So.... we bought your house

 Dear Former Owners,

We know your names, but it isn't necessary for anyone else to.  We bought your house. You lived here for over 50 years. You raised your kids here. You made some renovations.... thank you. You made this place yours. 

Then you retired and decided for your own reasons to move and sell the place. Once again, thank you. Because otherwise we couldn't have bought it.

And now it is ours. Just as the house I lived in for nearly 20 years now belongs to a single guy, because we sold it.

So here we are borrowing each others houses. I say borrowing because before I owned my DC house, it belonged to many others. It was built in 1874-ish. Now your house was built in 1940 and despite you living here so long, you were not the 1st owners, or the 2nd or even the 3rd.

Anyway. I digress.

I am blogging this because I want to document and share how I want to change your house, because there is so much here still that reflects you and the previous owners, but I want to make it mine/ours.

I want to change everything. The yard, the shed, the interior of the house, the exterior, I want to deal with the drainage, everything. All of that will cost money.

I did this before with my DC house. I radically changed it and made it mine. Now the single guy will make it his. The changes I make are no reflection on you. Your house served you well. You had things in it that made you happy and worked for you.

But now it is our house. There are some things that do serve us well and there are things that don't serve us well.

Anyway.

Thanks for selling your house to us.

Let's get to work in making it ours.