For sale: One well used old farm house on 4.3 acres with a stocked pond, a dozen or so fruit trees, blueberry bushes, horse pastures, a little barn complete with a couple horse stalls and a big garden ready for planting. Inside the house there are 5 bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two basements (the Michigan basement consists of fieldstone and logs with the bark still on them supporting the house!) The second basement is the foundation for the addition that was added when I was in Junior High (I think) that doubled the size of the original house. The original house is very old and the neighbor’s house was one of the original school houses in the area. Down the road is the old Holloway railroad station…
How could you pass this up:
My mom is finally selling the house that me and my siblings grew up in. She hasn’t lived there in over a year as she has been busy with travel nursing assignments, and the place wasn’t getting the attention an old house needs to stay intact. I spent the past couple days in Tecumseh trying to get everything organized, meeting with Realtors, carpet installers, and doing all sorts of general remodeling. I was shocked how much better the house looked after updating all the light fixtures, updating one bathroom and replacing a lot of wall paper with more modern paint colors. I hope a new family enjoys all the hard work, and I hope it means the house sells a lot faster.
And then there was the barn… My dad was a collector of everything it seems; after he passed away a couple years ago we went through the barn and cleaned and organized the best we could. This time around I had to have a dumpster dropped off to finally purge a lot of the stuff that wouldn’t be wanted/needed by anyone else. The items he accumulated over the years ranged from flat out junk to the nicest antiques, including set after set of wrenches and ratchets, more hand saws than any one person could ever use, box after box of mismatched nuts and bolts, and random pieces of scrap metal that doesn’t seem to have any real purpose. After cleaning and purging I think I finally have the barn ready for the county’s biggest yard sale/flea market.
If you live in southeast Michigan and are looking for a great place to live let me know and I’ll gladly give you more info!