Parents with dementia, how dealing with that has gone.

[ultrarunner]

I could not do it and bought my siblings out...

 

[MossRoad]

I could not do it and bought my siblings out...

On the flip side, my father told me NOT to buy the house he built because it was an architectural experiment and a money pit to keep going in this climate.

I knew that, because I'd helped him modify it many times of my 24 years in that house. I hope the people that have it now enjoy it. I know they've had to put a ton of money into it, that's for sure.

 

[Sigarms]

The closing on my parent's house was on New Year's Eve. I said my goodbyes the last time I was at the house in November knowing that I probably wouldn't be back. Just a very strange feeling knowing that someone else is now living in the house my Dad was born in which he then purchased in his 20's and raised all of us in it. So many memories. The house was meant to be lived in so I can only hope the new owners take care of it like my parent's did and myself and my siblings did when my parent's aged and they also make the memories that we now have.

My home as I knew it my parents bought in 1978 after my dad retired from the military. Only lived in that house for 5 years before I started my own life, but it is the only "real" home I knew of until my wife and I bought our place about 20 years ago.

I forget how, but I ended up talking with the guy who bought my parents home (small town and he was raised in the same town). When my dad came to live with us, a couple years later he finally decided it was time to sell the place which I did for him.

Although the new buyer was young and single, the home was a perfect fit for him. I ended up sending him info and stuff my dad had on the house that he sincerely seemed to appreciate. I'd show my dad pictures of what the guy had done to the home, and my father seemed seemed impressed.

Never in a million years did I expect to see a caterpillar in the basement where we had family reunions LOL

Or a couple of tractors in Dad's garage

Place only had 3 acres, but most of that was on the other side of the creek (where I shot my first pheasant). Ironically enough the kid is into old tractors and Caterpillars, and has to be pretty sharp being an engineer.

 

[WinterDeere]

Never in a million years did I expect to see a caterpillar in the basement where we had family reunions LOL

Assuming it has drive-out access, and not a "Porsche in the apartment" scenario?

A wrenching prank at Caltech

May 25, 1956: Pranksters at Caltech pulled off a major coup, disassembling an engineering student's small foreign car and reassembling it in the basement of Throop Hall in a place where it blocked a stairway and the doors to two laboratories.

www.latimes.com

 

[Sigarms]

Assuming it has drive-out access, and not a "Porsche in the apartment" scenario?

A wrenching prank at Caltech

May 25, 1956: Pranksters at Caltech pulled off a major coup, disassembling an engineering student's small foreign car and reassembling it in the basement of Throop Hall in a place where it blocked a stairway and the doors to two laboratories.

www.latimes.com

Below grade basement has a roll up door. Parents always kept that door shut and made a "poor mans" finished basement where my parents set up for their hobbies.

When the new guy bought the place, that basement was perfect for storing and doing his projects.

Both my dad and myself always got a kick out of whatever he was "bringing in" my dad's old place...

 

[MossRoad]

Assuming it has drive-out access, and not a "Porsche in the apartment" scenario?

A wrenching prank at Caltech

May 25, 1956: Pranksters at Caltech pulled off a major coup, disassembling an engineering student's small foreign car and reassembling it in the basement of Throop Hall in a place where it blocked a stairway and the doors to two laboratories.

www.latimes.com

My dad knew of a guy that built an airplane in his basement. Another one built a boat.

In both cases, they had to dig a ramp and cut out the basement wall to get them out. But they did it.

 

[WinterDeere]

Building a boat in one's back yard, and then having to crane it out over the house, seems to be one that comes up over and over. I know of a few, myself.

But the Caltech link I posted above might be the earliest or best known example of someone assembling cars indoors, which has been copied in several movies (e.g. Real Genius, etc.).

 

[ultrarunner]

Same with a guy that restored a Model A roadster...

My dad knew of a guy that built an airplane in his basement. Another one built a boat.

In both cases, they had to dig a ramp and cut out the basement wall to get them out. But they did it.

Knew a guy that did the same with a Model A Roadster... Opened up a wall, built a wood ramp and hired a tow truck to winch it out and up...

 

[riptides]

Do an internet search on WWII tanks in basements.

Hefty fines for the hobbyist or memorialist.

 

[California]

But the Caltech link I posted above might be the earliest or best known example of someone assembling cars indoors

Long ago I read of someone who returned from Christmas vacation to find a running Model T indoors, on campus, where it had to have been disassembled to get it in there.