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Appreciate the advice! I'm just doing this for fun and enjoy sharing what I am doing. 😊

Yes, there is a large crack on the porch but it is not what I was referring to. It is indeed the fact that the old crew (fired after this) hung both mailboxes on one side over my brand spanking new siding!!! I have diligently tried to reuse any vintage items I could in this place. Some things HAD to be replaced like the windows but I am trying to save most of the lighting. If I decide not to use something again, I do try to sell it on marketplace. Thank you for watching!!

So glad to hear from you!! I love all the vintage things about this place. When I can, I intend on keeping everything. Windows and doors are just soooo much more efficient these days and the work needed to bring them to par would be overwhelming and not cost prohibitive. I think you'll enjoy all that I plan to keep and make fit into new. ;)

Me too! Usually means the band is pretty good. I didnt get it on video but at one point there were probably 12ish couples out there dancing.

I am in Missouri. We have considered moving into one side and renting the other, which may happen when we retire. We have a couple more years for that so in the meantime we are trying to get them nicely updated and up for rent asap. Thank you so much for watching and leaving me a comment ;)

@@rentalsupplemental appreciate the reply. Ah, Missouri, a bit cold for me, originally I'm from Michigan. At least you have the investments already and have options to choose from, very nice plan. Thank you.

Some of the wood is rotten on the deck on that side. Once it is repaired, I'd love to paint the railings black, but more then likely they will be white. That is a great idea to dilute bleach and work on the concrete side walls. I may have access to a power washer which would help also, and very affordable. When we get the railings on both sides repaired/replaced I'll do the concrete walls also. Thanks for the idea ;)

Girl, you can come see it now in the current state, AND come see it when we finish it. Currently both sides bathrooms are gutted. Rich is almost done with removing and installing all new plumbing throughout both units. Its not pretty but it is safe and I'd love to show it to you ;)

Thank you! Just having the one side finished certainly tides me over until the other sides can be finished. Paint is the most affordable, easy gratification you can do to any project. Hubby has been working day and night on all new plumbing for both units, so very soon PRETTY THINGS!!

Thanks for coming!!! Almost as nice as the Craftsman porch but not quite ;)

Also, did you see your comment was pulled to talk about over on The White Cottage? Mary mentioned you in her little monthly review.

maCHine!!! Soooo good to hear from you! I had no idea you watched these video's. Got a couple coming up that should be fun. Sooo many things going on in the background, I havent had much time to devote to the youtubes. Huggggs you girlie, I hope you are doing well! ;)

@@rentalsupplemental I watch them all, Fishstick! ❤️

Happy Canada Day!!! My friend, thank you so much for watching ;)

Ditto!! Sadly I have no where to put it nor even a spot to hold onto it. If you would make the drive I'd sell it to you for $100 ;)

We were able to buy ours locally and I believe they were around $200 each. I am sure that price varies by location.

Nothing needs done outside the home. Typically its all underground anyway. In our case we would fill in all the inside cracks with an epoxy to seal out water.

Yes indeed. He is working his butt off on that. At least the nasty, laborious work is over. Now just to bring them up to more modern times. Thanks for watching girlie ;)

Me too!! It is going to be a lot of work on both the floors and tubs but I think it can be managed. It is pretty crazy but both floors have 4 inches of concrete under them. Hubby said it'd be a nightmare to remove it all if we had to change the floors. The only issue is covering the old toilet hole. There will be a couple tiles after cutting the new hole so hopefully they can fill in any voids. Thank you so very much for watching ; )

Hope you enjoy! We are excited to get back to it ;)

They were all tightened to their limit and the wall is much better since publishing the video. We were in a time crunch to get a tenant in so I was unable to get the most recent update picture. Do your research for your particular basement in regards to size and severity and then order from the gorilla braces website. They have a calculator to help with quanity needed.

Thank you! 😊

Thank you! It is a very cool house with all of the character and charm these old Craftsman houses had. It was hard to NOT move into it. LOL Thanks for commenting ;)

Its a gorgeous day for spray painting here too!! Happy Painting ;) Girl, you know I love that house! It just passed inspection and I walked around thinking to myself "I could sooooo live here, should I live here" but we are not. I have already set up a listing to put it for rent. THAT will keep me from thinking of moving there ;)

Thanks for visiting

Thank you! I really considered living here.

Thank you!! 😊 It was a chore to decide to NOT move into it. I love it a lot too ;) Everything I do to it makes me love it even MORE!

I think the style of this house pairs well with that industrial look, so that is what I went for. I am having fun picking out these finishes, picking out the paint colors, etc. Makes me want to do my own house like this LOL Thank you so much for commenting and never worry about a like working or not. Interacting with a comment is way better in my mind ;)

This home was built in 1935. It has taken this long for it to buckle. The gorilla braces are not an overnight fix. The braces were cranked to spec once a week for over 3 months. All of this was done to the specs found on Gorilla Braces website. It helps to do this during a dry period that way when when it does rain and the ground swells, the walls are prepared to handle the expansion. Clean gutters help also. If you need your wall repaired faster, then indeed dig out the dirt and go that route. We had time to do this way, this time. Thanks for commenting ;)

He researched it online and found Gorilla Braces. They provided all the information he needed and the brace. He ordered the steel from a local steel yard.

I know, right?!?! Just editing the video I began to see it all over again! GIRL..you know after how good this kitchen looked, I considered moving in again, but only for a minute ;) I started my taxes and seen how much we have into this place, then I looked around at the real estate market and thought.. hmmm, maybe we should flip it? Who knows, we dont even know LOL! I loooooove having options but sometimes having to many options is paralyzing. Analysis paralysis.

Thank you!

Indeed!! This corner looks sooo different now. I could not even believe it but a gentleman stopped by and said we shouldnt have removed the fence. He loved it. Literally there was not a single piece that could be saved. I wanted a stack of the boards to diy some projects for the other channel but nope. 99% of that fence was failing.

He likely passed by it on a regular basis and never saw it up close. I like having a fence myself but it has to work and look good too. I prefer 'open' fencing though, that I can see through. @@rentalsupplemental

@@krickette5569 He was walking so yep, he likely see's it everyday. Others have told us they didn't even know there was a pool back there LOL!! We are considering more fencing because that would be a deal breaker for me. My dog has to be able to be safely let outside without me worrying and I like to make these properties something I would rent or buy.

Glad you enjoyed it!

It is a cool thing. One of the many reasons I really thought about moving into it. Our friends and family love having a front row seat to the city's parades. ;)

That is a brilliant idea! I always thought it'd make a great "perch" My thought was to just put plants up there and make it jungle like. The little library nook is a way better idea though.. Hmm NO! We are NOT moving there! LOL LOL My dear friend, thank you for watching and commenting ;)

You should move there. 😍@@rentalsupplemental

Sadly I'll never know about the long soaky hot bath. It was fun to dream about it tho, for a bit ;)

Oooh!! I have been following XO Macenna on her regular and vlog channel for years now. I LOOOOVE her. She is where I learned about all my new favorite colors. I'll have to rewatch this video (even tho I know I seen it) to refresh my memory on what exactly she did. Thank you for the heads up! Do you like the Texas cottage or the L.A. house better? How about each design style? Tomorrow is the video of the front bathroom refresh. I have had the footage of these two videos for so long and it is now finally time to get it off of my phone. I'll tell you this... We have changed our mind three times about moving into this place. I even bought a danged couch for it! It has been an incredibly hard decision. As of today (and I believe this is final) we are NOT moving in. Although this place is soo friggin cool it is just not exactly what I want. I am to old to settle AGAIN. Our current house is fine and comfortable. Maybe when we get this place and both sides of the duplex rented I'll be able to buy my dream house. Maybe ;) Thank you so much for watching. I know its been awhile since uploading but hopefully I can get some kind of order going on here. Just to busy. I sure wouldnt have it any other way though!

I Can't Pick! I'm a farmer and live in a house built in 1970, by my hubby's grandfather. He was a musician and this house was stuck in the 80's when we moved in. There was carpet on the bathroom floor if that tells you anything. We have lots of land and so I went back to my roots and started farming and then turned the house into a farmhouse style. More industrial farmhouse because I ripped out the ceilings and exposed all the pipes and ducting etc. But I also love her LA house. Even on camera it just feels peaceful and that Garden! I have a flower garden here and have a bunch of roses too. But you could not run fast enough to get me to live in California. lol If I was picking between the two homes and their locations I'd likely pick the Texas house. Don't you just LOVE her mom and her mom's art! Here's hoping you get your dream house. We are in the market for another house here. We live Real close to the Buffalo river and gets Lots of tourist traffic out here. We already have one rental, air bnb type so we figured we'd add another.@@rentalsupplemental

It'd be hard for me to pick also. Just like you there is absolutely NO WAY I'd live in Cali. I love that house and the lovely rose garden and even the pool but a big NO to cali. I do love her mom!! Its a great peek into her real life when she has her mom on the channel. I never got on board with the farmhouse thing but that maybe because I actually lived in the country on a farm and the style is nothing like the real life. Anything I did to that house was the industrial farmhouse style. I still like the industrial style no matter where its at. Mostly that is the style I am going for in the duplexes.

I agree with you on the "farmhouse style" you find in stores, it's Nothing like a real farmhouse! @@rentalsupplemental

Every single time something happens on Main St people tell us how great our seats our!!

They played for 3 hours and I got that song. Of course its copywrited but I dont care. I want to remember the first BIG party at that property. 4th of July was tiny compared to this one.

He has worked in building maintenence for most of his life and we've always had fixer upper houses. He learned about this process from the internet. Ordered the screw jacks and iron and installed it. There are companies that do this but it costs sometimes $15,000 and up. The people we bought our current house from paid over 20k to repair the basement. For the Craftsman I dont think materials will be over $2400 after buying the epoxy for the cracks.

We are trying to be exact with structural repairs. Everything we've done here needed to be done years and years ago. If it is let to continue, then the place won't be worth anything. There are a lot of things we are not doing that need to be done like removing all the lath and plaster but those kinds of things do not affect it structurally. None of the work in either of these videos was overly expensive it was just time-consuming and not something that can be done while a tenant is in it. I have wanted to move in here since we looked at it. Don't laugh but it's been the HARDEST decision for me to make, ever. Honestly, I still haven't decided to not move in there. The place is stinkin cool and offers so many options we've never had. Like if I lived there, I'd get the closest duplex side as the Junk Shack, just my crap and a little house to make videos. It's just that our current house is newer. Much more modern construction, and way more energy efficient. Recently completely updated and we have a really cool shed, We live in a court and my grandbabies are a block away. Not to mention the moving part. Packing up and moving again. It makes my head ache thinking about it, but dang... what a great adventure that would be! It's freakin terrible!! LOL! I absolutely LOVE options and hate them as much.

I used to love moving. I'd still do it, but it would be a monumental task at this point. We live in an old house, built by my hubbys grand-dad and great uncles. They squeezed the life out of every penny it took to build it too. For instance, I have double level porches on the front of the house (which I do love) They are held up by 'wooden' columns, except they aren't. What they really are is car axles, welded together end to end and clad in lumber. Very ingenious and back then cost effective, I guess. For what it's worth, I hope you do move. lolol I Love an old house (most of the time) and that one needs a good family to move in and love it back to life. @@rentalsupplemental

No, just the middle of the wall. The washer and dryer were moved a few times in its history and neither of the places were the biggest problems. A video on the wall is about to come out and it'll explain a bit more what is going on and how we resolved it. Thank you for watching ;)

Umm thanks for telling me what my video was about?

@@rentalsupplemental well i hope it all works out for u.

It was needed. The water would be gross if it sat more then a day in the pipes. I know I wouldnt want to live there with that. Hubby has been doing three major projects in the basement at the same time. This is the first to be done. Thank goodness! We didnt have water there for a couple weeks. Thanks for watching!

Me too! I want to live there!

That would be a dream come true, but I am thinking its not gonna. Perhaps a new pool, though. What is there is just hokey, the way its supported for the parts not in the ground. If its a rental we cant have a pool anyway. On the other hand.... if I were to live there, there would definately be some kinda water thing happening. ;)

@@rentalsupplemental That would be awesome!

I did not want to remove them, but they were dead. All of them were Ash and all of them got the beetle. We are very happy with the work and it does feel like its eyes are open! Thank you for commenting on that. Everything is brighter, and cleaner looking.

I dont feel sadness surrounding the house, only that it is trying to make me love it. LOL This place is so cool I really want to live in it, but that means moving. The moving part is holding me back. We moved 6 times in 7 years recently and it sucks. We stand to make excellent money on our current house which would pay everything off we own, but we have to move into the new one. I am just not ready to pack ;)