eowner now!

After 4 months of offers, and banks, and underwriters, and realtor bull crap I now have keys to my first place.

The reason I bought the house is location, it is on a canal on Lake Conway (a 1800 acre, 5 chain lake) I can't find many pass times that are better than being on the lake.

The home was built in 1959 and I bought it from the original owners. While the kitchen and bathrooms are in dire need of an update it is a very solid home. All inspections revealed very minor problems like a small leak in guest bathroom and some touch up paint on the soffits. The A/C was replaced in '03 along with new plumbing but the bathrooms are old school and kinda small, kitchen is a good size and in a nice longer rectangular shape. With the exception of the bathrooms and kitchen the entire house is terrazo flooring and in good shape.

It is a 3/2 with a 1 car garage and carport, heated sq ft is just under 1800.

Im not to keen on the exterior color but women seem to like it better. Its like a seafoam green, Im my head I envision it grey with white and black trim.

My intentions with this thread are to show before and after, with progress along the way...

Here are some pictures as it sits now:


Some other randoms can be found here of the interior...
http://gallery.me.com/justin073#1000...or=black&sel=0

And the canal is currently being dredged by the city so it looks 100x's better.

 

Awesome! I actually looked at that house when I was shopping. If not that one, then one that looked JUST like it on the canal right on Hoffner. It had just come on the market. I really like that area too. Congrats!

Edit: Upon looking at the photos in your gallery, that's not the one I looked at. Looked just like it from the front though which is odd because that's not a cookie cutter neighborhood.

 

Wow, its such a small world...did you end up getting a place on the water?

 

No, I actually wound up buying further south closer to Kissimmee. I'm in the same neighborhood I was renting in, just in a different village. I liked the houses around there. They have a lot of character, and I really would have loved a house on the water, I just wanted something that was going to require a bit less work to move into. And I got a steal on the house I did eventually buy. The fact that it was in the same neighborhood was just a coincidence.

 

 

Congrats! To be a homeowner at 24, good work!

 

Hey, now that's kind of a big deal!

I would definitely change the color to something complementary of all the other green surrounding the house.

Can't say I'm a fan of the box-on-a-stick bush trimming.

 

Congratulations!

 

Congrats!

 

Congrats fellow 24yr old homeowner

 

Congrats! Enjoy the house, lake, satisfaction of upgrading the place and $8k homebuyer credit!

 

Excellent! ... and on the water in Florida is full of extra win!

 

Thanks for all the kind words guys. Moving all my stuff in tomorrow

 

 

Grats!

 

Congrats Justin, big news for Big Nasty eh?

 

love concrete driveways

 

Congratulations, man. It's a great feeling, isn't it?

Now be prepared to open your wallet and checkbook.

 

^ aint that the truth



Congrats!!!!

 

I like to see other people owning homes at a fairly young age... especially in this market when you can steal real estate. Congrats!!

 

Congrats!

 

Congrats


New boat next?

 

 

Big News for sure and Thanks again, and yes it is a truly a good feeling coming home to something you can call yours.

I sold the flats boat to pick up the house but the next boat will be a pontoon party machine...

Just got internet installed this morning before work, trying to figure out what I want to do for tv. My choices are ATT Uverse, bright house, or Direct TV. Got some research to do now that I have internet again.

 

Direct TV is you like Football...

 

Don't really care about football, I'll watch it if someone else wants to, but I won't go out of my way to see anyone play...

 

Congrats! Welcome to the club! Your new place definitely has potential. I like it!

I know that some bash Dish Network, but I've had them for a few years now. I have their basic HD only package (they don't advertise them any more, but they are still available) and I've got their VIP 722 HD-DVR dual TV receiver (HD in the living room, SD in the master bedroom). I like it. Unless you don't already hate them, they're one to consider.

 

Congratz! At 24, that is quite an accomplishment. Kudos to you!

 

Congrats... I just found out my offer was accepted today!!! I've never been so excited to go into debt... lol!!!

 

It's an effing ripoff, they charge you $300 plus for the Sunday Ticket and if you want HD, it's another $100. I stopped about four years ago. The second year I got it, the HD games were free.

 

Got my security system today...dose not work just rite yet, but well work out the kinks




The Girl has the red collar, Her name is Sidney (Sid is what we will call her) The boy is in the black collar his name is Red.

I was just going to adopt the girl, but after I finished all the paper work and was walking out with her she passed her bro and they were just having the times of their life, so I couldn't separate them.
16 weeks old and pure breed pits, adopted from the local pound today.

I might be more excited about these two than the house.

 

Quit taking pics and get that dub 6 and boston comps installed... lol!!!


J/K Congrats on the house and the dogs...

 

lol, Thats a 'spare' I have laying around (I have 3) and the comps are in, I just put all my crap on that bookcase cause all the books I have are text books still boxed up.