Investment/Recreational Property Blog Week 3

August 17 and 18 Week 3

 Now that the railing has proper spindles and is safe, I blocked the stairs and ramp so the kids have a safe place to play.

 

Eels Creek was cold even though the temps were around 27C

 

 

This is an investment and a recreational property. On Saturday I just had fun with the kids.

 

 Took the boat 2kms to Long Lake and went for a awesome boat ride!

 

Roughing it on Long Lake

 

Interesting statue

 

I did finally get the garage cleaned out.

 

 

Sold the old green house. This will open the yard up so it is usable. The placement of this building hurt the yard. It was also a junk collector.

 

Investment property project railing

On August 14th Keith and I decided to head up to the property in the afternoon to rebuild the railing on the deck. As you can see it was totally unsafe and ugly. A couple of screws and bungie cords held the white plastic lattice work on. It was just a matter of time before the kids fell through the railing.

 

First thing we did is remove that white lattice.

 

We kept the supports but built new frame work

 

No shortage of spindles

 

Spindles on the run.

Deck is extremly better. It is now safe for the kids. Question is what colour to stain the deck?

The relationship between property assessment and property taxes

 

This is a great video to show you how your property taxes are calculated.

Investment/Recreational Property Blog Week 2

Week 2 August 10 and 11

Susan and the kids along with her sister and mother went up to the property on Friday afternoon. They played in the creek for most of the afternoon. I did not get there until well after dinner.

 

Cleared the patio of junk, going to put BBQ here to hide from the rain.

 

New railings going up this week or weekend

 

Work in progress, the garage. Had a few good fires with the cabinets that came out of here!

 

Long story. lol

 

Lawn cut and started opening up the creek bank of weeds

 

Across the creek I opened up an area so the kids can have an easy place to get in and out of the water

 

Peeled the ugly wallpaper to find ugly green paint. One of the next projects!

My New Investment/Recreational Property Blog

Welcome! I purchased an investment/recreational property. I will blog about the trials and accomplishments I have with this property. It will be a ton of work but I am also going to work hard on having fun here too!

So this is what I purchased:

 

3 bedroom 1 bath little home/cottage on Eels Creek

 

Lots of junk laying around

 

Yard needs work

 

Ripping this building down. Canopy great for greenhouse. It is for sale.

 

Lucas looking over Creek

 

Susan opening up the house

 

Bathroom is in fair shape

 

Renee happy to be here!

 

They do love each other! Must be the cottage air!

 

Faith and I cleaning the creek bed. Left with nice sand bottom.

 

Trailer has a home!

 

Creek view of the cottage

 

Alex checking out crayfish

 

We worked on Saturday to clean up the property a little. Looked a ton better. Sunday we played with the kids and that was a fun day. Monday we cleaned again. Stay tuned for the pictures of the results of the clean up!