Home Buyin/Maintenance Thread - Where most of us are 30ish but act 47. Oh, and fuck home inspectors

Too bad I’m in Ohio.

 

buddy i got some more pics to show you if you keep talking shit about my heater

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it's my penis

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actually this has nothing to do about my heater just want to share my dick pics

 

pal,

you’re heater is the worst I’ve ever come across and I’ve seen thousands. You should be embarrassed by how bad it is.

I’m gonna need to see more pics to be fully sure though. Different angles also. Maybe even some fun filters. K thx.

 

How far in advance should I start searching/working with realtors? I have no concerns with the financing aspect. We are moving in Sept and it would be great to have the house ready just in time. Also gonna have to do a lot remote since we are moving like 1900 miles.

 

Toasters are a remarkably simple appliance that receive little use and minor wear/tear.

 

I should rephrase that I have no concerns with getting approved. I haven’t figured out how I’m going to do it yet.

 

Interview, get references, recommendations. Find someone who raves about their realtor.

 

Does anyone know the effective date to use when excluding capital gains through the 2 year rule? I'm trying to figure out how long I need to own my current house to avoid the tax. Would it be 2 years from closing on my current house?

• Old house - sold in June of 19 and closed in July
• Current house - bought in April of 19 and closed in May
• New house - bought March of 21 and closed in April

 

Are you a do it yourself tax guy?

 

Normally yes, but I don't need to be if it's complicated. I figured this would be defined somewhere, but I sure couldn't find it so maybe not

 

When you say “bought” are you saying that’s when the offer was accepted?

If so, the only date that matters is the date that the transaction occurred, which would be closing date

 

Did you use the exclusion in 2019 for the sale of the old house?

 

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When you clean out the dryer vent and install a new vent hose and you get it just right

 

I did, but I don't see it reflected on my return. I'll take a look at the support. I suppose the hook would be that it would need to be greater than two years if there's a date reflected on the 1099-s?

 

Closing dates are what matter

You haven’t owned your current house for 2 years and you used it 2 years ago, so I’d have a professional look into it/do your taxes.

 

Cleaned some gutters and downspouts this afternoon. Started raining at 6pm. Gutters and downspouts working perfectly. AptosDuck is smug and drinking cheap pinot

 

Looks great! Also I would have guessed that was a pot with some wild bush in it. Why the fuck would they let that continue to grow there? Lol.

 

Tell me about your pool patio and re-surface choices Jigga

 

My woodchipper died in a blaze of glory this weekend. I put that thing through hell over the last year. It’s probably time to just have someone out to cut back the lower canopy of our pines.

There’s a cluster of them on the corner of our lot that just rain a constant barrage of dead limbs and straw on our lawn and I’ve tried to mitigate it since we moved in almost 2 years ago. I’m over it. It’s causing me to neglect my landscaping by focusing all of my attention on cleanup.

 

You have a pic of the sand blasted marble? Is that surface like a PebbleTec or something else?

 

thanks. i'm currently leaning travertine given it's sourced locally, but unsure.

 

Demo, drywall, some electrical, and texture done last week.

Paint, floors, and cabinets sans doors this week.

 

Let me know what to bring over for the pool opening party!

 

One of those life rings on a rope for whenever Jigga falls in.

 

Too late. Mrs. Jigga already asked me to bring an anchor for just such an occasion.

 

Both emotionally & physically! The MC makes sure of the first part!

 

I was thinking that area would probably be better open. An area to grill, have a fire, etc. opposed to the entire thing screened in.

 

4% over ask, a 4% appraisal waiver, 3% earnest money, and 30 day close were not enough

 

4% doesn’t seem way over ask in this market.

 

Apparently not! It was also a flip and sold for something like 65% of the current ask last year, so it all felt like throwing a dart at a board. Oh well.

 

The winter storm took out the faucet on my outdoor bbq. I could not fit a wrench in that tiny space so I had to take out the entire sink for one goddamn nut. And that ended my dreams of becoming a plumber

 

I believe you can only use that exception once every 5 years.

 

We bid $256k all cash close, with flexible closing (they had a tenant) on a condo with an asking of $225k and the listing agent told our agent they had a bid of $265, asking if we wanted to match AND kept pushing the so-called deadline to pick an offer. We decided to withdraw our offer and go elsewhere.

 

Curious why you didn’t use pvc couplers and bonding cement.

 

That is a bandaid that will beed to be fixed again.

 

I really need to fix one of my sprinkler heads bc the idiots installed my fence two feet into my yard so now the sprinkler head was spraying into the fence in my neighbor's yard

 

Something like this would have worked better for future reference;





Two of these;

 

Is that a pressure line or a drain?