Disposal

We rented a huge container, and managed to fill it to the brim:

This week Daniel and Becky finished tearing out the basement, kitchen and front stairs going up. David took down the workshop and started cleaning up the roof on the carport. Today, Robert and Daniel built a full set of stairs by the front door. Must take more pictures of our hard workers!!!

Upstairs

Pardon the many pictures. Here is the upstairs. There is a tiny galley kitchen, a horrible bathroom, and a living room, dining area and 2 bedrooms that need a really good refresh:

... and in!

We are tearing out the entire basement. We started removing junk and smelly carpets in these pictures:

Outside work...

The cleanup is in full swing:

Totally Overgrown

I bought a fixer-upper, and boy does it need fixing! To start with, the yard was totally overgrown. Blackberries and ivy everywhere! You could not step more than two feet out behind the "workshop" as the realtor's description called it, because of all the blackberries and junk. In reality, that workshop was a tiny little tool shed about 8 x 4 feet, no more. The weeds were getting very close to the front yard as well. Beside the carport was an old white car, also overgrown.

When I got possession of the house in September 2012, the previous owners left junk everywhere. From couches left on the front lawn, to old furniture on the rotten deck, and eight or nine mismatched-old tires hidden under the foliage. Inside the house was no better. It reeked of cat urine, and had old furniture and junk all over the place.

My son Daniel and his wife Becky started by clearing land outside. Here they had cut down the blackberries beside the carport, and were moving junk out of the way.

Some more before pictures: