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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
Your places look great!! Tabs, that was a lot of work & it turned out beautifully. After I retired, I decided not to remodel but to sell & build a place on some bare land I owned away from the city. Below is a pic of what I started with. It was originally covered with dense scrub oak like the upper portion of the picture. The first pic is after the front portion was brushed. The second pic is of the finished product, & we love it here.
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Looks like La Cresta... and that is a nice house.
For between 100K and 150K I could have bought 5 acres down in La Cresta back in the early 90's. But I had my money already tied up in the above house and RE prices were in the tank.
What I would like to do now is buy a smaller home than 3700 sq (for just myself and the dog) it would be more manageable in the upkeep, LESS COOLING BILLS, Cheaper property taxes, NO HOA.
I am to the point that I want to start UNLOADING STUFF> More is now becoming less. There are still lots of things that I like having, but it is not so much having collectible stuff but more stuff that I can go out and use. So when I look to purchase it is with an eye for use rather than just sitting around gathering dust.
Speaking of Kitchens, I cook well and am self taught over decades..starting when I was about 10 years old. I go through learning curves where I get a hunger to learn more, make new things cause I get burned out on the old things. After I moved to LV I couldn't have cared less about learning new things or even make more than one or two process dishes. Now I gots the desire again to learn new stuff. That Shanghai WOK deal was part of that learning curve deal.