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To: Viking2002

Same here with me, too.....I feel like I’d be in one of those Japanese cartoon shows with all the weird animal like characters.

Additionally, the outside is not in good shape, and the multiple roof partitions are a nightmare -to maintain and to keep from leaking. As expected, most of the outside concrete work looks on the verge of rotting due to age, drainage and runoff problems. Could use a new paintjob, too. I’d like to see on mid-winter and one mid summer heating/cooling bill for that place.


28 posted on 05/26/2014 2:09:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
Yeah, we got this place - assessed for $139K - from HUD; not a bad deal when you figure we got our bid accepted for $79K. 5 BR, 3 BA, 1.14 acres, in the country, all brick, 2,330 square feet, two car garage, in-ground pool with palm tree, the building inspector said he'd never seen a HUD home in quite such good shape. Sunken living room, walled courtyard, landscaped, a fireplace plus a wood stove in the kitchen, small lake across the road, roosters crowing at sunrise, a homesteader's dream, right?

Horse hockey. It cost us four grand to renovate the swimming pool and plumbing, the harsh winter killed the damn palm tree (in Alabama!), the living room chimney work needs to be completely redone before we can even burn kindling in it, and the central HVAC took a nap on us in December, so we can't even cool the joint now until we get another contractor in here to fix it, and the temps are in the 80's already! And I can't even till the garden or pilot a riding mower because I've had a staph infection in my leg that six weeks' worth of antibiotics won't get rid of! I'll damn well guarantee you that we've burned through enough money to pay off half the mortgage, and it still looks like Kelso ought to come out of the bathroom holding his britches up by the belt buckle and asking, "Red? You got any more toilet paper? The roll's empty."

A log home. All I ever wanted was a log home.

29 posted on 05/26/2014 2:48:48 AM PDT by Viking2002 (Liberals - destroyers of both men and civilizations. The Fourth Turning Cometh.)
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