Do any appliance stores offer any kind of bulk discounts or deals if you have to buy a lot of stuff at once? Trying to decide if that's an option as opposed to looking for individual deals
Isn’t that usually for buying like 10 fridges? I think Shithead Ned is talking about needing to buy a suite of appliances.
For real though ned's head , if you are buying a whole suite, I am pretty sure someone is going to cut you a deal. It might be a free microwave or dishwasher or something but if you pay full retail it means you did not look very hard. That was my experience in shopping for a full suite of appliances at least.
Well boys, the appraisal came back and we ready to rock and roll. Should be closing next week! Waiting on a date right now.
Got the appraisal back on the house we're buying and it's 60k over what we're under contract for. Can we utilize this for anything other than possibly a HELOC, which we don't want to.
Not unless you want to flip it and ask what it appraised for. I have no idea what you put down, but it should allow you to avoid PMI, at the very least.
Fair enough. We don't have PMI, I just didn't know if it could help with anything that I might be overlooking. Maybe the bank will give us a reach around at least.
I got my theater chairs from a local place in town. I think their website is theaterseating.com or something like that. I was curious where they were located and come to find out they were 20 min from my house so I drove on over. They had a HUGE warehouse, theater chairs stacked 30 feet high. I start haggling with the lady saying they won’t have to deliver and I’ll take them straight from their warehouse, I’ll pay cash, etc. After some negotiating, out of nowhere she comes back at me with a price way lower than I was asking and offers “$65 per chair if you buy 120 chairs”. I pondered the offer for 20 minutes as if I was seriously going to buy 120 chairs thinking about which friends and family I could call to unload these on. These chairs had the works and for $65! I mean how could I say no? Obviously I ended up passing and only purchased 6 chairs but for triple the price. Still got a great deal in retrospect but that wasn’t how I felt leaving the place.
Home inspector immediately after inspection: "I ran every faucet for at least 5 minutes and flushed every toilet multiple times. Couldn't find a leak." Moving boxes into the house yesterday (alone) and I used the bathroom for the first time. Go down into the basement an hour or so later, and find water on the floor coming from the wall that is immediately below the bathroom. The thread title of feeling 47 and saying fuck home inspectors is surprisingly accurate.
Tell me about vapor barriers / crawl space encapsulation. Can I do it my self, does it make a difference, costs etc... thanks Edit house was built in 1923.
So inspection found copper pipes which are signs of oil tank. In the inspection response asked the buyers to have an inspection done to see if one is present and they didn't include. No brainer to push back on that right? Our real estate agent and his team have spoken with the city's environmental management who indicated it shouldn't pose any liability because home oil tanks are not regulated. In looking earlier seems like making sure it was properly filled would be the counter, correct?
So electrician was 100 percent right to get the work done and then call insurance. Lights are working and insurance has already issued payment for lightning strike.
What is driving you to want to do this? If your crawlspace is dry, you don't need it. If your crawlspace is wet, you need to address that problem, not cover it up. I have seen and dealt with more issues resulting from encapsulation than places where I thought it was beneficial.
I’m thinking I might have too much humidity inside and it might be putting too much load on my ac. Not sure what typical indoor humidity should be but my nest tells me ... (ac has been off since about 10:00 this a.m.) last night when it was running it was at 61% humidity at 72 degrees...
Our upstairs ac went out again (and has been out since last week) so that’s not helping the cause. They’re replacing the compressor tomorrow and it will be running again so hopefully that helps. Now I’m thinking about dehumidifier options. We’ve only been in the house for a couple of months so still discovering the house’s personality traits.
None of the reasons you mentioned is reason to not order the appraisal. That is typically ordered at application, or worst case after inspection. The sooner the better, to allow for any issues/repairs to be rectified & still meet the closing date. The unsecured debt, could be taxes & insurance payments from a property that the buyer did not disclose on their application, or possibly a creditor that doesn't report to any of the 3 credit bureaus. People always try to not disclose other properties & it's found 100% of the time... people are assholes
That's perfectly normal Being off during the day of course your humidity is gunna rise A "normal" range for your humidity inside should be in the 55 to 65% range when the house is at a comfortable temperature Any less and your gunna get chapped lips
The inspector had just seen a copper pipe and indicated that is a sign of an underground oil tank. Didn’t do any other testing and the past records don’t mention anything on it. It doesn’t use oil as a source of heat and hasn’t for a considerable amount of time.
In the last 2 days, I've worked in the attic and turned off the AC to install a new thermostat in late afternoon in dallas. I am such a fucking idiot
Man you’re entire body would be chapped here in the winter. Like a fucking desert. Started shopping for humidifiers during prime this week. I get about a season and half out of most.
First power bill was $220 at the new place. Just spent hundreds on leds, window treatments, thermostat, etc. Can't wait for the new bill to clock in at $218
Just decided on a whim that I was going to destroy the monstrosity that is a horribly made shelving unit built by the previous home owner. Used the wood from it to make shelves throughout the garage and rearrange everything. It was so hot and humid that I was literally working in pools of sweat and had to change clothes twice due to it looking like I just got out of a swimming pool. I’d like to say I’m done working on this heat for the summer, but I think I’m going to put a French drain in my backyard in a couple of weeks.
I’ll post some later. I still have so much clutter on the floor from gutting my kitchen. Need a trip to the dump.
Yea i certainly will. I’m fortunate that the area I’m gonna run it naturally go downhill and then out to the road for the most part. Just got a few areas that pool and the clay just doesn’t absorb water.
Hail update report. We got our settlement and more than enough money to cover a new roof and siding (we don't have much actual siding, brick home). We know about ten+ surrounding neighbors and everyone needs a new roof. Our neighbor next door had an adjuster come out and basically said they need 48 shingles replaced on their roof and gave them $2500. They had a roofer come out and say they definitely need a new roof, 15 years old, blah blah blah. We share the same insurance and they state in the claim that they will work with you if your contractor deems, and can prove, that that additional work needs to be completed. Right now they are working through the process with a roofer who is going through the process with insurance to get them a roof. Question, is this normal and will it work for them? Is there something else they should be doing? I think they pretty clearly got a retarded adjuster who gave less than a fuck. Is this typical? Thanks.