Great Paw Paw’s House

We put a bid in for this house today. I am not sure if we will win, since others bid on it too. It’s only been on the market for 13 days… and is about to sell. Its really big. hard to tell by the pictures. But plenty of room for our family.  My great grands had this house and my paw paw lived in it as a kid. He was one of 10. Five girls and five boys. So you know it’s roomy.  My mom use to visit this house as a little girl. It has lots of sentimental attachments to it. After great paw died, Uncle Max & Aunt Sally lived in it. Then a guy named Daryl bought it and just lost it to foreclosure. We are hoping to get it back in the family. The land is on our family land, but doesn’t belong to anyone in our family! My uncle wants the land, so he offered $10,000 for the land in front of the house. So if we get it we will sell that part to him. This house sits across the street from my maw maw’s house. Up on the hill where I use to go snow sledding and play in the barn. I love it. I needs a LOT of TLC, and the price is right. Plus it needs a heat pump in it. No heat, no air- so we will have to pay for that right away before we could move in and, we need to rent a dumpster and clean out all the junk left behind. It will take a full days work to get that cleaned out.

Front of the house.

Back of the house

 

One of the three rooms upstairs… notice anything? Besides my sister?

Sunroom, you can enter from the master bedroom, or the porch.

Middle room upstairs, no  closet, so its not considered a ‘real room’ according to the paperwork. My maw maw and paw paw lived in this room after they were married.

 

The stairs are really cool. Little and safe for the kids. There is a deep closet under the steps too!

Part of the kitchen. Every room needs work, but holds GREAT potential!

The view from the side of the house. You can see the roof of my mom’s house (where I live) look toward the tree line and you will see a roof with gutters in the distance. This is all family land, so you don’t have to worry with neighbors crowding your space!

I have always wanted to build a house on family land, so the idea of owning a home on family land is so awesome. My great grandfather had over 300 acres of land in the county at one time. Each of the 10 kids bought some land from him. What a legacy! I’m glad we still live on that land!

What a great view…

This is hard to see, because its all grown up, but its a heart shaped pond that my great grandfather built for his wife, my great grandmother. How sweet. Its about 1 foot deep. We would restore it for sure. It’s so cute.

 

I know mom wants us to have this house more than anything. She said that if the Lord moves us away from here, she would buy it from us. So that is good. I don’t know when we will hear back from them, but hopefully by the end of the week!