Back to work
Yep, today is my first day back. I found it extremely hard getting up this morning because I hate mornings and (since this is my Monday) I hate Monday's.
Greg and I put a contract on a Duplex in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It was going for $49k and we asked $43k and got what we asked for. The area is not doing great right now but its up and coming. The city area is old but they have projects going to rebuild and renovate the entire area. Just imagine if we held onto this for a few years while shopping centers and new communities are being built. Nice investment. We are going to paint and patch holes and get it ready to rent. We were just very fortunate to have money from our current house to use towards this one.
Anytime you do something like this its a risk and we talked at length about whether or not we both wanted to invest into this and in the end we both agreed on this house. Eh...I'm excited about it.
Since my car insurance went from $520 every six months to $1300 every six months, I needed a 2nd job so I went back to work at Whitehall for a bit. Well...now my boss said I can work as much overtime as I want for awhile. I would much rather stay here making overtime (time and a half) than work at Whitehall where they have no hours for me and very little pay.
Hmm...not much else going on at the Mares household. I just have to say that I saw The Color Purple for the first time last night and loved it! Its sad and happy all at once. That movie goes through every emotion, crying, laughing, happy, sad....man...I love those kinds of movies. I'm a sucker for dramas.
Greg and I put a contract on a Duplex in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It was going for $49k and we asked $43k and got what we asked for. The area is not doing great right now but its up and coming. The city area is old but they have projects going to rebuild and renovate the entire area. Just imagine if we held onto this for a few years while shopping centers and new communities are being built. Nice investment. We are going to paint and patch holes and get it ready to rent. We were just very fortunate to have money from our current house to use towards this one.
Anytime you do something like this its a risk and we talked at length about whether or not we both wanted to invest into this and in the end we both agreed on this house. Eh...I'm excited about it.
Since my car insurance went from $520 every six months to $1300 every six months, I needed a 2nd job so I went back to work at Whitehall for a bit. Well...now my boss said I can work as much overtime as I want for awhile. I would much rather stay here making overtime (time and a half) than work at Whitehall where they have no hours for me and very little pay.
Hmm...not much else going on at the Mares household. I just have to say that I saw The Color Purple for the first time last night and loved it! Its sad and happy all at once. That movie goes through every emotion, crying, laughing, happy, sad....man...I love those kinds of movies. I'm a sucker for dramas.
posted by Karri-Berry at
4:36 AM
2 Comments:
Wow! How random that you'll own property in Chambersburg, PA. How'd you find that?
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Dan, at 10:16 AM
Well, Greg has family and older friends who have purchased rental property and recently sold it for a very good profit so he's been sort of searching different areas close to us to see what's out there for cheap. I'm not quite sure how he stumbled on Chambersburg but there's a nice college in that little town and it's pretty cute. Yes...very random it seems.
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Karri-Berry, at 5:00 AM
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