I hope you're ready for this. I have a case of smelling salts. Some cool washcloths for forehead application. A bevy of fainting couches. Some supplemental oxygen. Try to remain calm. This too, shall pass...
While waiting for our appointment time on the parking lot at the closing facility for the sale of the Double Hovel flip house(s), Hick got out to give his set of keys to the buyer. Try as we might, through surreptitiously cracked windows, The Pony and I could not hear the conversation. When Hick got back into A-Cad, he shared some cold hard facts with us.
"That guy's daughter is friends with the people who bought the green house. The one across the street from ours, that just sold after them guys renovated it."
"Oh. Is she young? That could be the gal I saw in jeans shorts when the Red Truck Guy was parked in front of the Double Hovel last week."
"I don't know for sure how old she is. Or if she's going to be living there. Only that she knows them people across the street."
And then Hick revealed the most unsettling information of all! Are you sitting down? Do so, immediately! Position your device so that you may read the following proclamation with your head between your knees.
"That guy is going to turn the Beauty Shop into a workshop."
"NOOOOO!!!"
The Pony and I exchanged WHAT IN THE NOT-HEAVEN looks.
"That was the best part! Realtor said everybody was always calling about the Beauty Shop! It's so cute! And after all that trouble you went to, rebuilding it from the floor up."
"I know. It is what it is. I had thought about making it a workshop before."
"You did not. You were going to make it a garage."
"Well, it would have been easier to sell that way. People could have got loans on it, with just one house and an outbuilding."
"Yes, but you didn't know we'd have trouble selling until you already had it listed, and Realtor told you. AND we would not have gotten this price for it with just a garage."
"That's true. It's just a shame he'll be tearing out everything I put in."
"Not really, Dad. He'll have a bathroom in it. And a fridge where he can keep drinks and snacks."
"Yeah. But I put in the washer and dryer for nothing."
"They were used. It's not like you bought new ones."
"Yeah. It'll make a nice workshop."
You know that if Hick had turned that building into a workshop, nobody would have been interested in the property. They'd have been wishing there was an extra little cottage on it to rent... At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Well, sheesh!! Kinda disappointing after everything, but still you got your money's worth and now the new owner will hopefully do the same thing.
ReplyDeleteYes. That guy paid good money, and we no longer have a right to give a fat rat's rumpus what he does with it! We've had the property since October 2022, and it's hard to let go of Hick's baby.
DeleteMan, I hate to see that cute little house turned into a work shop but you're right. It's up to the buyers now as to how they want to use the house and I think you got a better price than if it sold as a workshop or a garage.
ReplyDeleteHick could have made it into a workshop cheaper than he made the little cottage. But he did NOT say he thought about a workshop. Just a garage. I don't think it was big enough to be a garage! And I wouldn't want a garage that far away from the house. So many people wanted that little house. A garage would not have attracted the attention.
DeleteBut did you get the CHECKS?
ReplyDeleteYes, the checks are safely deposited. Hick picked them up the next morning, and The Pony and I put them in the bank that afternoon. Luckily, there was no calamity during the delay!
DeleteI kind of wish you hadn't learned that information, but it's too late now. Still, as you've said, it's his place now and he can do what he likes with it. We sold a house with a huge side yard where I'd made a garden and the buyer was an interstate trucker who ripped out that garden and paved it over to park his five trucks.
ReplyDeleteOh, the gardenmanity!!! One woman's garden is another man's parking lot. The Universe has a chuckle.
DeleteSomewhere along the line, they will regret their decision to change it all.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I think! The guy has room to build a simple workshop. Or get one of those pre-made sheds and run electricity to it. No need to rip out a kitchen and mess up the flooring for a workshop.
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