Harleysville-Lansdale Real Estate and More: Talk About Your Fixer Upper... Finding a Place to Call Home

Talk About Your Fixer Upper... Finding a Place to Call Home

This is a very interesting article in the NY Times about a woman who transformed a hunting cabin in the woods into her dream Victorian Home (minus a kitchen, bathroom and heat).  Hard financial times fell on this couple, Sandra and Todd Foster, so they bought a piece of land in the Catskills region of New York State.  They primarily live out of a trailer on the property, but Sandra always dreamed of a cozy Victorian cottage and created her very own space in a small cabin that was existing on the property when they bought it.

What is inspiring about this story is the Foster's quest to find an affordable place they could call home and the path and life-experiences that brought them to the Catskills.  Sandra Foster does have a "real" job on Long Island and makes the long commute each day.  While their choices may not be for everyone, they created their own little slice of heaven and happily raise chickens and tend to their garden. 

"If you don't have a home, you don't have a sense of place, you don't have a life, you don't have a soul."

~Sandra Foster

 

 

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4 comments • The Scott Loper Team Lansdale & Harleysville PA Homes • June 28 2010 08:16AM

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Thanks for sharing guys. That is a good example of making lemonade when you're dealt lemons.

Posted by Dan Benefield (Benefield Realty) almost 2 years ago

What a charming little place she created (little being the operative word).

Posted by Julia Odom, Chattanooga Homes for Sale (Select Realty Professionals) almost 2 years ago

Nice to hear ~ thanks for sharing. 

Posted by Heather Frye (New American Mortgage) (New American Mortgage ) almost 2 years ago

Dan, You are so right; it is all about making the best of the hand you are played.

Julia, It is so little, at least she is surrounded by woods and a stream, not crazy neighbors.

Heather, It is uplifting.  Thanks for commenting.

~Lisa

Posted by The Scott Loper Team Lansdale & Harleysville PA Homes (RE/MAX Realty Group - Harleysville PA) almost 2 years ago

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