On Friday I got the keys for my very first home. Did the walk-through the day before and was pretty depressed for some reason. It doesn't help that the people who lived there previously didn't even bother to clean the place!
You walk in and and the kitchen is old (and very ugly) and it has a bit of an old house smell which is very annoying. It's a home from the 50's. It's hard to be happy about a house that needs so much work. One day I like it and the other day I don't. Lately i've been out driving and I guess I take things for granted. I should be thankful I have a house. Any house. Many people don't. I also have a large house with a ton of room. I should be thankful.
On Friday I went to Bestbuy and got a good deal on some appliances. The ones in the house are so ancient. For less than $1500 I got a washer and dryer, Stainless Steel stove and dish washer. This is including the price for an install. It's $100 for the dishwasher and $76 for the gas dryer. I know nothing about installing those. They had a sale where you get 25% off if you buy 4 appliances.
On Saturday we went through and cleaned the house. Monday I moved in a few boxes and took measurements of everything. I couldn't figure out how to get the central air working so I figured it'd be a good idea to have the furance and central air serviced. For $160/year they will come out twice and do this. For the price they also give you a discount on repairs.
Today (tuesday) I had someone take measurements to get new title and carpet install. I sure hope it's not going to cost over $500 per room for carpet!
My friend and his wife came over and gave me some ideas for painting a few of the rooms. The previous owners painted the living room a lime green! Once all the rooms are painted and re-carpeted it should look a lot better.
Today I had to be at the house at 11pm. I sat around until noon and the carpet guy finally arrived. He apologized for being late so it was no big deal. I went to his warehouse in another city and got back to my empty house at 1pm. I waited around until 2:30pm for the furnace repair people to show up. Sitting in an empty house with only 1 chair and a newspaper all day is not fun!
When they left I was so glad. I left and went back to my apartment and my brother and I stopped off at Lowes and bought a new grill. It's a pretty good one and the nice thing about it is that it was fully assembled! That'll save me a lot of time and frustration. I hate putting together furniture, grills etc. After that I took out my mom, brother and his kids to dinner.
Came home and slept for a couple hours. It's 1:30am and I'm hoping to get some work done and then be at my home tomorrow at 9am for my appliance delivery.
I haven't worked more than 4 hours since Friday, so wednesday i'm going to do a work 'marathon' and work as many hours as I possibly can.
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