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My poor reader, you must be wondering like Clara Peller, Wendy's 1980s era spokeswoman, "Where's the beef?" Isn't this a blog about housing rehab? (For those of you who want to relive those times or who were too young to remember them, click the quote for YouTube link to the 1984 commercial)
Foreclosed to Fabulous is about housing rehab. But sometimes you need a little filler while the main event gets ready. The garden and food posts are a little like the old school boxing girls who walk around the ring half-naked holding a sign while the boxers regroup. In truth, I thought we would be moving much faster in the acquisition stage but like so many other government programs, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) is extremely paperwork-intensive. Thus far, my company has been awarded contracts in 5 jurisdictions and we have applied to 3 different non-profit loan funds for money that will match the NSP awards to make the government dollars stretch even farther.
I didn't think you'd be interested in the travails of learning the different rules for five jurisdictions or the horrors of closing 3 loan funds. At one point I was so frustrated that I carried my ire across state lines. While on a leisure trip out of town I happened to be near the office of one lender. Ever the model of maturity, I kicked the exterior of the building and took an angry-looking picture standing near their sign. Hee! Immaturity is fun and cathartic. My boss didn't think the picture was all that funny, but those people made me do about 500 versions of the same spreadsheet! I could have done much worse. I contemplated making a welcome mat out of chewed up bubble gum. But I didn't because I am a grown up. And I need my job.
ANYWAY, we finally have the all-clear to get started on houses and I have been assigned to project manage 3 jurisdictions out of 5 for a total of 84 houses! It's feast or famine here people, so get ready for lots of posts and pictures as I get out of the office and into the starting block. I have to get at least 5-8 houses completed in a neighboring county by Dec. 31. OMG.
My poor reader, you must be wondering like Clara Peller, Wendy's 1980s era spokeswoman, "Where's the beef?" Isn't this a blog about housing rehab? (For those of you who want to relive those times or who were too young to remember them, click the quote for YouTube link to the 1984 commercial)
Foreclosed to Fabulous is about housing rehab. But sometimes you need a little filler while the main event gets ready. The garden and food posts are a little like the old school boxing girls who walk around the ring half-naked holding a sign while the boxers regroup. In truth, I thought we would be moving much faster in the acquisition stage but like so many other government programs, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) is extremely paperwork-intensive. Thus far, my company has been awarded contracts in 5 jurisdictions and we have applied to 3 different non-profit loan funds for money that will match the NSP awards to make the government dollars stretch even farther.
I didn't think you'd be interested in the travails of learning the different rules for five jurisdictions or the horrors of closing 3 loan funds. At one point I was so frustrated that I carried my ire across state lines. While on a leisure trip out of town I happened to be near the office of one lender. Ever the model of maturity, I kicked the exterior of the building and took an angry-looking picture standing near their sign. Hee! Immaturity is fun and cathartic. My boss didn't think the picture was all that funny, but those people made me do about 500 versions of the same spreadsheet! I could have done much worse. I contemplated making a welcome mat out of chewed up bubble gum. But I didn't because I am a grown up. And I need my job.
ANYWAY, we finally have the all-clear to get started on houses and I have been assigned to project manage 3 jurisdictions out of 5 for a total of 84 houses! It's feast or famine here people, so get ready for lots of posts and pictures as I get out of the office and into the starting block. I have to get at least 5-8 houses completed in a neighboring county by Dec. 31. OMG.
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