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Xelkelvos posted:. It is either a leaking tub seal, silicon issue at the tub wall, leaking mixing valve, or the showerhead pipe coming out of the wall is loose/not have tape. If it is on and off it is a leak on the drain side, supply side would have water always coming in. I guess not your problem but pretty easy one to figure out. Clear water doesn't come from roofs, they are dirty as hell.
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Another factor to consider re: "How hard can it be?" is that unless you're the first owner (and even then, gently caress builders sometimes too), you have no idea how big an idiot your previous owner was. For some reason, every PO (and I'm sure most of us will have our names cursed by our own future buyers someday) bungled at least one major job in their houses, if not more. Following a video instruction is easy. Figuring out how to apply it to all the unexpected conditions + reverse not-to-code changes and structural damage? Not so easy. I'm currently re-wiring a home ethernet network, because the builders ran all the cable ends only on one side until they disappeared into the walls, then cut them and walked off. None of the cables actually go anywhere, they're all one-ended, and the longest is like 3 feet. They literally put in just enough to make it look like it was done. "How hard could it be?" Well... still not HARD, but way way way harder than I thought just troubleshooting all the unlabeled wires would be. Sundae fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Jan 12, 2023 00:12
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Nothing like finding out the lighting fixture is "hot", even when the switch is off.
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Shifty Pony posted:Got the inspection report back today and the biggest issue is a bathroom fan exhausting into the attic. Not bad not bad.  how much do you trust your inspector
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Jan 12, 2023 01:07
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Hadlock posted:
He seemed personally offended that he couldn't find more wrong.
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spwrozek posted:It is either a leaking tub seal, silicon issue at the tub wall, leaking mixing valve, or the showerhead pipe coming out of the wall is loose/not have tape. If it is on and off it is a leak on the drain side, supply side would have water always coming in. I guess not your problem but pretty easy one to figure out. You may be right and it is off and on (probably something related to the shower since it happens about once per day, but it doesn't help much since it's coming from a unit above mine. I'm on the bottom floor of a 4 story building and the previous leak that ended up going towards the adjacent wall and exiting at the bottom, under the carpet was from two floors up from what I heard. Edit: Also spoke to the real estate agent for the first time today and this seems like the sort of undertaking that I'd probably never feel comfortable doing alone Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Jan 12, 2023 02:17
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Hadlock posted:There's a non zero chance they let that expire in 2025 That's not going to happen. Old people care about it. And old people vote. This is adjacent to loving with social security. Politicians simply can't do it in obvious ways or they and their party get fried from the feds all the way down to local at the next 2 elections or more. It's one of the classic "political third rails".
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Jan 12, 2023 15:10
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Never mind.
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I'm not sure I'm understanding what you're talking about, or point you're trying to make When the trump administration passed the SALT cap they explicitly grandfathered in anyone who bought a house before ~2018, the law passed several years ago. This was how they passed the... jobs and tax cut bill, or whatever they called it. SALT cap of 750k gave them a lot of money to pass along to (presumably) owner operated plumbers and electricians etc. One of the provisions in the bill to get it passed was that it expires if not renewed in... I forget exactly I think the end of 2025, when 100% of the value becomes part of the state and local tax deduction equation again Just a reminder for those not following along too closely, many of the SFH in the Miami, NJ, NYC and in particular the SF bay area, those homes are all selling for at least $700k, often 800, 900 and if you like 4+ bedrooms in a nice neighborhood easily touching $1.25mm for what's basically an upper middle class SFH, but you only get to deduct the first $750k The bill is framed at punishing rich people who have for example an $8 million dollar house, and a $20 million dollar vacation home on the beach in Florida and get to write all that off. $750k is a lot of house in Alabama or rural Georgia but disproportionately punishes middle class families in economically prosperous blue states. Even Bernie Sanders was in favor of moving the cap closer to $1mm On the flip side economists point to SALT as one of the main drivers of home price inflation and want to get rid of it entirely but as we pointed out, is a third rail of politics. Millennials view SALT cap as boomers pulling up the ladder behind them I forget but I think homes purchased before ~1980 get to treat rentals as regular business income and not passive income which grants enormous tax benefits
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I think you're confusing the SALT cap and the mortgage interest deduction. SALT = State And Local Taxes, i.e. property tax, state income tax, sales tax, etc. I brought up the SALT cap because it contributes to not being able to taking more than the standard deduction. Granted it's a high bar to meet for most people, but the only point I was trying to make is that there were a lot of changes made by the TCJA that, when combined, basically made the mortgage interest deduction moot.
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Hadlock posted:I'm not sure I'm understanding what you're talking about, or point you're trying to make You should do talk radio
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Epitope posted:You should do talk radio This country needs less talk radio and more listen radio.
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spwrozek posted:It is either a leaking tub seal, silicon issue at the tub wall, leaking mixing valve, or the showerhead pipe coming out of the wall is loose/not have tape. If it is on and off it is a leak on the drain side, supply side would have water always coming in. I guess not your problem but pretty easy one to figure out. Update: Maintenance finally came down after a week and me directly calling them rather than leaving it up to the front office to let them know through the ticketing system. 
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Jan 13, 2023 20:46
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At least they are fixing it now.
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spwrozek posted:At least they are fixing it now. This is the second leak I've had in my apartment and at least the turnaround on this one was faster at least. They should've gotten to it when I told them there were bubbles forming in the walls under the paint and not when those bubbles popped and water started flowing out. The property manager thought the older ticket I put in was related to the previous leak which is why she didn't prioritize it (I also attached pictures which she obviously didn't see) and no one talked to me about it at all.
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Something to note on the argument about fixing it yourself vs having a land lord do it is that not everything is having a sewer line dug. There is a HUGE amount of convenience in seeing some minor bullshit like a broken cabinet door and just popping down to Home Depot to fix it with half an hours worth of loving around. I lived in a bunch of mom and pop landlord rentals in grad school and oh my god the janky poo poo I had to put up with because they were too cheap or lazy to fix minor crap.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Something to note on the argument about fixing it yourself vs having a land lord do it is that not everything is having a sewer line dug. There is a HUGE amount of convenience in seeing some minor bullshit like a broken cabinet door and just popping down to Home Depot to fix it with half an hours worth of loving around. Yeah but be careful with this stuff if you have kids and a spouse that will be upset if you spend half a day working on something that you both agree needs to be done. I cannot count the number of times my wife has gotten upset after a couple hours and told me I need to come inside and help with the kids or cook something or whatever and then the project sits abandoned for a year because we have a busy life and I have ADD. It’s getting a little better as my also ADD having son gets old enough to hold things and turn a screwdriver with direction but he still slows everything down. My daughter can actually help now too when I can convince her to.
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Oh god I'm having flashbacks to every project my wife wants done. I'm a perfectionist that will spend all the time I need to getting it exactly right, where she'll give me like 1-2 hours max and then it's "come help with bedtime/bath time/dinner/the toddler is angry". Just let me do the thing you'll be mad at me for not doing, without getting mad at me for not helping with all the other daily house tasks. Makes me dread finishing the basement, but I have banked away like 2-3 weeks of PTO, so maybe I can let my OCD run free for 8 hours every day M-F for a couple weeks.
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are you people like categorically unable to estimate and communicate timelines or what
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:are you people like categorically unable to estimate and communicate timelines or what Most people aren't robots, and they say something like "Hey honey! I'm going downstairs to work on [THING YOU ASKED FOR LAST YEAR]. I'll be up later!" They don't say "Okay, you want X. That'll be 11 hours of labor plus $110 for the supplies, plus 45 min to get to Home Depot, plus 15 min of hunting online for better prices, plus..." Add to that calculation that the toddler doesn't give a poo poo how many hours you need to do the job before demanding that Daddy come do rocketship.
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I probably have terminal consultant / tech brain but unless it takes less than 15' and I have the materials on hand I'm going to plan that out and sandbag the gently caress out of whatever I tell my wife. The idea of embarking on a household project just like "oh I'm gonna go fix the way this door hangs today better start now" is insane to me.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I probably have terminal consultant / tech brain but unless it takes less than 15' and I have the materials on hand I'm going to plan that out and sandbag the gently caress out of whatever I tell my wife. The idea of embarking on a household project just like "oh I'm gonna go fix the way this door hangs today better start now" is insane to me. (IMHO) yeah that's terminal consultant brain. I really do just kind of walk into the room and ask if they need me before I go fix that bathroom door or retexture the wall, etc. If they say they don't need me, I get started.  In fairness though, I also don't get interrupted as much as the OP from the sound of it. My wife is usually pretty good about letting me finish, though toddler will indeed demand rocketship.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I probably have terminal consultant / tech brain but unless it takes less than 15' and I have the materials on hand I'm going to plan that out and sandbag the gently caress out of whatever I tell my wife. The idea of embarking on a household project just like "oh I'm gonna go fix the way this door hangs today better start now" is insane to me. Thaaaaat’s ADHD!
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Pollyanna posted:Thaaaaat’s ADHD! yeah, nah
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:are you people like categorically unable to estimate and communicate timelines or what Sounds like it. With a side dish of relationship issues and special family needs. I wouldn't consider any of that to be a "this is generally how home ownership/repairs goes" because.....just wow. No. No it doesn't. That's a lot of projection.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:yeah, nah well it is for me 
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Mostly my wife has some idea in her head of how long it "should" take, and my ability to convince her that some things take longer is limited. I'm slowly getting her to learn that if she wants it done well, she needs to listen when I tell her how long it'll take me. I'm generally pretty accurate with my time estimates in the end.
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There's also the toddler time dilation effect to consider. One hour passes for the person on the outside while the one watching the kid experiences five. Also funny that needing a sewer line replacement was mentioned because guess what the sewer scope turned up! We're still going for it since the run is unusually short (so replacement is fairly cheap and falls solidly within our exclusion) and we can get it done before we move in. Added bonus is then we don't have to loving worry about it for decades. I've been in two houses with poo poo sewer and I'm all about a shiny new run as long as I don't have to use a porta-john for a week while getting it installed.
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My dryer is rattling like a mother fucker but I didn't take it apart to examine it during nap time because my wife was running errands and if the toddler woke up I'd have dryer parts all over the basement floor for God knows how long until my next opportunity. That's just how it is when you have little kids, you have very little time to do certain things.
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I try to limit myself to small, quiet tasks between bedtime and midnight, and luckily I take a day off during the week while she's in school to do anything more involved. It mostly keeps me ahead of my maintenance chores. Anything that overflows to longer than a single 8 hour block on that one day needs to be planned out in advance.
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One Saturday as nap time approached I gathered tools and prepped the work side. But she decided it was a day to skip her nap. I think it was another month before I got back to doing that work. Because I'm bad at planning and relationships (actually because we do other things with our free time besides house work)
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Epitope posted:I think it was another month before I got back to doing that work. Because I'm bad at planning and relationships (actually because we do other things with our free time besides house work) There's a whole page over in the house maintenance thread of one guy going "paying someone else to do house work is 100% worth it" and then 40 replies that are effectively 
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Yes butMotronic posted:This is why, even though you may not be a professional, if you are capable and have the time you do your own work. Also hiring people for anything other than routine crap isn't easy either!
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Has anyone bought a house from open-door and want to share their experience? We're putting an offer on a house that's using them.
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Epitope posted:Yes but Yeah this is where I wind up with a lot of stuff that’s not really diff but just time consuming. We started trying to get a roofer in May and the roof wasn’t completely finished until November. Then I discovered they hosed up something on the gutters and they came back in December. Also with simple automotive tasks. It’s always like two weeks out to get on the schedule at the mechanic so gently caress it if it’s within my ability and not a shitload of time it’s just easier to do it myself.
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Absolutely. I could spend my day off calling a contractor and trying to get them scheduled or getting the car to a shop, waiting and/or taking a loaner then going back when it's fixed.... Or just order the stuff and do whatever needs doing myself. I like fixing things and building things, so that's just a bonus. Even if it's something I've never done before, I'm willing to try and fail first, as long as failure won't result in an inoperable car or a flooded house.
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Going over the closing process and it is completely mind blowing how "you'll get an estimate but the exact amount will remain a mystery until the morning of closing" is just accepted as the way things are.
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Not only is it an estimate, but the estimate is usually thousands of dollars off. Most of the people processing your loan can just barely work a computer and their email system. Thread title reigns supreme
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Buying a home is a real eye opening process in how inefficient the entire real estate system is, maybe inefficient is the wrong word because it is incredibly good at sucking every last dollar it can from the buyer/seller. Title companies feel like a total scam but everyone says you need one because what if someone comes along and lays claim to your property from some boundary gently caress up at town hall 75 years ago?
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Popete posted:Buying a home is a real eye opening process in how inefficient the entire real estate system is, maybe inefficient is the wrong word because it is incredibly good at sucking every last dollar it can from the buyer/seller. To me the fun part is understanding just how many people support their lives off of the one transaction. The waves of vultures no doubt raises the average home prices higher than would be ideal for society.
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