Our New Home

We will wake up tomorrow morning in Boardman, Ohio, in a great home in a fantastic neighborhood on a street with culdesacs at either end and a backyard literally as big as all outdoors. Essentially, as a new neighbor explained, it is like having a park as a backyard.

Our realty team at Real Living Volpini Realty Group, featuring Joyce Kissinger and Patti Mika found the house for us after our visit back in February. Patti is an inexhaustible bundle of energy and she locked the deal down and gave us plenty of help along the way. We are forever in her debt, not unlike the bank...

The house needs some Sweetwoodian touches: The kitchen will be gutted eventually, as will one of the four bedrooms (which will be combined with the master bedroom for a SUPER bedroom). The bathrooms will be redone as well. But overall the house was a perfect find and a great deal and Mary and I are as proud and happy as we can be!

Everyone has been terrific during this transition from the leadership team at The Vindicator to our new friends at banks, title companies, insurance agents, the sellers and even pest control companies. And I need to give a shout out to United Van Lines, the official mover of Mark's World, for another great job.

Now, allow us to share our new home! Enjoy the views!


We call this the Brady Bunch house. It was built in 1973 and it resembles, well, the house that Mike Brady designed. Don't believe me? Check this out...


Here is a picture of the actual Brady Bunch house. Now, the front is kind of a reversal of ours, but the similarities are clear.


Here's a shot of our new front yard.


Here is what one side of the house looks like. Note the big trees.


Here's a view of the backyard with a view of one of the decks.


Here is a view from the deck off of the master bedroom toward the backyard which faces a park-like area and a protected wetland.


This is a picture of the living room area. It was taken with some of the items in the home left to stage it for sale. These will be replaced by our stuff (though we really liked the big, silver lamp!).


Here is the dining room (before our stuff arrived).


This is the future site of the world's next, best, wildest tiki bar!

More later,


Mark