Our Next Fixer-Upper

If such a thing exists as a regular reader of this blog, that reader would notice that my regular schedule of posting has been disrupted. On Monday, we left town until Wednesday for a wedding. Yesterday we headed down to Spartanburg because I scheduled a turn-on date for water and electric utilities at our new-to-us fixer upper-house in Spartanburg.Yes, we bought another fixer-upper when we're not done fixing up the house we have at Lutheridge. Let me be clear--we're not selling that house. We are fortunate enough to be able to afford 2 small houses. And one reason why we can is that each house needed work, and very few homebuyers these days want to put in that sweat equity.In the spirit of full disclosure and complete honesty, I, too, would like a house where I didn't need to think about upgrades, where someone else had already made the decisions and installations. But as we looked at houses, we kept saying, "Why would someone make the kitchen this way? Why didn't they do the…