Did you see the mail boxes before? This home is just far enough out where we have rural free delivery!!! From this point we look back at the cottage and the lot. I wonder if the asbestos shingles can be cleaned up or painted? This could become a really neat smaller, no the word is tiny, house. With some effort and love it could be classified as a home. Lord willing, I would like to live here. But God may have something even better for me now. Please pray that God's will be done in this matter. I see the flowers between the neighbors driveway and this hose's driveway. I think that was once a tree that had been cut down. I say this is an inviting picture and I had hoped very much to be able to have an image like this with snow on it sent out with a Christmas Card from the Springfield home this Christmas, 2002.
But I am told that the home has been auctioned off to a second highest bidder (the first one walked away as did 4 other successful bidders) and this person will demolish the house, or extend it.

This ends the tour of the house on 18 Baywood Street that was built by a veteran just after world war II, sold to a lady that lived in it until she died there when the furnace failed one cold winters night, and her daughter lived there until the city took her away because of the filthy way she continued to keep the house, just like her mother. I would like to return the house to the hopes and dreams of the veteran that fought for our country and built it when he came back from the war. It was built to eventually become a garage or have a garage attached to it and more of a house added to it. I think this would be an ideal cottage to live in, do computer image manipulation work and web design in, and complete a college education from.

The big thing is to get the digital cameras, maybe have them repaired or replaced, and when the city allows us to go in there again, if it goes back on the tax auction, to take copious notes, measurements, images and determine if it truly can be rehabbed. One way of extending the roof is to make a gable over he door and that seems to strike my fancy first. At the moment this looks like the property that I would be able to fix up the best. On the other had, is this a psychological operation at work here that I think I am not worthy of anything but a property that needs a lot of fixing up and that has been "peed-on" for years? Do pray that God will guide me and that the money be found so that I could buy the home and land and repair it and live in it for at least 3 years in happiness and peace.

The map below has links to other pages that talk also of this house, room by room with floor plans and outside pictures that help to orient the person to where the room is in the house. I am currently living in a smaller than 11x13 foot apartment with a 2x4 foot closet and a 4x6 foot bath and NO storage area. This would be a larger living space, a storage area in the basement where the furnace and maybe a washer would be, and a small attic (that needs insulation - I am certain) so it would be an improvement.

The new plumbing and (if need-be) new toilet, bath/shower, kitchen sink, and refregerator would be the largest expenses.

Then there is getting the oder out of the wood of animals urinating on it for over 17 years. But I think that can be done and the home can be repaired and lived in for the required 3 years before major alterations are attempted.

The biggest thing going for this house is that it is a one story building and it has a full cellar, hence I could probably work on anything in the house that the law allows. The plumbing and furnace work is probably going to be the most expensive as it must be done by other professionals to get the home "up-to-code".

However all of this might be a moot point, as I understand that this home has been sold to the second highest bidder and is no longer available. I had this happen to another home I wanted, and the city has torn that building down and it is now a grassy parking lot.

Yes, I am not in a goo financial situation, and yes it will take money to repaire this building. But I do think I could handle the work on this small home. It has room for a garden and I think I could enjoy living here. The next door neighbor to the north works with the state's department of environmental protection and is a good middleclass person. He is concerned about the oak tree in the front of this building as limbs have fallen and he is afraid that the tree might fall on his home.

My contact information (when not at the S.T.C.C. bookstore) is Cknight4u@aol.com and I would appreciate your comments.