White glove inspection

Today (Thursday) I spent an hour and a half going through the Queens Parade house with Luane, the woman from whom David rented our temporary quarters. She has been rehabbing and selling or renting properties for years, including a Victorian townhouse near ours.

The verdict? Two thumbs up. The house is in excellent condition. There was some bad news. She had told me expect to pay one thousand pounds for each of the bay windows. I thought that was per triple window, but it was per window. Each floor has three windows in the bowed section, i.e. nine windows=9,000 pounds. Yikes.

But she also cautioned me against some of my "big ideas," which means we probably won't take on the significant kitchen and landscaping projects I had in mind (for reasons too tedious to go into). The good news is the house is so lovely that I don't feel the urgency to do anything.

I'm traveling all day Friday. Groan.
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