Well, that was exciting....for a minute.

The house next door to us (to the north) has been a rental since we moved here. In fact, the lady who used to rent our house, moved into that house when we moved here. She was recently evicted and the original owners of the house are remodeling it so they can live in it.

We met them last week and told them our plans to tear down our house and build new. They expressed interest in buying our front porch and moving it to their house. We invited them to come over and see it and talk further in a few days.

Well, they came over yesterday to take a look. They liked what they saw and made an offer, which we accepted. 

Then they took off some of the skirting to see how the porch was built and how they could move it. This is what was behind the skirting:

Termite damage.

Oh, no. Hold the phone. How is this thing even standing?

At least it looks like old termite damage and we don't see any of the termites themselves. 

But, needless to say, the deal is off. No one wants that mess, including us. haha. 

The good news is we were tearing it down anyway. It was exciting for a minute that our new neighbor was going to help in that process and give us a bit of cash too, but now we are just back to our original plan. Nothing lost and it confirmed to us that we are absolutely doing the right thing by tearing this house down.