Thursday, August 5, 2021

Val Reveals Her Back Side

Back side. Not to be confused with backside. Which I hear is a quaint little euphemism for a RUMPUS! Yes, I'm about to show you my back side of our proposed Pony House. A picture I took from the side street, showing a corner of the garage, and the rear of the house.

Hick went by the title company with some legal papers, and they said closing might be in two weeks. So it will be a while before you get interior pictures. A baseline, if you will, to compare with the final result. In the meantime, here are some details.

Pony House was listed for $29,900. Hick got it for $23,500. It has three bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen, living room, utility room, and a converted back porch. It's 1100 square feet, built in 1920. The house has steel siding, which will need power-washing and paint, plus decorative window shutters, but is basically in good shape. Except for the wall at the back of the house, which has some damage at the bottom, and will require rebuilding. Hick thinks he will replace the siding with a similar style of vinyl siding, but might be able to find steel to match it. 
 
The roof was replaced within the past two years. Hick can see fresh lumber through the ceiling into the attic, in one area where the ceiling needs drywall. The detached garage has wood siding, in rough shape, but it has electric, and allegedly contains drywall that goes with the house. The realtor didn't have a key to it when she showed Hick.

 
This was taken from the side street. The garage is sound, but needs some cosmetic work. The back side of the house has a door. It's the converted back porch area. There is an alley that runs beside the garage, just out of frame to the left. So no neighbor to worry about there. None across the street, either, because Pony House sits on a street that is a V with the street where you see the reddish house. That street just happens to run down beside MY OLD $17,000 HOUSE! Past the tree, you can see the top of a brick building that used to be a school, but is now converted to senior apartments. So the neighborhood is fairly quiet, I would assume. 

Pony House is located over in Sis-Town. It's about a half mile from the main post office, where The Pony will eventually work again. WE HOPE! My sister and the ex-ex-mayor live between 1-2 miles away, in a newer neighborhood, and a fancier house.
 
You can't find a much cheaper place to live than Sis-Town and Backroads. You can't find a much cheaper house to live in than one bought by Hick and Val.

8 comments:

  1. I've been waiting to hear about the house re-do Hick and Pony did. It was a project, indeed.

    I'd live there.

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    1. Maybe you mean the house re-do Hick and HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) did? That WAS quite a project. This one will be a blank slate, since Hick won't have to tear out any walls or shovel out trash. He's also asked HOS for some (paid) help, since The Pony isn't very "carpentery," and can just do basics like pull wire and fetch things.

      Hick may not make things fancy, but he can build a safe, livable house for cheap.

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  2. It looks very nice and the garage looks to be a decent size too. I like the amount of yard space. I live within the city in a suburb close enough to the city centre that I can walk home from the Central Market area. (It takes me an hour and a half because I don't hurry, but still..)
    I can't wait to see the inside :) 1100 square feet is almost three times the size of my flat. Lucky Pony.

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    1. The Pony already considered that he can walk to work if his car has trouble. Some of the houses he looked at were 700-800 square feet, so this is a nice size. I don't know what he'll do with the garage. There's parking on the street, and a concrete pad over behind the garage, from the alley entrance.

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  3. This looks like a house with potential and would be agreat starter home. Pony is going to love it.

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    1. The Pony is going to love escaping my immediate vicinity!

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  4. That looks like a lot of grass to mow!

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    1. Chores. One of the perks of owning a house. Good thing The Pony's half-brother HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) lives a few blocks over, and does odd jobs. By the time The Pony's ankle is mow-ready, the grass will probably have stopped growing for the winter.

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