Our Self Sufficient Home

Outside before pictures

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:03:01 +0000

This is a collection of pictures of what the landscape and area around our house looked like prior to us cleaning it up. Trees and brush left of entrance to rear deck. Directly off the rear deck (left side). Picture taken from left of deck looking to right of deck. Low growing shrubs around our Japanese Maple Tree. [...]

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More pictures of how our house looked to start

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:46:11 +0000

I want to make sure the before pictures are as well documented as the during and after pictures for work done on our house. So that is why there will be a decent number of posts outlining and showcasing what the house had and looked like prior to the work completed. This picture shows the dead [...]

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Our house before work started

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:31:51 +0000

Prior to the purchase of our house “work had to be done” to make the lender give sell us a loan. Basically for this house we had to do some spring cleaning and repair a few minor items… nothing a days work couldn’t cure. These pictures are actually how we got the house, we went in [...]

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We got a house!

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:48:34 +0000

So, after nearly two months of being in escrow we finally closed on our house a week and day or two ago. The house we closed on was the ‘fixer with lots of land‘. More information about the house: 3 Bed 2 Full bath Great room concept Huge kitchen w/huge pantry Approx 400sq.ft basement 60% finished/drywalled 18 acres of wooded land approx [...]

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Fixer with Land

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:14:33 +0000

This house is further than we wanted to be from work / city and needs a little TLC… ok a LOT of TLC but it has more than any other house we’ve looked at in terms of land, features, size and options. I have a feeling this one will go through for us and we [...]

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2 Homes one day

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:28:12 +0000

Well we found two homes relatively close to check out and decided to make a day out of it. They were not to far from work or where we are now compared to others we’d checked out, and they both looked unique in the pictures online. The first house we looked at was a potential possiblity [...]

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A house with a view Update #1

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:18:01 +0000

So, we heard back from the selling agent about the house with a view and it doesn’t sound good. Since it’s a short sale the bank has the final say and the last offer they received the bank took 2 months to get back on and their counter was for almost 50,000 more than their [...]

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Take Pictures way more than you think you need

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:59:31 +0000

When we first started looking at homes I took my camera and planned to take pictures however on the first couple I took only a few pictures. I quickly learned I was questioning what I saw because I couldn’t memorize the entire house and layout. So, in the future I started taking pictures of EVERYTHING. [...]

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A house with a view

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:34:42 +0000

The pictures of this house made it look almost fake, and the interior was interesting looking in the pictures. Since we’d seen homes look totally different in person than pictures we decided it was worth checking out. Another thing to note about this house was that it is in the complete opposite direction of the [...]

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Our Dream Home?

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:04:51 +0000

After the last house turned out to be terrible we decided to be even more strict on the house looks and requirements. When we found this house “Our Dream Home” we decided it was worth checking out! Bedroom: 3 Bathroom: 2 Square Footage: 1777 Garage Spaces: 2 The house also had a LARGE pond fed by a cheap yearly fee [...]

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