Oh yeah. Our old house, which is now a rental property. We moved out into a house we had built. I go back to the empty house we had lived in for 8 years and realized it needed alot of work. I figured I would just redo the upstairs bathroom floor. Pulled out the old floor and toilet and vanity. Tiled the new floor. Figured I would replace the toilet with new and might as well get a new vanity and sink. Now the new tile looked bad up against the old carpet in the next room. Out comes the carpet to find a poorly built subfloor. Up comes part of the subfloor and the upstairs stair railing. Took out the old cabinetry up there too to really see in the floor. Fixed floor, down goes the laminate, installed new bar and rebuilt a wall where the old stair railing was. Now the stairs look like shit so I tear them down. Figured if I am going to rebuild the stairs I might as well do something with the entire downstairs first. So out comes the old flooring and in goes tile, yes-I tiled the entire downstairs. Figured before I tiled I might as well gut the kitchen, build a new closet, reframe the laundry room and gut the downstairs bathroom. Since I had walls torn open I replaced all recepticles and lighting. Repainted everything. Installed cabinets, counter top, sink, new appliances, new tile, built stairs...finished everything. Looked great. Decided I didn't like the new stairs (dad helped me, only assistance I had by anyone for a reason). I tore them out again and built a brand new set that look beautiful (wood).
Now the
wants me to redo the siding. So I figure if I am going to go through that trouble I might as well replace all the windows. It never ends.
End of the day, price of the house has gone up about 250k from purchase price. All the work I did by myself only cost about 10k in material. Just had it reappraised to the surprise of the
. Been telling her for months what that work I did was worth but she never listens....she listens now
