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In A Tessa House

Catia

Well-Known Member
Hah! The inside in not spectacular by any stretch, it is bare bones basic.*** No frills at all.***
No detailed molding, no special window treatments. Minimalist. But I'm cool with that.

1/2 of the floors are painted, the original tongue & groove, I suspect pine. The other 1/2 are old 9x9 tile & the livingroom is linoleum, hopefully dry layed & not glued.
The 2 rooms that have a carpet, it's an area rug/ a remnant piece layed, but not attached & not wall to wall, so not a lot of ripping out.
I'll shampoo it & use it til I save up to get the flooring I want. Not hard to live with basics, better than living with ugly stuff I have to rip out, & easier to personalize while I'm saving up for updates.

House is very clean & has never had pets.

I'm more excited about NOT having to rip out a bunch of layers of wall coverings & flooring & ceilings to get down to the original.
90% of what's there IS the original.

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basic kitchen-which will be a pet free zone

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attic bedroom

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living room linoleum

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diningroom

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attic bath-note sloping ceiling over tub lol!
 

raechiemay

Well-Known Member
I think it's cute & for $16,000 you can't beat the condition that it's in. Good for you! I can't wait to go down this route for myself :)
 

dpenning

Well-Known Member
Congratulations! The house is awesome. I'm right there with you on not having to rip a bunch of stuff out. Can't wait to see Tessa there. :)
Hah! The inside in not spectacular by any stretch, it is bare bones basic.*** No frills at all.***
No detailed molding, no special window treatments. Minimalist. But I'm cool with that.

1/2 of the floors are painted, the original tongue & groove, I suspect pine. The other 1/2 are old 9x9 tile & the livingroom is linoleum, hopefully dry layed & not glued.
The 2 rooms that have a carpet, it's an area rug/ a remnant piece layed, but not attached & not wall to wall, so not a lot of ripping out.
I'll shampoo it & use it til I save up to get the flooring I want. Not hard to live with basics, better than living with ugly stuff I have to rip out, & easier to personalize while I'm saving up for updates.

House is very clean & has never had pets.

I'm more excited about NOT having to rip out a bunch of layers of wall coverings & flooring & ceilings to get down to the original.
90% of what's there IS the original.

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basic kitchen-which will be a pet free zone

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attic bedroom

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living room linoleum

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diningroom

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attic bath-note sloping ceiling over tub lol!
 

mcleodcon

Well-Known Member
It is so cute! I just bought my first house in Aug of last year. It is a wonderful feeling to know you can do whatever you want to your place or nothing at all! I am sure it will fit you both perfectly!
 

Catia

Well-Known Member
Quick update:

'Tessa House' has closed.
I took her over there & she got to check out the inside.
She actually couldn't wait to get into the front door, it was like she KNEW.

There are some bumps & hurdles of course...furnace broke down the day of closing, so that had to be taken care of immediately.
There are a few minor water leaks, things that go along with buying a house that has not been lived in for a couple of years.

After that's situated, it's all about fence. I'm so close to the road, good fence is absolutely necessary.
 

mcleodcon

Well-Known Member
So glad to hear. I hope your first year goes better than my first year. I had both my pellet stove and my furnace crap out at the same time. Hope you figure out at fence soon!
 

Catia

Well-Known Member
Here's an update:

Upon wanting a new floor in the bath, after having it replumbed--I ripped up the old subfloor to put down a new one.
Some MAJOR structural issues were found.
Every joist in the bath had been severed through by the previous plumber--not the ones I hired.
Essentially the bathroom was floating, and had been floating for about the past 20-30 yrs. No one would have known if I did not decide to removed that old floor-
Luckily somehow the toilet & tub did not fall through-as both were being supported only by the tongue & groove subfloor, which was overly stressed.

Home is balloon construction. The load transferred to other bearing members, which is good-that in & of itself prevented a serious catastrophy, but I have some overly stressed & failing joists in the basement now that need sistered or replaced full span.

Yesterday I spent the day removing the entire duct system from the basement so the contractor has access. No way to avoid it.

They were all things that could not be seen unless walls/floors/ductwork had been removed.
There was no noticeable sag.

The biggest time consuming issue is getting contractors to actually show up & give estimates. Took months.
More than 1/2 did not show up! So a LOT of time was wasted.

I think I finally found my guy, but won't breathe a sigh of relief until the work is actually done.
Nothing else has moved forward, because it can't until this is completed.
 

dpenning

Well-Known Member
We have found it to be very difficult to find contractors who will come out into the country AND they don't like working on mobile homes. I imagine working on an old home has the same problems, you touch one thing an 3 others break. It is very difficult for them to give accurate estimates for that reason. I hope the guy you found works out!