the dehydrator before work and see what happens!
This weekend I hope to trade a passel of tomatillos for some sort of something from my boss. She just got back from a cooking class in Santa Fe and told me "Why don't we barter because this dish has like 50 ingredients and is really complicated and I know you'll never make it!" She's so funny. Her food always does taste good but very "restauranty" Should be fun. She also can't figure out how I'm eating double the volume of food that I used to and dropping inches. I'm now officially a size 10 in Levis which has always been my gold standard of measurement
