Dave H (MI)
Well-known Member
You asked me yesterday about a neighbor house. I do not know those folks. The house was owned by a fella that worked at the GM proving grounds and was an expert in transmissions. His widow sold the place a year or more back. The house is just a normal house but they put an addition on it...more like a wing. When I went to the estate sale I walked thru it and honestly it looked like a house of ill repute...but apparently it was actually used to house foreign students or some such thing. May have been church related. Anyway, it sold and the people who bought it put in a stone entryway. Last summer they extended that to the wall you saw, complete with wires for electric lights yet to come. They also took out every tree down by the road, including a very old oak. These are piled up in a tangle back in there a ways. Then they brought in what must have been $10-20K of new trees. Ball and burlap. Spruce 8' tall mixed with maples about the same size. They put some yews along the wall...deer have been loving those. We are getting some people on the road who throw money around. Guess they want to live behind the Metropark. The cape cod with barn on 10 acres that you can see from my porch sold for $1.2M a couple years back. I went to that fellas moving sale. He built that place...was 12 wide trailer there for years. Kids grew up, place went up for sale. Don't think he lived there 10 years.
