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<p>[QUOTE="journeymagazine, post: 4498372, member: 84"]Actually the main house was Joy's House; a sober house for girls I opened in my daughter's memory for almost 8 years until the cast iron plumbing that was used when the house was built in the 1950's collapsed. It took over 2 yrs to get insurance to pay the claim (after having to hire a law firm), but during that period we had hurricane Irma come through Miami & now the roof needs to be repaired. So I got the same law firm and we are now fighting to het the insurance company to pay for the roof repairs. </p><p>During this time there was no one living in the house & no income coming in, so I started picking to pay the mortgage.</p><p>The house is a ...bit... full! My girlfriend says I'm a hoarder, but I haven't missed a payment yet!</p><p>PS - I started out buying storage units at auction but the house is so full I go to a couple local thrift stores now (Mon - Fri) to treasure hunt - I can't afford to go to storge auctions now - I'd have to rent a storage unit to keep my storage finds in because the house is so full!</p><p>Here is pic of the living room (bedrooms, etc look like this too (1 bedroom is vintage toys & skateboards, 1 is bicycles, 1 is vintage clothes, etc) and some of the 200+ paintings I've accumulated (last photo is part of bicycle room - I tried to load more photos but the damn photo program on computer froze again!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]393278[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]393279[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]393280[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="journeymagazine, post: 4498372, member: 84"]Actually the main house was Joy's House; a sober house for girls I opened in my daughter's memory for almost 8 years until the cast iron plumbing that was used when the house was built in the 1950's collapsed. It took over 2 yrs to get insurance to pay the claim (after having to hire a law firm), but during that period we had hurricane Irma come through Miami & now the roof needs to be repaired. So I got the same law firm and we are now fighting to het the insurance company to pay for the roof repairs. During this time there was no one living in the house & no income coming in, so I started picking to pay the mortgage. The house is a ...bit... full! My girlfriend says I'm a hoarder, but I haven't missed a payment yet! PS - I started out buying storage units at auction but the house is so full I go to a couple local thrift stores now (Mon - Fri) to treasure hunt - I can't afford to go to storge auctions now - I'd have to rent a storage unit to keep my storage finds in because the house is so full! Here is pic of the living room (bedrooms, etc look like this too (1 bedroom is vintage toys & skateboards, 1 is bicycles, 1 is vintage clothes, etc) and some of the 200+ paintings I've accumulated (last photo is part of bicycle room - I tried to load more photos but the damn photo program on computer froze again! [ATTACH=full]393278[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]393279[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]393280[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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