The House

Building our new home.

Basic Pictures of the house.

These are the pictures that made us go look at the house. These were what were on the listing.

When looking at houses, we would check the pictures and info to see if we were interested. We’d also look at the neighborhood and its crime statistics.

Initially, Sue and I both almost passed on this, as we were mostly looking at modern condos. But I figured “what the heck”, this one looks really nice. Lets go see it.

Initial impression was of a wonderful property that was just run-down from age. All the original built-ins and similar woodwork was basically unmolested. Everything had been painted, as you can see. A lot of these older houses have things changed over the years. To find it all in good shape was a surprise.

The house had some obvious problems: one side was sagging internally, so there were obvious foundational issues. And the electric was visibly out of date: knob and tube. But we really did like the property and the location. And we figured we might be able to estimate the repairs and balance our bid according to that.

 

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