CEK40 wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

 
We are getting that and a dehumidifier, new stuff put down on the ground under the house, a new access door and lights oh and some beams replaced for 4000,00

 
That is a lot better then 13, 000. Lol

 
I know and this company is family owned and they are super nice and knowledgeable...

 
Good. I am glad you found someone you can trust.

CEK40 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

 
We are getting that and a dehumidifier, new stuff put down on the ground under the house, a new access door and lights oh and some beams replaced for 4000,00

 
Oh wow....are you having house problems

 
Yea hubby saw that the insulation was falling down but he couldn’t go under the house so we had some people come look and they found fungus and moisture under the house.  The first guy quoted 13,000.00 and he said there were 3 leaks and the main beam had to be replaced.  The other company saw no leaks and no problem with the main beam and they will do the work for 4000.00

 
Wow...it sure make you wonder about the companies "observation" issues.

april6263 wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/il/dekalb/329-north-3rd-st/pid_26974955/

To all my sisters of the traveling message board, I have missed you.  
Until my son, the singer, comes much later today, I have posted this link to a house he hopes to buy for use by our whole community.   When he gets here he will post a photo himself of the house.  It was sold at a sheriff's auction in April and only now came back on the market.  Last year a develop offered  a substantial amount of money for the house which he would then tear down.  So the plan is to contact several people who want to see our community preserve our old homes and have them buy it and they would be repaid within three years.  This offer has to be submitted this Friday.  I had posted a different link earlier today, but found a better one.   And all of this is happening during a season in our lives in which my husband who had battled bi-polar illness has been particularly awful to both our adult sons.   "Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning."   A lot of work and money has already gone into restoring and preserving this Victorian home.  When I was 33 and we had just moved into our first home a couple of blocks from this house, and before it was restored, the then owner, who taught with me at DeKalb High School came to me and asked me to consider buying the house and he and his wife would work with me.  That was the first of several times that someone has come to me and asked me to do this.  Only God knows why because I do not have money and I had never shown interest in real estate investing.   Also, my younger son actually raked leaves at this house in the fall when he was 7 and 8 years old.  My son will be living in the house when he is in town, and we have asked a young African American man who lives in DeKalb to join him.  This will not be called a Beloved Community House, but it will be used that way.  We will probably restart our Music in the Parlour monthly concert, a couple of rooms will be used for bed and breakfast guests, and we will have many dinners inside and outside while intentionally inviting African American, Latinos, poor people, old people young people--you get the picture.  My son, in addition to his music and acting has a lot of experience in the hospitality industry. There are chefs who are excited about the idea of partnering with him and come out to our town to cook for events and even help plan events.  We are both terrified because while we know people who have the money to buy the house and sell it to him on contract and who have even said in the past that they want to contribute, it is a lot scarier to actually ask than it is to talk about it.  

I will not be able to join you all tonight in watching DWTS, but I will be joining the game.  However, because I often visit friends who have a TV, and when I do not have to attend a city council meeting, there will hopefully be some Mondays that I can join you.   I am not sure yet, about Tuesday evening this week.  

It is hard to believe that in November of this year, the fifth year of Beloved Community Dinners begins.   I hope to post more often and with short posts play catch up and let you know what is happening.  For example I don't even remember whether or not I let you all know that two people from the Justice Department joined us at our 2018 March Dinner which turned out to be one of the best dinners we have had.  Both people were from a department in Justice that was mandated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I will fill in my choices later today.  Hope you are all having "Sweet Dreams."  
 

Thank you for sharing.  That is an amazing house and to know that you have had some "connection" to it through all of these years, makes it all the more special.  I hope it all works out for you, your son and the community.  It sounds like quite a project and labor of "love".  It is great that you once again found a way to bring "people" together.  Keep us updated.

 

Awesome Kos    Love the updates and the house is amazing

 
Oh, my....that house has shades of the house my grandmother owned for 50 years in Hyde Park (Chicago) and where we lived while my dad was in law school at the University of Chicago when I was about 3-6 years old.  I have vivid memories of those days and that house!  We lived in a rental in the UP of MI when I was about 8-10 that had a carriage house....and also a playhouse in the back yard!  It was child heaven!!  Oh—that was the house where my brother (who was about 5 or 6) decided to make a “fire escape.”  He was told NOT TO (rope from 2nd story balcony to the ground!!!), but...he was famous for asking permission, then doing what he wanted to anyway!.....Mom and Dad saw him “flash” by the kitchen window as he rode the rope to the ground!!!  I’m not sure if he got in trouble...it became a funny story...and I’ll bet he has no recollection of that event now!!!  I’ll have to ask him!!!

Enough reminiscing!!! 

Great potential, KOS....and we will await updates as everything unfolds!  Wishing you all great success!!

CEK40 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

 
I know and this company is family owned and they are super nice and knowledgeable...

 
Is it mold Cek??

 
No they said it was a fungus coming from the moisture due to the humidity.  No black mold or anything like that! Thank goodness

 
Yes...that would have been terrible

CEK40 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

 
I know and this company is family owned and they are super nice and knowledgeable...

 
Is it mold Cek??

 
No they said it was a fungus coming from the moisture due to the humidity.  No black mold or anything like that! Thank goodness

 
Thank God it wasn't mold ((hugs))