Our soon-to-be-home

The beginning of September we get back to Oregon and Max gets busy right away working on the house. Shortly after my graduation last year and just before Charlie was born we moved into Max's uncles house while he was working on a second retirement in Central Oregon. He were basically house sitting while he was away and got a great deal out of it. Max's Uncle Jay ended up retiring in May, one year sooner than he was planning. So he moved back here shortly before we left for California. The house is big and we could definitely still live here if need be but we would be happy with our own space and we think Jay has hinted at this as well. He's been a bachelor all his life so i think it is probably weird for him to know that he can't do laundry when the baby is sleeping and other various things. Jay proposed the idea (actually maybe Max brought it up, I'm not sure) that we can help fix up one of Mumzie's properties and live there. Mumzie is Max's grandma and owns a lot of property but now that she is getting older and in the later stages of Alzheimers, the properties have been neglected. Max's uncle Max has been in charge of all her properties and got in way over his head so 3 have been neglected without renters for years. Anyway, instead of paying rent we would become the project managers and fix up the houses so they are ready to rent out. First we are fixing up the one we will live in then work on the other two to earn at least another year of free rent. Good deal right? The house we will be moving into is very close to where we live now, in a nice secluded area surrounded by trees. It has three bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and a garage. It has some fun quirky little things like the ceilings slant and go pretty low upstairs, you have to shower downstairs (for now) and the windows are all pretty low and a little scary upstairs. Max has been working hard to get things ready and he is loving it, he has always wanted to get into property management and this is a great way to learn how to do a ton of the maintenance stuff. So far they have put a ton of new sheet rock in, a new back door, powerwashed the deck, cleaned all the junk out, picked paint colors out (That's my one duty), fixed the plumbing. Soon they will get the wood floors all refinished, the kitchen counters redone, the deck stained, the upstairs ceiling sheet rock replaced, everything painting, tile back splashes installed, hopefully more insulation in the walls, and probably a ton more that I don't even know about because I'm usually home with the baby. Anyway, here are some BEFORE pictures to see what we were working with...it already looks a ton better

This junk has already been cleared out..and look..and mini Harry Potter closet on the right.

Lovely right?

I spy a cute baby

doors were unattached and everywhere

Garage

The master bedroom

The office

Upstairs bathroom

ceiling

I'm loving the backyard!

       That's all for now, we should put some updated pictures up soon. I forgot to take pictures of the utility room and the downstairs bathroom and they have already done a ton of improvements there! We should be moving in with a month.