These are two properties near my new place that I think someone here should buy.:

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and

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There is one for sale less than a block from me that needs a lot of updating/work, so I am not linking to it.

Holy shit, those houses! Those prices! Both have too much outside for me, but I feel like buying a house in Baltimore just on principle now.

That first house doesn't actually have that much lawn and if you put in a curb cut to ad a driveway for off street parking you would lose either most of the back or the side yard. Especially if you did two parking pads since it's a two unit house.

But... humidity!

Askye, a gift certificate might be an acceptable gratuity? I've never tipped a nurse, but that sounds above and beyond.

So glad your mom is progressing nicely!

That first house doesn't actually have that much lawn and if you put in a curb cut to ad a driveway for off street parking you would lose either most of the back or the side yard. Especially if you did two parking pads since it's a two unit house.

OK, then sold! Is adding a driveway something a person can just do? For some reason that shocks me.

You'd have to get a permit & approved (curbs belong to city) but given the rest of the neighborhood, I doubt there is any zoning against it. Could be wrong, though.

Typically you need a permit for the curb cutout, and permission from the zoning board to pave over lawn. (Our village has limits on what % of your yard you can pave over, mostly to prevent people from putting private parking lots where their yards used to be.)

In my particular case, we also had to deal with the fact that on a corner lot, both street-facing sides of the house are considered front yards (our zoning laws say you can't have a driveway in the front yard so we had to go before the board and point out that legally we have two front yards but the one with the driveway in it is obviously actually a side yard), AND the fact that about half a square foot of the new expanded driveway would be outside of our property lines. One side of our lot faces a state highway, and while both the village and state transportation agencies agreed that expanding our driveway in the way we wanted was totally fine and that giving us a lease was a meaningless formality, neither of them would admit to having the right to tell us in writing that it was okay.

Yay zoning.

I'm writing this fundraising letter for my church, and I think I have an OK draft, but I guess I shouldn't send it out to the committee just as the service is starting, huh? I'll wait until after lunch.

Billionaire decides he needs to have his own bespoke on-street parking, creates a garage door prop and a curb cut:

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I hope a huge flock of pigeons descend on his car.

Mom is home. The home health/therapy ppl should get up with her tomorrow about scheduling appointments. She also needs to schedule a follow up appointment.

She wanted to drive home. Even though she is drifting to the left when she walks and with her hands some. I forgot to ask about it so they never explicitly said no. It's cleared up.

Tomorrow I'm running home and getting some more stuff and Matthew. He is going to come up and then we will have 2 people to drive and do errands and whatever