The following is non essential reading, but in future posts I may make reference to something and instead of giving the backstory I will link to this post. My wife (girlfriend at the time) and I purchased a home purchased a home in the winter of 2018. We had been wanting to buy a home and as the housing prices in our area were going up, we knew we had a limited amount of time. We started to look during the summer of 2018, and it was maybe a bit premature. After a week or two, we fell in love with a split level in a secluded neighborhood on the border of a rural fruit farm... Pretty perfect. The one problem was that we weren't quite ready to purchase a home. It ended up being a moot point as it was quickly marked as a sale pending. We gave up on that dream home and kept looking, but always referenced it when talking about other homes we would see online. As winter approached, we had found a house or two that we thought were worth seeing. None of them came close to that hous
Hello. As this is an introductory post, I suppose I will just layout what I am hoping this blog will be. I am a fairly clueless homeowner. I live in a semi rural setting in northern Indiana. What I mean by that is I live in a neighborhood, but not a subdivision, outside of the city limits. Surrounding our neighborhood is primarily farmlands. This is a setting that is pretty new to me. I have no real idea what I'm doing and while I am generally kind of handy, there is a ton I do not know. So, here is what I hope to accomplish by writing this blog: Detail the projects I take on or want to take on in my home. Discuss the process, the headaches, the unknowns, and the follies, but also the triumphs and the completions. With any luck, if people are interested, they will comment with their expertise or experience or chime in with their questions. About me, I am in my mid-thirties. My wife and I have two children and have actually lived in our home for about two years. But we are jus