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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9677693" data-attributes="member: 50987">It's a wonderful house, very quiet with tons of room.&nbsp; It's a very old house, built in 1896 and modified in pieces&nbsp; over the decades... the floors don't match, there are doors in strange places, and lots of &quot;what were they thinking?!&quot; moments (porch light just stapled to the siding?!&nbsp; air filter glued to the intake?!&nbsp; bathroom vented to the upstairs closet?!)&nbsp; So there's lots of little things to do, of varying importance... it'll keep me busy.&nbsp; (Next project: replacing the water heater with a more efficient tankless one.)It's nice to be out of the City Center, too... we are now in an older neighborhood with big mature trees and brick sidewalks and a really nice park.&nbsp; We're not quite in the suburbs, either... we're sort of in that middle space between the two.&nbsp; We're about 8 blocks from a main thoroughfare with coffee shops, a halal market, a dozen restaurants, a park, and a library.So all in all:&nbsp; things are going pretty good.&nbsp;&nbsp; The whole process of buying a house was a colossal pain in the backside, and was far more difficult than it ever should have been, with more rules and fees than necessary, and FAR TOO EXPENSIVE, IT'S JUST A HOUSE FOR CHRISSAKES, but we are glad we did it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9677693, member: 50987"] It's a wonderful house, very quiet with tons of room. It's a very [I]old [/I]house, built in 1896 and modified in pieces over the decades... the floors don't match, there are doors in strange places, and lots of "what were they thinking?!" moments (porch light just [I]stapled [/I]to the siding?! air filter glued to the intake?! bathroom vented to the upstairs closet?!) So there's lots of little things to do, of varying importance... it'll keep me busy. (Next project: replacing the water heater with a more efficient tankless one.) It's nice to be out of the City Center, too... we are now in an older neighborhood with big mature trees and brick sidewalks and a really nice park. We're not quite in the suburbs, either... we're sort of in that middle space between the two. We're about 8 blocks from a main thoroughfare with coffee shops, a halal market, a dozen restaurants, a park, and a library. So all in all: things are going pretty good. The whole process of buying a house was a colossal pain in the backside, and was far more difficult than it ever should have been, with more rules and fees than necessary, and FAR TOO EXPENSIVE, IT'S JUST A HOUSE FOR CHRISSAKES, but we are glad we did it. [/QUOTE]

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