A little history

In October 2006, we for some reason decided to start looking at houses. Cheap houses. Cheap run down houses. We looked at a few. Found that we liked a particular neighborhood. Looked at 2 others in the neighborhood that were out of our range. (Too much work needed, etc) Decided to just look at a few more. Came across this one. Certainly needed some work, but was livable. Worst house on the block. (Perfect!) We put in an offer that was accepted.

Inspection found that the furnace was junk, and not burning too clean. 900 PPM of Carbon monoxide was going up the flue. (35 is about the safe limit for exposure more than a few minutes) Any back draft or blockage and we'd be dead pretty quick! Our realtor knew an HVAC guy that could get us a deal. We split the $1200 bill for a new furnace and install with the seller.

Closed on the house November of 2006.

900 SF, 2BR, 1BA, no Basement, 2 Car size garage, normal city yard (no alley, which is a plus!) and was built ~1920.