Our house got an offer near asking price in the 3 days it was on the market before we pulled it. I think average home in our area is on market for 21 days. This house has been on market 100 days and they bomb an inspection and raise the price over $40,000........I don't know what to say to that
and what's funny, is that's pretty much impossible to get away with these days with zillow tracking the pricing changes. anyone that might be interested in it will look at that and get a big WTF cloud over their head.
Especially since it dropped $75 k before going up $40 k Actually going back on Zillow, this home has been for sale a lot longer than 100 days, pretty much over a year. He removed listing twice before re-listing. I am sure this isn't the first home inspection he failed. I figured it was on market so long because it was so overpriced originally, but I should have known something else was wrong with it. DATE EVENT PRICE AGENTS 12/10/17 Price change $369,900+13.8% 10/12/17 Price change $325,000-7.1% 08/17/17 Listed for sale $349,900-0.0% 06/19/17 Listing removed $350,000 06/02/17 Price change $350,000-6.7% 05/13/17 Listed for sale $375,000-2.6% 05/09/17 Listing removed $384,900 04/28/17 Price change $384,900-1.3% 04/14/17 Price change $389,900-2.3% 10/24/16 Listed for sale $399,000+122%
Here is the listing in case anyone is interested https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/310-N-Wilson-Ave-Royal-Oak-MI-48067/24636091_zpid/ edit - that reminded me he also claimed it was cherry hardwood floors, inspector said that the floors were some cheap knock off that couldn't be refinished and basically if it got any chips or marks they would be there forever.
If you’re not dead set on RO you can get a heck of a lot more house for that much money in other surrounding cities.
Resale value in Royal Oak is way higher. You could do better in Clawson or Ferndale, but both have worse school districts. House prices in Berkley are pretty similar and Birmingham is nuts. Wouldn't want to go any further north, I work in Detroit. I could go out to the western subs or down river and get more, but I really don't want to be down river.
isn't your lady friend about to go into residency where the job/fellowship post residency might require a move?
PNW lifehack: buy acres with a shack for living quarters so you can harvest and sell all the weed drugs.
Why would you buy a place then? Don’t do that. And start reading whitecoatinvestor.com immediately, if you don’t already.
I've skimmed the site before. I make a good salary and she will have high pay for a resident with no debt so we are leaning towards YOLO.
Getting out of med school with no debt is impressive. Congrats on that. That's a monumental advantage over most docs.
Bathtub and all tile is currently being re-finished, so much easier and cheaper than a full remodel. Thanks for idea GoodForAnother
I got a smart outlet and bulb when I bought the Echo Plus. My tree now turns on at 7:00pm and off at 12:00am. Haven't installed the bulb yet. Might put it in a lamp and troll fiancee by turning it on every time I have a good idea.
My bulb is in a lamp we never use Every once in a while I’m like Alexa turn on the lamp and she does and I’m like haha, nice
Pizza delivery boy runs into my mailbox backing out of my driveway. Good thing I put that 4x4 in a bucket of concrete. Thing didn’t really move. Cracked his bumper in half. He was like that was a good idea to bury the bucket. I just smiled. Pro tip if you have to install a mailbox...set it in concrete in a bucket and bury the bucket. Also put two lag bolts with hoops on the end in case we needed to connect something to lift it out. It was new construction and we put the mailbox on the property early and wasn’t sure if it would stay in that spot.
Completed refinishing my front doors. Before: After: Process and more pics: Spoiler Another fun project I had never done before but pretty straightforward. My doors after only a year looked beat to hell, splintering, cracking, fading, etc. The builder only stained , no varnish. My doors face west so they get killed by the sun. First step is getting the door off it’s hinges. Solid wood doors are heavy, not the easiest solo task. Remove all hardware and tape up glass. Next is the sanding. As with any staining or painting project, the prep is the most important step. If you don’t sand everything evenly the stain won’t uptake evenly, which I ran into. I started off with my orbital sander for the big flat parts. This was overkill and left divots in the wood. My mouse sander was a better choice. For the trim and relief parts I used a hand held sponge-like sander, I had mixed results with this. All sanding was started with 80 grit and then finished off with 220. Higher number grit = finer sanding, lower number grit = coarse. Some of the research I did suggested not to sand finer than 180 grit as this will close off pores. My stain recommended 220 so I went with it and had no problems. Note I wasn’t able to get all the previous stain off, this led to irregularities in the staining process. Next part is choosing your stain. I went with miniwax espresso. After cleaning off the door removing all debris from the sanding I applied the stain with a foam brush. Strokes with the grain, kept a wet edge. I let that sit for eight hours. Side by side unfinished vs. stained no-varnish: Final step is choosing a varnish. The best reviewed varnish that I could find for an exterior door was marine spar varnish. However I ended up sticking with mini wax spar varnish because I wanted my stain and varnish to be from the same company. No science behind that. The varnish is obviously important because this is what will protect your door from the outside elements, mainly sun. You are supposed to lightly sand before each coat with a fine sand paper but when I did this the first time it started to lift the stain so I skipped the sanding and everything felt smooth in the end regardless. I applied four coats of varnish separated by two hours per coat. While all of this was going on I spray-painted the iron guard over each window with a gloss black and let that sit for four hours. I reattached the iron and my hardware and the project was complete. Things I wish I would have done differently mainly revolve around the sanding. I wish I would’ve researched better options for sanding the hard-to-reach parts of the door mainly the relief and trim. There’s definitely some unevenness to the stain but all in all I am happy with the project. I will likely reapply 1 to 2 coats of varnish each year to continue to provide protection to the door.
Looks good! Refinished a coffee table and two end tables that had latex based paint on them while our basement was being renovated. Removal of that is fucking the worst. Any sort of heat melts the paint right onto sandpaper so majority of it was by hand. Couldn't even tell you how many hours I put into that. Looked really good when I finished them. That ended my refinishing career. Gave all three tables away 3 weeks ago.