{"id":216,"date":"2005-07-02T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-02T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T06:00:27","slug":"two-houses-two-mortgages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/07\/02\/two-houses-two-mortgages\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Houses, Two Mortgages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after a process of several months, I finally closed on my grandmother\u2019s house.  My grandmother passed away a little over two years ago, and while I do not want to go into all the family details, it has been a heck of a process to finally get the house.  As of yesterday at 10AM, I am now the owner of two mortgages.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to start renovations next week; we have a 120-day contract with our construction\/remodeling company.  Hopefully we can move into sometime in late October or early November.  Of course that means we have to time the sale of our current house, which is going to be a not so fun proposition.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the house stays in the family \u2013 it was built (I think) by my great grandfather in 1902.  The house is larger than my current house, and will have great opportunities for entertainment, which my current house certainly does not provide.  We are also going to get a deck, a fenced in back yard for the kids (and a much wanted dog), and a garage apartment among other things.  The house is a Columbus, GA historic park district casually called Lakebottom.  The historic part is another story, but the park is only .3 miles from the house, which is going to be wonderful for the kids.  I played there when I was a kid, and now my kids get to experience the same thrills and spills of the neighborhood park.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news, besides needing a lot (and I do mean a lot) of money to fix up the house, is that the garage apartment is in shambles \u2013 wood rot, old termite damage, the whole nine yards.  I want to keep the garage apartment because it increases the value of the house, and I lived in the upstairs apartment when I was in college.  The builders practically have to rebuild the whole damn thing; about 25 percent of it is gone right now, which is also another story for another day.  This little project is completely out of pocket, which means pretty soon I will no longer have money in said pocket.  Major ouch, and it will certainly cut down on any sort of gaming budget that I think I may have for the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I now own my grandmother\u2019s house.  Tonya and I decided that since we are spending so much money to restore the garage apartment that we should somehow get some use out of the damn thing.  We are going to convert the bottom area into a game room.  Hello pool table and refrigerator full of beer (the beer part was actually Tonya\u2019s idea, bless her).<\/p>\n<p>I just figured I would write\/share a little, since I cannot sleep (5AM Saturday morning) \u2013 worrying about that second mortgage I guess.  Plus this explains why I have not had any free time for gaming \u2013 I have been spending most of my free time over at my grandmother\u2019s house sorting out 100+ years of stuff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after a process of several months, I finally closed on my grandmother\u2019s house. My grandmother passed away a little over two years ago, and while I do not want to go into all the family details, it has been a heck of a process to finally get the house. As of yesterday at 10AM, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/07\/02\/two-houses-two-mortgages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Houses, Two Mortgages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}