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Our New house

Stoney said:
So as some of you know I recently got divorced (finally), and am getting remarried. Hence why I haven't been on here much.
Since I'm 41 and have not had my mid life crisis yet we (wife to be and I)decided to do something crazy....
We bought a house...first one either of us have actually owned. Which is a awesome feeling, but kinda intimidating at the same time, mainly because this house is definitely a fixer upper. But hey I'm a contractor so no big deal (yeah right)...
We put the offer in back in early February and finally closed on it this past Friday (March 20th). It's a foreclosure so we got it for a whopping 9,000$.plus closing costs..grand total to be home owners was just over 10 thousand..we had about 12 thousand in the bank so we paid cash for it No mortgage 😁
Now for the bad news. It left us with about 2,000$ to our names but have plenty of contracts lined up for next few months so no big deal...
Ummmm. Wrong....2 days after we closed our great governor Mr. Cuomo, decided to shut down the state of New York due to Corona virus. All non essential businesses closed till further notice...thanks prick.
Soooo. Bad timing..but hey we own the place outright so we will survive..
Kitchen was destroyed so we gutted it to the studs the same day we closed. It's part of a 3part addition off the back of the house..all added at different times by different skill levels of workers...funn. not.
We're tearing off the other 2 addition parts cause there damaged to bad to bother saving $wise and we want the space for a bigger back yard. The kitchen floor is shot. Joices and all from water damage. So there getting replaced to. And we're relocating the bathroom from one of the addition rooms to a small room in the main part of the house. Nothing to major there. Plus we already had all the 2x8s and osb for kitchen floor as well as a brand new set of cabinets.. so that's money we don't have to spend. And I have a furnace and brand new hot water tank in storage for the place ( original boiler is toast and so is water tank). The rest of the place just needs alot of cosmetic work done. And definitely will need new windows eventually. But again for the price we got it for.. we ain't bitching.
Now for the real bad part. The original foundation was field stone like most older houses around here. with a crawl space under the house. (Built in 1940). Which is fine , they worked for hundreds of years. But of course some moron had to get an idea when they built the first addition (where the kitchen is). He decided to take out 15 feet of the foundation starting from the back corner of the house and six feet along the adjacent wall of the house. The dug a basement hole if you will under that corner. The long spand is sitting on telescoping Jack's . Under the shorter corner of the main house (6ft area) they built a block wall. It starts 6ft under the main house and runs about 20 ft or so. It's what the kitchen addition is sitting on. The block wall is under 2 walls of the kitchen. This probably seemed like a good idea to them..but they didn't plan for all the water that pours on the ground out side the one side of the house off the shed roof which is only 3ft from the house...it's caused the 20 foot block wall to buckle. (I'm going to attach lots of pics) soi get the fun job of jacking up that corner of the house a couple inches and pouring a concrete wall there (and put gutters on the shed) to send the water elsewhere. FUN TIMES..
The place sat empty for about 4years so planning to find alot of other stuff to fix. Going to PEX pipe the whole place and (when money allows) rewire it.
Just thought I'd do a project thread on here to show you all.. got plenty of time to work on it since can't go to work till the governor says I can...View attachment 59911View attachment 59912View attachment 59913View attachment 59914View attachment 59915View attachment 59916View attachment 59917View attachment 59918View attachment 59919View attachment 59920
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Just saw this thread, congrats on the new home and a new start in life. No Mortgage is a plus.
 
Not been able to get much done on the house lately...got fired from my job for taking paid family leave when the baby was born... I shit you not ..I got a termination letter about a week before leave ran up saying I was being fired for not working in the past 60 days....DUH IM ON PAID LEAVE YOU MORONS!!! N.Y. has a law that your entitled to paid leave....
Soooo.. I got unemployment for now...with my record it's pretty hard to find work... Technically it's all considered y.o. status but 24 years later they still hold it against you..
Good news is we had a gas leak in our main...so gas company had to dig up the Driveway.... They also had to pay to have a brand new driveway put it which saved us a ton cause the old one was in really bad shape..were gonna get it capped about 2-3 inch's thicker though just to get the slope we want... But hey free driveway is AWESOME...
Also when we tore off the addition we saved alot of the lumber.. 2x4s. And 2x6&8s...not good for building in the house buuut. Plenty good enough to build the wife some nice raised beds to grow vegetables in...
Also decided that since the 16'x 8' shed at end of driveway is in the way causing me not to be able to get my 26 foot enclosed trailer in next to the house and have truck in all the way...soooo. wife want greenhouse, I don't want shed...I'm broke.. 🤔....started stripping the shed down to the frame... So it's just the skeleton...were gonna Jake it up and put some 4" PVC pipes under it and roll it in to the back yard where she wants green house... thankful it's almost straight back about 35 feet from where it is now, so pretty easy to move... And already have a huge roll of plastic to put over it..
 
It will...we've both been through living hell in our lives... Seriously..you wouldn't believe the stuff if I told you...that's why I know we can get through this little down side no problem....
 
Trust me we'd appreciate it but for some dumb reason we got stupid and bought a house in NY... Probably going to sell it once it's done and head someplace else..can't really decide where.. we thought of everywhere from back to Tennessee, to Nevada,. Even up in your area or in the badlands...hell we even considered Russia if Biden screws this country up any worse.
 
Parts of Montana would be great too. Biggest problem on the eastern side is, winters can get brutally cold and summers extremely hot.
F&G regulations do not allow for sustenance hunting and fishing.
About the most fish that can be legally kept, like in a freezer, is ten.
There are some special hunts that more than two tags can be purchased for deer, usually white tail does.
I wonder what Russias sustenance hunting and fishing rules/regulations is like ?
 
Alaska allows quite a nice sustenance package.
Winters to the Pacific side are usually quite mild and the snow pack isnt too bad too.
Deer are found only in certain areas but caribou and mooses can be found most any place.
Cost of living close to the Anchorage area is reasonable too.
 
denata said:
Get involved in a company that works in Russia. and come and see.
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That would be one inexpensive way to get to see how people in other countries lives.
In this town, there is no companies that does business overseas. It’s a long scary drive to get to a town that would. 😳😩😹😹😹
 
Wonder if Corning Glass has any plants over there..they have plants all over the globe...of course they have there hands in all kinds of stuff...corning catalytic, corning fiber optic, Owens Corning, corning Corelle ware...etc..etc...
 
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