Jeff went to the new house to cut the lawn and discovered shattered glass all over our dining room floor. We were the victims of vandalism--someone decided to break our window. We were so happy to have the windows installed at the house too:-( It couldn't have happened at a worse time because we are very very busy, but as they say when it rains it pours.
Maintaining two houses is getting to be time consuming, so having this mess to clean up didn't make us happy. Jeff ended up getting glass in his hand. It was a double window too, which will be more costly to replace. We don't want to make a claim on our homeowner's insurance because of the requisite rate hike. Insurances are such a scam. You pay so much hard-earned money into them, and when it comes time for them to help you out when you need it, you can't even make a claim. It's a shame, too, because this expense means that we won't be able to finish something else in the house. The funds we budgetted for the reno are almost exhausted (and paying rent plus a mortgage and utilities for longer than we planned is cutting into the budget), so we'll just have to save up to do some of these projects. There's a lot of work yet to be done. We're overwhelmed, but still looking forward to a day when all of this expense and hard work pays off. I would rather live in a beautiful home that we own that isn't yet finished than to go into debt and accumulate more worries. What good is a lovely home if you are too stressed to relax and enjoy it?
Now for the broken promise; we're dealing with a fraudulent seller on Ebay who lied repeatedly to us and never replaced the damaged statue he sent to us. Ebay won't help us because the time to open a case has expired (yeah--because the seller strung us along by giving us his word that he was going to make the situation right). I might stop using Ebay because of this, but what can you do? There will always be low class people out there looking to make a buck off the back of another because they lack the intellect or God's grace enough to make it on their own. I've been through it before with other companies and people in my life. The best thing is just to let these things go and let God deal with the bottom feeders. Life goes on. I can always find another statue, and one way or another this home will be finished someday and we're going to love it!
We've decided to hire our carpenter to be our general contractor to complete our kitchen project. We discovered that people wouldn't get back to Jeff with quotes because he is just a mere homeowner and not a construction, electrician, etc. business owner. That has set this project behind so much. I have a feeling this carpenter is the answer to prayers to get the project moving. We are excited to move! He said that will likely happen toward the end of August or beginning of September. He's not sure if the marble flooring will work in one place we want to put it though. He's not sure if the floor is flexible enough for it. I hope we can figure a way around that because I love white marble. It's timeless; it suits the time period of the house, and it gleams:-)
I can't believe we've been living in a rental for almost 2 years trying to move forward. The journey began 5 years ago. Half a decade. For half a decade we've been trying to move into a new home, so I feel like we're stuck in a time warp. We've lost a lot of our life to this, so it's discouraging when things like vandalism and rip-offs happen when we are working so unbelievably hard to fix up our home so we can finally move in. We'll make it, though.
This will all be worth it one day. I need to focus on the positives: We bought a spacious and amazing home with amazing potential in one of the nicest and most sought after areas of the county. The neighborhood is great and we have plenty of land. And I got to custom-design my own kitchen that I've seen in my dreams. It's going to be one fantastic place to live! We're going to have a beautiful life there.
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