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i think it should not be a problem getting the walls up and ready for the plumbing and electric since i will be contracting out that work had a guy quote me to do the drywall and he quoted 8500 which i feel is a bit steep i can put in my own drywall for that price once that all goes in i need to have a new hvac system installed we are looking at another 10 000 for that which means we will be pretty strapped for cash i have been talking to enthought about taking me on full time but they don t think that they will have enough work to keep me busy at 40 hours a week i told them i could still contract with them but i would have to charge them a lot more since i would not have a job supplementing my income currently i am charging them 30 hr for the work i do i wrote down all my expenses and necessities and came up with what i would have to charge them to cover all my own benefits and expenses myself the total came out to be about 80 hr if they want me to work 20 hours a week travis oliphant has broken off from enthought and started his own company and has expressed an interest in paying me to do some contract work for him so perhaps between the two companies i would be able to make ends meet i have thought about looking for another job with a bigger company in the it field but i may end up making more starting my own contracting company i will just have to make sure we bank all we can for the slow times should be exciting there are so many fun things going on right now so lets see if we add up all the money we intend to spend on this house it comes out to about 70000 so that plus the 180k we spent buying the place we are around 250k which is a bit more than our last place that is not including the new garage i want to build or the fencing or the kitchen or the bathrooms or floors but lets just not think about that right now i am sure it will pay for itself in the future but look we are close to the church and the stores see me smiling perhaps one day when all the kids grow up and move away we can move out to a nice ranch in montana and live off the grid or in a concentration camp like obama is planning emma has been posting images of our house progress on facebook but i wanted to have some here as well in case facebook is taken over by the government posted by thepalsrus at 10 55 pm 0 insights wednesday september 28 2011 levi s treasure hunt clue 1 everybody like them their parents hide them they are not there every day we have to look after them every night but nobody wants to chicken egg box clue 2 dad built it twice and had to remove it to move a bird made a nest here and a tasty treat for cat where the shed used to be clue 3 zoey s favorite black treat black berries clue 4 gobble it all up but some things we don t like when we are done we deposit them here the sight causing a fright rubbish to most but delicacy to one levi s favorite place to dine after playing video games is done dish washer clue 5 it smells like a skunk but keeps the place neat put your foot inside to protect your feet off they come nowhere to be found if you put them here they will always be around shoe box clue 6 good things are inside but are very hard to eat a crystalline structure that looks really neat put your hand in and it comes out all blue often hear dad say get out of there you freezer clue 7 eaten from hand but despised on the ground why wont they eat it even when no one is around second to cat food so here it just sits will nobody eat me this is the pits chicken food bucket clue 8 my life is a mess my casings do stink i am used all night tossing here and there sometimes i feel like i am wrestling a bear when all settles down and the critter then sleeps then comes the drool and i began to weep why don t you change me and make me all new the incentive is grand a new tag for you levi s pillow case clue 9 so close you are more near then you think have you checked under there or where you get a drink not there you fool you don t drink from there you first need a cup germs give us a scare cup cabinet clue 10 this is the last clue and soon you will see what treasure awaits in one of the trees bird house clue 11 ha ha ha you thought you were done look next to the boob tube where you watch pokémon cabinet next to tv posted by thepalsrus at 8 50 pm 0 insights labels family family outings fun kids friday september 16 2011 were in we finally closed on our house on wednesday i guess it is better late than never we spend the days since our initial closing date july 15th looking for other options but was unable to find anything better we did not waste any time getting to work yesterday we loaded up the two minivans with boxes and headed down to our new old house we unloaded the vans into the garage and began work on getting the house livable the house smelled old and dirty so we wanted to pull out all the carpet and old tile so we could start anew we also are planning to move a few walls around at some point and having no flooring makes this a bit easier emma started on the carpets and levi and i headed off to lowes to pick up some supplies new toilets were a must the old ones did not flush very well and one of them constantly leaked we also wanted the low water usage ones and the old ones use about 5 gallons each flush 2 toilets check we also wanted to build a garbage box so we would have a place to toss everything we were pulling out and thus picked up some 5 osb as well we are planning to pull out all the cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms and need some temporary replacements we are planning on just framing up some cabinets out of 2x4s and plywood so we picked up the necessary supplies and are gleaming craigslist for replacement sinks and fixtures it only took about 2 hours to get all our supplies when i get a call from emma it is after 2 now and she has not had anything to eat so we rush over to subway and fuel up on our way back to the house after a brief lunch break we get back to work we were able to get all the floors up and knocked out the upper cabinets in the kitchen before we cleaned up a bit and called it a night there was tile in both the back bedrooms the kitchen and family room i know what you are thinking why would they pull up perfectly good tile well it was not normal tile it was the stuff you used to see in old school buildings it appeared to be some soft of paper clay tile and was glued down with some sort of black glue we suspect that it may be asbestos so we wore face masks and are going to wet it down and buff off the black glue with a floor sander which is what we are planning for today i also tried to install a new digital thermostat but was unable to decipher the lenox wiring codes so i could hook it up i called robert knox a friend of ours from church who works on ac systems and ask him what i could do when he heard that it was a lenox system he said that i should just leave the old one on until i am ready to replace the entire system lenox is pretty cryptic with their equipment and do not use conventional wiring schemes i reinstalled the old one and made sure it worked still and left the house to cool down over night levi helped us all day and he was a real champ he did a great job with the tile scraper and helped us fill the trash can and cleanup multiple times he tried to help me lift the wood at lowes to put it on the cart but was a little under powered for the task he was able to help he lift the first 3 4 piece of osb on before one of the lowes employees stepped in to help a few times levi got a little frustrated but was able to recover quickly and happily continue work it wasn t until the very end where he finally ran out of gas i hope that he does as well tomorrow he is a great help today we are planning to remove the rest of the cabinets and update the plumbing a bit the shutoff valve at the street is the old style instead of the 90 degree ball valve so i may try to have the city come out and change that for us so we can actually turn off the water to the house i will probably swing by the re store and see if they have some sinks and fixtures that will work for us we are also going to rent a floor sander from home depot and clean the floors today emma has also been emailing trevor her older brother and we are hoping to have him down in about 5 weeks to help us extend the back of the house 10 feet we have a few things we need to do before he gets here like make sure we have the plans and permits needed to do the extension we don t foresee any issues since we are not in the kyle city limits but need to have all the documentation in place just to make sure well i had better get back to it i need to load up my van full of boxes and go and get my trailer from tom stevens house emma should be back from getting zoey and taya s physicals and then we can load up her van as well we plan on leaving the majority of the furniture in the current house until we can get it sold so that it shows better i am a bit sore from yesterday but no better way to make that go away then to do more of the same thing that made you sore in the first place posted by thepalsrus at 10 02 am 0 insights labels house monday august 8 2011 house update so we just heard back from the credit union where we are trying to get our loan at and they told us that they could not loan us the money apparently since no homes have sold in the area recently they do not have any comps to estimate the mortgage insurance against comps are comparable estimates based on the value of the homes sold around the area we ask why they could not use the values that the appraiser that they hired came up with so they went to the appraiser and ask how he came up with the values that he had and he updated his original estimate to 20k less than he appraised the home for the first time so the back came back and says i am sorry we cant loan you the money for this home because we can only lend you 80 of the value of the home so we are back to where we were before where we would have to get the owner to drop the price again don t get me wrong i would love to have them drop it 20 000 we initially chose the credit union because they were less likely to sell our loan but the hassle is not worth it we are now trying to get our loan through the conventional means which means another 3 weeks before we can close on the house if these guys come back with the value of the home at 160k then either the home owner will have to drop the price or we are done trying to buy it it is a little depressing anyway in all my excitement of fixing up this new house i drew up some more plans of what we want to do if we ever move into the place below is the before and after images i will update again when i get more information posted by thepalsrus at 9 40 am 0 insights labels house wednesday july 20 2011 delays well our pre designated close date on the new place has come and gone we were supposed to close on the 15th and come to find out that there was something wrong on the application we just got the appraisal back from the bank and they said that the house is not worth as much as the owner wants to sell it for he wants to sell it to us for 190k and it is only worth 183k so they will not loan us the money unless he drops the price hopefully he will concede and drop the price for us since we have pushed it this far apparently when the whole process started he assumed that the house was his after his mother died and did not do any paperwork to get it transferred into his name so he had to go through the process of finding a will or whatever the process is in order to transfer it to him before he can sell it then the tax records and the title company have the land plotted differently so they had to hammer out the details the tax record had it listed as one plot with 5 7 acres and 2 dwellings on it the title company had it listed as 1 dwelling with 3 7 acres i would not have minded them giving us the whole mess for the same price but i understand we ultimately want to purchase his 2 acres and the other dwelling from him to put storage units on but we do not have the money to do that now i am getting a little anxious to get things rolling i have a garage full of boxes that i would like to start moving down there and we just had our tile and carpet cleaned emma has been doing a lot of work painting the house and fixing it up so we can get it on the market i think we are close we just need to get all this stuff out of here i think we are taking the chickens to a friends house while we make the transition not sure what we are going to do with our compost piles and garden emma was talking about just taking the sides off the garden and spreading the dirt out over the lawn i was thinking of just transferring the compost to the flower beds and covering it up with mulch we may just leave them and let the new home owners deal with it though since we are doing owner financing we have a few more options we are having an architect come down and look over the place today we want to add another room a bathroom an extension on the back of the house remove the fireplace redo the kitchen build a room bathroom and pantry in the garage and put a deck on the back of the house emma and i cannot agree on how to do this so she is asking the architect to do it for us i mean come on how much more creative can he be than we are i guess he will know the structural limitations as well so will save us some headaches during the building process the biggest stumbling block we have to face is were to begin i know we want to rip out the carpets and what is left of the vinyl tile but we do not want to put new floors in until we move some walls and plumbing around if we tear out the back wall of the house the things will get a bit drafty but it would allow us to home the wall where we want them we would also want to do that when the weather is cooler hopefully the magic architect will have some ideas for us will update when i hear back from him posted by thepalsrus at 10 48 am 0 insights labels house wednesday june 1 2011 weekend fun well it is official we are preparing to move to kyle we had been looking for a place to move to since about february and none of the locations met our criteria until we came across this little place in kyle the home owner was selling 2 plots one with a 3x2 house and the other with a mobile home on it for 300 we did not like the price but we did like the land the plots combined mad about 6 acres we made him several offers but he was set on the 300k for both places the tax assessor thinks the 2 plots combines with structures is only work 200k since we were not in a hurry we ask his relator to notify us when he decided to drop the price it took nearly 4 months for him to accept our offer for the one house with the 3 bed 2 bath and 4 acres for 190k we would still like both plots but figured the mobile home is not going anywhere and we should be able to pic it up in a few years the house needs a lot of work and we...