I bought the house from Mama.
No, I haven’t completely lost my mind. (Although sometimes I do wonder.)
How many chances do you get to buy a home from the original owner when you KNOW what the issues are?
So far I’ve alternated between putting out fires and trying to make upgrades. For example: I bought spackle, primer and a gallon of paint for my room…and then a pipe split. So now I also get to add “replace crawlspace insulation and rodent barrier” to the list.
As you can imagine, the list is getting hard to manage.
The good news is that the roof and furnace are +/-8 years old, as is the laminate flooring.
That means now I get to (not) blog about fixing the house along with the gardening and the cooking that I’m getting ready to start doing.