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"My parents bought it in the '80s, so I spent my whole childhood there until I was a teenager, and then went off to school," Joe told Insider. After graduating college, he started a high school basketball scouting company before going into real estate management. While Joe worked on and off on the property, it wasn't until he proposed to Becky in January 2022 that he started ramping up the restoration efforts.Joe always had the intention of turning the property into an event space, and this new development in his personal life gave him the idea to use it as a wedding venue.The only problem was that the house and the chapel were in bad shape — but Joe was insistent that the wedding take place in April that same year.
"We renovated the bathroom, added a new HVAC system, and even put in new plumbing and electrical wiring," Joe added."It's hard because we're bringing an old home into the 21st century. And there are many different little things we needed to consider, like replacing columns and spindles on the porch."
The hardest part of the entire project was finding workers and keeping everyone motivated enough to finish the project on time, Joe said."As far as the house management goes, the beginning of 2021 was just so hard because all the workers could pretty much charge whatever they wanted," Joe said."It was a miracle to be able to have that many people help get the house ready.
Joe estimates that he spent about under a million on the whole project, considering the scale of the renovation, the tight timeline, and the amount of manpower he had. It was a mad rush to get everything completed and it was a nerve-wracking experience because they weren't even able to get power to the property until the day before their nuptials, Joe said.
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