So the first blog post shows the exposé how I found it on the internet...
Actually I was only looking for renting a little 1-2 room appartment in Bayreuth, but did not even think about buying a house or property. But this offer was so great (and cheap!!!) that I just had to consider it! Of course imaging what it could look like when it is renovated, the pictures of the inside of this old house did not really shock me, although the interior looks horrible as it is right now...
But - my best thought all over was: This is a dream. Living in Bayreuth, right next to the town, in the middle of an awesome nature and very near to my families other weekend houses. Indeed 10 minutes away from my Dad's summer house where I spent my vacation for 3 weeks last year and enjoyed it and really recovered.
Wow - I will live there now - I will finally have a home - something that is mine for ever and can always keep (even if I go to the U.S. for a few years).
I send this offer to my Mom and totally unexpectedly she also loved it on the first view. She normally is very picky and exclusive, but she shared my thoughts about the renovations and what it could look like.
So my Mom had an appointment with the estate agent and took a look at the house, so here is everything she said:
- The yard is huge and an absolute dream!
Lots of work, but hey - we are gardening people anyway...
- It is on a hill and the grassland has steep and even parts
- The house is built into that hill - you enter the house from the little street on the north side into the 2nd floor and have to go downstairs to enter the 1st floor, which has the exit into the yard on the south side.
- There is a fence around the whole property, not the newest, but it still looks kind of ok.
- The stairs in the house are kind of horrible, on the 2nd floor you have to open a hatch in the floor to go downstairs - but I (my Mom) have already imagined some nice stairs to be there.
- I did not smell anything moldy (my Mom would smell that from outside already, if it was there :-)
So over all my Mom called me in a very hyper mood right after her visit at the house and said that this place can easily be made up like a little "treasure chest".
So I called my uncle, who also lives in Bayreuth - he owns a roofing company and knows a lot about handy work. He also took a look at it (but wasn't inside) and his opinion was not as amused, he has only seen the work that needs to be done.
Well, then let's do it...
- Found on the internet last Friday
- Sent to my Mom on Saturday
- Mom took a look at it on Wednesday
- I decided to buy it on Thursday
(Yes, I told the estate agent yesterday. I DID IT)
- Today is Friday, so all this happened within one week
(and I personally have not even seen it yet :-)
I guess this house will be my "project" for the next few years, do some renovation VERY SOON, that I can move in REALLY SOON to leave this unloved town Ulm within a couple of month!
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I will document it with photographs and stories either until it is renovated the way I want it to be (if ever so :-) or until I die...
How exciting!!!
