#blog

I bought my first house!

I thought it might be time to share what I've been upto in the last few weeks.

As many of my friends here know my friend and housemate died last year without a will. In order to honor his wishes I stepped up and volunteered to be the administratrix to his estate. It has been a long and heart wrenching time settling his affairs and dealing with his possessions.

The one bright spot is that I found a house I could afford to buy outside of town! I closed two days after my birthday last month and what a Birthday Present to myself!

This farm house was built in the 1930's and fully renovated within the last 10 years. It sits on a little over half an acre. Unfortunately the lot is long and narrow and my neighbors are rather close.

It was vacant for a year after the previous tenant moved out and when the homeowner could not find new tenants it went into foreclosure.

I have two major problems. Well, one major... The house was not winterized properly and several pipes have cracked.

I bought an endoscope camera and the $40 I spent was well worth it. I have dime sized holes in several walls and ceilings but I was able to find the leaks without doing too much damage.

Both bathrooms and the kitchen had pipes burst.

The second problem is the entry way floor. The gutters on the back of the house were damaged and water was allowed to run into the house under the french doors.

The subfloor and several floor joists have to be replaced.

I'm also going to replace the flimsy french doors that are here. @zoee might get a doggy door as well.

This week we plan on finishing the repairs to the plumbing, floor joists, subfloor, and french doors. I hope to have decided on tile or wood to replace the floor. I like the look of wood but being an entryway with a history of getting water damaged I might end up with tile.

More to come as I move in!

Comments · 106

@mysearchisover(70)· 2508d
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@rudyardcatling(65)· 2766d
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@olesia(55)· 2828d
Good evening @patrice, I have been given moisture for several days. I do not know for what reason. My texts without plagiarism. Help please solve this problem. Thank you very much in advance!
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@joecita(56)· 2839d
@patrice , Why @mack-bot downvote my post? Please, cancel it.
@thecryptotrader(65)· 2861d
Hi @patrice, i know that you are the owner of mack-bot.after some months i would like to return to post regularly on steemit, but i can see that i'm in mack-bot blacklist and get downvotes.. can i know why? can i do something for remedy? Can i contact you somewhere else? I really would like to return on steemit, but i can't with the downvotes, so i would like to know what i did and i would like to adjust the situation. Thanks for your time, Marco.
@abbot(44)· 2875d
Hi, @patrice, Sorry for the wrong doing of using multiple accounts, you will have my guarantee to stop using multiple accounts if you can remove them (@abbot, @ackerman, @tedtalk) from your list. Just give me another chance and also save your voting power. Regards.
@askquestion(71)· 2876d
Hello !@patrice

@Spaminator hope so youre doing well .

Bro just i want to apologize for my mistake . i know am not doing well but bro i have a lot of problem . English is not my mother language Thats why dificult to write daily articles in english . Bro i am student and all my 3 month profit loss because of you punish me :( please bro sorry for this time next time i will never do this again its my promise God promise . please this punishment enough for me please please .

@spaminator @patrice
@xiguang(63)· 2877d
Hi, @patrice, my account has been black-listed, is this a mistake? Can you please have a look at my account @xiguang and let me know the reason? I am only post once a day and all is about the interests I paid to who delegated their SP to me. Thanks.
@hansenatortravel(50)· 2881d
Hey patrice! Thank you for protecting us against bots! I would have never known that cryptoindex was just spam because all of the comments it leaves are different. Haha. Have fun fixing up the new place! I love that kind of stuff.
@bien(69)· 2883d
wow..i was happy for your new home,that house was unique using blocks on the wall is one of my dream house.

And i was agree on the place it's quite and fresh air i'm sure..great choice @patrice
@richman2(60)· 2904d
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@btc-dialog(55)· 2905d
how can u be contacted regarding ur flags?
@qurator.com(23)· 2912d
hello.....@patrice Sir I am tanisa.

Please help me somebody naned @mack-bot. @mack-bot continiously giving me downvote without any reason. please please help me.

you can check here also @tanisa

Sir I am from a poor family and I need some pocket money. That's why I contact a group of my entire friends. and I told them to upvote my all post till my reputation gone 50. After that I will be alone and If my content claims that its good then some steemians will upvote me or not. I mean totally my luck. meanwhile your bot @mac-bot starting downvoting me. please help me and remove me from that list. I promise I will not take support from my friends if my reputation gone up.

Sir it is a matter of sorrow that a little bit earlier your bot again cracked our communities another two id named @akazad, @tahia

Sir, For God's shake please do something.... we all are in depressed. Please make us survive.
@jannatulferdaus(64)· 2914d
hello, sir please remove from mac-bot. i am real user.
@sancti(63)· 2926d
Hello Patrice, this may be off comment for this post,. I noticed down vote each time I posted from @mack-bot, I regret any form of plagiarism that I endorsed in and plead to be taken off the bot's down vote list .
@cranium(76)· 2927d
I'm at a loss, please explain why you put the flag on my post - https://steemit.com/monomad/@cranium/monomad-photography-contest-balloons-against-the-background-of-a-cloudy-sky-d993345f980d4est? This is my original picture for a contest of black and white photos on the theme of the sky?
@heather2000(48)· 2929d
No wonder you bought a house with all the self upvotes you give yourself
@gasaeightyfive(55)· 2929d
@patrice / @mack-bot why am I on your flag list?

I've seen you downvote my comments that I leave on my subscribers posts. I leave that very small and generic comment on the accounts that are subscribed to my Resteem Subscription Service as opposed to the huge self promoting comments that other resteemers leave when an user uses their service - see for instance here.

And the reason for the low rep is explained here.

Please get back to me. Thanks
@naegling11(60)· 2930d
Hello @patrice,

This comment is off topic but I was wondering if you would consider removing me from any of the anti-spam accounts that I have been placed on such as @mack-bot. I now understand that front running upvotes to curate sp is not considered appropriate.

Thanks for your consideration.

@naegling11
@ericet(73)· 2933d
Dear @pactrice. Hope you are doing well. This user @cherryzz got downvote everytime she made a post or reply to a post. I checked her posts, there weren't anything wrong with the posts. Can you investigate this and remove the flag from her account? Thanks a lot.
@cherryzz(73)· 2934d
Dear @patrice. And what do I do now? How do I get my reputation back? How to quit the bot bot? Please, tell me. Have you seen it? My posts are original. I don't know why. I was trampled by the robot. Please help cancel it. Thank you.

@patrice，Do you see comments? Can you solve it?
@cherryzz(73)· 2934d
Oh, what shall I do? Please help me relieve the robot. Thank you.

Hello, my blog, stepped on by your robot mack-bot, see my reply, please help deal with it, thank you very much.
@stimialiti(61)· 2938d
In other words you either found a terminally ill person to live with until you inherited his possessions, or helped him die in one way or another and then you had the money to buy a new house. Typical patrice.
@diivlev(45)· 2943d
Dear @patrice. And what do I do now? How do I get my reputation back? How to quit the bot bot? Please, tell me.
@diivlev(45)· 2943d
Dear @patrice, By stupidity and ignorance, I got on the bot's black list. Please remove me from the blacklist, I follow the policy of steemit. I do not speculate on payments, I just write. It's a pity to throw a resource ... This is a misunderstanding ... Please change your @mack-bot ! Please let me write here at Steemit! Please! Thank you!
@diivlev(45)· 2943d
@patrice, By stupidity and ignorance, I got on the bot's black list. Please remove me from the blacklist, I follow the policy of steemit. I do not speculate on payments, I just write. It's a pity to throw a resource ... This is a misunderstanding ...
@killerbase(34)· 2943d
Hi, turn off the mack-bot from @rashkin.dima. Thank you.
@durgaani(55)· 2945d
hii plz dont flag my posts i am depending on steemit only its my heart plz remove flaging from mac-bot plz plz plz
@dj123(61)· 2945d
hi @patrice, guilty parties contacted me, have you talked to him? have you replied to idikuci? Hello? anyone home?
@dj123(61)· 2947d
hi @patrice / Patricia,

just dropping you a quick message to clear up some misunderstanding.

i think you might have flagged idikuci thinking he was comment farming, which i think generally means anyone who is commenting only for the sole purpose of self-upvoting

he wasn't, he's one of the developers for a community of clowns and joker and he's been commission to update the community bot comedyopenmic (we have a number of bot, for welcome, for notifying judges, for updating our excel data for calculating scores ) to create a comment when it's voting power is at 100% to utilized the upvote so the earning can be used for prizes.

as you can see from his delegation, he has given away a majority of his SP for community use, nobody who is comment farming for self benefit would do this, he's one of the good guys who's building up the Steem ecosystem

here is what COM has done since launching in the first 20 rounds (we're in round 24 now), it's all a bunch of international volunteers, giving their time to help build retention for Steem, increase the quality of post, the number of Curie won per entry per tag speaks for itself, and the one of the highest earning per tag since it's conception with almost 99% upvote bot free earning, i think this is clearly at false positive trying to identify a pure comment farmer

some stats from steemsql about comedyopenmic:

13722 unique upvoters of COM entries Year, Month, #Entries, Pending, Paid out (2018, 2, 178, Decimal('0.0990'), Decimal('1698.4970')) (2018, 3, 440, Decimal('0.3430'), Decimal('1709.2140')) (2018, 4, 541, Decimal('0.1570'), Decimal('4714.8380')) (2018, 5, 612, Decimal('0.2250'), Decimal('4869.8810')) (2018, 6, 512, Decimal('4.1000'), Decimal('2852.7460')) (2018, 7, 126, Decimal('815.6790'), Decimal('54.9390')) COME Stats: Year | Month | Entries | Pending | Paid Out (2018, 4, 164, Decimal('0.0080'), Decimal('502.1100')) (2018, 5, 435, Decimal('0.1620'), Decimal('586.8630')) (2018, 6, 494, Decimal('0.1660'), Decimal('564.5720')) (2018, 7, 171, Decimal('97.9800'), Decimal('125.2860')) 2085 Unique commentors on Entries - COM 678 Unique commentors on Entries - COME 738 upvoters of the comedyopenmic COME Announcements 1048 upvoters of the comedyopenmic COM Announcements Total > 3,700 post (this does not include Comedy Curation League, COM Promotions, and COMIndonesia upvoted post) Total upvotes for COM entries to minnows > $17,654 (this does not include Comedy Curation League, COM Promotions, and COMIndonesia upvoted post, COM Annoucement) Total Unique Visitor Who Participated > 18,300 (this does not include Comedy Curation League, and COMIndonesia upvoted post)

I've asked him to stop his scripts from running and take a break from testing until you get this message and we clear the misunderstanding
@idikuci(62)· 2947d
Congratulations on buying the property, it looks great. I'm sure now, 3 Months later, you're all settled and happy with it.

I would like to introduce myself, I'm @idikuci and I'm one of the leaders of #comedyopenmic. I believe we have a number of friends in common on Steem. Firstly I'd like to say sorry for bringing @mack-bot down to 1.99% VP, might have even dropped to 0%, I'm not sure but I haven't seen that, lowest VP I've seen is 1.99%.

I'd like to explain a few things and hope you will bear with me while I go about it. I promise I will try have a point as soon as I can.

4 months ago (I promise I'll speed to the present soon) I posted in utoptian.io outlining v1 of a bot that would help the comedyopenmic community account maximise it's payout to try and keep out little community contest going and stop out VP from ever hitting 100%.

Link here: https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@idikuci/community-account-vp-control

There's not much there other than what I wrote above. Now, the VP bot will only work if it has something to upvote, a post or comment. In the start it wasn't an issue but as the contest has grown we've had difficulty giving the bot enough comments because we spend less and less time with the community account and more time working on the admin stuff to try keep the contest growing. To counteract this I've started working on a bot that will make it's own comment if one isn't available to upvote. That's what you saw in my post. Naturally with new code I wasn't about to test the code on a 40,000 SP community account before I was sure it was working, so I usually test the code on my account, then on a couple of other accounts then finally when I'm 100% happy I use it on the community account.

The community account still uses the original code even though I've had 4 versions since then.

I would have liked to explain all this to you but you put me on your list and disappeared.

What really bothers me on Steem is when people indiscriminately try to mute people in Steem from having any kind of voice. I don't think it's an appropriate use of resources or a good way to interact with other people. When I saw your comment specifying "comment farming" I thought that your bot would actually target comment farming. but no, it targets any and every comment and post I make, irrespective of whether or not I was comment farming. and you mention in your comment that if I stop you will take me off the list. Well, I did stop like I said I was testing the code, which btw, is buggy so pretty much what you saw is the total sum of upvotes that I got. Now if I want to say something I have to upvote myself due to your bot. Seems a serious waste of resources. You have 250,000 SP and get stopped with 10 lines of code.

Having seen the issue that allowed me to bring Mack's VP to 1.99% (while mine remains at 100%) I'd like to offer you my services to amend your existing code and enable it to stop itself being lead down the garden path by a curious smart arse. This is a genuine offer to help if you want it, if not that's ok too. Here is what I believe you should do:
- You have 7 days to flag content, there is no need to stream the blocks and spend 1 core just to flag people.
- create a cron job that executes every Y hours (I suggest 6->12 hours).
- When the bot wakes up, loop through the black list and check comments and posts
- Anyone on black list who comments on posts and self upvotes more than x% (I think 80% is a good target) you flag them but only if above the dust threshold.
- When looking at posts and comments only look at them in the range of 5.5days -> 6days or 6days -> 6.5 days. The goal is to stop profiteering not necessarily to censor people.
- You can even set up the bot to have different voting thresholds for different people. e.g. set it to 0% and flag everything. but only if above the dust threshold.
By doing this it should save you some CPU time and will save you a lot of VP. Even this has holes and can be gamed but it becomes much harder.

my code, not to demonstrate how good I am, My code isn't very good, but to show you what it took to get mack to 1.99% VP:
```
from beem import Steem
from beem.nodelist import NodeList
from beem.comment import Comment
import time
import sys
import os
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('../keys'))
from idikeys import Posting_Key as posting_key

accountname = 'idikuci'
Failover_path = "@idikuci/don-t-be-nervous"
Failover_msg = "Giving Mack Bot Something to Flag, so he's not lonely"

nodes = NodeList()
nodes.update_nodes()
upvoter = Steem(node=nodes.get_nodes(), keys=[posting_key])
failover_post = Comment(Failover_path,steem_instance=upvoter)

while True:
  try:
    failover_post.reply(Failover_msg,author=accountname)
    time.sleep(41)
  except: 
    print("Error in voting")
```
Looks like I was wrong earlier, it's more than 10 lines, sorry.

Anyway, Have a good day.
@neraca(6)· 2948d
Dear, Mr/Mrs/Ms @Patrice (Mack-Bot owner)... I am not English native speaker, so I hope you will understand my question and/or explanation below:

I want to ask you why you keep flagging me? Would you like to explain my sin? Do I make something wrong as a steemit user?

I really hope you like to answer my question. Thank you in advance for your explanation.

Best Regards,

Neraca
@steemitfriend(64)· 2948d
dude, you are barking up the wrong tree. Stop it.
@ir3k(60)· 2949d
Great house. @ patrice, please remove your @mack-bot from my account! My account has been flagged in error! I never send spam! I'm waiting for removing your @mack-bot and check, but the bot has not disappeared yet! People can't see my posts, my pictures, for example, this one about my beautiful kid: https://steemit.com/portraitphotography/@ir3k/portrait-of-our-irina
@yonny(61)· 2950d
Please stop flagging me
@ir3k(60)· 2951d
Dear @patrice ! I believe my account has been flagged in error! I never send spam! You can check all my posts and comments and see that I never send spam!! Please remove flag of your @mack-bot! My accounts and comments have never been spam accounts!
@ir3k(60)· 2951d
Dear @patrice, why this my post was hidden due to low ratings?! I did all my best to make it! Can you please check it out:

https://steemit.com/mychild365/@ir3k/my-olga-grows-older-than-46-365
@ir3k(60)· 2951d
Dear @patrice, Please remove your @mack-bot! Please don't downvote everytime I post something! For example, this my post was hidden due to low ratings, I just have posted it! I did all my best to make this my post nice! Can you please check it out: https://steemit.com/mychild365/@ir3k/my-olga-grows-older-than-46-365
@ir3k(60)· 2951d
Dear @patrice, Please don't downvote everytime @ir3k posts something! Please change your @mack-bot ! @ir3k it's me. I love Steemit and writing posts so much! Please let me write here at Steemit! Please! Thank you in advance!
@ir3k(60)· 2952d
Dear @patrice, why this my post was hidden due to low ratings?! I did all my best to make it nice! Can you please check it out:

https://steemit.com/mydailypost/@ir3k/mydailypost-miercoles-wednesday-macroshot-an-insect-in-a-beautiful-flower
@shubh007(41)· 2962d
Wow your writing skills are so cool ,em a newbie definitely gonna follow you and learn more.😍
@lenasveganliving(69)· 2962d
Hello @patrice, may I ask you if this is your account? Or someone is pretending to be you https://steemit.com/@hilonrima
@garudi(61)· 2963d
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@herbertholmes(56)· 2963d
Hey there @patrice .... as apparently is not an isolated incident, your flagging accounts are flagging my material. I don't really care how you have them set up but it definitely needs to change considering I'm not the only one with these issues.. yesterday I spent SIX hours on a post(literally 6 hours) writing and I woke up this morning to a downvote from your bot. It didn't do much but it still sucks when I'm make about $0.12 per hour as it is. Congratulations on buying a home, help out the little guys and change your bots.
@yasu24(70)· 2965d
Congratulations!
@nickdavison(55)· 2965d
Hi @patrice, I understand you own Mack-Bot.

This bot has has just downvoted me despite the fact my account has never posted any spam, please can you review and get back to me?

Thanks, Nick.
@evolved08gsr(58)· 2966d
Apparently I'm way behind on this one.. but you could invest in adjusting the slope of your patio if there is a history of issues where water reaches the house. I imagine if you redirect the water away from the house more, you would be able to keep the wood floors... unless you just prefer a tile entrance (which is definitely not a bad option).
@xr-hammergaming(72)· 2966d
Hey there I found you from your flagging account after you downvoted my post. Can you please let me know why, I can understand im my stuff isnt to your taste but the account you flagged from indicates that you are flagging spam. My posts are certainly not spam and everything created on my account is all mine and have worked very hard to get it to where it is. Can you please check it out https://steemit.com/dlive/@xr-hammergaming/ba62ec5a-846d-11e8-8ae8-0242ac110002

Have a good day.
@braja(19)· 2966d
Can you please let me know why my account is getting flagged again and again.
@barrydutton(75)· 2968d
Wow I had no idea of any of this Patrice, good for you..... I have been in real estate nearly 30 yrs --- there is a lot of work there but your house looks great.

I do not know at all where you live, hope you can grow some food. I like that metal roof!!!!

I came here to find you on this actually LOL......and thank you again for all you do.

I voted for @anyx today to support him / his witness and also @neoxian as he is a neat dude and active and helping everyone. I never knew he was running for one, or I would have found a vote for him a lot sooner.

I came to review my votes and get one in for @anyx.

Sorry to bother you but this new account is out of control and I mean not just on my page.

Please have a look, it is one of the worst I have ever seen! I even warned them last nite.... they are going thru posts a year old and commenting on everything......It must be a bot or something.

https://steemit.com/@barrydutton/recent-replies

On this acct here:

https://steemit.com/@katyapolutina/comments
@yoshiko(72)· 2971d
Thank you for eradicating spam:D But @sakurasui seems that your account has been flagged incorrectly. She is an important member of the Japanese community.Please correct it.I think your activity is wonderful. https://steemit.com/japanese/@sakurasui/fanny-episode
@manisha(54)· 2971d
Please unban my account. You are not even replying to my messages.
@kaliju(66)· 2974d
Aw, the location is just mmm! Congrats man!!!

How you liking it so far?
@fadel1991(42)· 2977d
Hai patrice, you bot just flaging me... Why it could be happened to me???
@fadel1991(42)· 2977d
Hai patrice, you bot just flaging me... Why it could be happened to me???
@joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2987d
Great house. Love the bricks. Love to be in the forest. Seems like a lot of work, but it is worth it to fix up older houses which were generally built better.
@ris(51)· 2991d
@patrice. I apologize for the error in my posting that breaks in steemit media. please clear my account from flag. I will not repeat it again @ris
@desiratnasari(41)· 2993d
sir why friends account on flag same mack-bot what is wrong my friend @khalis
@pyaephyothu(31)· 2995d
Dear @patrice, congratulations with your house, nice post to read. I have a question for you, can you explain to me why @myominaung gets downvoted everytime he post something? Is there a way how we can solve this situation, hope to hear something from you soon. I have being used this one since Day 1 of my steemit journey. Thank you for your reply!
@myominaung(58)· 2995d
Dear @patrice, congratulations with your house, nice post to read. I have a question for you, can you explain to me why @myominaung gets downvoted everytime he post something? Is there a way how we can solve this situation, hope to hear something from you soon. I have being used this one since Day 1 of my steemit journey. Thank you for your reply!
@spreekilla(44)· 3002d
@patrice Will your bot eventually stop down-voting my every comment or is it permanent censorship?
@mamamoeswe(3)· 3005d
Please stop downvote. I posted special posted.
@ashfaaaq(56)· 3009d
sir why did you flag me ,have i done anything wrong?
@unprovoked(54)· 3010d
Oh wow. I love it. The big plot of green land is just amazing. Whatever you have to do with floors/walls etc will be totally worth it!
@mavaor(38)· 3011d
Dear patrice please what i did wrong why there is bot on my account .whats my mistake .please i need your concern.
@harpooninvestor(47)· 3014d
Where is the house? which state/county?

Unsure of the beginning of your article, did you buy the house with the estate money of your friend?

Interested in cryptocurrency Zilliqa? a critique: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@harpooninvestor/zilliqa-zil-the-new-and-improved-ethereum-of-singapore-yawn
@travoved(68)· 3018d
My congratulations with your new home @patrice! Be happy there! Also I have one question! Your @mack-bot voted today on my post like on phishing links, but there are no one phishing link! Can your remove it's vote? I can prove that trere are no one phishing link!
@masterroshi(57)· 3018d
You out here buyimg houses whilst your bot downvotes people just trying to make a living.
@markeverlasting(48)· 3022d
I'm just really hoping you paid for it with SBD's or it doesn't count. LOL, Congrats and I hope you plant a garden.
@iamstan(63)· 3022d
Hi again, Congrats on the new home and project. If you need any wisdom from my 35 plus years in the construction/remodeling business just ask.

It is a pretty house I hope it gives you warmth health and many happy times.

When @lovenfreedom and I bought our house 6 years ago we had to move into the garage while we fixed it up enough for us to move into the back half.

It took us about 8 months to completely remodel it. We put a new roof, AC/heat pump, all doors, cabinets, baseboard, paint, tub, plumbing fixtures and valves, and we installed tile throughout the house.

3 of our 4 children have been born here now. We have 9.2 acres and its still much work to be done it was also abandoned and a repo.

Now that the children are getting bigger we're thinking about adding some rooms and another bathroom. It will be fun and we will post about it when we get to it.

We are happy for you we know how it feels. Did you pay cash or finance? We had a Construction loan for the first 9 months then another loan for 3 years and now it is ours if you don't count the fact that you have to pay taxes to the county for ever.
@buttercups(33)· 3022d
Dear @patrice, congratulations with your house, nice post to read. I have a question for you, can you explain to me why @salahuddin2004 gets downvoted everytime he post something? Is there a way how we can solve this situation, hope to hear something from you soon. Thank you for your reply!
@machnbirdsparo(66)· 3023d
GZ. Enjoy reno:)
@mrposyble(56)· 3023d
congrats sir this shows that you are doing well

keep safe, more blessing on the way
@ace108(80)· 3023d
Only saw this now. Congratulations. Hope you have enough time to get it ready for winter. :-)
@realestatecoach(55)· 3024d
Congratulations moving into your first home is very exciting.
@carterx7(65)· 3024d
Happy be-lated birthday.. nice house a little work @patrice and I'm sure it'll be great. Hope all is well.
@lovesteem(52)· 3026d
Sinc last month i cant post on my id plz gaid me halp me where im rong
@lovesteem(52)· 3026d
Plz tel.me who can i use my acout . an a bot is flaging me tel me halp me to use my acount @patrice
@ammar3(49)· 3027d
congratulations
@crazybgadventure(59)· 3027d
Oh my goodness @patrice its a beautiful property I can't wait to see the before and after photos.
@littlescribe(67)· 3028d
This is such an adorable little farm house! I love the pale orange brick. I LOVE this time period from 20's to 30s. I don't know what it is. We have tons of them in my home town and I'm dying to go and renovate them someday. I can't believe you know how to do all that stuff. I'd be at a total loss...

P.S. I DM'd you about coming on to interview on my show. I hope you can join us! I think it would be really great to have someone like you to chat with on the air.
@pjau(64)· 3028d
"Neighbours are close", try living in a terraced house :p

Looks great though! :)
@valth(69)· 3028d
First off, congrats with buying a house! I really like the looks of it, but it seems like a lot of work to fix all the pipes and other problems. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes, @patrice :)
@watchfulmomma(53)· 3028d
Sorry for the loss of your friend, I went through the same in 1999 and was his executor for his estate too. Congrats on the house! It's adorable! I will never forget my first house purchase! It's a journey that makes life so worth living!
@jasonshick(66)· 3028d
Congrats on becoming a homeowner Patrice. Sounds like your pretty handy to have around the house as well.
@nurmidirman(41)· 3028d
The house is still nice, maybe it needs a little repair to be more comfortable to be in place.
@siosfl(41)· 3028d
Congratulations! Looks like it could become a sweet new home.
@cryptokeepr(62)· 3028d
Congrats on buying your first house! That’s very exiting. It looks really nice and it’s always nice to have some space (not right next door to another house or two) and privacy.

I like that little tiny camera! I need to get one of those as I do a lot of home repair and troubleshooting around my house.
@josediccus(83)· 3028d
It's in the middle of such acres of land and I can see all the broken spots you've stated that needs to be renovated, nevertheless, you've got yourself a beautiful new home, and it's quite a huge milestone.
@enforcer48(75)· 3028d
Congratulations @Patrice! Sorry for your losses, but I'm glad to see you occupying your time with big renovations.

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