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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 117245, member: 878&quot;]I, too, LOVE that house. <span style="color: #0059b3"><b>Makes me very sad, though. </b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Many years ago, moving in from out of state, fell in love with this ~</p><p>[ATTACH=full]29542[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~and had it under contract of sale for $18,000. A STEAL. The elderly lady owner passed away and the heirs were very happy a new family would be moving in.</p><p><br /></p><p>It had been converted to a two family, but the original sweeping front stairs were in the barn. Upstairs family had a year left on their lease. With 4 children I needed and got a quote to put a two room addition on the back with a removable center wall. We could move in and wait a year. Then take over the whole house and the addition would be a fam. Rm.&nbsp; The furnace was OK, but only one heating system for the whole house.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I called the bank to check on the mortgage found that the real estate agent screwed up and never gave them a copy of the contract. They said they would expedite it. Called me back the next day with a “ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BUY THAT?” YES!!!!!!!</p><p>Do you know what the heating bill was last year? HUH, what’s that have to do with it?</p><p>Heating oil, back then was ------------ fifteen cents a gallon. Yes, 15 CENTS!&nbsp; In the previous season the heating bill for this house was over nine hundred dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn’t buy the house.</p><p><br /></p><p>About fifteen years later met this young lady 50 miles from home on a business trip. She asked where I lived, and then said she used to live there. ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THAT HOUSE. She laughed, and said the elderly owner kept the thermostat SO HIGH that they had to open all the upstairs windows, all winter just to breathe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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