What could be more harried than the holiday rush? There are trees to trim, presents to wrap and cookies to bake. Pose the question to Toni and Jim Anthony and they’ll agree the only thing more daunting than a Christmas checklist is closing on a bungalow fixer-upper in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in the middle of December.
Back in 1984, neither the bungalow’s condition nor the sale’s complexity deterred the couple. “I loved the hand pump on the porch,
