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RE: Congrats and Excuses (with pics)
I absolutely love old houses, and love working on them. I have a 1918 American foursquare in Wisconsin, where we've remodeled almost every room of the house while still trying to maintain the vintage feel.
I feel so bad about how you got screwed over by the handyman. I would be sorely tempted to spend a great deal of money to track him down and kick his ass.
I really am so enjoying the work! There's something so rewarding about making something old and neglected look cared for again.
As for that bastard, I find people for a living and I haven't even looked. For good reason. I was able to maintain through everything right up to the radiators. He had so trashed the house, it took me several days to even realize the radiators in the upstairs rooms were gone. And as I cleaned I found shards of them. So there was no chance of even discovering where he'd hocked them because he just smashed them for scrap. I'm very afraid of what would happen if I ever encountered him again so it's a sleeping dog I let lie.