2025, Family, home, Uncategorized

New Home?

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Well, on Monday we phoned the real estate company in Luverne for the first time and explained the sort of house we needed and our price range. Wouldn’t you know it, they had a house that met our needs and price, and later this morning we are having a video tour of the place. I am quite sure we will buy it. We saw lots of interior photos already.

It was built in 1998, with tons of room, so that we and my best friend who will live with us will be able to stay out of one another’s way and have privacy. It is a ranch style home with a finished basement. There are five bedrooms and lots of room for Husband’s books and Friend’s quilting stuff and visiting family. It also has a hot tub on the deck. The hot tub in the header photo is not the hot tub we may own. The one in Luverne is more square with a canvas cover.

I would never in a million years buy a hot tub. I don’t even own a swimming suit! We are just not hot tub people. I am more excited about the large gas range with double oven in the kitchen.

Any creative ideas what to do with the hot tub? Any interesting home buying stories?

46 thoughts on “New Home?”

  2. How exciting, Renee! I think you may like the hot tub – I know folks who had to get one for health reasons, and it was very soothing.
    I also know at least one person who used the hot tub for a tryst with a potential lover…

    Our getting this current Winona house had quite the story, which I related here in May of 2016. Two people ended up changing their minds, which allowed us to get the house we really wanted, at the last minute. Takes too long to repeat, so:

    I Changed My Mind

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  3. When we bought our first house about 50 years ago I think we paid about $30,000. That house happens to be on the same street as our current one, about seven blocks away. At the time I attached some faux gingerbread to the front (despite the fact that it wasn’t consistent with the vintage of the house) and that gingerbread is still there. When we sold it our realtor never showed up for the open house and we showed it and sold it ourselves. A conversation with a neighbor to the place revealed that in subsequent years the house has been owned by a succession of Wiccans. Not sure what it is about the place that would make that so.

    Personally I would get rid of the hot tub in favor of more deck space. I imagine there will be plumbing and electrical connections left behind. Maybe you can use those creatively.

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  4. Our current house is the first and only house we ever bought. The big issue with it was that the owners had piped their backyard well water into the house and turned off the city water. The owner was a biology professor at the local college and didn’t like all the chemicals the city had to put into the water at that time. We switched it back to city water, and then our area got Rural Water from the Missouri, so the water quality improved over the whole region. If we want to use well water to water the lawn and garden, the water first goes into the house to a large tank and then back outside to the faucet. The well water here is very alkaline has lots of iron, and stains houses and fences. We never use it.

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  6. My daughter and husband are in the process of buying a house and then soon maybe another. The house they are looking at now overlooks a small lake. You can use only human powered craft on the lake. Cannot fish on it nor swim in it, which is perfect for them. It is dated and in need of repairs. Right now they are drafting an offer well below asking. The market is soft there and it is overpriced. It would end up a nice vacation and retirement home.
    Clyde

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    1. They were buying this house with inheritance from her husband’s father, his will says an equal division among the 4 children. But this morning two of the siblings stopped release of the inheritance because they are going to contest the will. They learned in time not to put down ernest money.

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  7. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    Congratulations Renee. Do you have someone in Luverne to examine the house in person?

    Of course I would fill that with dirt and plant stuff in it (if it gets sun).

    Housing news here, from the birds. We have wrens nesting again. One of the wren houses had the entry hole so stuffed with Phoebe’s fur (I put it outside after brushing her) that it actually blocked the way in and out. It was mixed with tiny feathers and other organic stuff. The wrens are actually nesting in the second wren house.

    Our neighbors across the street built a bluebird house which is occupied by a nesting pair. We are seeing bluebirds all over the yard–sitting on the mailbox, using the birdbath, and pooping on the Little Free Library. They are so beautiful!

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  8. The cottonwood trees are spewing their cotton all over the neighborhood, and Husband and I joke that it is fur from people brushing their cats.

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    2. We have watched Mourning Doves nest and found them lacking in common sense. There was one who put her nest on the top of an unprotected stump, then knocked her baby out of it and flew off. Really Mom?

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      1. I found two fledgling mourning doves on the ground under a spruce tree once. I learned that once they fledge, but still can’t fly, the parents care for them on the ground. While they’re still caring for their first brood, they mate again and have a second brood in the nest. Busy birds!

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  12. i love hot tubs. you don’t need a swimsuit.
    instead of all the chemicals use plain hydrogen peroxide and get a hard filter am top to retain heat then cost is like $5 a month summer is great, winter is better
    it will sell for $1000 if it works

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      1. I see that it has the hard top with the foam cover that I was suggesting I looked up five bedroom homes for sale in Laverne and found your house. It’s beautiful.

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  17. When wasband and I were looking for a house, he had access to the multiple listing software due to his job. We found this house by accident (looking for something else) and noticed that it was listing for quite a bit less than other comparable houses in the neighborhood. The description that the realtor had written was a hoot. “Could be a jewel” “Imagine with a fresh coat of paint” “House is cluttered at best”. Then the cryptic “Agents, prepare your buyers, house does not show well.” We had never considered a house on Lyndale (busy county thoroughfare). We had our realtor make an appointment only because we wanted to see what state a house had to be in to get written up like that. Well it was in quite a state but it was all surface mess and uncleanliness. The rest is history….

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  20. I am participating in a clinical research study to see whether regular hot tub soaks—in my case three times a week, an hour each time, fir thirty six weeks—has similar salutatory effects that regular saunas have been demonstrated to have. I don’t know the outcome of the study, but my baseline blood pressure has fallen significantly. So don’t Pooh Pooh hot tubs. (And no, you don’t need swim suits [though my study required them]).

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