It appears life is going to be a carnival ride for me for the next year or so. The wife and daughter are hell bent on buying a small fixer upper house here in Illinois to live in and renovate... pending the sale of our house. Then flip it in four years. Then start looking for a forever place back in Michigan.
My oldest daughter and the wife have apparently watched far to many home flipper shows and think all this stuff is easy. She was hell bent to buy this house on Thursday and I said she couldn't until i seen it. So we went and seen it (she had looked at it two days before) and I couldn't believe what I saw. The two of them had drawn up floor plans to move walls and create a second full bath etc... I was there for 10 minutes and figured there was no saving it and should be torn down and start over. Lots of mold... floor was out of level probably 10 inches on one end... garage was ready to fall over... the list goes on and on and on. It didn't even have a functioning bathroom... WTF is she thinking!?!?!?!?
But as long as we aren't living in a homeless shelter... I plan to be there.