We just sit in our finished house amazed at the finish. We say to ourselves "we've done a good job given what we had to start with." We look around and think about how little some things cost: the curtain material $20, the kauri fire surround $32, the house itself $5,000! And yet, we're nearing the $300,000 mark in outlay. And, it's a year since we took possession of the section.
Minor touch up jobs remain. We're just waiting for the Council to approve an amendment to our Building Consent - for a cesspit at the street end of the new to-be-laid driveway. The Council made it a condition of getting title: that we had to rip up and rebuild the common right-of-way in steel enforced conrete. The house is ready for tenants, but we can't let anyone move in without Code. We could, but if the tenants burned the house down, likely insurance would not pay out. Gotta get Code!
We have a tenant keen to move in. She said it's the cleanest house she's looked at.
This week, hopefully, we'll hear from Council and can go ahead with booking the Council inspector to come and, hopefully, sign off. Lots of hoping going on...
