Where can I post this?

therunbunch · #1 08/04/10, 11:29 AM

My husband might be buying a house to renovate in the next 2 months.. depending on whether or not the deal goes through. If it does, I might be looking for someone to help me do work on it. I know there are a few 'floaters' on here. I'd be able to offer on-site free room and board in exchange for help with the work. Don't know if anyone would be interested in that or not but I know I've seen these kinds of deals offered on here before. Might be able to offer long-term room rent also for $100 per month if helper(s) wanted to stay in the area. We are looking at a property in Orange, MA if that helps. Anyway, wasn't sure where on the board this should go, as I haven't had to post for this kind of help before!!!

Patt · #2 08/04/10, 12:14 PM

I think this is a good spot, I would put it on the Barter board too.

mldrenen · #3 08/04/10, 12:55 PM

i see you're from texas. what draws you to property in orange, ma? will this be a house to flip? rent out? move in to?

sorry for being nosy. just really curious, especially since orange is in my neck of the woods.

therunbunch · #4 08/04/10, 04:20 PM

We actually moved to MA back in February because of DH's job. We're not really flipping.. not in the sense of fixing it up and selling it.. rather we're renovating a home for our family to live in. I'm not afraid of some honest hard work but I will need help (and probably some guidance) along the way lol. My DH recently deployed and I'll be doing most of the reno's myself, and contracting out the big stuff.

JuliaAnn · #5 08/04/10, 11:31 PM

I will be the wet blanket here... be VERY careful. Some may remember what happened 15or 20 years ago from an ad from Countryside magazine. I am sorry to bring it up, but whenever I see a post like this, it's the first thing that comes to my mind. I would urge extreme caution if I were going to do something like this.

Navotifarm · #6 08/05/10, 01:59 AM

Oh boy, WHAT happened all those years ago with Countryside magazine???
You mean the murders connected with The Mother Earth News??? Or did something ghastly happen with Countryside too?

mldrenen · #7 08/05/10, 07:54 AM

i see. welcome to massachusetts! i live about an hour southwest of orange, but i'd be more than happy to pitch in a few days to help you get the place livable. let me know if you could use an extra hand.

Patt · #8 08/05/10, 08:53 AM

Never heard of either, anyone have a link to a story about what happened? I noticed Countryside has had requests for stuff from prisons in their letters section which made me a little leary.

Navotifarm · #9 08/05/10, 10:01 AM

Patt, TMEN used to have a very active section connecting singles. I read th ads with great interest and one time saw one from a woman in Leesburg where I lived at the time. I contacted her. She had spent over a year meeting men with the intention of finding one to mate and marry. She slept with almost all of them. I asked her for her three best rejects which she had not slept with and actually met with one of them. He was a new england school teacher whose wife had deliberately burned down a house he built himself out of green wood. He put himself back on the market because his wife had been confined to a nut house because the insurance company would pay up because one of the named insured had been the arsonist. After I knew this guy for awhile I decided the wrong one had been incarcerated.
Carla Emery got her husband, one of three possibilities from such an ad so they do work.
Uh oh I hear somebody shrieking "TMI!" Anyway the TMEN incident was somebody answered one of those ads and murdered an entire family so TMEN stopped running them. It was an horrrriffffic murder! I don't know about a countryside one but maybe that's why they dumped their forum?

therunbunch · #10 08/05/10, 08:49 PM

OH MY GOSH. That's is really scary. I am completely sick to my stomach at the thought of even the slightest chance of something like that happening.

stef · #11 08/05/10, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by therunbunch

OH MY GOSH. That's is really scary. I am completely sick to my stomach at the thought of even the slightest chance of something like that happening.

Better go with people you've known for a long time. Not worth the risk otherwise.
The world is not what it used to be.
Too bad.

stef

JuliaAnn · #12 08/05/10, 10:51 PM

Someone with a better memory may be able to help more, but if I am recalling correctly, Countryside used to have a section called 'Countryside Contacts', where people could advertise for the usual things like buying/selling livestock, real estate, etc etc., but also for personal ads and for help wanted. Apparently a man had answered a familiy's ad, moved in with them to assist on their farm or homestead, and murdered them. I don't remember if it was the whole family or only some of them. After that, personal ads, prison correspondence, etc. was no longer published. I think there were also some attempted legal repercussions toward the magazine. It was all pretty hush-hush, and most people who heard anything about it at all was just bits and pieces. (I had been a subscriber to Countryside since 1979, and only stopped getting it about three years ago. I still buy an occasional copy off the rack. Don't pay attention to the ads so I don't know if they have those kinds of ads again or not) I hope I have not repeated erroneous information, but to the best of my understanding, that is what happened.

I never heard about the TMEN issues, but I wouldn't be at all surprised.

I can certainly understand wanting to have help. I'd really love to be able to hire somone occasionally but lack of $$ is my problem.

Would there be some kind of organization that might be able to help you locate help in that area? Maybe the nearest chamber of commerce or college might have some kind of on-the-job learning or credit for students? You might be able to get some work done in exchange for someone getting valuable hands-on learning.

Patt · #13 08/05/10, 11:36 PM

Oh my that is awful! Now you can ask for stuff but it goes to Countryside and then they forward it on unless somebody wants to give an email address. They mentioned something a couple of years ago about some of the penpals for kids not actually being kids....