Downtown Luxury Slum

I submitted the Certificate of Appropriateness application, out new contractors got approved by the new mortgage broker, and we chose paint colors.

We have new viable contractor and mortgage broker options, we ordered a survey, and I started work on our Certificate of Appropriateness application.

This week, we almost lost the downtown luxury slum.

We got our renovation cost estimate this week. It was over budget. And we did some research on the history of the house and its previous residents.

I designed a kitchen with the IKEA Home Planner and researched our historic designation.

We paid our due diligence and earnest money, met with a couple architects, decided on a contractor, and started looking into historic restoration tax credits.

Although we had hoped to purchase a house downtown eventually, we weren’t really looking yet. But a friend asked us to go look at a house with him and we fell in love. After consulting with a couple contractors about the cost of renovation, we put in an offer and after a few counter offers, we had a contract.