The House

Okay, I drove by the house this morning and took a few pictures of the outside. A few of you asked for the MLS#, but there isn't one. It was a HUD home, and wasn't listed anywhere except for the HUD page, and the minute our bid was accepted it wasn't there anymore either. So, here it is. I don't have any pictures of the "wonderful" interior :), but those will be coming some time. (You'll love the bright orange and red carpet, orange counter tops, and ugly carpet on the wall-yes, on the wall!!) The exterior is in really pretty good shape. It has almost 1,000 square feet on the first floor and almost that in the basement. It doesn't have any egress windows (yet), so the basement rooms can't be counted as square footage. It's in a really good part of town.

Here's the view from the back. You can see the addition and the screen porch that was added at some point. I'm a big fan, because it means there are nice, wide stairs down to the basement, a beautiful pantry/fruit room, and a good size dining area. The screened porch is a bonus for the mosquito infested summer evenings.

And here's the garage. It also needs a new roof and a few other things, but it has a nice wood stove, and look at all that room for Chris' pottery studio!! The realtor also told us that there's a pretty large slab driveway-can't wait to get the basketball hoop up in that driveway!(I think I'll have to wait, but I'm excited for it anyway.)

So, that's what you can see for now. We have the home inspection next week and then we start getting estimates, bids, and prices for the work we're going to do (or have done) so we know how much to take out in our loan.....

We have 45 days to get all of that done and close. So, we can start work in the middle of March at the latest.

Oh, and when I said yesterday that it was the first of two years of posts about that house I meant it's going to take AT LEAST that long to get the things done that we want to. I'm sure all you homeowners are thinking that there's NEVER an end to all the things you want to do with your house........