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Travis 1 Has a New Bathroom!

I don’t think this bathroom has ever looked so clean and fresh!

How exciting that the bathroom remodel on the Travis 1 house is finished! It has gone from being a boring, outdated space with a horribly place window just begging to leak, to being fresh, clean, so cute, and that nasty window is GONE!

It was really feeling like the project was just never even going to get started. The contractor that had won the bid to do the job just disappeared. Have no fear, Mandi knows people. That’s where Ryan comes in. Originally he was only going to replace some light fixtures and by the time it has come to a close, he has done that, numerous other odds and ends that no one saw coming, and he has rebuilt that tired bathroom.

Please check out these pictures of the new bathroom. It’s really very nice and it is ready for the final touches of decorating to be done with it. I am usually not a fan of the black and white floors, but I really like this that Sue Ann picked out. Ryan did a fantastic job putting it in and I really think I may have to rethink what I feel about the black and white floors.

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Project Update

Let’s get back on topic. How are those projects doing? Here’s a brief rundown.

Wow, even without the carpet, the master bedroom in Taylor looks so much better. Painting those shutters helped a lot.

Roadrunner

We are waiting on getting it repainted, since there’s a buyer who is interested, and we said we’d paint it whatever color she wanted. Just waiting on another house to sell. Typical!

Taylor Homestead

It’s on the home stretch! Anita has just about wrestled the shed/apartment to the ground (and a dirty job it was!), and she just found out that the carpet in the main house can be installed tomorrow. That’s good news.

Other than that, the house needs some fake rock installed in the front and the stairs painted dark brown (that will be last).  We’re waiting for our contractor to finish another job before that can be done, but since the other job is near Bobcat, we pester him about it when we drive by. Once that’s done, Taylor Homestead will be ready to go officially on the market. Let’s hope it is this week!

We also have someone quite interested in it. Let’s send out positive thoughts. Those work, right?

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The Travis 1 Saga Continues

Well, hello! Since no one else has written any blog posts, and since this Travis 1 saga has consumed my entire weekend, I’ll just share an update, which will conveniently include some beautiful photos of the house “after” repairs.

Looking from the kitchen to the front. Look at all those light fixtures!

Challenges Met!

Yes, there were challenges yesterday, and there continue to be some for my sister, but they did get helpers to come out, and did get the rental truck loaded. My son struck out on the road and drove enough to where today’s drive won’t be a total killer. What a trooper. I probably owe him something…

Not all the furniture fit in the truck, but I promised I’d figure out a way to get the important pieces to my sister eventually.

And here in scenic Cameron, we actually got the house in pretty good shape. Ceiling fans are installed for summer, and the smaller heat/AC unit is in the master bedroom. Every light fixture but one now works, and since we are needing to call in an electrician to install the correct wiring for the big heat/AC unit, that can get looked at then, as well. Plus, we’ll get a light working in the laundry shed.

We’ve taken the sad old appliances out and installed brand-new stove and refrigerator (easier said than done). There’s also a microwave that we can put in later, when the kitchen remodel happens (yep, we think that’s gonna happen).

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It’s a Travis 1 SAGA Now!

Oh my. You may recall earlier in the week I wrote about how we planned to finish out the renovation of the Travis 1 house, so that my sister could move into it. Tomorrow. To give you a hint of how it’s been going, I’ll just share that my blood pressure is usually 106 over something low, and Thursday it was 130. Sure, that’s not the danger zone, but that’s not ME!

Cute puppies are great stress relievers!

What’s Up?

What isn’t up, is a better question. Don’t panic, though. At least I had a cute puppy to help me work yesterday, and today there ARE people working on the house. But.

Contractor Woes

We’d found this nice dude to be our contractor on the project. He was all set to work with us, and we even had a plan to help him out with other parts of his work. He had one job to finish before starting on our house, but reassured us he’d have plenty of time. Then he got injured. You can’t really blame a guy for that.

At least eventually the bathroom floor will match the spirit of the 1930s house.

By Thursday, we realized that dude was not going to do the job. Thankfully, our office manager, Mandi, has lots and lots of local contacts and was able to find really nice folks to step in and help out. Now we just needed the things to install.

So, Lee and I spent half the day yesterday (Friday) buying out the Home Depot in Bryan. We got all the stuff to the house (check out those photos), and they got to work. Of course, that wasn’t all simple.

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Getting Travis 1 Ready to Be a Home

The tub works, but it’s not pretty, and that weird painted window also leaks. Bye.

One of the Hermits’ Rest Enterprises big projects was a group of houses on the main drag in Cameron, Texas. Our office is in the big house. Currently Mandi is living in one of the other houses, which we will rent out once she moves to her next place in a few months. A third house we sold to folks whose relatives once lived there, and it’s getting fixed up. The final house is Travis 1. We hadn’t rented it out yet, because we’d wanted to fix the bathroom up a bit more.

That’s a good thing, because Sue Ann had a sister in Florida whose rent kept going up while her fixed income was not budging. She needed to be in a place with a lower cost of living and closer to family. Hey, we had a house! So, it’s been decided that Canova will join our crew in Cameron, and take up residence in Travis 1.

Before she arrives at the end of this month, we knew we had to get the remaining renovations complete. So, we found a new local contractor who was dying to help us out on the project, and set him to work over the weekend. We have our fingers crossed that at least the most important things get done!

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