My wife and I took some cash from the sell of our Seattle house and bought a place in Eugene to rent out. The plan was for us to stay in our currently rented duplex while we built our new home and have the newly purchased rental house bringing in a little extra income. That was the plan… If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans!

My very pregnant with does not want to live in a rented duplex with plumbing, parking, other issues with a new baby and ABSOLUTLY, 100% does not want to have a baby in or near a construction site, so the plan changed. We are moving into the “rental house” for the next “5ish” years, according to her, and then we “can see about building a house after that.” Umm, OK, I am getting with the program and will make this happen. I just need a minute to process not building a house that I have been obsessing over for the last 2 years.

We have to alter the current remodel designs for what was going to be the rental house, add a few more things, take out two walls, put in a 6′ door, build an addition, install a new roof, and have solar installed before the end of the year. Doable and I think she wants this stuff in-part to try and satiate the house building bug that I have.

I will update with progress pics as I have them. As this is a 1970’s house and very much of that era, it has been dubbed: Das Brady Haus.