It looked exactly how I would have expected it to look after two unmarried, older brothers, who clearly weren’t too concerned about the state of their home, had lived there for decades with their pit bulls and other random family members in and out over the years. I was so interested to see what the inside looked like. They moved last year, after living in that house for decades. I didn’t love looking at their property, but I did enjoy having them as neighbors. I gave them my old car, and in exchange, they mowed my yard (again, one acre) every week or two for about two years. Several times, they fixed my car, changed my oil, repaired flat tires, etc. They were both the types of people who would do anything for me that I needed. And then they got their hands on some extra metal roofing and starting patching their shingle roof with random pieces of metal roofing.ĭespite all of this, I will say that they were wonderful neighbors. For years, half of the roof was covered in a blue tarp. For the eight years we lived here with them as neighbors, they never had a sound roof on that house. It seemed to be falling apart right around them - two brothers who had gotten the house when their parents died, I believe. The back yard (that house is also on a one-acre lot like ours) was filled front to back with so much stuff that it looked like an actual junk yard - the kind of junk yard where cars go to die, and people go to search for parts that they need.Īnd because that was their main focus (both hobby and business), the house never got much attention at all. I was never really bothered by the noise of revved engines throughout the days, but I was bothered by the fact that the property, front and back, was always filled with cars and RVs and trucks and lawnmowers, and anything else that had an engine that could be worked on or rebuilt. The main issue was the huge metal building/shop they had built right up against our property line, and which they used as a shop where they worked on cars and engines of all kinds almost every day. And the house was only part of the issue. As it turns out, that will be a blessing when we finally do pour our driveway, because had there been one, it would be in the wrong spot and it would have to be taken out first, costing thousands extra in labor.īut the second issue was the house next door. The first was the lack of a paved driveway on our house. There were two issues that I thought I would never get past. When I came for the first time to look at our house eight years ago, I almost just kept on driving by without stopping. Y’all, let me tell you the story about the house next door.
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