Purchasing somebody else's vacation home

I have mentioned in a previous post, that we purchased a house which had been used as a vacation home for the first 30 years of it’s existence. I occurred to me that most of the problems with this house stemmed from that situation alone.

In engineering, we call it entropy. That is, [...]

This started as a small project

Back a few years ago, my wife and I were looking to purchase a house. Nothing fancy, perhaps something that needed “some work” but was basically livable as is. I knew some basic home repair stuff, but was pretty ignorant regarding buying a house.

We had a real estate agent help us out. He would [...]

BEES! Part II

The Bees in the attic, Continued…

We finally got a bee keeper to show up and look at our bees. They turned out not to be honey bees but yellow jackets.

Me: Yellow jackets, I though those were bigger and lived in the ground.

Bee Keeper: I know the ones you mean, no, those are [...]

BEES!

Update: For the resolution to this problem click here.

So last week one morning I awoke at about 5:30 AM to hear a funny scratching noise. I had to wonder around the bedroom a bit to determine that it was coming from the ceiling. This continued for several days on and off until I finally [...]