Post 9: A Major Pivot and Update on Property Values!
Greetings, my few readers! It's really been ages since I posted about, or even worked at, the flip house. There is a good reason for this. In November 2020, I had the second planned foot surgery, having had the first one a year prior. It seems that no good deed goes unpunished, and my big toes developed "hallux rigidus" from 25 years of walking at a steep incline on my treadmill every single day. You couldn't tell by looking at my feet that there was a problem (unlike bunions or something), but my big toes were so stiff and sore that every step was agony. So I lost 12 weeks due to surgery and healing, but now I'm back to 100%! As I left it, I had been painstakingly scraping wallpaper and patching in all the rooms of the house to restore the beautiful and original plasterwork. My goal was to save as much of the original house as I could, while still making it a safe and efficient home for the eventual owners. When working on the kitchen (all documented so far o...
