BYC Café

[N F C]

You're right, we do and I think we're all doing a good job sprouting where we're planted.

Best of luck to you on the possible move! It's both exciting and a dreaded event isn't it?

BTW I threw Sean under the bus on the foodie thread and he doesn't visit us there

@007Sean sorry about that, I accused you of running off with NFCs breakfast

Yeah, that old chestnut "bloom where you are planted"

I'm still going to say Sean ran off with my egg & toast and say it was a stealth raid! He's sneaky like that

 

[DobieLover]

Don't apologize I find it all very interesting. If our house ever had to be rebuilt I'd be tempted to go underground right here on my current property. And smaller too, we need more storage but less actual living space.

I would've had an xray too but for a fracture wouldn't have done much. People in the states are like helicopters...hovering just in case. It's ridiculous in my opinion but

We started looking for a small house that was in bad shape but had great bones on a small piece of land in a rural setting and, oh, wouldn't it be nice if it were on a dead end road? I found it less than a week after we discussed the perfect house for us.
It was a former hoarder house, the garage roof was so bad birds were flying through holes in the roof to get to their nests and there was a large roof leak around the electric supply weather head roof penetration in the house. It stunk to high heaven when we first looked at it.
For me, it was love at first sight! We put the offer in the first day we saw it. When all was said and done after the septic escrow was released, we got it for $29K. It was a 3/2 that sits on 1.25 acres on a dead end road with just three houses past us. We tore it down to the studs and are rebuilding it into a 2/2 with first floor laundry. Still working on it. Here is what it looked like when we bought it:

 

[N F C]

We started looking for a small house that was in bad shape but had great bones on a small piece of land in a rural setting and, oh, wouldn't it be nice if it were on a dead end road? I found it less than a week after we discussed the perfect house for us.
It was a former hoarder house, the garage roof was so bad birds were flying through holes in the roof to get to their nests and there was a large roof leak around the electric supply weather head roof penetration in the house. It stunk to high heaven when we first looked at it.
For me, it was love at first sight! We put the offer in the first day we saw it. When all was said and done after the septic escrow was released, we got it for $29K. It was a 3/2 that sits on 1.25 acres on a dead end road with just three houses past us. We tore it down to the studs and are rebuilding it into a 2/2 with first floor laundry. Still working on it. Here is what it looked like when we bought it:
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That's the kind of story I want to hear more about! Do you have more pictures we could see Tonya?

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Café, and thanks Shad. Shad I flinched at you description of your injury - couldn't like that. @007Sean , they're throwing you under the bus here - better put the breakfast back.

 

[N F C]

Good morning, Café, and thanks Shad. Shad I flinched at you description of your injury - couldn't like that. @007Sean , they're throwing you under the bus here - better put the breakfast back.

I bet he's already eaten it

 

[Shadrach]

We started looking for a small house that was in bad shape but had great bones on a small piece of land in a rural setting and, oh, wouldn't it be nice if it were on a dead end road? I found it less than a week after we discussed the perfect house for us.
It was a former hoarder house, the garage roof was so bad birds were flying through holes in the roof to get to their nests and there was a large roof leak around the electric supply weather head roof penetration in the house. It stunk to high heaven when we first looked at it.
For me, it was love at first sight! We put the offer in the first day we saw it. When all was said and done after the septic escrow was released, we got it for $29K. It was a 3/2 that sits on 1.25 acres on a dead end road with just three houses past us. We tore it down to the studs and are rebuilding it into a 2/2 with first floor laundry. Still working on it. Here is what it looked like when we bought it:
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29K! You couldn't buy a decent garage in the UK for that anywhere near work.

 

[sourland]

29K! You couldn't buy a decent garage in the UK for that anywhere near work.

How times change. It was a bit ago ('65 to be exact) that we bought this 5 year old ranch on 11.25 acres for $21,500 . Mind you I was only making $7,250/yr at the time. Best investment I have ever made.

@DobieLover, great buy.

 

[drumstick diva]

You dun good Sour

 

[Shadrach]

How times change. It was a bit ago ('65 to be exact) that we bought this 5 year old ranch on 11.25 acres for $21,500 . Mind you I was only making $7,250/yr at the time. Best investment I have ever made.

@DobieLover, great buy.

My eldest bought a house on the outskirts of Bristol UK a couple of years ago. She's married and they both work. Neither earn decent money. The family clubbed together to raise a deposit which wasn't far short of what DobiLover paid for her place in the picture.
The house price with a postage stamp of a garden at the front and an 20 foot patch at the back was one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds. The house looks onto a main road that feeds two motorways close by and the local docks.
It was a bargain in UK terms, despite needing a complete interior strip out, new plumbing and electrics.

 

[sourland]

You dun good Sour

Can you believe that at the time I thought I could not afford to buy ? A mentor/father figure substitute told me, "If you can't afford this, you will never afford a home, and if you don't buy it, I am going to." Thank you, Carl.