The State of the State
I have a unique opportunity. Well, it’s probably NOT unique, but this is at least something I never see on the YouTube. Maybe you’ve seen channels where folks ranging from woefully unprepared to highly expert buy a property that’s run down and do something amazing with it. I can take on such a project while skipping the tedious parts about buying the property or having to move any of my stuff. My house is a bit of a mess.
Anyway, my family built this house in 2001-2002, financed by the Bank of Accomplished Parents™. Our parcel is two acres (0.8 hectares), the house is 2400ishft2 (223 m2). It was a house I couldn’t have afforded on my own and couldn’t afford to maintain the way it should be. We had a paid off house, and things looked good for us. I had a plan. I was going to try to finish my degree, get a real career, and help give others a leg up. Those plans fell through for a lot of reasons, but the bottom line is that the house now has a mortgage that I think will be paid off right around the time I’d reach what used to be considered normal retirement age, I’m just not sure it will be livable by then without significant intervention.
I’m not without struggles, but I’ve got more than most folks, including (as mentioned above) this opportunity to renovate a wreck of a house and document the process. I’m not wholly comfortable with the attention economy, and I’m not going to start a YouTube channel today, but I may start videoing some of my tasks now to start one in June with a “the first six months!” debut so there’s some actual meat to it.
But here’s the thing, we’ve got six people living here (five adults and a toddler) so things are in a constant state of chaos and I may need to get rolling before I can be reliable on updating here, much less making a worthwhile YouTube presence. So, I’m working on new plans, but I’m holding them softly.