After so much time spent in the planning/waiting phase of this, we're finally starting to get some progress made.
My independent home inspection on the property is complete. There are a million small repairs that need to be made, and a few big ones... several bowed concrete walls in the basement, for example. But they are all repairable, and this property is still very much worth it to me.
Spent about 4 hours in and around the property with my father during the home inspection... planning, poking around, sitting by the lake. Even in it's current state, it's quite beautiful.
So now it's in my bank's hands... they need to write up my loan paperwork and do an appraisal. I've expressed to them on a number of occasions the urgency with which I'd like to proceed here, so hopefully they work faster than Wells Fargo did on the other end.
Went to the Springfield Antiques Extravaganza both days this weekend, and picked up a lot of mighty cool stuff, including an excellent condition flour mill ($25), a good condition high-wheel cultivator ($35), a cool old card catalog and some old pepsi crates to store seed in, and some other various practical items. I was supposed to venture out past Dayton to purchase a mint condition Delaval cream separator, but the deal fell through last minute, so I suppose I'm still in the market for one of those. I'm a ways off getting any goats or livestock anyhow, so I've got time.
Speaking of animals, the farm may come fully equipped with a delightful 14 y.o. beagle/basset mix named Noodles. The seller can't take her with him and she wouldn't live long at a shelter at her advanced age. She's friendly, mostly blind, and snores like a bastard, and I can't say no to dogs... hopefully I can help make the last of her life pleasing.
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