My Old House
Issues and Events involving our Home in Independence, Missouri
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I’m like REALLY short on time here right now. Gotta run.
But I just finished uploading and describing a bunch of photos of our completed bathroom remodel.
http://www.myoldhouse.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=27
A huge thanks to Mike and Denise Butler of “Inviting Spaces”. ( http://invitingspacesllc.com/ ) They were our designer-contractors.
Well, it’s high time I posted an update about how our bathroom remodel is going. I’m sure if you asked my wife, she’d have expected it to be all over with about two weeks ago.
However, we encountered two unexpected surprises:
1) “Honey, what’s that dripping sound coming from the TV ?” — One Friday (was it two or three weeks ago?), Terry and I had been out all afternoon, shopping. Now, I had always said this bathroom remodel was MY project. I urged her to keep her nose out of it. This was in “fair retaliation” for the fact that she had been completely in-charge of our kitchen remodel a few years ago. But …
Well, it’s been a LOOONG time since I posted here! That’s because we haven’t been doing any work on the house… until two days ago.
We have finally decided to go ahead with the remodeling of our 2nd floor bath.
Here are some “before photos” that we took (and posted here) two years ago: http://www.myoldhouse.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=20
Our tax return gave us some “starter money” towards this project. But by no means will that money pay for the whole thing. Yeah, we’re going to have to use credit on the rest. And that sort of goes against the “Dave Ramsey Plan”, which we’ve been trying to live by for the past few months.
But every few years I …
Greetings all!
I’ve just posted photos of our garage, as it looks following our repainting efforts last week!
Please note that the north and south “side windows” were NOT repainted…and therefore look kind of stupid at the moment.
The reason for that is, right before we were going to paint this, we had the inspector come out for the 353 tax abatement program. And she said that we will have to either return those windows to normal, functioning windows that are NOT boarded-up…. or remove them completely and replace them with siding.
Well, in the interest of security, we’re going to have them removed. (Our garage was broken into about two weeks after we’d moved into this home back in August 2004. …
BACKGROUND:
The City of Independence has developed a “tool” for encouraging homeowners and landlords to fix up their property. This tool was successfully used to revitilize Harry Truman’s old neighborhood, which is just west of the “Square” in Independence.
Two years ago, this tool was modified a bit and then “opened up for applicants” to folks on the city’s west side who live NORTH of Truman Road.
This past January 1st, this same tool was made available to folks living south of Truman road, all the way to 23rd street, I believe.
The tool itself is called the “353 Tax Abatement Program”. Here is the city’s page of information on available tax abatement programs.
Signing-up
The way this program works is… the homeowner …
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