The Audacity of Hope

Now that I have your attention.......

I totally missed the inauguration today. We were in the truck with the radio on and could hear the crowd cheering and the announcer, announcing.......I looked over and asked, "do you want to hear this""? To which I received a firm "no". So over to the country station we flipped.

Then we drove and hour south to find some snow flurries and a Property for sale that we had been trying to get info on for almost a month now.

A Plantation house with 29 acres. Built around 1830, so we were told. We were in a freaking graveyard so far as cell phone reception was concerned, but using the new # posted on the for sale sign got the owner/agent to call us as we were knocking at the front door.

Long story short, she told us where to look for the key and we let ourselves in for a visit.

Needs one hell of a lot of work and money. I figured the land at about 3K per acre and after looking at all the work needed.......complete rewiring which will require that all interior walls have to come off and of course a complete new set of plumbing which was jury-rigged to begin with.......rebuilding of all of the chimney and fireplaces......AND the installation of any kind of heating and air conditioning, plus of course, insulation, of which there was never any except the application of newspaper on the walls under either paint or wallpaper.

I decided the house could either be rebuilt for around $300,000 or refurbished for approximately the same.........take your pick.

The Agent/owner wants half a mil and owes $300K.

I started to tell her we'd take it.......if they would pay me $350,000.00 and reduce the price to 200K.

That is Audacity of Hope right there......that's what that is. They are going to need a lot of luck.