The summer afforded me a lot of work, but there was so much to do that I really couldn't make the house pretty. I at least parked the furniture and planted a small garden.

This is the enormous mess that had to be cleaned up. Everyone thought I had lost my mind, including me. I took one peek into a cracked window, saw the baseboards, the huge spaces and said "I want this house". $18,000 sealed the deal.

This is the 1901 transitional Victorian that my partner and I bought in April. It was a huge mess that required 4 1/2 dumpsters just to clean. Fortunately, we got it just in time to prevent it from being cut up into four apartments.