As most of you know, well those who sorta follow my blog, we are in the midst of finishing up home improvement projects so our house can go on the market. We have way outgrown our current house, 1070 sq ft and this seems like a good time to sell, at least where we are! I know at least 3 people personally that sold their houses here in less than a month, so wish us luck!
We have been working on the house since oh I don't know, April and are just now getting to the point of done. Insane, but with hubby working so much and our Hawaii trip we just were short on some time. We...well ok hubby has done alot of work himself and we did get a little help from our BIL for FREE, he's in construction. It's nice to have family who'll do that stuff for free, though we plan to pay them something once we sell.
Our house is looking so nice compared to what it did when we bought it 8 yrs ago, if we hadn't outgrown it I would stay lol. We have a brand new roof this year, we installed laminate flooring in the living/dining rooms two years ago, new vinyl in the bathrooms and kitchen two years ago as well. We have now painted the outside of the house to a beautiful champagne color (pale yellow) with white trim from a ugly charcoal color. The house now boasts beautiful new light fixtures in every room, new sink faucets, door knobs, and patio doors. I was looking at the cost of all this, we are close to umm 10K in fixing up this house and I felt faint. It needed to be done, esp the roof and flooring in order to sell, so it'll be worth it.
The latest spendy project is the Air Conditioner. So a few months ago our thermostat went out, just quit working, tried new batteries, checking the wires etc. Nothing seemed to work, so I bought a new thermostat. Sounds good right, hubby installed the last one and likely would be able to do so this time too. Umm right it took him hours and hours and still it wasn't right...but we made do. It did cool and that is what we needed since it was near 100 outside but unfortunately it wasn't kicking off when it reached the desired temperature. It would continue to run, which we didn't realize how bad until we came back from our trip to Hawaii. I would have thought our bill went down since we were gone for 2 weeks, sounds right? Um nope, it went up from the normal $180's to $250's EEk almost $100 extra that month.
So then this months bill came and yet again $250 so we called the AC company and had them come out Friday morning. The guy arrives on time, thankfully as we had tons to do and gets to work. Turns out we simply had the wrong thermostat..oh great, so I am a true blonde. The one we had that was for gas not electric....eek again. Well it was $89 for them to come run a diagnostic on the whole system which we needed anyways and all that was wrong was the thermostat. UGH so the guy said he can install a new one for $120 and I ask hubby if that is what he wants to do or just go get one and do it himself. He's like pay for it!! It takes me to long to do it and plus we might not be able to find the right one. Ok so the guy has checked out the whole system and installed a new thermostat in about an hour.... $200 later it's done! Yay for AC guys on time and fast!
Showing posts with label home improvement. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Update on Life in the Family
Where to begin....
The house is still not done with home improvement projects. Well I say that like the house is doing the actual work lol but that's not true. Hubby and I aren't done with the projects though we are getting closer. One would think that since we have been working on this since oh I don't know maybe April we would be done and were supposed to have it on the market before our Hawaii trip late May. It wasn't done but no surprise to me because I knew there was still to much to be done but hubby was insistent we would be done. We have had a coming soon sign in our yard since May, umm and it's July now! How long can you have a coming soon sign before it's not soon anymore? I keep waiting for my realtor to mysteriously show up and take the sign down when I am not looking lol like she put the sign up. I keep praying we'll in the next couple of weekends so we can move on with this.
Our contract on the other house we were trying to build fell though. We were having tons of issues with the builders getting the contract extended and they kept telling us BS and giving us the run around. So we are waiting to get our earnest money back now from the mutual release agreement. So we'll just move into an apt or an existing house once our house sells....if it ever gets on the market!
Onto family news, my mom was told she had skin cancer a few months ago. She had a growth on her ankle and went in and they removed it because it was pretty good size and it came back as cancerous. So then they tell her they need to go in and remove the rest of the cancer to keep it from spreading and/or to make sure it's not spread already. So she was slated for surgery last week with the surgeon. She's in the office, prepped and ready and he comes in and looks and goes out for a minute and then comes back and tells her he's not doing it. She has an appt with the specialist the following week. So her surgery is now on the 10th and I am worried about it because seems off the other guy wouldn't do the surgery and the fact that referrals normally take months with the army and she got in the following week. Will post an update soon as I know.
School Glorious School starts back Aug 6 whoohooo! I can't wait, er I mean I will sure miss my oldest when she goes back. I do love having her home but it's been so hot we haven't done much this summer (outside the Hawaii trip) and a few playdates. Her birthday is coming up on the 2nd of the month as well so we are trying to figure out what do for that as well. I am not sure where the money is going to come from since we are spread thin due to the house stuff and then we need to buy school supplies and clothes.
Well there's the latest and greatest from our end of the world.
The house is still not done with home improvement projects. Well I say that like the house is doing the actual work lol but that's not true. Hubby and I aren't done with the projects though we are getting closer. One would think that since we have been working on this since oh I don't know maybe April we would be done and were supposed to have it on the market before our Hawaii trip late May. It wasn't done but no surprise to me because I knew there was still to much to be done but hubby was insistent we would be done. We have had a coming soon sign in our yard since May, umm and it's July now! How long can you have a coming soon sign before it's not soon anymore? I keep waiting for my realtor to mysteriously show up and take the sign down when I am not looking lol like she put the sign up. I keep praying we'll in the next couple of weekends so we can move on with this.
Our contract on the other house we were trying to build fell though. We were having tons of issues with the builders getting the contract extended and they kept telling us BS and giving us the run around. So we are waiting to get our earnest money back now from the mutual release agreement. So we'll just move into an apt or an existing house once our house sells....if it ever gets on the market!
Onto family news, my mom was told she had skin cancer a few months ago. She had a growth on her ankle and went in and they removed it because it was pretty good size and it came back as cancerous. So then they tell her they need to go in and remove the rest of the cancer to keep it from spreading and/or to make sure it's not spread already. So she was slated for surgery last week with the surgeon. She's in the office, prepped and ready and he comes in and looks and goes out for a minute and then comes back and tells her he's not doing it. She has an appt with the specialist the following week. So her surgery is now on the 10th and I am worried about it because seems off the other guy wouldn't do the surgery and the fact that referrals normally take months with the army and she got in the following week. Will post an update soon as I know.
School Glorious School starts back Aug 6 whoohooo! I can't wait, er I mean I will sure miss my oldest when she goes back. I do love having her home but it's been so hot we haven't done much this summer (outside the Hawaii trip) and a few playdates. Her birthday is coming up on the 2nd of the month as well so we are trying to figure out what do for that as well. I am not sure where the money is going to come from since we are spread thin due to the house stuff and then we need to buy school supplies and clothes.
Well there's the latest and greatest from our end of the world.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Slacker Blogger
WOW I have not written a single entry since New Years??? Where has the time gone? I can't even begin to explain where it has gone or what I have been doing, oh yes I can lol. My bright idea for the 1st part of the year was to become involved in a charity event with my moms group. We usually do one a couple times through out the year and I decided that this time would be Relay For Life. Relay For Life is an important fundraiser for the American Cancer Society to help fund the search for a cure for cancer. This is very dear to me as I have lost several family members to cancer and have a good friend who is a survivor.
That was in January when I decided to become involved and the event was this past weekend May 2-3rd which is why I have been MIA and slacking. My team goal was $3000 and I am happy to say we made and surpassed out goal prior to the Relay so my new goal by the end of Relay was $5000. Right now it looks like we made it! I just have to turn in the final amount of money and wait for the goal charts to be updated.
So between that and shuttling between hearing aid appointments and trying various ones I am settled with a set of upgraded BTE's and happy with them. Other than that, Hailey turned 3 in March and we had a small party for her. It was nice and she got to play with her friends . Jessica is doing great in school still and only has about 14 days of school left if I remember correctly.
In March we decided to see about a home loan so we could move and we were approved and now the process is ongoing for home improvement projects to get it ready to sell. We are down to the wire and have to have them done by May 20th! So much left to do and I don't even want to think about it right now.
Other big news, our Hawaiian Vacation later this month! WHHOOOHOOOOO so looking forward to that and sharing pictures when we get back. We have a wonderful 2 weeks coming up, and thankfully my mom paid for our tickets!
Well just a quick update, will write more tomorrow if I have time! Hopefully after vacation I'll get back to writing once a day or so.
That was in January when I decided to become involved and the event was this past weekend May 2-3rd which is why I have been MIA and slacking. My team goal was $3000 and I am happy to say we made and surpassed out goal prior to the Relay so my new goal by the end of Relay was $5000. Right now it looks like we made it! I just have to turn in the final amount of money and wait for the goal charts to be updated.
So between that and shuttling between hearing aid appointments and trying various ones I am settled with a set of upgraded BTE's and happy with them. Other than that, Hailey turned 3 in March and we had a small party for her. It was nice and she got to play with her friends . Jessica is doing great in school still and only has about 14 days of school left if I remember correctly.
In March we decided to see about a home loan so we could move and we were approved and now the process is ongoing for home improvement projects to get it ready to sell. We are down to the wire and have to have them done by May 20th! So much left to do and I don't even want to think about it right now.
Other big news, our Hawaiian Vacation later this month! WHHOOOHOOOOO so looking forward to that and sharing pictures when we get back. We have a wonderful 2 weeks coming up, and thankfully my mom paid for our tickets!
Well just a quick update, will write more tomorrow if I have time! Hopefully after vacation I'll get back to writing once a day or so.
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