Monday, August 4, 2014

Good Luck To All!!

Hello everyone,

It has been a long time since I have posted. I am very sorry about that. Several things have been happening and the plan has changed yet again (for good this time). I really agree with tiny houses, and I am still trying to live with that mentality, and will continue to do so for the remainder of my life.

Okay, so first off, we are selling the trailer that we bought to use for the tiny house. We are going to take off the rest of the aluminum (nope, we still aren't done with that, although the rest of the gutting is done), apply flashing to the entirety of the trailer and sell it as a trailer.

So here is what happened: A few weeks ago my grammaw fell in her house. She didn't get hurt, she is fine. However, now everyone is worried about her. So we put in a bid on a lot that is literally right next to her house and has a septic system, water and gas hookups, etc. We planned to put a small single-wide right there and live next to her for awhile to help her out and make sure she was okay so everyone would be quiet about putting her in a nursing home.

Well, we didn't win that bid. And as it turns out, we might not be able to use the septic system anyways so we kind of dodged a bullet (we were told septic system was a go by one person, and told by another it does have a leech field, so we have no idea what is going on there).

So, we kept looking for a place to live in the small town of 300 where my grandmother lives. We finally found a cute little house (500 square feet!) just a couple of blocks away from her. It needs some work- new carpet, a leaky closet fixed, and a new window put in the front room- but the guy who owns it agreed to let us rent to own it, and the work we put in is our deposit, and the money we spend on the house is taken off of our rent (so free rent for a couple of months! :)). So tiny house on a trailer is out, buying a tiny house is in! Okay, a small house. But it has just what we need (a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and living room) and nothing we don't (a second bathroom, a second living room, etc). We are really excited about it!

I will post pictures of the house when we get it all done in a couple of weeks and move in!

Mollie