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Own Your Own Home

I called up the archateck today to see would he come out & see if things looked OK to him but he was still sick yet but the cousin come out & we was haveing supper & he set down with us tho we dident have nothing to eat because the gas stove aint come yet & even if it come it wouldent do no good because the gas aint conected.

Well the archatecks cousin says the house looks OK to him accept that theys a few things the matter & should ought to be fixed up. He says you got a mitey nice place here for $2,000 besides what you payed for the lot. I says where do you get that stuff $2,000 besides what we payed for the lot. We payed $1,500 for the lot besides int. & I dont know how much more then $2,000 the house is going to cost us but I bet its closter to $3,000 & then I & him set down & figured it up.

They aint no chance now for getting the bank payed up before the 5 yrs. is up so 1st theys $2,000 & then theys $320 int. on the $2,000. Then theys $25 for the garantee polisy that I payed when I got the lot & $25 for an other 1 when I got the money at the bank. And I payed for the finnished hard ware twict & thats $70 each time or $140. Then I give the bank $30 for insurence & $30 for comishon & I give them $75 for my bal. on what I owed the archateck & the $25 I give him to start with & $50 for the wall paper. That money I give them for the archateck & the wall paper was payed out some wheres else so I pay that twict & $60 for gradeing but that gradeing dident take so I payed $150 more for the same job the 2nd time & $50 for 2 extra closets in the house & $300 for the carpenter that done the work when the contrackter quit on me & $100 for cement walk & its all cracked all ready & $46 for moveing & storeing the furnitur & its all busted to peaces & $50 extra for electrick lt. fixtures because Grace seen some she liked & of corse they was the most expensiv & $30 for a extra cote of paint that I dont know weather we needed it or not & I dont know weather it was ever put on & $96 for our bord bill where we stayed at.

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