Congrat's to Sarah for her spot in Self, I think, Rachel just read what she said was a great little bit that Sarah wrote about running. If I'm off on the specifics I'm sorry Sarah, just wanted to give you some props...
I hope all is well with everyone. I have spent the day cleaning up my current house in order to get it ready to move and also more importantly ready to rent.
Oh yea, almost forgot.. On Friday night Rachel, her dad and sister, and I went and stood 15ft in front of the stage at the Bruce Springstein concert in Atlanta. Even though I had seen him a number of times before this was the best concert yet. Their pianist just died and they did a nice tribute to him. For those of you that have i'm sure already forgotten, as I had, Atlanta was really beat up by that Tornado. It was amazing to see all these tall buildings with tape and missing glass all over the place. Quite a site....
Ok by for now.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
House Update
I just left the soon to be new house this morning and after walking through with my contractor he said that everything looked just fine. Now obviously, as you will see once I take some before and after photos, there is a whole hell of a lot of elbow grease that will be needed before I move in.
There is a laundry list of things to do. First thing will be painting all the rooms and then ripping up the nasty carpet that is currently covering the living room and two bed rooms. There are hard wood floors underneath two of the rooms and the back bed room will probably just get new carpet for now until I can put in hardwood floors later. The kitchen/eating area is tile and even though there are a number of tiles missing I think I will replace with new tile and just have it be not matching. The whole idea here is to fix just what is needed to make it habitable and then do the other stuff later.
To give you a better idea of how much they trashed this house before the previous people were evicted my the sheriff's office, there are no appliance at all. They even stole the AC compressor from outside. They broke all the windows and started ripping up most of the carpet. The bank thankfully went in and really cleaned a lot of it up. They replaced all the windows and looks like they painted all the walls.
As I might have said the house sits on two lots that as of now are broken in half by a fence that only slighty rivals what you might see along the property at the farm. I plane on sealing in the missing boards and bringing the privacy fence all the way across the second lot and making it a huge side yard for entertaining and more importantly the dogs.
Ok well since I spent the first part of the morning crawling around the house I think I should go back to doing some work. I would hate for my parents to find out that I have been blogging on there time/dime...
I hope all are well!
There is a laundry list of things to do. First thing will be painting all the rooms and then ripping up the nasty carpet that is currently covering the living room and two bed rooms. There are hard wood floors underneath two of the rooms and the back bed room will probably just get new carpet for now until I can put in hardwood floors later. The kitchen/eating area is tile and even though there are a number of tiles missing I think I will replace with new tile and just have it be not matching. The whole idea here is to fix just what is needed to make it habitable and then do the other stuff later.
To give you a better idea of how much they trashed this house before the previous people were evicted my the sheriff's office, there are no appliance at all. They even stole the AC compressor from outside. They broke all the windows and started ripping up most of the carpet. The bank thankfully went in and really cleaned a lot of it up. They replaced all the windows and looks like they painted all the walls.
As I might have said the house sits on two lots that as of now are broken in half by a fence that only slighty rivals what you might see along the property at the farm. I plane on sealing in the missing boards and bringing the privacy fence all the way across the second lot and making it a huge side yard for entertaining and more importantly the dogs.
Ok well since I spent the first part of the morning crawling around the house I think I should go back to doing some work. I would hate for my parents to find out that I have been blogging on there time/dime...
I hope all are well!
Monday, April 14, 2008
New House
Ok so it's not 100% yet, but I have put in a contract on a house just a few blocks from where I live now and I just heard this afternoon that they have accepted my contract. The house is in a "up and coming" hood but since this is a bank repo, I am getting it at a steal. The house is brick, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, and 875 square feet. There is a lot of work that is going to be needed so if anyone feels like spending a couple of days in Charleston at the end of May to begining of June then come one down. I am very excited and I will take some pictures and let everyone know the status soon.
Congrat's to Bec and John!
Congrat's to Bec and John!
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