Getting it in Order, Plus the Christmas House

The weekend was a getting life together type of weekend. We worked on the house and this and that. Went window shopping. Now that we will have some money to spend a little to fix of our house and our lives. What was most important, how much does it cost, what would we use it for, would it fit in our little tiny apartment?

Somethings have a different priority then other things. We could use a laptop for my husband to use to write on at night, a better desk chair (this one was fifty dollars from Walmart and kinda sucks, I was hoping it was like our old one which rocked (looked like it) but it wasn't), and now we will have a full size bathroom and the baby will have a bedroom and not be living in our closet (as soon as my mom moves out). Deep breath. But beyond that it was just fun to dream of what will happen in the next five years or so.

Saturday we went house hunting with my father-in-law. Not for us, that will be a few years from now, but for them. It would appear that they have finally sold the house in Michigan (they have been trying since February) and will be needing a house down here fairly quickly. If they have sold the house, they have eight days to move out from the end of the closing. They have movers moving them from Michigan to Texas (company paid), but they will have to have somewhere to move. Right now my father-in-law is living in a one bedroom corporate apartment, but there are nine or ten of them (depends on if my oldest brother-in-law moves with them) and they won't all fit in his apartment. Of course we figure that if we have to, then three of them can camp out here. Anyway, we went house hunting. Most of the houses in the area are in the 200+ range and the market is really tight. They don't want to pay that much. So they found one on the market listed for 155. We went and saw it. The bottom of the half as the vertical metal siding used in pole barns and some commercial buildings. It is green. The top half is a plastic shingle in red. Yep, no kidding, it's the Christmas house. Of course half of the bottom of the building (the whole thing is 4200 sq ft) is all garage with huge doors (looks like someone was planning on using it for commercial purposes). There are no interior walls. It looks like they stopped after putting in the insulation. There are no windows on two sides of the building which I am guessing makes it dark. Well never the less, this building has a huge amount of potential, with a ton of work, and no place to live till it is done, or at least part of it is done.

I , of course want it, it has a huge potential to fix it, change it and resell it for a decent chunk of change. If you bought it for less then 155...and had the money to fix it (completely). It comes with one acre of land that has nothing in it, fresh pallet, other then those Christmas colors marring the sky. They would have to go!