A Victorian Renovation Project
Monday: MOVE-In Day!!
Finally, we are moving in!! For me, the day was filled with stress. Where to park the truck, would it fit in the driveway?? Would they allow us to park on the street and block the lane? Would it interfere with the school drop…
Sunday Day #3: Pumping Out
The good news — the water didn’t rise!! Pump out day!! And a bit of biking!! Once we checked the water level, Ken went out and bought a submersible pump. The basement has no sump pump or evidence of water intrusion. But everyone has…
Saturday: Day #2 Back to Jersey!!
Water in the Basement!! We did a quick run to Jersey on Saturday to pick up bikes and more stuff out of storage. There wasn’t much we could do at the house. We had moved everything in that we had in the car and…
Day #1: Getting Access
Friday morning, the day after closing, we are in!! The house, empty, looks so different. It’s big, it needs a lot of work and it is ours. We had some cleanup to do to get ready for moving stuff in and that was the…
Closing
We arrived for our walkthrough on closing day to find the seller’s were not out or packed. Closing was delayed through negotiations to come to a resolution! After a couple of hours of lawyers negotiating with us we reached a resolution to close, seller’s…
The Journey
We decided to move out of our 1867 farmhouse in Stillwater New Jersey after my Mom died. We had been there 17 years. It was finally a house I loved. But it was more than we wanted/needed and it was time to make a…
