Our First House Project
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Posted In House Edit This 2 Comments »
Dear JP Morgan Chase,
Below are some pictures of our progress. Thanks to our great Wisconsin weather, our painting has haulted. We do have everything primed up, so we can move forward with financing; we just have to wait for it to be at least 60 degrees or so in order for the paint to stick well.
This area on both sides of the fence used to have huge clumps of old leaves and mulch. It looks so much better now that it is all cleaned, I am so excited!
The awning area, again completely cleaned up. Prior to this you could not see the ground at all.
The garage door view. We kept the original garage door color. We are going to wait to see how the main color paint comes on and hope to find a nice compliment color for it.
The next pictures give you an idea of what the garage color USED to be. This is the door to the small patio that is attached to the garage.
This is a window frame right before it was primed.
More of the old color.
Close up of the old color. As you can see in this picture, there was practically NO chipping anywhere. Big bummer. But, the color is pretty retro so I suppose we eventually would have changed the color. Probably not the first project we would have chosen, though.
I know things are tight for you right now. I know you are trying to figure out what to do with the thousands of defaulted mortgages you have on your plate. I get that. But can you please take my word when I say that Mr. Peterson and I are to be trusted with the money you hand over to us? We will make our payments on time, I promise. Believe me, we lived in a yippe Chicago suburb for 1.5 years; this mortgage payment is going to seem like a few bucks in comparison to our rent check in Naperville.
Now that we have given you everything -- and I mean every single bit of information we have on ourselves, we just ask you to hurry on up with a check -- we have a first time home buyers tax credit with our name on it and we have a month and a half before the governmet takes that opportunity from us. Please. Please. Please, oh pretty please.
Back to the topic of this post... Our First House Project. And you did read correctly, we still have no financing but we are working on the house.
Scottie and I came upon a little bump in the road in the form of a garage. Banks today are very picky about the condition of the home. If anything is considered a health risk, they want you or the buyer to fix it. So if we do default on the mortgage, they do not have a house that someone could get sick or hurt at. Well, our lovely garage had *some* paint chips. I stress the word some. The bank decided our financing was contingent on the entire garage being repainted.... Fantastic.
So the past two weeks we power washed, sanded down, and primed the garage. We also had to clean the entire area around the garage to get rid of any fallen paint chips. And that was no simple task my friends. The area around the garage probably had not been raked in a good 6 years. There were tons of old leaves and dirt that had to get raked or vacumed up.
Below are some pictures of our progress. Thanks to our great Wisconsin weather, our painting has haulted. We do have everything primed up, so we can move forward with financing; we just have to wait for it to be at least 60 degrees or so in order for the paint to stick well.
This area on both sides of the fence used to have huge clumps of old leaves and mulch. It looks so much better now that it is all cleaned, I am so excited!The awning area, again completely cleaned up. Prior to this you could not see the ground at all.The garage door view. We kept the original garage door color. We are going to wait to see how the main color paint comes on and hope to find a nice compliment color for it.The next pictures give you an idea of what the garage color USED to be. This is the door to the small patio that is attached to the garage.This is a window frame right before it was primed.More of the old color.Close up of the old color. As you can see in this picture, there was practically NO chipping anywhere. Big bummer. But, the color is pretty retro so I suppose we eventually would have changed the color. Probably not the first project we would have chosen, though.
2 comments:
Hopefully it's over soon! Did they give you an estimated closing date??
-Katie
Hey Katie-
It looks like it'll be October 30 -- hopefully a few days earlier than that!
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