joyfulmomof2
06-08-2005, 08:19 AM
Not sure where to put this one, sorry. So dh and I moved to Missouri about 6 months ago. We were in Colorado and if you know anything about the real estate business, then you know that cost of living there is pretty high. We are in this small town now where it is pretty low. Like culture shockingly low. lol We have been renting from this professor at the school that dh is attending as he works toward his bachelor's degree. I like this little town. It isn't that small, but smaller than anything I have been in and I wouldn't mind settling down here for a time. But the houses here are old. I started a thread on the old board called Cyber Trading Spaces. I asked you ladies to help me redecorate this place. The landlord was willing to make any repairs 'necessary' that we wanted. Well he was willing to supply the materials if we supplied the labor. The rent was cheap, etc. This summer he has given dh a full time job as well doing repairs on all of the properties that he owns. Which is such a God-send. :)
Ok, so dh has been working on this one home and has fallen in love with it. It is 'tore-up from the floor-up' iykwim. It is about 100 years old and needs a ton of work, but he has a great imagination. ;) I do to usually, but this one is hard. lol It needs a lot of work, but he is getting a great price on it. God has made it possible for us to buy our first home and this is so neat!!! Dh is giddy like a child about the whole thing, which makes it even more appealing. I have known since we met that he has wanted to buy me a home and settle somewhere and do the whole husband thing. He is very handy and there are very few things that he would need help with as far as repairs.
The house is huge. It stands 3 stories above ground and had a basement to boot. It has a decent yard, lots of trees and a potentially lovely wrap around porch. Although, I would want the thing all for ourselves, this is a college town and we could feasibly rent several bedrooms out to students upstairs and just make our home downstairs and somehow section it off away from everyone. The mortgage payment would be lower than our rent is now and we would have at least 4 times the space and the possibility of income as well. But again, it needs a lot of work. Probably, $6000 worth and I am not certain the condition of the roof. I am going to go walk through it with him today and let him show me that the foundation and everything is in as good of shape as he says. We would have lovely wood floors, etc. which I would love, could get a pet - oh how I miss my dog (we had to give her up to move here - but thankfully she lives with my sister who is spoiling her rotten ;)), ds would have a yard to play in that we could fence off or something, I could have a garden, I could have sewing/project room and dh could have a studio - oh how fun it would be.
What would you do???
TIA!
Ok, so dh has been working on this one home and has fallen in love with it. It is 'tore-up from the floor-up' iykwim. It is about 100 years old and needs a ton of work, but he has a great imagination. ;) I do to usually, but this one is hard. lol It needs a lot of work, but he is getting a great price on it. God has made it possible for us to buy our first home and this is so neat!!! Dh is giddy like a child about the whole thing, which makes it even more appealing. I have known since we met that he has wanted to buy me a home and settle somewhere and do the whole husband thing. He is very handy and there are very few things that he would need help with as far as repairs.
The house is huge. It stands 3 stories above ground and had a basement to boot. It has a decent yard, lots of trees and a potentially lovely wrap around porch. Although, I would want the thing all for ourselves, this is a college town and we could feasibly rent several bedrooms out to students upstairs and just make our home downstairs and somehow section it off away from everyone. The mortgage payment would be lower than our rent is now and we would have at least 4 times the space and the possibility of income as well. But again, it needs a lot of work. Probably, $6000 worth and I am not certain the condition of the roof. I am going to go walk through it with him today and let him show me that the foundation and everything is in as good of shape as he says. We would have lovely wood floors, etc. which I would love, could get a pet - oh how I miss my dog (we had to give her up to move here - but thankfully she lives with my sister who is spoiling her rotten ;)), ds would have a yard to play in that we could fence off or something, I could have a garden, I could have sewing/project room and dh could have a studio - oh how fun it would be.
What would you do???
TIA!