RenovateKC

Tonight was my first night working on the house. It was an easy night, with my only task being to replace the front and back locks. The house was a foreclosure, and who knows what the situation was when all that happened, so who knows how many copies of the old keys are lying around. Paranoid? Perhaps a little. I wasn't this way until a friend told me that the first thing he did was change the locks on his place for that very reason. Additionally, we didn't even have a key to the back door, and we'll use that quite a bit once we start parking in the garage.

I walked away with a lesson tonight. When going to work on the house, I need to remember the following things, always:

• Tape measure
• Utility knife
• Camera
• ipod
• Water, at least until the city turns on the house supply again