The Historic District

And the last batch...

A couple more, not in any particular order.

So I've been waiting to post the final outcome until I knew it. The Bungalow Project shall remain mine for a while, I have signed a lease for it. A lovely family with 4 children will be moving in shortly. The market has cooled off a bit with back to school so I could choose to hold it a while, reduc...

Ahhh, the locks make sense.

Here is s drawing from the 1800's of it

Here's what we have considered looking at properties not within 30-45 minutes of where we live: Who is going to do regular things like mow? A missed weekend or two because of "life" leads to really tall grass quickly! If there is work to be done that has to be contracted out, who will supe...

Better close up if the exposed screws in the trim and other stuff.

Some more cool stuff. Also I've never seen trim like this with exposed screws. Oh and four seat outhouse with a side door/clean out. It has integrated gutters as well however all of the downspouts failed and caused a lot of rot

Went and looked at a property today. Too much work needed for the asking price but some nice features. One or two weird "features" like what appears to be a chicken coop in the basement and a room I just can't explain at the rear. Two stories high plus a little to the roof completely unfin...

So I was out near the house again today looking at a different property so we went by it again-this time there were about 8-10 people working on it. No one looked particularly contractor-esque so we stopped to talk to them. Turns out a big family group of about 40 people got together to go in on it!...

I will say one thing I've learned is unusual doesn't mean never done. The Bungalow has been all kinds of "thats not how it should be", including the single window on one side of the fireplace without a matching one on the other side-and since it's brick it really was built that way. I'm in...