Well, after months of dinking around, I finally got my refinance to go through. I have a rental property with my dad and it took a lot of paperwork to convince them to remove that from my debt/income ratio as they had to know I had nothing to do with it.
But after we got past that, I also had to have a second appraisal to confirm the first, (LAME). So I had to pay twice because my house appreciated so much since I bought it (more than 50k). But I was able to net 11k out of the deal, so now onto reinvesting in the house!
i am having one of my dads sub contractors stop by soon, he is going to remove a semi dead tree in my back yard that will be in the way of my new deck that I am putting in. I am also going to have him quote a retaining wall for behind my garage too and maybe some various other landscaping items. Then my dad and I are going to design the deck and he will work it up in CAD or architect builder or whatever his program is called, can't remember. And then I will buy all the materials and get building soon hopefully. My dad and my gf's dad (also used to be in the construction business) are going to help me build the deck, so should be fun to get my hands dirty there. I have done framing and poured concrete in the past, so i am not totally green but I am not a pro by any means.
The last thing on my list is gutters.
So hopefully I have some pictures to post soon, I am excited to finally have a deck so I can grill out back
