Since Dom and I lived in our home back in 2016, there was a small bungalow with a detached garage across from us that was mostly abandoned. There was an older gentleman that would stop by periodically to do stuff in the garage. I briefly chatted with him a few times over the years and he seemed nice. Dom mentioned that the guy told him that he was underwater on the place and for whatever reason couldn't sell it. For the most part though, the house had no activity.
That started changing about two years back. A bunch of random folks would stop by either inspecting the house or the garage and then leaving. We suspected that something must've happened to the older gentleman. But then he would appear as well occasionally. This random activity continued on for a bit. Then there started to be a crew that would come by daily to make repairs on the roof and other parts of the house. I looked at realtor.com and then discovered that the house was sold to another buyer.
The repairs started to continue and I got to see the transformation of the house firsthand since we live right across from it. They finished up the roof, replaced the windows, refaced the outside of the house and garage, added gutters, and remodeled the garage into a separate living space. Over the months they've unloaded so much junk that the nice older gentleman had accumulated in the garage. Dom and I used to joke that he had "centipede" people living there that he occasionally came to feed. My curiosity peaked over who the new owners would be. Dom and I prayed it would be a hot gay couple. But of course that didn't come to be.
The new owners it ended up look to be a couple (I know one is a guy but I can't tell if the second person is a guy or gal). Maybe it is a gay couple after all...but with the winter, it's too dark to make them out completely. And they are not very sociable. Then again I guess I'm not either. They live in the garage and apparently they have random people possibly from the same job living in the main house. It's basically a smorgasbord of activity now. This group basically leave the house together but in separate cars early in the morning and then roll back in the afternoon. I wonder why they can't just carpool together. It'll be interesting what develops when the weather warms up. Since they live in the garage, I've seen them grill stuff outside. The other day I saw they bought in a stackable washer and dryer that they placed by the downstairs entrance. I assume they placed a bathroom in there as well. I'd definitely love to see what they did to the place but alas since it won't be in the market anytime soon, I won't know. Since they made the garage into a home, their cars have to reside outside of the garage which sucks when it's winter.
Anyway it's an interesting mystery so far. I guess as long as they don't bother us we'll be okay. One good thing to come from it is at least the house is not abandoned now and it's reduced the number of lurkers who would randomly drive by and park there or near our house. It's the curse of living in a corner home.
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