Remodeling

September 24, 2016
On September 9th the bailiff served the writ to my tenants and they were gone! Thank goodness. The place was empty but they left a mountain of trash in the front yard and a $556 water bill including a hefty charge from the trash collectors for picking up their piles.
We ripped out flooring which was warped and buckled from water damage in the bathroom and the kitchen under the washer. Cabinets went because drawer fronts were missing, drawer slides were AWOL and the cabinets had water damage as well. Plus the boss (my wife) told me to get rid of them. So they went into the dumpster. Out came all the laminate hardwood and carpet in the bedrooms.
Since then we have tiled the bathroom and kitchen, repaired about a hundred holes in the walls and some structural cracks from settling using five gallons of drywall mud. Becky has become quite adapt at fixing and filling holes. Trim has been pulled down and primered. We replaced the front door because the frame and the structure around it was broken in the wall, the bedroom door was missing, the second bedroom door had a fist hole in it and both closet doors were broken. The back door frame was pushed out of wack by half an inch. The only door we didn't need to repair or replace was the bathroom door.
I have a whole laundry list of things that need to be repaired and replaced. We seem to be making headway now and once we get the walls painted we can put in the hardwood floor and then its finishing the trim and getting it rented.
Then maybe...maybe...we can get back on the road...well to Florida where we'll spend the winter.

Thanks for reading the blog and I hope you are enjoying it. This year has not gone nearly as I planned and we haven't done as much traveling as I wanted. As Meade Breeze says in the Ed Robinson series...."Shit works out."