We closed 5 days after the estate auction on June 17th, so the closing was on June 21st. The family of the widow were slow to get started on cleaning out the hoard. It was worse than anyone estimated it was. I originally estimated it would be 5, 40 cubic yard dumpsters or 200 cubic yards, I was way short with my estimate..... There have been 13, 40 cubic yard dumpsters hauled off the property,
and we finally got the keys yesterday afternoon after an inspection.
There was an estate auction which removed most all of the items that had value after a week of hauling out the items purchased at auction the fun started. They have had dumpsters delivered every couple of days since then to get rid of mostly worthless items (hoard), 13 dumpsters @ 40 cubic yards per dumpster comes to 520 cubic yards of trash. Those dumpsters cost $425 per load, glad I wasn't paying for them!!!
So now I get to start on all the things that a 120 year old farmhouse needs to be comfortable and current. Every yard of carpet vinyl and laminate floor in the house are in need of replacement and updating. Lath plaster has cracks in it and I've already had the sagging floor reinforced and floor jacks and I beam added to level the floor. Septic tank have been pumped and inspected. We'll keep plugging away till we get it the way we want it, then we'll move in. We're thinking maybe late September, fingers crossed.
I'm going to take some pictures of the now empty garages to have a record of what they look like empty, before I start moving my stuff in. I'll try to post them later.
This is a big undertaking at my age, but I'll get through it......
