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

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  1. bigred77

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    I'd personally prefer a cold fridge
     
  2. IV

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    lumber is really high right now
     
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  3. IV

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    And honestly if I stay in this thread 5 more minutes I’ll get divorced so bye
     
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  5. ned's head

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    Going to sell a honda gas lawnmower on offerup that I haven't started in a couple of years. Will this sucker fire up if someone wants to check it out, or should it be assumed that it'll need fresh gas/oil/a tuneup?
     
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  6. bigred77

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    Have you tried starting it yourself?
     
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  7. ned's head

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    No. I would have the same question for myself. I basically am just curious if it's going to wreck something if someone tries to start it before selling it
     
  8. bigred77

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    How did you put it away?
    Did you put fuel stabilizer in it?

    I would think at minimum, drain whatever fuel is in there and put fresh gas in it.

    Check the oil, it is probably good enough. Just make sure it's not thick and "glopy" (think spoiled milk)

    Spark plug is probably fine too.

    Most likely if you put new gas in it, it will fire up.
     
  9. WillySaliba

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    I’d just top it off with good gas and get some starter fluid. It’s a Honda it’ll fire up.
     
  10. ned's head

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    :beerchug:

    I didn't do anything to it before storing. Yardwork was my wife's game.
     
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  11. WillySaliba

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    Tell us the story.
     
  12. bigred77

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    Sounds to me like we have the wife in that relationship in this thread

    Am I right guys?
     
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  13. ned's head

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    I'll do it later. I just made the grocery list and I still need to make some cranberry muffins
     
  14. WillySaliba

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    It was just the way in which you cleverly worded it. You could have been emasculating us or yourself. Then for your wife, is she still alive? Did you divorce her for poor lawn care or is she mowing someone else’s lawn? For the record, I do all the grocery shopping and most anything that requires going to a store.
     
  15. ned's head

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    I was actually 100% serious and it is muffin week :badger:.

    She likes yardwork for some reason and I hate the heat. I guess the novelty wore off when we moved, so someone else has been doing that. I handle all sales because otherwise she would reenact the arrested development banana scene for every transaction
     
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  16. AptosDuck

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    Mine needed a new spark plug after sitting for a few years

    Other than that, filled the tank and it started right up
     
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    RIP
     
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  18. Lyrtch

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    since ruggable is popular in here, any issues with it on hardwood for anyone?
     
  19. Imurhuckleberry

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    No issues so far. Got some runners so the dogs would stop sliding into the wall at the 90° turn. Their rubber gripper does pretty well but I still need to adjust the runners position a few times a week.

    Still better than my alarm system claiming glass break 57 thousand times a day as the pups rush through the house to the dog door because a squirrel outside was talking shit.
     
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  20. Degausser

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    Pressured washed our porches but wasn't able to get off some really stingy red clay stains. Any recommendations for getting that out of concrete?
     
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    Not joking, there is this shit called red clay stain remover. Concrete guy gave me some after he poured ours and said to use it after a few years.
     
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  22. Name P. Redacted

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    Place where I’m moving in sept is on the blue list. Not sure what that means.
     
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  23. Boom TittyMilk

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    Pressure washing our patio was oddly comforting, makes me want to start on the driveway but....

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    It’s also a lot of fucking driveway
     
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  24. NineteenNine

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    Midland/Odessa and all of Louisiana being blue spots cracked me up.
     
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  25. NineteenNine

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    There’s gotta be some rich bastards there that buy up property during the busts and then sell it during the booms and that’s all they do for money.
     
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  26. Duck70

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    Hopefully its Lahaina Hawaii
     
  27. Name P. Redacted

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    Fuck that. Manhattan.
     
  28. Duck70

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    ah the Big Apple, nice.
     
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  31. Name P. Redacted

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    Little Apple
     
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  32. Simon Templar

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    The Villages is supposed to be a pretty “active” place. Congrats!
     
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  33. bigred77

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    Congrats!
     
  34. Imurhuckleberry

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    Not positive this is the right thread but it's time for story time with Huck.

    So earlier this year I noticed that the ADT sign on the corner of my house was broken. I suspected that it was a result of the ice storm and didnt think much about it. Today I found out the whole story.

    At some point, while I was out of town, 3 guys stole a pickup truck, robbed a dispensary, and lead cops on a high speed chase around okc. With the coppers closing in they turned off the main road and into my neighborhood. They then took a bad turn and ended up in my culdesac. The cops had already blown out their tires so in a last ditch effort get away they started driving down the drainage canal beside my house. At that time the ice storm debris still made that pretty impassible so after clipping and breaking my adt sign they crashed into the debris and got stuck. The suspects then jumped out of the truck and scattered. One was found hiding underneath my deck. There were a small army of cops here and 5 large bags of marijuana sitting on my front lawn.

    Nobody told me about this until today.
     
  35. Boom TittyMilk

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    Did you get to keep any of the marijuana?
     
  36. AptosDuck

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    I had a pit/lab go through our front window Thanksgiving 2004 because she got a running start to check out a dog being walked on our street. Heard it, saw the window, found her in the garage bleeding from her front paws/legs.
     
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  37. AptosDuck

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    Pressure washed back deck yesterday. Front deck gets it this afternoon. Ipe is wonderful to pressure wash, since it's virtually indestructible
     
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  38. Imurhuckleberry

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    Sadly no. Had I been in town though it could have been a potential.
     
  39. bigred77

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    So I guess you don't talk to your neighbors much?
     
  40. Lyrtch

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    for the people who used the ikea pax designer thing, does it really not have the functionality to design atypically shaped closets? just squares/rectangles? there's a youtube with a lady doing it but the actual website you open has super basic tools and can't figure out the rest
     
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  41. Imurhuckleberry

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    It's weird because even during the pandemic we talk at least every week. My dad even knew. Everyone just assumed I already knew when I got back a week later. I'm like you call me at 1 in the morning if my garage door is open but not when a high-speed chase ends in my yard?

    Just weird. Like I keep waiting for someone to yell "gotcha."
     
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  42. Name P. Redacted

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    Gotta get exterior cameras so you can capture all the police chases.
     
  43. MORBO!

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    Why does replacing door hardware always make me feel like a fucking moron? It’s always like “yea, this new thing is a millimeter off and this door will never close again fuck you.”
     
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    I’d like to announce we are expecting.

    Taking some trash to the curb and something was moving in my bushes in front of my office window.

    A male and a female mallard were nesting in the bushes.
     
  45. WillySaliba

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    Someone more than likely raped the female and that good looking dad is a cuck. Enjoy!
     
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    Finally got an offer accepted :ahh: 5th time is the charm. Was getting dangerously close to having to move with my parents in the interim since the closing on my current home was rapidly approaching. Now I need both of these to appraise so I’m not even poorer than I’m about to be
     
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  47. ned's head

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    We did a $20k appraisal waiver on the most recent offer. Seller's came back wanting one for $60k :ohnoes:

    I wonder if the appraisers are keeping up with this goddamn idiotic market
     
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    Just got back home after spending all weekend gone. Had 20+ showings in 3-days.

    Sitting on three offers all 10k+ over asking. One good one, two mediocre. Hoping to get one or two more before the end of the night just to feel better before deciding tomorrow.
     
  49. Imurhuckleberry

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    I have a ring but I the recordings that far back aren't available. :(
     
  50. Where Eagles Dare

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    Anyone have a microwave door open button break? Been in my house for 11 months (gotta check warranty) but the button/plunger that opens the microwave door has no tension on it when you press it in and the door will not open.

    Seems like this is kind of a common issue. Very annoying.
     
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