Old House Lovers

[Smart Red]

There is a barn-to-house convertion kitty-corner to my property line in back. I used to know the owners of the house before it burned down and they moved into the village. Later the barn was converted. Still reminds one of its 'barn-y' roots. Stanchions still line up in the mud room and the loft floor still sifts straw from time to time, but it does make a lovely house.

 

[thistlebloom]

Our almost-first house was a barn. We found out while it was in escrow that we couldn't put a septic field in. The barn was at the bottom of a sloping acre of shelf granite. We lost our earnest money on that one.

Then we bought a dumpy fixer upper down the road, and the disgruntled owner of the barn dropped 4 dump trucks of old tires and carpet and brush on our land before it closed. We couldn't prove it, but he owned another house that he was remodeling nearby and I recognized the carpet from meeting at his house to discuss the barn purchase.

 

[Smart Red]

Gr-r-r-r-r! That would really have gotten my dander up! Usually forget there are people like that in the world.

 

[Nyboy]

And I bitch when someone dumps a stove on my land.

 

[Smart Red]

I've been lucky. The gully looks like a great place to dump things to me. Must be too busy a road?