Retirement-Spring 2014

Well, we did it.  We retired, sold the home we raised our 2 girls in and moved into our 2nd house that was 3 hours away and on the coast.  We are living our dream.  In our 36 years of marriage  when we had extra money we didn't have time and when we had extra time we didn't have extra money. Well we now have extra time, but our funds for remodeling are definitely limited.   Did I tell you that our 1st home was completely updated and our 2nd home is not!  Also, the 2nd home was built in 1970 so it is older than our first home and has never been updated, except for some poor paint jobs.

So the purpose of this blog is to share with you our remodeling progress and the ways we are trying to keep costs down.  This means doing as much as possible by ourselves, finding affordable subcontractors, appliances, and other materials when needed.

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This view from the driveway and being able to get to the bay,  are what entiiced us to buy this house back in 2005.