Larsen Poultry Ranch - homesteading journey

[Bruce]

That is a bucket load of bunnies!!

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Well, it looks like my old house is back on the market. They did a lot of painting, added stairs in the backyard, new countertops in the kitchen and different stove, remodeled the bathroom, new roof, no pics of the garage/storage zone. Listed it for 69,500 higher than I sold it. Dunno how much they spent remodeling but the roof wasn't cheap I bet. Interesting to see what it sells for.

 

[Bruce]

Bought it to flip I guess?

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Bought it to flip I guess?

Maybe. Their letter made it sound like they were looking for a home, but I guess you just can't trust people to be honest in those letters. Probably just wrote what sounded best in order to get the house.

Brand new roof and remodeled bathroom couldn't have been cheap, not sure how much they would make off it as a flip. Trying to convince myself it doesn't matter and who cares, just annoyed.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Bunnies are growing well. I think two of Pepper bunnies are Vienna carriers, might be considered Vienna marked. I think this one is a buck, second one with not as striking eye looks like a doe. No snips of white, but different eye colors.

Sage bunnies, starting to see difference in the fur, the opal has Rex fur and two others are Rex, the rest look like normal fur.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Hubby pushed to start flooring in the living room, as there's a place in the floor by the back door that there's no subfloor anymore, just the carpet holding you up. We started pulling up the carpet and there's clear dry rot by the window. We start pulling the wall paneling and there's more dry rot, and above the window there's leaves in with the insulation and it's damp.

He pulled up the subfloor by the window and found several rat nests and two long dead rats.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

The floor joists in this area are 2x4s. The rest of the house is 2x6s. They didn't build proper headers above the windows and the rot has pretty much demolished the floor plate. The whole wall wiggles if you push on the stud next to the window.

I think we need to redo the whole f*ing roof. I think it's been leaking above the window, for who knows how long.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

They clearly made some repairs, as parts of the original subfloor were already replaced, and the ceiling had been replaced with drywall. But they didn't correctly repair the roof. So mad that people do these f*ing cheap incorrect repairs and leave the next person to deal with the fall out.

 

[Baymule]

That sucks. What a lousy thing to happen and now you get stuck with the repairs. That's going to take time and money away from other things that you need to do. Not much you can do about that, this is a serious repair and must be done. What type of roof does the house have and can your hubby do roofing?

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

That sucks. What a lousy thing to happen and now you get stuck with the repairs. That's going to take time and money away from other things that you need to do. Not much you can do about that, this is a serious repair and must be done. What type of roof does the house have and can your hubby do roofing?

It has a shingle roof, and we know how to do shingles. I wanted to wait on the roof until the rainy season is over, so there's less chance we have to scramble to get it done or tarp it. I think we could probably do the roof in a weekend, we have friends we can pay/bribe with money/beer/pizza to help.

We had a friend who works construction come over and give us his opinion. He said it might not be as bad as we originally thought, but there's definitely dry rot and some termite damage. If we can replace some of the footer beams and studs it should be fine, wood is just so dang expensive now. Hubby already has osb or plywood to replace the subfloor. It's probably going to take a week or so to get fixed, hubby still has a full time day job to do.