Going To Check Things Out

We will be leaving Tuesday for a 4 day trip to Pioche to check out that little house. 

The chimney might need to come down, its a Dr Seuse chimney

The blue wall is the utility room and it needs to be removed

This is the main room. They have removed the supporting wall and if you look closely, there don't seem to be any 2x4s going all the way up to the rafters and the exterior walls are bowing

Next 2 photos are the kitchen, it might need to be removed too but we'll figure that out after we see it in person. AND they removed the sink. Assholes.

It looks like the bathroom used to have the washer & dryer in it.

We both agreed to get rid of the tub and put in a shower, then there will be room for a stacked washer & dryer.

We leave Tuesday, fly out at 9:30am and arrive in Las Vegas at noon.  We'll get a car, a jeep, and head to Pioche. We will stay at the Overland Hotel for 2 nights.

On Wednesday at 11 we'll meet the realtor and spend a good amount of time checking out the house. Since we're not buying it thru a bank, it won't need an inspection or appraisal.

I don't know what we're doing Thursday besides driving back to LV and dropping off the car at 9:30am and flying out Friday morning at 6am, which means getting to the airport really fucking early.

 

While We Were Gone

We checked out a couple of houses in the small town we're beginning to love but neither of them was this one. Both the others were huge houses, way too big for what we'd be interested in having as a vacation home or AB&B place.

This little home has been on the market for a long time, about 9 months. it was purchased in 2022 for $45,000 and they started taking it apart to flip it but then the money guy died. Now they're asking $79,000. Thats a joke.

We didn't even drive by this house, not that we know of for sure, but there is NO WAY IN HELL its worth anywhere near that much, especially since all they did was dismantle the guts.

We're talking over financials and might make an offer next week, 

an offer higher than 45 but way lower than 79.

They were obviously going to reuse the same old insulation and they left piles of the old 2x4s in the yard so I'm sure we'd have to dispose of them.

What I like is its in the small town I want to live in, 

its got water, sewer and power and is halfway fenced in. 

If we decide to make an offer it will be contingent on our personal inspection 

and we'd make a cash offer. 

Paying cash should make them go down on how much they want for it.

We would fly down and inspect it and if its acceptable we'd want to sign papers that weekend and own it fast.

If anything happens, like the house sells to someone else before we make an offer, we'd use the cash to rebuild our shop here. It needs an entire new roof and a bunch of walls are pretty bad too. I'd want a new footprint, adding covered parking on the house side for the RVs and a lean-too on the barn side for the tractors and implements.

Fingers crossed. 

I'm just tired of finding places I like & losing them due to procrastination or 'we're not ready'.  

I AM READY. 

 

4,348.4

Thats how many miles we drove on this amazing trip.

9 States: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona 

(not in that order) 

And the country of Mexico.

We had a good time, aside from the truck having issues like a burst air shock, broken brakes, camper being bucked back 6 inches a few times from rough roads.

We saw the 4.8.24 total solar eclipse from Del Rio, Texas for 3 minutes 25 seconds, through the cloudy that parted just in time. It was an amazing sight.

We won't have another total eclipse in the lower 48 for 20 years and I'm planning on being just east of Reno, Nevada for that one. I'll be 81 years old.

I was able to spread some of Dentons ashes at Death Valley, on an overlook into the beautiful park and another vial of ashes during the eclipse, again, in a place of grandeur overlooking a big lake.

We were able to visit Jon and that was a good day. We had planned on driving another 300 miles that day but decided to stay there and spent time in the town on Pioche. We looked at a couple houses that are for sale and I have another small one I really want to buy but we weren't able to see that one as it got dark.

I am ready to invest in my future, in some place we can visit where its warm and there will be places to explore. I'm 61 now, I need to get shit going, its time to retire soon.