Mina Starsiak Hawk graduated from Indiana University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in general studies and she had no idea what she wanted to do for a career. She took a part-time job as a waitress while she did some much-needed soul searching. "I didn't want to work 9 to 5 in a cubicle, but I wanted to do something grown up, because all my friends were getting accounting jobs and doing big kid things," she told People. In order to feel grown-up herself, Mina bought a house for $37,500, per House Beautiful.
The house was a fixer-upper, to say the least. Mina shared a photo of what her house looked like when she first got it on Instagram. Mina's mom Karen was a defense attorney at the time and co-signed Mina's loan. They teamed up to renovate and, let's face it, repair Mina's house. "We just learned as we went," Mina said. "I read directions on how to install flooring and watched online videos about putting up tile. It was really trial and error."
The house is in the Fountain Square neighborhood in Indianapolis, per HGTV. Years later, Mina bought the lot next door to her first home and built what Karen calls the "Taj MaMina."
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