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

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  1. fish

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    Same rule applies to pulling hooks from fish.

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  2. Duck70

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    About $400 sq/ft out here in good ole Eugene, Oregon
     
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    not bad
     
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  5. Name P. Redacted

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    See if you had two dishwashers this wouldn’t be a problem
     
  6. PAHokie

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    Sheesh. It’s $225-250 in Blacksburg right now. Insane.
     
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    $700
     
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  9. ned's head

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    Fun game - looked at my childhood home in florida on zillow. My folks bought that baby in the mid 80s for $35/square.
     
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  10. texasraider

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    Run it with a full load of shiplap. Should be fixed right up
     
  11. texasraider

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    My parents first home was a decent size apartment in Brooklyn for $23,000
     
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  12. DistantFactor

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    That’s crazy, I’m looking at $250-$300 up in Portland. Guess it doesn’t matter since there are about 12 total houses for sale in the entire city.
     
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  13. Duck70

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    It's probably the small "starter" homes that are driving up the price per sq/ft. You can't get into really anything decent down here for under $350,000....and those are 900-1100 sq/ft homes.

    There are a bunch of landlords unloading their shit rentals right now too
    $450k, 2bd 1bath and needs 50-100k minimum in remodel
    https://www.redfin.com/OR/Eugene/425-Lawrence-St-97401/home/26240337
     
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  14. Open Carry

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    That’s 2x the square footage of the houses I’m looking at, at 2x the cost. Though the houses here are on lots 4x the size of that one.
     
  15. NineteenNine

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    Generator bros. I’m searching for one for backup at a 2000sf mountain house. What should I get?
     
  16. WillySaliba

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    I got a generac recently, it works.
     
  17. bigred77

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  18. BP

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    No, Thank you
     
  19. NineteenNine

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    Dang.
     
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  20. bigred77

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    im so popular and cool
     
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  21. THF

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    You want it portable? I was looking at the Duromax XP 12000HX. It’s around $1500 or so. Enough to power most of the house.
     
  22. NineteenNine

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    not looking for portable at all.
     
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  23. Imurhuckleberry

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    Good news. First time laying tile but I think it went well.
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    Bad news. The new vanity is to large to fit through the door way so we had to cut a hole in the wall.
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  24. bigred77

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    A whole wall?
     
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  25. Imurhuckleberry

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    Just that space. Cut one non weight bearing stud. Actually made laying tile easier though as their was more space.
     
  26. Imurhuckleberry

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    Fixed it.
     
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  27. scarlet_tacos

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    Put an offer on a house for 620k that is listed for 644k. (was originally 660k) Dude counters with 635k. Mind you its been on market for over a month in NJ which isn't happening hardly at all. Guy counters with 635k. So we said that's too much and we said we would do 625k. He then comes back and says 635k again and but now says its As-is and we have to waive the appraisal. Insane. We said no thanks and pulled our offer. We were the only offer in the last week we think and now I know why. This is probably 10th house we have offered on. Figured we had this one since no one else was competing.


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  29. ned's head

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    Walking away from a house in this market is my fetish
     
  30. buy_dont_lease

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    I’ve twice gotten to walk away from a house, one in a hot market. Real power move, not gonna lie. Incidentally both times we walked away in order to pursue unlisted homes which in both instances were subjectively better homes and objectively better deals (and which we purchased).
     
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  31. Russellin4885

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    Who are the resident lenders here? Have some very specific lending questions that I need help with.
     
  32. a.tramp

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    Jorts
     
  33. Baron

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    Those that have recently refinanced, what company did you use and would you recommend them?
     
  34. Lyrtch

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    assessor is recommending to the board I get a 85k assessment reduction, from what I stated the property was worth and what she said was ~8k difference so negligible

    asked if the board just takes their recs cleanly, said...MOSTLY....so heres hoping
     
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  35. AptosDuck

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    We used a local guy whom we've known for ten years, but recently he'd become affiliated with Guaranteed Rate Affinity so that ended up being the larger company.

    Simple, smooth, and the only time we saw anybody in person was when the notary came by to have us sign the papers
     
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  36. texasraider

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    Jorts pointed me to a guy and I would highly recommend talking to Jorts
     
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  37. PAHokie

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    Second
     
  38. Baron

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    Jorts I am in OH
     
  39. Jorts

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    Hey, PM me your details... I can answer your questions and/or set you up with someone I know & trust.
     
  40. UncleJesse

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    Stared at the picture for a couple of minutes thinking it was some type of neighborhood pool, game room, fitness center before I realized it was the same house.

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  41. ned's head

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    Cleaned the exterior windows yesterday. Finding it oddly comforting really speaks to what my life has become
     
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  42. Lyrtch

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    another mark in the this family was either extremely lazy and lived with shit half broken or they sabotaged everything very subtly after we bought it

    no o-ring in the kitchen faucet where it attaches to the ball valve thing so if you bent the handle at all water leaked everywhere, five minute fix, but....how long had they been cleaning dishes with it like that? it just literally wasn't there not broken or frayed or anything, absent.
     
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    I owned a tape measure that is at the bottom of pier underneath Winkley Elementary School in Leander, TX
     
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  46. ned's head

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    Pulled off a solar shade and one half of a window is fogged the hell up. The two window companies I spoke with today would need a couple of weeks to measure, order, and install a replacement pane.

    Showing the house this week and can't really wait. Do window companies ever have stock of panes? Or should I try to find someone to drill, fix the gas leak, and reseal?
     
  47. bigred77

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    Wait for window company
     
  48. ned's head

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    Do I have any options for getting it fixed this week? Damn shades hid it from me
     
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  49. NoNatty

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    it won’t matter in this market.
     
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  50. a.tramp

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    Pay for it and provide receipt to new owner and let them schedule it.