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7 years ago I bout a 1 1/2 acre farm in Maine and moved in with my Brother. It has been one disaster after another. I had a pipe freeze, which blew up part of the plumbing and heating, which needed to be replaced, as well as a new well needed to be dug. The new is much better than the old.
Then the roof started to leak on the seam of the shed (that is where the original house meets the part built to connect the house to the barn so that nobody would have to go out in the awful cold during winter) because there was no flashing when the last roof was put on prior to my purchase, and the damage was right oer the cabinets and sink on one side and inside the wall on the other side, ruining all my cookbooks and, well the whole kitchen needs to be redone.
So, I had a new roof and new siding put on.
I also had the interior door in the back replaced with an insulated exterior door and a sliding glass door replacing the rotted out front door and had all new insulation all around. The back room of the house was also finished off and a new door connecting to the barn was built.
After all this work, I broke my back. I had to have an operation, and there were complications. Then I got complications. Without too many further details, 3 years later I am starting to recover, but my finances never will.
The business that my brother and I supposedly had has been completely and utterly battered into a sucking black hole and I find myself on a permenant fixed income and unable to continue to afford to live her. One more winter here will finish me, and I am frankly suprised that the last one did not.
I need to move to a warmer climate, but it doesn't look like this property is salable the way it is and I don't have anything left to fix it up enough to get it in shape to sell.
Anyone have any ideas?
Then the roof started to leak on the seam of the shed (that is where the original house meets the part built to connect the house to the barn so that nobody would have to go out in the awful cold during winter) because there was no flashing when the last roof was put on prior to my purchase, and the damage was right oer the cabinets and sink on one side and inside the wall on the other side, ruining all my cookbooks and, well the whole kitchen needs to be redone.
So, I had a new roof and new siding put on.
I also had the interior door in the back replaced with an insulated exterior door and a sliding glass door replacing the rotted out front door and had all new insulation all around. The back room of the house was also finished off and a new door connecting to the barn was built.
After all this work, I broke my back. I had to have an operation, and there were complications. Then I got complications. Without too many further details, 3 years later I am starting to recover, but my finances never will.
The business that my brother and I supposedly had has been completely and utterly battered into a sucking black hole and I find myself on a permenant fixed income and unable to continue to afford to live her. One more winter here will finish me, and I am frankly suprised that the last one did not.
I need to move to a warmer climate, but it doesn't look like this property is salable the way it is and I don't have anything left to fix it up enough to get it in shape to sell.
Anyone have any ideas?
billwfriend
sell it as a short sale to get out of the mortgage if you have one....then off to new life...that is all I can think of....hugs bill
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