Adventures in Homeownership-Week One
Today marks week one of living in N. Waterboro.I am slowly getting everything unpacked and put away, its been a pretty interesting first week here though, as we currently have no hot water or refrigerator.
The hot water heater we have currently is running on Propane, we apparently did not check how much was in the tanks when we looked around before the closing, because we were out of propane. We called the propane people up, they came over Tuesday. It didn't take them long to see that the whole setup is illegal, between the tanks being closer than five feet from any sort of venting (Dryer duct) and the fact that the water heater was venting out that same dryer vent.) this in turn melted the vynil siding outside around the duct a little bit.
The refrigerator story is that the house did not come with one. Our buyers agent, Justin was going to acquire the one his boss was getting rid of (fairly new, he got rid of it because he was remodeling the kitchen.) unfortunately the ball was dropped and given away to someone else. so after waiting a week for our agent to come through for us, we instead went over to Appliance Warehouse in Portland and bought a new one. they had a nice black fridge with a water dispenser and ice maker that was like %40 off list price! :) Its also Energy star compliant, so it'll be a tax deduction next year.
Two weeks from now ill be receiving a bonus check from work, its pretty much spent already since we need to buy a new water heater (electric, since the cost to make the propane setup legal is going to go sky high) and also getting some roofing tar for the roof. Our new neighbors notified us that the tarps on the roof we knew about, have been up there since Patriots day last year (remember that god awful mofo of a rainstorm?)
Theres always something going on, and the fun never ends i hear. all i can say, is that im glad that the first mortgage payment isn't till April. :)
The hot water heater we have currently is running on Propane, we apparently did not check how much was in the tanks when we looked around before the closing, because we were out of propane. We called the propane people up, they came over Tuesday. It didn't take them long to see that the whole setup is illegal, between the tanks being closer than five feet from any sort of venting (Dryer duct) and the fact that the water heater was venting out that same dryer vent.) this in turn melted the vynil siding outside around the duct a little bit.
The refrigerator story is that the house did not come with one. Our buyers agent, Justin was going to acquire the one his boss was getting rid of (fairly new, he got rid of it because he was remodeling the kitchen.) unfortunately the ball was dropped and given away to someone else. so after waiting a week for our agent to come through for us, we instead went over to Appliance Warehouse in Portland and bought a new one. they had a nice black fridge with a water dispenser and ice maker that was like %40 off list price! :) Its also Energy star compliant, so it'll be a tax deduction next year.
Two weeks from now ill be receiving a bonus check from work, its pretty much spent already since we need to buy a new water heater (electric, since the cost to make the propane setup legal is going to go sky high) and also getting some roofing tar for the roof. Our new neighbors notified us that the tarps on the roof we knew about, have been up there since Patriots day last year (remember that god awful mofo of a rainstorm?)
Theres always something going on, and the fun never ends i hear. all i can say, is that im glad that the first mortgage payment isn't till April. :)