4650 W. Montana Street

Well, I have put this off long enough... i was wanting to wait and put up some cute photos announcing it, but alas, Pablo has not given the photos to me, and it has gone on too long.

All that to say, we are proud proud home owners (for about a month now in fact)!!!

I cannot tell you how much I am in love with our place. Yes, were without water for the first week of living there (luckily we still had access to our apartment -- so every morning i would have to hold my pee until we drove to the apartment to get ready... it was a hard week. let's just leave it at that). And yes, we have hit some pretty significant bumps, like the plumbing in our bathroom has caused us some trouble -- stories for another time -- and Pablo has had to quickly learn new skills such as plumbing. And yes, we lived off of microwave dinners and take out for about 3 weeks while we waited to buy a stove (all our big appliances were to be bough through our rehab loan -- we are doing some remodleing to the house and that is apart of our mortgage loan -- it's not nearly as complicated as it sounds. but getting the funding from the bank is!). But, now we have an AMAZING stove, the bathroom is at least functional, we have ordered our kitchen countertops, and our cabinets are being installed this week.

but let me back up a bit -- we bought a house on a quite corner. we have a double lot, which means that for city standards, we have a lot of land (yay for the dogs to have a big back yard!). It is a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house with a full basement. Pablo basically owns the basement -- one day it will be a great place for young life kids to hang out. I have my studio in the second floor. And we have a guest bedroom -- so there is plenty of space for you all to come and stay!

The highlight of living there so far (aside from discovering that there is a sewer cap actually on my property -- I swear, God must have just giggled to himself when setting that one! i mean seriously, the girl who loves sewer caps now owns one!!!) is when we torn up the disgusting brown carpet on the stairs and found BEAUTIFUL wood stairs underneath. Granted, there is a lot of paint and stain to be stripped off the wood, but they will be incedible when they are finished.

ok, so there is so much more i could write about being a home owner and how i go around and just hug a door jam or run my hand along a wall and say "i own you"... it is quite the feeling. but, i will leave you with that.

and i promise to upload photos of before and after of the place as it progresses.

ps. here is the address

4650 W. Montana Street
Chicago, IL 60639