OK so this is kind of a big shock, we recently bought a lovely single-family home, which was probably recently renovated maybe in the last 5 to 7 years. I think the previous owner tried to flip the house, by buying it, doing some basic renovations, and selling it for a profit. But apparently it was stuck on the market seven years or eight years… And nobody bought it.
now this is where things get a little bit weird… When we moved into the house, the place was an insane pigsty. Everything was so dirty, I was shocked. The previous owner didn’t even bother to vacuum the place after moving out?
anyways, whatever doesn’t bother me that much. But having to do a lot of deep cleaning,… Like all around the windows, corners of the house, cracks, and even already the bathroom, is starting to mold in between the tile grouting?
as a consequence, i have to manually use some sort of tool to just like literally scrape out all this crap and mold. On top of that, all the air filters in the house, we’re not cleaned at all? Once again, having to get on a ladder, trying to troubleshoot how to even remove the filter fan thing, and then finally when I was able to do it… This insane amount of dust that has never been de-dusted?
therefore my lessons:
- First, even if you buy a place that’s pretty new or brand new or recently new or whatever… There’s still a lot of maintenance action needs to be done.
- Life is perhaps, best defined as maintenance?
- having to do all this stuff, I didn’t even have the chance to exercise or lift weights today? Therefore no that the hidden trap of a lot of homeownership or life stuff use your most precious commodity which is time.