Next Step

Tax Credits
We heard from the State Preservation office today that they are recomending approval (contingent on two things) to the National Park Service. We said in the application that we will restore existing original windows and keep trim. They asked us to restore existing original windows and keep trim.

Ok. We're down.
Now on to the National Park Service for their review and, hopefully, their approval.

Assholes
Someone kicked in the back door again. No new needles and nothing was really there to steal. However, they did remove and take all of the knobs off of the cabinent doors in the hallway kitchen. A contractor we had out checking the place out said, hey, free deomlition.

No trespassing signs and trip wires installed. We do have a bamboo jungle afterall. Might as well use our survival skills to keep/make things interesting.


Pretty!
And so we know where it is and can easily access it... Lizzy Proposed!

Cops & Robbers

The house has not been broken into...yet.

Sure, it's going to happen at some point and Harris will freak and I will down play it. This weekend we got our first taste of shenanigans. We walk by the house every day, sometimes multiple times, just to say hi. On our Sunday walk for Madeline Nap 1 we noticed new items in the yard. Seems someone thought we needed a subwoofer, tweeters, two stereos (one missing its face plate), a huge car jack on wheels, and an assortment of taillights.

We called Durham's finest to see if they wanted to pick up the stuff since we were pretty sure it was stolen. When the officer arrived he asked why we thought it was stolen then insisted that we could make some money if we could just flip the house. Got to get that flip.

After the officer left- without any of the goods (he suggested we just throw it away) I went and spoke to the guy who lives two doors down, giving him my phone number in case anything untoward happens again.