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

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  1. ned's head

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    Offer accepted with a 30 day close. Now the madness cycle of getting paperwork/movers/etc on the buy side and fixing things on the sell side begins. At least my wife isn't 8 months pregnant this time.
     
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  2. Funshot Residue

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    You, friend, are a glutton for punishment. Can we see the new place?
     
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  3. ned's head

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    Pretty cookie cutter like most in the area. it's got a media room wired for wall/in ceiling speakers, so I'm really most exited about building my kids a true theater room.

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  4. bruce bowen

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    How long you expect to be in this one? I think we’re neck and neck in # of moves. If my next one isn’t my last one I’m either dead or divorced.
     
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  5. ned's head

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    My brother, I have bought/sold in 2015, 2019, 2021, and now 2023. The math tells me 2025, but at some point my lender's gonna cut me off.
     
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  6. bruce bowen

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    Last four are buy/sell, rent in ‘14 and ‘13
    2023 in FL
    2021 in FL
    2018 in TX
    2015 in FL
    2014 in AZ
    2013 in FL
     
  7. The Blackfish

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    You guys are sick. Get help
     
  8. ned's head

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    I like to think of myself as a giver. My realtor was talking about a massive year-long renovation that she was just finishing. All I could think of was: I did that.
     
  9. bruce bowen

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    Hope she at least throws you a Dave and Busters gift card for xmas.
     
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  10. One Two

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    I don’t see a chimney. If there isn’t a fireplace where will you put the TV?
     
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  11. ned's head

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    I already have my architect drawing plans for a trashcan firepit for under the patio tv
     
  12. dump

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    Thats a North Dallas suburb house if I’ve ever seem one. The classic red brick/limestone exterior.
     
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  13. Snakes

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    i have done it in 2016, 2020 and now 2023. we swore this is out last one for a while. hopefully it sticks. this last move took a toll on me mentally.
     
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  14. Han Solo

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    Bulit a new house and moved in September 2019 in Oregon.
    Took a job in AZ in December 2019. Moved in Jan and rented until December 2020.
    Bought a house in AZ Jan 2021.
    Got a promotion in March 2022 in CO. Bought a house in CO May 2022.

    I have a 4 year old and a 7 year old. We’ve spent the last 6 Christmasses at 6 different houses (1 year was at family in WA since all our stuff was in storage while we waited for house to be ready to move in). My kids always talk about what they want their room to look like at our next house.
     
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  15. Name P. Redacted

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    What the fuck is wrong with yall
     
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  16. fish

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    You gotta be mobile to climb the ladder quickly.
     
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  17. bigred77

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    I've lived in the same house since 2008
    It's the first house I ever bought
    I love it, love the location, love the neighborhood, love most of the neighbors

    First visit this neighborhood in like 1997 since some family friends lived here, and I always wanted to live somewhere similar after visiting them a few times

    Yall moving every year or two is just crazy to me
     
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  18. Lip

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    Bought my DC house in 2015. Bought my MI house in 2022. They will pull me from the rubble of this house bc I ain’t going anywhere.
     
  19. ned's head

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    We went townhouse > 1st house > house with pool after kid 1 > house with all beds downstairs after kid 2 > house closer to grandma after wife got new job. Now we're going to an area where we want to stay.

    Every move has had a reason, but I'm really hoping this one sticks for a while.
     
  20. bigred77

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    I moved like 4 times growing up, that I remember
    Basically moves to different cities for parents work, then one last time to a new house they built, basically the house my parents died in

    My wife grew up dirt poor moving from farm trailer to ranch trailer as her dad worked ranches and farms basically like a migrant worker (i mean he was an immigrant born in Mexico)
    Until he finally bought 10 acres outside of town and built a little one bedroom house with his own hands (wife and her brothers were all grown by then)
    I kinda wonder how much that effects my wife not constantly looking for a new house or better neighborhood compared to some who seem to be constantly looking for newer or nicer
     
  21. PAHokie

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    After 6 apartments in 3 cities from 2012-2017 I’m glad to have been in my house for 6 years.
     
  22. ned's head

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    Oh we're counting rentals? You can tack on 12 in 14 years for me. Had a real nice stretch from 2011-2012.
     
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  23. Lip

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    I would have divorced your wife at least 4 times
     
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  24. bigred77

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    Fucking hell that guybmust be miserable
     
  25. ned's head

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    The rentals were in my solo days. I guess I just happened to find my soul mate <3
     
  26. Han Solo

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    I’d also like to go on record saying moving totally sucks, but ending up in Denver made it all totally worth it. Plus, a couple years with a pool and sun in PHX was cool too.
     
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  27. Baron

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    Y’all, I moved across the street in 2019 to get a bigger house, literally. Been here since then.

    Moved around as a kid way too much.

    But I’ll be out of here in the next 5 years for sure.
     
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  28. goblue31602

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    Had a house when I was single, got married and built a bigger house in 2015, had kids and built a bigger (and hopefully final) house closer to our parents in 2020. We made decisons on this house like we were going to spend the rest of our lives here, so fingers crossed that's the case. Neither of us work in a job that would require us to move, and neither of us want to.
     
  29. Boom TittyMilk

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  30. goblue31602

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    Same.
     
  31. fish

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    The sub 3 borrowers are parked.
     
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  32. bigred77

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    That's where I'm at now, but probably could have moved at some point over the years and stayed low.
    Now It's just the cool thing to say that's why you aren't moving
     
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  33. Boom TittyMilk

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    Now my wife decides we need to sell the house and buy one on a lake, i could be persuaded there.
     
  34. fish

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    It is a pretty cool reason.
     
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  35. Lip

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    my DC house is at 2.7 and MI house is around 5.3. Mortgages are about the same size and the MI mortgage payment is double the DC one. Shit sucks.
     
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  36. milquetoast

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    Fabric underneath two layers of rocks.
     
  37. milquetoast

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    The only way they’ll get me out of my house is in a hearse.

    Fuck the moving process.
     
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  38. Imurhuckleberry

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    We were going though my life history and, assuming we don’t move, this year will the first time I’ve lived in the same home for two consecutive years since the sixth grade.
     
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  39. bruce bowen

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    Jobs are what prompted most of my moves. The only ones I regret were buying a house from a family member (don’t do business with family) and moving away from Phoenix too soon. I’d rather the moves than been holed up in my hometown my whole life wondering what if. Everything came full circle and this should be our final stop right as my oldest is starting kindergarten which was our plan/hope since he was born.
     
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  40. CF3234

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    Anyone know when the new washing machines come out? Do they release new models yearly etc? We are in the market and there are some good sales, but I want to make sure that I’m not about to buy something that’s improved on 2 months from now.
     
  41. ButchCassidy

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    Wife got her house at low 3s, but we want out of Ohio and really need a bigger house.
     
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  42. Ray McKigney

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    My parents are finally moving into their old folks home and we are going to buy their house. We love our current house and neighborhood (and sub-3% mortgage rate) but it’s too good to pass up.

    I really do not want to hire a realtor to sell our house. I think it would sell for what we want for it via word of mouth, but my wife is insistent that we use an agent, and I can’t help but view this position as we are just voluntarily giving away a not insignificant amount of money for no reason.
     
  43. bigred77

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    Pure insanity
     
  44. ned's head

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    I personally would not dream of selling without my agent. She puts so much work into that
     
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  45. Ray McKigney

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    I think that I’m holding a grudge from the last house we sold. Agent had us spending a shit load to prep the house for listing, including paying someone to stage, and we had an offer over what we were going to list it for via word of mouth and sold it without even listing it.
     
  46. ned's head

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    I guess I've never had that and ours has a warehouse with stuff to stage for free. She also cuts her commission, but that may be a bulk discount lmao. Could you float it off market before listing it?
     
  47. Ray McKigney

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    I think we will. And it will absolutely have a good offer if we do. Yet we are going to pay an agent to do nothing.
     
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  48. Russellin4885

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    I don't know how many people remember but I bought a big ass colonial that needed a lot of work in late 2021. Started with some massive renovations immediately that I was taking on solo for the most part. Was grinding 40 hours at work and then 40+ per week on the house renovations. No kitchen for months, just complete disaster and had a 4 year old at the time. We kept having issues with the house too with water leaks, termites, etc. Shit kept piling up. Then my wife got pregnant and I was done. The house was going to take another $200,000+ to get it where I wanted it and it was never going to be completely right. This was summer 2022 right before rates had gone up but felt like I could see the writing on the wall that it was probably now or never. Some how talked the wife into selling the house and us moving into a townhouse so that we could buy land and build our forever house. Here's some before and after pics of kitchen just to show off my handy work, we took down the wall between the dining room and kitchen and made it one big kitchen:
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    We just closed on a perfect 5.5 acre lot and we are about done with designing the house and should be applying for building permit in the next couple weeks. I'm going to be the builder on the house and the house is going to be fairly unique so I'll update as the process goes along if people are interested. Some of the cool things I'll be doing is: exterior insulation on entire house, be under 1.0 ACH50 (air tightness measurement), have an ERV, dedicated dehumidification, solar, battery backup. Also, planning on starting a small homestead with the land but that'll be later on....probably. Here is a picture of what the house will look like if anyone cares:
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  49. Doc Louis

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    Wait what about the trees?!?
     
  50. Name P. Redacted

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    No front facing garage? For shame
     
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