The house needed a new furnace to help us through winter.
Covid hit hard and some of the people in my industry were affected. Working in the service industry,especially the hospitality industry has never been the same ever since the days of Covid pandemic. For instance, we lost a large percentage of our income because of losing hours during lockdowns. In an economy that is already hard, life hasn’t been easy to cope up with. Currently, we are only earning 70 percent of what we earned pre-covid season. Things became too tight for me and my family that I was struggling to pay rent. After discussing it with my wife, we agreed that it would be easier on us if we moved into the lakehouse she had inherited from her great aunt. Before her passing, my wife’s aunt willed her old lakehouse to her favorite niece who happens to be my wife. She wanted to leave her most prized possession to someone she knew would take proper care of it. My wife loved spending her younger days with her aunt in the lake house so it was an easy decision to see why she would will it to her. Before we opted to go live there, she had been renting the house for a year since her aunt’s passing. With things becoming tighter each passing day, we gave the tenants notice and planned to move in. Before then, though, we needed to work on improving the HVAC system. The house needed a new furnace to help us through winter. I called the HVAC business in town to help with the new furnace installation. We also got a few portable space heaters to supplement the wood stove and new furnace. The idea was to work on replacing both the heating and cooling system gradually until the house can run on proper air conditioning. For now we are happy to have somewhere to put our head.