Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Brite
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Brand Logo

WTF-Beta

  1. Home
  2. Categories
  3. Off Key - General Discussion
  4. My childhood home sold!

My childhood home sold!

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Off Key - General Discussion
15 Posts 5 Posters 235 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • ShiroKuroS Offline
    ShiroKuroS Offline
    ShiroKuro
    wrote on last edited by
    #3

    @Daniel it must be neat to see that!

    1 Reply Last reply
    • D Offline
      D Offline
      Daniel
      wrote on last edited by
      #4

      SK, yes! I didn't know if if it was still there.

      Ax, thanks! My father built the house in 1973 and lived there until he passed last October so this is the first time it was on the market.

      1 Reply Last reply
      • D Offline
        D Offline
        Daniel
        wrote on last edited by Daniel
        #5

        BTW, you can't tell by looking but it's the night sky based on a specific date. The stars do or did glow in the dark. My mother was an artist. I'm glad it's still there.

        Big_AlB 1 Reply Last reply
        • D Daniel

          BTW, you can't tell by looking but it's the night sky based on a specific date. The stars do or did glow in the dark. My mother was an artist. I'm glad it's still there.

          Big_AlB Offline
          Big_AlB Offline
          Big_Al
          wrote on last edited by
          #6

          @Daniel said in My childhood home sold!:

          BTW, you can't tell by looking but it's the night sky based on a specific date. The stars do or did glow in the dark. My mother was an artist. I'm glad it's still there.

          That's a neat feature. I hope you save a picture of it. Do you recall what the date was?

          Big Al

          Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.

          Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro

          A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ

          1 Reply Last reply
          • D Offline
            D Offline
            Daniel
            wrote on last edited by
            #7

            No, I don't. My mother told me but I must have been 6 and don't remember.

            I asked a couple times over the years of it was still there.

            This hardly looks like the same house even though of course I recognize all of it.

            I wonder how much the estate had to spend but it's just a fact of life.

            I have all my legal documents printed. All I have to is execute them.

            I imagine the estate will settle within 2 months. I don't see why not.

            The fact it sold in 1 month puts me ahead about 5 months.

            My current living situation is untenable so this is good news!

            1 Reply Last reply
            • D Offline
              D Offline
              Daniel
              wrote on last edited by Daniel
              #8

              Wow. The estate paid only 16k. My brother paid the rest. He is so bent out of shape that he hasn't blocked me but he's not answering my texts. Please send me your new contact information. Nothing. He is know to block people so I guess I exist in his pergatory. Silly, transparent boy. His loss!

              1 Reply Last reply
              • D Offline
                D Offline
                Daniel
                wrote on last edited by Daniel
                #9

                And, Big Al, I'm downloading all of these pictures. It's great to see the house looking like this. It will be nice to be able to remember it this way.

                1 Reply Last reply
                👍
                • B Online
                  B Online
                  Bernard
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #10

                  Very nice! I didn't know you grew up over near Poughkeepsie.

                  The industrial revolution cheapened everything.

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • AxtremusA Offline
                    AxtremusA Offline
                    Axtremus
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #11

                    Just noticed the bright blue countertop in the kitchen. Rad!

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • D Offline
                      D Offline
                      Daniel
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #12

                      Original '70's Formica!

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      • D Offline
                        D Offline
                        Daniel
                        wrote on last edited by Daniel
                        #13

                        Bernard, Thanks! From 2- 14. Used to be taken and by 11 go myself on the Poughkeepsie and Pawling Metro North trains to the City and airports. New York had big hold on my imagination and does today. Upstate was a very nice place to grow up.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        • D Offline
                          D Offline
                          Daniel
                          wrote on last edited by Daniel
                          #14

                          BTW, the tile in the kitchen and entry is about 1/2" thick. It was installed by Italian craftsman. No particular reason other than there were/ are many Italians in NYS who specialize in tile.

                          Of course there are many Italians in Italy and around the word who specialize in this craft.

                          I can't believe what an amazing job my brother and cousin did with this renovation and in such a short time.

                          My father was a real hoarder like you see on TV and the basement was badly molded. The shop was full to the point you could barely move around it and was full from the floor to the ceiling. Iirc, there were four abandoned vehicles on the property.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          • D Offline
                            D Offline
                            Daniel
                            wrote on last edited by Daniel
                            #15

                            The siding is redwood. You can't tell now but it is mid-century modern. In 1973 when the summer cottage on the site was demolished and the house was built the roof was completely flat. The sloping roofs you see now were a later addition.

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            Reply
                            • Reply as topic
                            Log in to reply
                            • Oldest to Newest
                            • Newest to Oldest
                            • Most Votes


                            Powered by NodeBB | Contributors
                            • Login

                            • Don't have an account? Register

                            • Login or register to search.
                            • First post
                              Last post
                            0
                            • Categories
                            • Recent
                            • Tags
                            • Popular
                            • Users
                            • Groups