It's a sad day for Stilborn homeownership :( We're re-siding and yesterday they took all the old shingles off and found carpenter ants in one section and water damage in another. The guy can treat/fix ... for a price of course. AND got next year's tax bill. property tax went up from 5K to 7K. grrrrr. AND the township wants to come out and inspect the house (raise taxes even more is my guess). It seems the powers that be think we got too good of a deal on our property. It's true that other houses go for at least 50K more in our neighborhood than what we paid.

Luckily, Richard's recent raise will keep us at the same place financially as we were before all these increased expenses. At least the pool is nice ;)