Adams Street

I can't believe that I haven't posted about this yet....but after all, I haven't been exactly up to date with my postings lately!  For those of you that don't know, we bought a house down in the Historic District of Macon....down by Mercer University downtown.  And no, not for another investment property, but for us to live in.  The house was built in 1880 or so and was burnt in a fire about 6 years or so ago.

Downtown Macon has really started to make a dramatic turn, for the good, in the last 5 years....mostly due to Mercer University.  Check out www.collegehillmacon.com  if you are interested.  We'll be within walking distance to Mercer Village, the new football stadium for the Mercer Bears, and most importantly for us.....Alexander II Magnet School.  We can see the school from our front porch and it will be great to be able to walk the kids to school.

We bought the house in April and renovations have been slow but we'll start to pick up steam here soon since Doug is now finished with the apartments.  The roof is on, demo is just about complete, and electrical, plumbing, and HVAC is start within 2 weeks!  We hope to be complete by next summer before Sam starts kindergarten!

The pictures I'm posting are of the place right after we bought it and the final picture is of the new roof!

Finally finished!!

After four years, 5 houses, 15 apartments total.....we are finished!!  Doug finally renovated our last apartment.  He sits here with the kids on the front porch swing of the last house....whew!  Somehow I don't think we'll stop here though......but Doug needs some recovery time :)  This particular house was built in 1900.  We knocked out a wall to allow for an open kitchen.  It's awesome and it took about 2 seconds to rent it.