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chrisdr

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Chirimoya said:
Chrisdr, I'm enjoying your blog. I know the Zona quite well and I've been trying to work out exactly which house it is!

A word of advice from a fellow blogger: you should post links to your new blog posts here on this thread in DR1. Most people will go straight to the last post in the thread and may not realise they have to scroll up to your OP for the link.

A new adventure in the Dominican Republic: Plans... check / Clearing... check
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Hi Chirimoya,

I have tried to post a link with my last couple but I just get a message saying something like 'your post needs to be checked by a moderator...' and then it never goes up??? Any idea what I am doing wrong? I am sure its something simple...

Let me know if your around the Zone one day and you can come and take a look.

Chris
 
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Chirimoya

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chrisdr said:
Hi Chirimoya,

I have tried to post a link with my last couple but I just get a message saying something like 'your post needs to be checked by a moderator...' and then it never goes up??? Any idea what I am doing wrong? I am sure its something simple..
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It's an anti-spam measure for new posters. Once you have made a few more posts it should be OK.

Let me know if your around the Zone one day and you can come and take a look.

Chris
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Thanks for the invitation, I live out of town now but will let you know if/when.
 
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you have stamina, man. when we bought our house from a lovely couple of belgian hoarders we had to hire several people to clean the property. they tool out 8 or 9 trucks of rubbish. i have never seen so many cucarachas outside of ramsay's kitchen nightmares :)

sometimes it is better to have someone do things for you. save your strength, this is only the beginning. :)
 
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Chris, I am watching your progress through your blog. It looks like you are having a ton of gratifying fun! Keep up the good work.
 
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chrisdr

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Cucarachas... you would have to have seen it to believe it! Thousands of them. The question is where did they all go??

True sometimes it is better to get stuff done for you but where is the fun in that? Remind me I said that in a few months time haha
 
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i have seen hundreds upon hundreds. plus centipedes. plus spiders. plus other weird things i did not want to see ever :)
i know mine went all over the place, including running up the legs of our workers :)
but most were consumed by garzas (herons) flocking into our garden by dozens and happily chomping on various critters :)

your cucarachas? you may found them in the kitchen :) i suggest you get someone - and really, i mean it, DO NOT do it yourself - to fumigate. get a small pump for a thousand pesos or so and a bottle of insecticide. you pour a cup (one bottle lid) of the poison inside the pump and fill the rest with water. then spray and spray and spray. repeat every week or so until all roaches are dead. otherwise you'll keep on finding them having a party in your food pantry :)
 
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My father once bought an abandoned farm in southern Michigan.
It looked about like your purchase at that time.
He used to invite his friends up to see the place, then put them to work clearing the place.
You should do the same thing here!
Invite all your DR1 "Friends" over, then give them a bag and a shovel.
Name the date and I'll be there!
I am a great sidewalk supervisor!
I'll bring my own chair.
I just need a shady spot to sit and smoke good cigars!
Cris Colon
 
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chrisdr

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Hi wish you offered before! All that is left is to shovel it all on a truck! That would have been a good idea.

On that note if anyone knows of a guy with a truck that will take it all away please let me know - I only know someone with a huge truck that cannot go into the zone...
 
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i quite like the house plans but i have one word for you: parking.
revise and include a parking space. you will thank me later.

and good luck with ayutamiento. living in DR teaches patience :)
 
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I was thinking about that DV8 - but decided against it - first of all I need the downstairs space and it would of taken alot longer to get the go ahead from Patrimonio as I would have been changing the structure. At present I am keeping the original structure as it was.
Plus theres a parking lot half a block away...

Thanks for the feedback!
 
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Love all the description and pictures. My wife and I tackled a lot of remodels and some reconstruction with a number of older homes in the states, including a 1890s 3 story Victorian. Love saving old structures. Good luck in getting it completed.

LTSteve
 
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I met Chris last month, he was a cool guy and he was very realistic about his project. I am rooting for him
 
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