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

To me this seems excessive unless you live in a nice little neighborhood in the middle of Aleppo.

 

It's really excessive. What's crazy (to me) is it's a really diverse community. This gate thing screams "old white people" but our community makeup isn't really that.

South east Orlando as far as where this is.

 

Close, but not quite Aleppo.

Yeah that's insane. I live in a golf course neighborhood with a decent chunk of retired people, and one completely seriously asked at an HOA meeting if the committee could force her neighbor to paint his 3 yellow cars, because they were ugly and decreasing her home value.

First off, shut the fuck up. Secondly, you're dying in this house, why do you care how much it's worth? People get worked up about the dumbest shit.

 

Neighborhood I grew up in had it. It was to prevent the community that shared the main gate with us from cutting through our neighborhood to get to a main road.

 

Finally got around to programming my sprinkler system and getting it going for the first time since moving in.

Decided to walk around to make sure there weren’t any jacked up sprinkler heads, my neighbors are lucky I did because they parked both their cars on the side of the house with their windows down and my sprinklers were right there.

They never come outside, but I’d like to give em a “hey guys might wanna park in your other 5 available spots and/or roll your windows up” because I need to water in this fertilizer sometime today

 

Anyone out a zip line in? Daughter was over a friends house and they had one. Looks like I’m going to start shopping for one

 

Officially under contract and at 98.5% of list.

Fingers crossed the inspection doesn’t uncover anything bad.

 

like a zipline that you see in carribean islands to cross ravines and shit? I would highly recommend against that. You would be liable for the inevitable injury on that thing.

 

Tree to tree. Maybe 30 yards. Is what they had. Not crazy fast and it had the safety harness and a platform.

 

As the son of an insurance agent, I reccomend against it. You will be liable for any issues and it's likely your homeowners insurance will not cover it unless you disclose that you installed a zipline. BTW, if you do disclose, you can be sure your rate will increase.

 

As the son of a not insurance agent, I say do it because I would've loved one as a kid.

 

First open house today. Had a big storm that knocked out the power, and a tree fell down on a fence and wrecked it

 

Damn yea. If you are in the DFW we just had a hell of a storm run through.

 

Rushing over there now. There's another dangling over our 10 foot wooden automatic gate

 

Looks like we escaped major damage. There were entire 6 ft diameter trees uprooted in our neighborhood

 

Anyone have experience with hail damage to a house? Had a storm here a week or so ago and I have 5 pamphlets in the mail and 10 visits to my house. those fuckers are quick.

 

We had one around the same time, dudes were waking door to door with ladders.

 

Always hire someone local. Depending on how much hail you get where you live, put an impact resistant shingle or a metal roof on when you replace it.

 

Thanks, yeah we’d go local for sure. What’s the deal with inspection? Should our insurance do it or some other third party?

Edit: for the roof.

 

Let your insurance take the first crack. If you are satisfied with their offer, you are done. If not, then hire a public adjuster. No need to jump straight into it and pay for something that might not be necessary.

 

Sounds like a border crisis

 

Call a local roofer to come take a look and see if it needs to be repaired, replaced, or possibly neither.

If he says it needs to be replaced, then you can file a claim. Insurance will send out an adjuster to put together an estimate for repairs and will most likely cut you a check on the spot for ACV. When you have a signed contract from the roofer, they will release the depreciation.

 

Thanks, shit was crazy, siding damage on the one side of the house otherwise it was loud as shit. Tornado touched down like 4-5 miles from here. Definitely lucked out all things considered.

 

Where are you at? I’m in Oklahoma so tornadoes and hail are normal and expected here.

 

Eastern PA. First time I’ve ever seen hail in my life.

 

Lol welcome to the club.

 

House is pretty much done. Walkthrough in a week and close on the 26th.

 

Catching up to this thread late, but this is what I use when giving presentations in a small office/boardroom.



I tried using it on my TV at home to watch something on my laptop when we got rid of cable and it had a pretty bad latency/lag problem.

 

This. Old GF's dad was into some shady things. He would send a bunch of salesman to wherever was recently impacted by a storm and get people to sign a contract. He'd then sell the contract to local companies. He was a millionaire, but I didn't like that he took advantage of people that are going through something they've never likely experienced.

 

Haven't heard anyting back on inspection yet, they do have a roofer coming to look at the roof this afternoon though. Deadline of tomorrow for any requests. Please continue prayers for my butt.

 

tub question for a hall bath that will eventually be the kids bathroom, I can get a 19inch high tub made of acrylic or a 14 inch high tub made of cast iron enamel. Enamel is the far superior material but 14 inches high seems extremely shallow. But then again it's a tub for kids... Any advice from those with kids would be appreciated.

 

Is it to separate homeowners from condos/time shares? I could see wanting different ones for that but otherwise that's wasting money it would seem

 

Not that I know of. The other sides are townhomes. I never thought of timeshares/rentals but there isn't an area that is specific to that I don't think. It's really because people are scared of people saying they are golfers I guess.

 

imo the reason for getting a deeper tub would be for an adult to use as a soaking tub. The tub with lower walls will probably be a lot easier on your back to give your kids a bath. Maybe when kids are a bit older you're at risk for shamu splash but idk. Cast iron should retain heat better than fiberglass.

 

thanks. Seems to be the right way to go, just seems really shallow for a tub.

 

Then yeah it's a bit of overkill. I would think nicer signs would keep people from going through areas they might not need to.

 

Have a pretty basic tub and haven't measured it but would guess it's close to 19 inches. When my 2 year old daughter starts splashing around (pretty much every bath) that height is barely holding the water in, and sometimes it's not. Personally I wouldn't want any lower.

 

we are putting in glass to hold most of the water in. splash away future little CF

 

Inspection on the house we’re selling was today, and I’m told it went well. The buyer’s agent did have quite a few questions about my water heater, which, admittedly, is from 2009. I’m fully expecting the buyer to ask for a new one. What would be cheaper: buying a new water heater or buying her one of those whole house warranties?

 

The warranty

 

I thought so. Think we may offer that if she asks. She originally asked for a warranty and we removed it from our counter.

 

Give them a warranty and then after closing invite her to the-mainboard.com and we'll let them know how worthless that warranty is

 

In selling the farm, my wife has to be present for showings to ensure the livestock and guardian dog don't get out or cause issues. Our realtor has let the other realtors know that. We've had showings go fine and we've had 3 no shows with no communication and 2 cancellations 45 minutes after the showing time. Those really piss off the wife.

 

We had one guy reschedule three times. When he came, he was late, and stayed about 5 minutes. Another guy just no showed. We don’t have the same issue you do with the animals, but the wife and I both work from home. So whenever there’s a showing, it disrupts our day.

 

14 seems adequate. You're going to have to sit next to it and bathe them so that is better than reaching over 19. Also, they're going to have to step over it eventually.

 

yea, went with the 14. thanks for the advice.

 

You can just pause the video game and it will be there when you get back. You don’t have to turn everything off.

 

Just got appraisal back. Almost $20k over sell price on a new build. I’ll take that.