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Old 12/16/08, 8:14 PM
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Thankfully, I didn't have to inspect this. Just drove by and couldn't resist the urge to snap a photo. The piers jump out at you. See anything else?

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Old 12/16/08, 8:19 PM
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Joe that is just so beautiful in so many ways....you didn't stand under it did You ????


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Old 12/16/08, 8:25 PM
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I see something , the installed the door on the wrong side for the pool. but it will be well vented I also think the shingles dont meet at the top other than that it would sell as Rustic home Home on a beauiful wooded lot with a fishing pond at your door in TN
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Old 12/16/08, 8:32 PM
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The satellite dish is pointing at the structure.


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Old 12/16/08, 8:33 PM
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Did you notice the plastic in the gable end? It was flapping in the wind.


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Old 12/16/08, 8:35 PM
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I can see the headlines: "Man leans on pier. Dies when house falls."


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Old 12/16/08, 8:46 PM
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Watch that first step, its a douzy.


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Old 12/16/08, 8:57 PM
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My, there is soo much to see... I especially love how the gutters run through the addition!


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Is that an outhouse in back with a sewer pipe to the stream below?
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Mother-In-Law addition?
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Mother-In-Law addition?
Has to be----
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Old 12/16/08, 10:17 PM
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Has to be----
That's designed so Bubba can back up his pickup truck and shove her out into the bed after he offs her after being told her daughter would have been better off marrying her highschool boyfriend.

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You guys just don't understand hard times looks like a mansion compared to what I lived in as a boy yall must been raised with a silver spoon in your mouth. I was 16 years of age before we had indoor commodes 1961


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I think I see a small section of gutter missing. Other than that???
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The satellite dish is pointing at the structure.
satellite dish? I thought that was one a them new fangled micorwave heating units for the den. Dang I am stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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