flyangel2 2 #51 October 15, 2003 You don't know Beth! Congrats Andrea on the house. Yes, it's a scary feeling. When my kids father died seven years ago, we decided that staying in that house was just too much. I had to sell and buy another house all alone. But now I look around the house and I'm so proud of myself.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #52 October 16, 2003 The cable guy came today, so I had to move the computer over to the house. No furniture is here yet, so the computer and I are on the floor. Yes, this is my first post in my new house! She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowwhite 0 #53 October 21, 2003 QuoteQuoteThe first time I bought a house in my name only, it took me three months to get up the courage to tell my husband. By then I had made 3 payments without any input from him, so he was cool with it. Don't worry, the butterflies go away at about month 12. You bought a house with out your husband knowing? thats got to be a good story..lets hear it...... I had a little music business I was running out of the basement of our house, it had been growing nicely. It suddenly got WAY too big to stay in the basement, but I couldn't afford to move it. I thought. We had been looking for a new site, and in the search had gone thru a building a block from our home, but it was TOO big and TOO expensive, and Dave HATED it.So the search was still on. Everything we looked at was worse than whatever we had looked at before, so I was getting really discouraged. Well, I decided to give the house that was one block over one more try, so I made a ridiculously low offer, exactly HALF of what they had been asking. They came back with a counter offer, but I held firm, and they TOOK it! I told them I had NO down payment, and wanted to pay a 300 amount every month, at the end of the year I wanted CREDIT for 1/2 of the 300 monthly, so that I could go to the bank and finance the house. In the meantime, I wanted them to carry it on contract for me. THEY DID IT ALL! I thought the whole thing was so ridiculous that I didn't have a chance, but the owner was in a coma, and the estate wanted to get it off their hands before the snow flew. So one day, here comes their lawyer with the key. I spent every morning for the next three months cleaning, painting, glazing windows and gettting the place set up to be a shop in the lower half, and an apartment in the upper half. By the time Dave saw the house, I had won a bid from the School System for a bunch of basses and cellos, so when he walked into our home, full of instruments, he about had a heart attack, and said "you've GOT to find a music shop". I told him, "honey, come look at a piece of property that you might be interested in with me tomorrow" He said he knew that something was up the minute I pulled the key from my pocket.skydiveTaylorville.org freefallbeth@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheAnvil 0 #54 October 21, 2003 I'm in another damned state and the 'free beer' light goes on. TheAnvil can move heavy things - like a mini-bulldozer or forklift. Dammit. Congrats on the new house. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
