Yes, I finally was able to load a large group of photos into our Flickr group. You will need to open them up to read detailed descriptions.
Thanks, cb! Wow. Let the demo begin! Dumpsters and dumpsters of old yucky kitchen cabinets, rotten ceiling tiles, pipes, etc.! The place has lots of potential with all that stuff gone. 
It’s amazing how dirty people can let things get, and just go on living in it! When I replaced a switch plate recently, the back side of it was filthy. How does that even happen?
Nice original switch plates and doorknobs in this house, and I love the wood floor! Maybe you’ll find something nice under that nasty old carpet.
cb, can you relocate the furnace? It would be nice to be able to utilize that closet for something more useful. Might not be worth the candle, however.
And I too hope you can keep the doorknobs and wall plates. Very charming.
It also occurs to me that you need to make lemonade out of the house next door that now blocks the views: Make that wall in the kitchen a solid one with no windows and put a ton of upper cabinets on that wall. Then you can have the kitchen open to everything else with nary a worry about storage space.
This morning’s disaster is that, somehow, the dumpster company was 2 hours late delivering a dumpster to the house. I had a guy start work early this morning at 7am for the delivery. First, guy shows up and he is at wrong house… about 3 blocks away with wrong address. Then guy finally shows up in back alley and he has some kind of small low concrete dumpster - it is not the dumpster I ordered!! My lead is trying to straighten it all out right now.
Looking forward to this one.
Can anyone provide the link to photos. I promise to just ask once.
hey CB, can you do a new floor plan sketch that also shows the location of the house next door?
that would help us visualize better- that is if you want our input, lol!
re the furnace btus:
If you take off that front access panel there might be a manufacturer label that has model and btu information inside.
If not, the magnet/sticker on the front is almost certainly the installer, you could always call them.
I’m interested in seeing what the final layout is going to be. Second floor? Roof deck? Addition? Inquiring minds want to know. 
I don’t understand how the builder of the neighboring house sleeps at night. How could they be ok building right in front of that deck?!
So long as the house does not violate the zoning laws, the owners of the house next door had every right to maximize the utility of their own property as they saw fit. The previous owners of CB’s house had no property right in maintaining the view and they knew or should have known that the view from the deck could be blocked if the ajoining owners built up their property.
Great pics, CB. But what a friggin mess! I guess the thing that amazes me is that this house…in this poor condition…fetched nearly a million dollars for this family. The neglect and disrepair is awful.
But it creates a great project for you!
This is going to be interesting to follow!
Thank you for posting the pictures. So the main entrance to the house is a set of outside stairs? Is there a staircase from the garage to the main floor inside? Our vacation home only has stairs on the outside, and I hate dragging groceries up the stairs in the rain. (But lots more rain in NC than San Diego.)
This is, of course, not a criticism. I love, love, love the project and the potential it has.
@thumper1, it’s all location, location, location. Prices are different everywhere!
And, a million dollars ain’t what it used to be. :))
Just a thought CB. Maybe the former owners haven’t used the water. They sure didn’t use it to clean the place!!
I have loaded some more pictures.
The front door to this house is located on the southern part of the lot, accessed by a small private path from a street above. The stairs and back door are for access from garage and driveway in the back. There are no stairs inside the house, the only way to haul groceries into the house is up the stairs on the right of the driveway.
One of the grossest things I finally noticed today is that there are fly catcher sticky strips hanging down all the windows in the house. Yuck!!! I think lowest man on totem pole gets to pull all those down and throw them in the dumpster.
It only took the dumpster company about 30 minutes to go get the correct container and get one into our yard. Turns out that they have an ‘agreement’ with Sea World to stage a bunch of containers in their parking lot for all the construction in the area.
The living room in this house is a truly lovely, gracious room. The views from it are an extra bonus!
LOL Sea World. It really is an interesting architecture. And fly catchers - we learned real quick that there are bugs in San Diego.
The house definitely has lovely possibilities and is lucky to have your TLC.
I love the arched doorways…and the glass door knobs!