I owned a home in rural New York with a house number that added up to 13.
157
1 + 5 + 7 = 13
That’s how you determine your house number.
Some numerologists say you should also add the street name to the house number. Or use the full address to determine the house number.
I don’t do any of that. I stick with the house number. It’s the house number – it says it in the name.
So, ok, what’s the problem with a 13 house?
I first understood it was a problem before I even bought that house. I’ve been fascinated with numbers and numerology for a long time. And unfortunately, I either misunderstood the magnitude of that problem or just needed the personal experience. Cause I bought the house evening knowing that it had a karmic debt number.
I used to take regular walks when I lived in the Bay Area (San Francisco) and I would often walk by this house that had the worst yard – the grass was dead and yet it was mowed regularly and it just still always looked like hell. And yet the older woman who lived there was always working on it.
Always working on it – still looks like shit. That’s a 13 house in a nutshell.
My specific experience in my 13 house
When I bought our 13 house in New York it was a fixer for sure. I poured fifty thousand dollars into that house and fixed it up pretty good. We also got a new twenty five thousand dollar septic put in courtesy of the village, due to some environmental law.
All the stuff we had done:
- Septic
- Roof replacement
- Ceiling in den lifted and sheetrocked
- Walls in den sheetrocked
- New wood flooring put in den
- New wood flooring put in closet and small room downstairs
- New ceiling put in closet
- New light fixture in upper floor
- New walls and ceiling and ceiling lights put in in attic
- New wood flooring in attic
- New custom window made and put in attic
- Railing put in in attic around stairs
- New cabinetry put in in attic with custom sliding doors and knobs
- Screened front porch with new posts and door put in
- New shelving put in kitchen
- New plumbing put in kitchen
- Appliances installed including light and fan above stove
- Light in den installed
- Electrical in den fixed
- Electrical in attic fixed
- Gutter guards installed
- Patch put on hole in barn
- Two sump pumps installed in basement
- New oil tank put in basement, old one removed
- New dehumidification system installed in basement
- Mold removal in basement
- Windows in basement replaced
- Well window replaced in basement
- Trees removed and cut up
- Bees removed
I might even be missing a few things.
So we had all that done and the house was humming pretty good that last summer, after three years of work.
And yet there was still so much to do. And even the stuff we fixed constantly needed attention!
For example, the septic continued to give issues despite being brand new, insects and spiders were a continual problem, water was an issue every year as the house was built right on the water table and flooded in the basement regularly so you know those sump pumps were going off constantly in the rainy season.
The poison ivy grew out of control around that house. Don’t even get me started on the ticks.
The barn was constantly in a state of disrepair.
The house was on a slope so that didn’t help with the water problems and moreover the mold continued unabated no matter how many times we remediated it.
We didn’t even get to spend any money renovating the kitchens and the bathrooms because we had other problems and at least they worked!
The roof started leaking despite it being a new roof.
The well was starting to give way. I was told that’s a fifty thousand dollar replacement.
I had an engineer come out for $500 and give me an estimate to fix up the barn.
“To make it structurally sound? Hmmm…that and new walls and new roof and lighting…and a new door and insulation…over $100,000 for sure,” he said. And this was in 2018 before inflation got so bad.
Conclusion
This house had its issues when we bought it, sure, but I’ve never owned a house that had more continual and never-ending issues and was as such a money suck as this one. A 13 house has a karmic debt and as such has significant issues (some say it also comes with opportunities but they are not opportunities I’m interested in).
This specific karmic debt essentially has to do with patience and hard work and a lot of both!
If you just want to live in a house with the normal amount of problems here and there a 13 house is not for you.