Promise Acre: Our Journey

[greybeard]

But things get to tight and if we need to we will get ours on the market come spring.

Refresh our memory.
Is your old place paid off...the house and property you are currently living in?

 

[RollingAcres]

I will put in my 2 cts..... I have to pretty much agree with what @Latestarter said. It seems that as many times as your mom has waffled on her place, that you should HONOR your DH and your marriage, and your kids, and do what is right for your IMMEDIATE FAMILY. If you are getting this place, with no "guarantees" from her sale or her name on the deed, then the bank obviously thinks you can make it fly. DO IT ON YOUR OWN... when and if she ever does get to where she has to sell, then make a place for her there. But if this is what you really want, then make it work for your household. She has too many horses by what you've said in the past, cannot take care of things the way she should perhaps due to finances.... but you have to take care of yourselves first. Get a couple of rooms done so you can move in. Looks like the downstairs is more habitable. Kitchen, bath, slleping quarters. Then get yours on the market and sold. Then take that money that you have left after paying off your obligations, and put into the renovations and fencing or whatever you need. Once she gets to where she has made a decision, and followed through, you can add her to YOUR place.

X2!

 

[promiseacres]

Refresh our memory.
Is your old place paid off...the house and property you are currently living in?

It is not. But paid down decently as we had a 20 year loan.

In any case it's ours. here's a couple more pics, including the 80' corn crib.

 

[greybeard]

that's a lot of corn...........

The house looks very nice and ..'farmy'.

What's the little room off to the side..the one with the sat dish on top?

Many years ago when I was still in the military, my 1st wife & I rented an apt that was originally an old barn. I think it was in N. Carolina..may have been Louisiana. We had the whole upstairs (a 3 bedroom apt) and there were 2 other 1 bed room apts downstairs. It was quite nice, and I don't think it really cost the owner a whole lot to convert it from barn to residence and finish out the interior. On the ends upstairs, where the hay doors originally were, were huge picture windows.

 

[promiseacres]

that's a lot of corn...........

DH plans on using it for hay storage, a lean to on the front side for horse stalls and then space for rabbits in a crib. eventually we'll remove the middle level (there's 3 stories and have more hay storage up top. big enough we can pull a wagon right in!)

What's the little room off to the side..the one with the sat dish on top?

It's an alcove for stairs, they used to go into the kitchen, but they walled it in and it just goes down to the basement now.

 

[Baymule]

It is yours! I love the house, it is so homey looking.

 

[Latestarter]

CONGRATS! What a trip to get there, but you made it! Lots of work ahead, but many years of memories waiting to be made as well. Really happy for you.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm sure you will but take lots of before and after pics. We did in most of the house but a few were so bad that only a picture could confirm to someone that had not been here. We would tell folks how bad things were and when we showed pictures they were in awe that a home could look that bad and someone could live there.

 

[greybeard]

if you replace electrical or plumbing within walls, take pics before you close the walls back up and keep those pictures on disc ..forever. It can help a lot if you develop problems down the road and you need to remember exactly what is inside those walls before you tear back into them. Like this that shows me what kind of vent fans we have in the bathroom and how the vents run:

And how the plumbing looks inside the wall, for the kitchen sink water supply:


I took pics daily as the house was being built, so I know where every wire run is, what and where every bit of plumbing is and it has already come in very handy when a galvanized nipple failed inside a wall at the water heater. (this was when they had both lines plugged off for inspectors press/leak test)

 

[promiseacres]

if you replace electrical or plumbing within walls, take pics before you close the walls back up and keep those pictures on disc ..forever. It can help a lot if you develop problems down the road and you need to remember exactly what is inside those walls before you tear back into them. Like this that shows me what kind of vent fans we have in the bathroom and how they runs:
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And how the plumbing looks inside the wall, for the kitchen sink water supply:
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I took pics daily as the house was being built, so I know where every wire run is, what and where every bit of plumbing is and it has already come in very handy when a galvanized nipple failed inside a wall at the water heater. (this was when they had both lines plugged off for inspectors press/leak test)
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Great idea!