So you ask: what's new? Well, let's start with an introduction first to anyone who might be new or have somehow found their way here..ok? Ok. I'm Beth, I'm 40 (sigh..lol)...I'm a stay at home Mom, I have 4 children, all boys! The oldest is 21 and he has an adorable 2 year old son of whom I'm "Oma" to, then we have a 20 year old who doesn't live at home any longer-he's a big boy now, followed by our 17 year old and lastly is our 16 year old. I'm happily married to Bob, who is 44. We have 2 dogs, Xander and Wilson, a grouchy cat named Muffin and a guinea pig, actually the guinea pig isn't mine, she belongs to the 17 year old.
We are currently fixing up a house that we recently purchased in hopes of moving into it and then selling the current home we are living in. The home we bought we actually had won through a HUD bid several years ago but due to the mortgage company dinky-donking around our bid fell thru, the gentleman who did then buy it ripped out all the kitchen cabinets, countertops and ripped all the carpet out of the house, plus some walls! Fast forward not quite a year and he passed away unexpectedly. His son ended up getting the house and his plan was to fix it up and move he and his family into it, well...fast forward...he was as truck driver who got into an accident and lost his job...he has since gotten a part-time job but they live an hour away so the drive wasn't affordable plus they couldn't find the funds to fix the house up. About a year ago he tried selling it as a "for sale by owner", we called about it and he said how much he was wanting and we decided that it was too much as with all the repairs it needed. So now we're at the present year and I was looking on Craigslist and typed in the towns name where we live at and I saw somebody had posted a house for sale...sounded very familiar, address was listed so I checked the address and sure enough, it was the same house, only now he really lowered it. I wrote to the owner to inquire of the repairs, in hopes he done some of them..nope, nothing more had been done, he asked if we were interested in the home and I responded yes but explained how we already have a home and the most I could offer him was $9000 less than he was wanting for it. We really expected him to say there was no way he could that low, but he surprised us and said "you've got it"...so just like that, we bought it! I need to take pictures of our progress and get them posted.
For now, I need to end this post and get to working on laundry. Our 21 year old is in town for a few days and brought me his laundry...ALL of his laundry! Oiy!
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