We then headed off to look at four different houses. Two of the houses we wanted to look at went under contract in the last week, so our day was a bit shorter than we expected. We looked at one place "way" out in the country. It looked good on paper, but was an absolute wreck. It was at the very top of our budget, and would have required a few 100s of thousands of dollars to make decent.
Our theory was that the "Always Plenty" sign referred to the amount of work required to make the place nice.
We saw two cookie-cutter houses that were large, but pretty beat up, and just not overly interesting. We did look at one place in Boulder that we liked a lot more than we expected. It reeks of the 1960s, but in a good way. It's in a good neighborhood, and is about the right size. It does have a fair share of pink tile, some shag carpeting, and a few other issues, but overall we thought it might work well, if the seller was flexible with the price.
We met up with a friend for Sushi later in the day. He'd just seen "Hot Tub Time Machine", and seemed to enjoy it.
The next morning I headed off to help a few friends work on their vehicles. We also did a bit of packing up around the house, and made one trip to the storage unit. The weather was amazing, and we took advantage of it by going on a good walk around the nearby lakes. We then drove into town to walk around the potential house, in order to feel what the neighborhood was like. We liked what we saw.
Another week of work looms.
1 comment:
Pete-
When I bought my house in 77, in the kitchen there was red vinyl flooring, avocado green sink and dishwasher, yellow range top, and shiny salmon pink formica colored counter tops w silver colored metal trim-and I had to decide what color fridge to buy-oh yeah, there was flame orange carpet in the adjoining breakfast area and gold carpet out in the hallway. There were 5 different colors of carpet in the house-from my bedroom done in greenish grey, I could look across the hall (gold) to the red carpet in the other bedroom. At least there was no shag carpet-could hardly wait to redo everything, but it took 3-4 years to get it all done-the house, built in 71, had had 2 families before me in 6 years. The overall layout, the double car garage, and the fenced backyard are sort what closed the deal-after all, have been in residence here for 32 1/2 years! Good luck with the house hunting!
Aunt Linda
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