Z spent the night last night, so I woke up to his sweet smile this morning. Such an amazing way to start the day.
Happy Mother's day to all the mom's here. I hope your day is filled with sunshine and love!!
I have massaged the budget over and over to come up with the money for the household repairs on the big house so that I dont have to tap into my 401k. I have had to cut WAY back on debt and savings repayments, but between now and the end of the year, I am able to come up with $40k. That includes about $9k of an interest free loan that need to be repaid by next May.
I have a long list of repairs that need to be done, and we will have to make the $40k budget work. We need to replace a load bearing wall, remodel the kitchen and an upstairs bath, replace all flooring and paint inside and out.
My DIL's monther owns a painting business, and her SO does flooring installation for a living- so I will be contracting with them for those projects.
The hub will do all the demo work...
And I think I have found someone who does the remodel work.
I just need someone for that load bearing wall. Right now, it consists of floor to almost ceiling windows on half the wall and a very old, crumbling brick fireplace on the other. Here is a picture of what I would like the end result to look like:
Lots to do..now that I have a number, I just need to put the puzzle pieces together to make it work. I anticipate the kitchen being the most expensive- lots of homework to do!
Happy Mother's Day friends!
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