For some reason I don’t feel complete without publishing a post on my many DIY projects. Case in point, we finished the apartment/garage roof weeks ago and I still have yet to post anything about...

  I usually don’t get to write about “wins” when it comes to renovating. It always seems like one small problem escalates into a bigger one, a much bigger one that winds up costing us time and...

I don’t know how it slipped my mind… but someone informed me the other day that I never posted any before pictures of the one bedroom apartment above the garage of the most recent house...

We purchased Main Street House as a long term investment property and a short term place to call home. The renovations we’ve done so far have revealed the fact that groundhogs, raccoons and skunks have taken...

I thought we had one problem. I thought we had one groundhog problem. After we trapped and released one with one ease, we realized we might have to do it more than once… Turns out...

My last blog post on Tuesday left you guys wondering what was going to happen next with Main Street House, a house we were supposed to have closed on the Friday before. Were we going...

To call the buying process of Main Street “a shit show” would be an understatement. I actually left the realtor’s office asking “so did we just close on Main Street House or not?” Even though...

WARNING: This post has been rated HSP (HIGHLY SARCASTIC POST) Please do not take actually take any of this advice. If I had to give advice based on the hundreds of houses I’ve looked at...