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The new carpenter guy showed up today, 45 minutes late . As I was waiting for him to show … I looked into my backyard to find out what the loud racket was. There were two huge bulldozers taking down tons of trees! I snapped a quick pic on my cell phone.

 

They put up little flags marking my property line. I heard they might be putting up condos. I dunno what to think of this yet. Will my property taxes be effected by this?
When the new carpenter guy finally showed up, he thoroughly looked over the entire house, even the crawlspace. He offered lots of helpful suggestions and advice. He will be able to tackle all of the repairs I would want him to take on. New subfloors, laminate hardwood flooring and lanolium, new patio door, and a new back door. But he didn’t seem very business-like to me at all. Not sure what I think of him yet. Youngish looking, ponytail, sort of hippyish :) I wonder if he does drugs? Well, what matters is what kind of estimate I get from him. If he gives me the cheapest estimate … then the hippy dippy drugee will be granted access to fix my humble little home :)

He’ll be getting back to me in a few days with his estimate.
Keep u posted! :)

My loan officer canceled my appointment with her today. “You can’t apply for the loan until you have all your estimates.” she said. I have had the HARDEST TIME getting these construction guys to call me back and come over and give me estimates! I’m STILL waiting on several of them to CALL ME! I keep leaving messages. I never get a live person on the phone.

I did happen to get one estimate today. From the drywall guy. I am going with Rose & Walker drywall to put up the new ceilings, a few new walls, and patching up holes throughout the house. It will cost $2460.

I also went to Warehouse Carpet today to get prices on vinyl and laminate hardwood flooring. Vinyl: $12.95/sq. yard (including installation) and laminate: $4/sq. ft. (including installation and foam) Those are the cheapest they have in their store. Someone from Warehouse Carpet will come to my house Monday at 4 to measure the rooms and give me an estimate. Can’t wait! :)

I just met with a contractor that paves driveways. He said that all of the existing concrete will have to be removed. The driveway is tore up so badly, there’s no way he can just pave over the broken-up concrete. To pave the driveway with asphalt, will cost $4000! To pave my driveway with concrete, will cost $5500! And I have a small driveway! I’m definitely getting other estimates for my driveway.

The driveway guy said that condos are definitely going up behind my house. He’s going to be the one to put down paving for the streets and driveways back there. I hope my property taxes won’t go up because of this, or my house value go down.

I just finished mowing my lawn and I found a couple happy surprises! A few months ago I found out that my pine trees have these cocoons hanging all over them which contain a kind of worm that eventually destroys the tree. These worms pluck the branches bare and use the pine needles to build there cocoons. One of my pine trees in the backyard had many bare branches and I was afraid the needles wouldn’t grow back. Today as I was mowing I noticed new pine needles growing on the bare branches that the worms destroyed! I’m so happy! I took a picture with my cell phone. Nice little green pine needles growing :) YAYYY!!!

 

 

And the huge monstrous pine tree I have in my front yard is growing little baby pine cones all over :) So this fall my front yard will be absolutely covered with pine cones. Hundreds, maybe thousands! Anybody who wants some pine cones for Christmas let me know :)

I’ll try and remember to bring my camera to my house more often to take better pictures, instead of using my cell phone for pics. Especially when my roses start blooming.