It was less than a year ago, that I woke up at 3 am in the morning, in our rented house in Fort Lauderdale, thinking about a house that was 300 miles away, and that to me, having been built in 1941 according to tax records, was not old enough.
This house, that we looked at about a month earlier, with its third of an acre lot, and the antiquated looking barn, decided to pass on to see what else was available, and the next day became a pending sale.
This house, that was a FannieMae homepath foreclosure, that over a month later came back on the market, because Fannie did not want to be in the mortgage business and wanted cash.
The house that I drove 300 miles the next day to look at again, and still unsure, told the realtor, after I drove back the 300 miles to our rented house, it was not quite for us.
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Yes, it was this sad looking house, with the junky awning jalousie windows, the bathroom that was tilted, the yellow warning tape across the front because of a bee infestation in the porch, that woke me up at 3 am in the middle of my sleep, that somehow was telling me a different and interesting story.
So the next day, I told my wife, convinced her, that we should make an offer on this house.
And it has been a labor of love ever since, because after we put the offer in, we found out the true age of the house. It dates anywhere from 1916, but no later than 1924.
The labor is finally just about finished, but the history, research, and the love, continues. Please click on The BumbleBee House below for more details.
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