Recycling

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Soooooo, does the lady who had it moved still livein/own the part that was not moved? Or, are the owners the same or different. Seems like a strange thing. She lives in a house and shaves off part to move it somewhere else to make a new house. I would have thought it would have been cheaper to just rebuild considering all the legal fees and fights..

The old location is becoming a shopping center. She bought it from the developers for like a buck or something, because she's an old house freak. She will remain living in the 19th century farmhouse she bought from my Grandfather, and is installing this one in it's new location on her property.
Moving it isn't as expensive as you would think. I would think she would have to reimburse the town for the extra police and fire coverage, but I'm not sure. I am sure she doesn't have to pay the utility crews for their work moving the wires. The state and utilities have a deal, where the utilities use the airspace over public highways for free, but have to move them when necessary, on their dime. The legal fees won't be stratospheric, the courts were not involved, although there was probably a lot of letters, forms and phone calls. Like Cloud said, lawyers kill trees.

Now the whole deal is expensive, because the section moved has no plumbing, no bathroom, no kitchen, so an addition has to be built with all that stuff, and she's adding a two car garage. The old section could have been replicated a lot cheaper, but old house freaks don't want that. I don't know who will live in it, but as I mentioned in the beginning, rumor has it this is all to lure her kids to move back close to her.

Originally Posted by classicman

Where is the thread with the back story?

At the top of the page.