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@Michaell said:

Yesterday marked the 2 year anniversary of my mom's passing. It took the better part of a year to settle her estate and split the monies between my sister and myself.

Did a couple of smaller home improvement projects initially with the money, but now we're going all in, and getting the basement mostly finished.

About 1200 sf of the 1700+ sf basement will be finished. Construction starts on 9/3 and is supposed to last for 6 weeks.

Bedroom, bathroom, laundry space and living space will be finished. Girls are going wild picking flooring and hardware options, and tweaking the floorplan before locking things in.

This will give all of us more space - after 7 years of living on one level, it's probably overdue.

Nice job! I’m sure settling the estate wasn’t easy. Hopefully you and your sister were able to do it amicably. Having a full finished basement is wonderful. We have a 3 bedroom ranch for 5 of us. Our finished basement allowed our (almost) 19 year old to have his own space and each of our 3 kids to have their own rooms. My 16 year old son can go down there and play XBox. Sometimes with friends online or by himself.