OK, I started demolition right away after closing. Things were exciting. I was working on the house as my job and we were planning for the baby and planning to sell the home we were living in.
After about 6 months of working on the house things were slowing down money wise. We had the inspections to get the power back on and the water flowing again. I had the major components of the kitchen installed. We sold our other home in April of 07 but we had to move in with Sue's sister for about a month before we could get the approval for power and water back on.
Once we moved in to the not yet completed house, we actually only had one room that was fully functional besides the living areas, the kitchen. So we bathed in the kitchen sink. Yes, all of us.
By this time we had blown through the 70K already! Partially because we had to use that money to pay the 2 mortgages and living expenses plus the repairs and materials. We moved in basically broke! I was taking on handyman projects for clients and trying to practice real estate but nothing was enough to pay the bills during this time and our mortgage was $2900/month! I will remind you that Sue was pregnant and having to bathe in the kitchen sink!
We did not have any trim work like baseboards or door casings or even paint on the walls.
May I say this was an extremely difficult time especially knowing family and friends were talking behind out backs about how crazy we were etc.
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