21st Century Money Pit

 

Here are a few pictures of the new house.  It definitely looks rough…a diamond in the rough, if you use your imagination.  It took a long night of visualizing and a quick 10k run in the heat to really see the potential here.  And since the name of the game in real estate is to get the most house for the money, I think we’ve definitely managed to do just that.  It’s about 2600 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms.  You might be wondering, “exactly how does this happen to a house?”  Well, there are several variations to the story.  Version 1: 70 year old widowed man meets an Ocean View hooker who talks him into marrying her and brings all her druggie friends to the house.  Then the hooker gets her senior citizen trophey husband arrested by filing spousel abuse charges – apparently this 80 pound man pushed her down the stairs. (I know, you can’t make up fiction this good).  Version 2: the second owner, a contractor, rented it and upon deciding to sell tried to give his tenant “cash for keys.”  Well the tenant did’t take to kindly to being kicked out and went a little berserk.  Anyway, so far it all appears to be cosmetic and fixable.  We’ll know more after the house inspection.  Alisha is finally looking forward to getting a fresh canvas on which to let her green thumb and imagination go wild.  I’m happy to finally have a garage to keep the vette in and work on my bikes.  Max of course, has no idea what new and exciting adventures he’s in for romping around the 2/3 of an acre yard.  Hopefully, this fall I’ll have a few more ‘after’ shots to really let the house shine.  And if anyone is in the area and happens to be handy with dry wall,  give me a ring, I might just have a few cold beers for you

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