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Insane Progress

It is beginning to look like home. Diane and I had our first walk through and we are finally getting a feel of how the house is going to be. I would show you photos of the electric and plumping, but common you don’t care about that stuff. I will share with you some of [...]

Bringing the blog up to date

We were able to head out to the house again last night and even more progress, we now have windows, One of these days I will have a photo gallery on www.jakeludens.com document.getElementById(“post-48-blankimage”).onload();

They are not messing around…

I haven’t been able to upload the most recent photos of the house in a few weeks. Living Las Vegas, you tend to have a lot of visitors, and since I posted the last photos we have had friends in town or been out of town each weekend. However, Diane and I were able to [...]

A Solid Foundation

It has been a few weeks since I have posted, but I am happy to say that we have a foundation and the house is going up very fast. Last weekend we were able to get out to the lot and take a few pics (Regi Powell appears courtesy of Powell Insurance, Omaha, NE ) [...]

House Day 29-42

Yes it has been 42 days since we started on the house adventure and check it out….Progress! And yes, the outhouse is still right where it needs to be. document.getElementById(“post-26-blankimage”).onload();

House Day 28

There really hasn’t been to much of an update to write about as for our house updates. Waiting for the paperwork to be all finalized takes awhile. However, Diane and I did go out to the lot this weekend and I have a new photo of the progress so far. We had a difficult time [...]

Days 2 through 10 – Now we are getting somewhere

I know I said I would be updating everyone on a daily basis, but not much happened on days 2 through 8 in terms of the house, some paper work and phone calls to our mortgage guy. However, yesterday and today were very exciting. Day 9 we went to the the home store and selected [...]

Largest Adventure to Date – Jake and Diane Buy a House. Day 1

We finally did it. Diane and I have been looking in to purchasing a home for awhile now and the opportunity presented itself this past Saturday. I thought it would be a great idea to blog about everything that we are going to have to go to in designing and building our own home. Step [...]