Abatement Isn't What's Downstairs or Apostol Breaks Her House

I Broke my house.
Why did I take off the only thing holding the house together! WHY?
I will be penniless, living in a shelter somewhere on skid row by the time I make this mother inhabitable. I don't want to even read my favorite blogs...everyone is normal, not obsessed, exhausted, and now utterly at a loss as to how I will get this place livable in 20 days.

I broke my asbestos filled house because I am an idiot, a horrible mother, (but excellent demo diva) and wish I had all the money back I've given to St. Lowe's charity for mentally ill Greek women.

I-broke-my-house.
See the base-board looking thing around the parameter of the room? It's called cove molding, it's the ugly-assed crap you see at your Psychiatrists office.
It used to go all the way down to the carpet, sort of decorative like, in a sick industrialist way. Now, it just hangs there, letting the asbestos infested WALL behind the GLUED on FAUX wood paneling crumble to the freakin ground.

No, I'm not kidding.
Would I kid about something as serious as having my first house payment in twenty days, and not being able to LIVE in the damn thing? Noooo, I wouldn't kid abo...oh shut up. I broke my house.

The Mer is so disappointed, and I can't fix this problem, these multiple problems I've just tried harder and harder to fix on my own.

I have no recourse with the seller, and even if I did, I love the little house. I want to keep it and fix the immediate problems if I can We didn't have an asbestos test done, because I didn't have assistance from a community agency on my down payment, otherwise it would have been mandatory with a house this age.

It's time to take a few steps back and get a better perspective, clear my head, play a little, go for a run in the crisp mornings...there is a solution, there always is, don't I know that by now?

Comments

[Stef]

Yikes!

There must be a solution to all this without costing an arm, a leg and your firstborn grandchild (okay, MY firstborn grandchild... and no, one of my adult sons did not get a gal preggers).

Would someone at Lowe's have any suggestions, or maybe someone who builds houses? How about your real estate agent... might he have and idea or two?

I hope these suggestions have merit and an answer lies within.