Downtown Luxury Slum

We got an updated appraisal and I’m pulling my hair out trying to make lighting decisions. Halp.

The due diligence period is over. There’s a homeless guy living in the downtown luxury slum, and I want fancy hardwood floors.

The seller signed a new contract with a price reduction and we continue to fill out page after page of paperwork for the bank.

We got a work write-up from the HUD consultant, the structural engineer was full of bad news, we got our Certificate of Appropriateness, and the seller offered to drop the price.

We met with the HUD consultant and I played around with a few pieces of software that I thought might help make the design and layout more fun.

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.