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Niemat posted:(even during office hours they'll let the phone go to voice mail, and if you leave a message, they'll email their response), That aside, I'm not sure what you want them to inspect. I'm assuming they had to clean the unit to get it back to re-rentable shape, and anything that could prove to be toxic would have been removed. There are some laws on the books pertaining to selling a prior meth lab house, but I don't think there are any provisions anywhere that relate to notifying the neighbors. Unless something seriously bizzare was going on, your (potentially) interconnected water and waste lines have no effect.
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Just email and be like "hey property manager lady I had a follow up question from our inspection so call me". But I think you guys are being paranoid.
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Thanks, guys. I don't really know anything about how home set ups work, so I wasn't sure if there would be residue left behind that would need to be handled by specialists. Someone in the legal thread raised a good point that it's probably just my property manager making a lot of assumptions because people tend to over dramatize meth labs and they would have had to close down the property during clean up if it was a real meth lab.
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Anyone know what these curtains are called? We're looking to replace them and I'm having a hard time finding the same kind online.    The string pulls up and down to open the curtains. The last picture is looking up into the sliding mechanism that holds the strings.
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Jan 12, 2014 01:33
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Dont know what the curtains are called but the rod is a traverse rod.
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with pleated curtains.
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Jan 12, 2014 05:59
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Thanks you two. I knew they were pinch pleated curtains but when I searched for that, all it showed me were pleated curtains just hanging on a rod, they didn't have a cord system to open/close them (plus I didn't know what that was even called). I think these curtains may have went out of style sometime in the 70s, haha. Will these work? http://www.bedbathstore.com/cotducpinple.html
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razz posted:I think these curtains may have went out of style sometime in the 70s, haha. It'd be well worth the :tenbux: it'll cost to replace the rod to get something marginally less ugly.
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photomikey posted:I was going to mention that. Yes I am thinking that replacing both the rod and the curtains would really be the way to go. There just aren't that many curtains that will fit this type of rod. I found a YouTube video about how to install curtains on a traverse rod and... blah. You have to do a bunch of measuring and stick these little pins into the fabric and make sure they're all lined up and it just looks like a huge pain in the rear end. They're total grandma curtains - yellowish-beige with brown "accent" stripes and they hang down past the window. I am NOT a fan of these curtains. I have wanted them gone since we moved in here. I do like the pull cord on the side though. I believe these were high-dollar curtains, back in the day. They're good at blocking light, they're really thick and heavy and have a liner on the back. But, they're also faded, dirty, and we can't wash them because the liner is so torn up it would just completely dissolve. Plus they're hideous. And they are on EVERY WINDOW IN THE HOUSE.
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If you're willing to shell out some cash, you can get light blocking blinds. I had some at my old place and you legitimately couldn't tell what time of day it was if they were closed. Then if you re-decorate you don't have to shell out a ton of cash for a new set of expensive light blocking curtains to match your new decor.
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razz posted:I found a YouTube video about how to install curtains on a traverse rod and... blah. You have to do a bunch of measuring and stick these little pins into the fabric and make sure they're all lined up and it just looks like a huge pain in the rear end.
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photomikey posted:Thought the same thing. My Airstream trailer requires that. I bit the bullet and bought new curtains, the whole pin thing took about ten minutes and the measuring and making them straight wasn't as bad as I thought (or I'm not as picky as I thought). Haha, I lived in an Airstream for like, 5 months. I remember those curtains. I never realized that they were pretty much the same curtains that I have in my house now, I can't get away from them! Oh the 70's.
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I've just learned the hard way never to leave anything lying around your 75 year old landlord might mistake for drugs or drug paraphenalia during an inspection. He saw some incense sticks and an ashcatcher that my sister gave to me, and I'm convinced he thinks I smoke Crack now. This could be interesting.
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I have another questions about the curtains (photomikey if you're still reading this since you have done this before). Can I use just any pleated curtains and install them on a traverse rod using the pins, or do they have to be a specific curtain designed for traverse rods? I'm worried about buying the wrong kind of curtains. Curtains are complicated 
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I didn't use pleated ones, I just used regular panels. I find the pleats to be ugly. I think you can go either way.
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photomikey posted:I didn't use pleated ones, I just used regular panels. I find the pleats to be ugly. I think you can go either way. Okay, I understand now. It's not really the curtains that matter, it's installing them onto the rod. I was thinking you had to have a particular type of curtain to use with a traverse rod but if you have the pins you can just use pretty much any curtains, yes? My husband doesn't want to get all new curtain rods because then we'd have to get rid of the pull string. I like it too, I just don't want to trade ugly curtains for only-slightly-less-ugly curtains.
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That's correct, the pins are the key, if you buy them you could hang up a bedsheet. IMHO getting rid of the pleats makes them 100x less ugly. FYI I find the pull string to be a much huger pain in the rear end than just having curtains with grommets on a rod. You fling them open and closed with a yank, instead of pulling on that string a hundred times. But to each their own.
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Does anybody know if it's easy to replace the plastic bits that you hook the needles onto on a traverse rod? One of my cats took a flying death leap at a shadow on the curtain and managed to break a couple of them.
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AuntBuck posted:Does anybody know if it's easy to replace the plastic bits that you hook the needles onto on a traverse rod? One of my cats took a flying death leap at a shadow on the curtain and managed to break a couple of them. This is officially the most I've heard about traverse rods in 20 years. And apparently I am a font of knowledge on outdated window fashions.
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photomikey posted:You can buy them at stores that sell drapes. They come in little baggies of a dozen for a buck or so. You love pleated curtains on traverse rods, don't lie. You can't get enough of that 70's grandma style.
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Would this be the right thread to ask for advice on how to add the finishing touches to our backyard before listing the house for sale?
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OneWhoKnows posted:Would this be the right thread to ask for advice on how to add the finishing touches to our backyard before listing the house for sale?
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photomikey posted:How to or what to do? Post pics, price range, location. Here are some pics: http://imgur.com/a/lSZKU We're putting the house up on the market in the next two weeks and I was just wondering if it looks okay as-is, or if we should do a lot more clean up. Any advice on sprucing up the backyard to increase its appeal would be great.
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I would probably post in the house buying thread in BFC. I would link it but I'm on my phone.
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Paint the shed. Paint the fence. Paint or remove the garden enclosure thing. Get rid of as much of the crap as you can, including the crap on the patio, the crap in the shed, etc. Pick up / leafblow the leaves. The area below the retaining wall would make a nice little sitting area if you laid some flagstone there. DIY cost is a couple hundred bucks, to have it done is probably a grand or two. What price range are you trying to sell it in?
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I'm currently month to month and my roommate wants off the lease so she can move out. I'm completely okay with this, but not sure what the steps are. I was planning to conference call the landlord with her and have her tell him and corroborate that I'm fine with this and intend to stay. Then we were going to follow up with an e-mail confirmation of what we said. Does this sound like the right way to go about this?
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Does anyone have experience with ventless gas fireplaces? I have the option of adding them into my place, but I've read a lot of bad things about them on the internet. Being a firefighter, I would be extra embarrassed to die of CO poisoning.
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Yeah, that's a risk, but you can get a detector for that. As long as the fireplace is functioning correctly, it shouldn't be a concern. They do warm up my place a lot, which is really nice, but the logs smell kind of terrible, which seems to be a common complaint.
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It's been brought up to my attention that I'm still getting mail sent to two former addresses (my parent's home and a former house that acquaintances still live in) cause I just never bothered to file a change of address with USPS. I just filed one online for one of the addresses, do I now need to do it again for the second address or does it just take one to eventually get all mail rerouted to me?
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Boris Galerkin posted:It's been brought up to my attention that I'm still getting mail sent to two former addresses (my parent's home and a former house that acquaintances still live in) cause I just never bothered to file a change of address with USPS. I just filed one online for one of the addresses, do I now need to do it again for the second address or does it just take one to eventually get all mail rerouted to me? Do one for both, dummy. Usually mail will only forward once before being returned or delivered to the address.
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So we got a set of Real Adult Plates™ as a wedding present, and I have decided to retire our trusty but old and chipped IKEA plates because these ones are much nicer and prettier (Le Creuset stoneware). The only problem is our new plates are just a little bit wider than our cabinets are deep, so the door won't shut the whole way. Is there a nice way we can display the plates that a) isn't a dedicated piece of furniture, and b) is portable? We rent and will be renting for the foreseeable future so we can't do anything permanent.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:So we got a set of Real Adult Plates™ as a wedding present, and I have decided to retire our trusty but old and chipped IKEA plates because these ones are much nicer and prettier (Le Creuset stoneware). I had a similar issue. I took the doors off our cabinets and made it open shelving. Doors are super easy to put back on when the time comes. The most work you'd need to put into it is a fresh coat of paint on the front of the cabinets if it's faded around where the doors were.
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john mayer posted:I had a similar issue. I took the doors off our cabinets and made it open shelving. Doors are super easy to put back on when the time comes. The most work you'd need to put into it is a fresh coat of paint on the front of the cabinets if it's faded around where the doors were. I strongly recommend you tape any screws you remove to the door post-removal in order to make sure they don't get lost.
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Open cabinets are a true pain in the rear end to clean, in my opinion. Especially if you do anything with airborne fat, like frying, browning, etc. You could get or make plate racks and display them in the dining room/area. They would still get dusty, but not so gross with aerosolized fat.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:So we got a set of Real Adult Plates™ as a wedding present, and I have decided to retire our trusty but old and chipped IKEA plates because these ones are much nicer and prettier (Le Creuset stoneware). You might want something like these plate racks. Store them vertically. You'll need a little extra space so you can get them out again, of course, but it's a very handy solution for large dishware.
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Yond Cassius posted:You might want something like these plate racks. Store them vertically. You'll need a little extra space so you can get them out again, of course, but it's a very handy solution for large dishware. I can't even put a beer glass in my cabinets the shelves are so terribly spaced (I know I can adjust them, but  )I'm moving out in 5 months so I think I may just deal with a slightly ajar cabinet and hope our next place has deeper cabinetry. I'm contemplating an Ikea run tomorrow for some other stuff so if I see something that'll work there I'll grab it.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:I'm moving out in 5 months so I think I may just deal with a slightly ajar cabinet and hope our next place has deeper cabinetry. If you're just going to leave it, I would recommend setting up something so that the thing stopping your cabinet closing isn't the plates. This means padding the hinge or putting something in the cabinet that sticks out just farther than the plates (like a dowel or anything, really). Otherwise, any time the cabinet gets closed it's banging into the edge of your new set, and it will only take one zealous guest to chip/crack them.
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So, I don't think my roommates have ever cleaned our non-self-cleaning, either-very-old-or-very-cheap Kenmore electric oven. I'm looking stuff up online that suggests using baking soda and water and spraying it down with vinegar and water; is there anything I have to worry about given that it's an electric oven (i.e. like are these cleaning suggestions just for gas ovens, and am I going to cause a short if I use them)? Also, assuming that I'm not afraid of chemicals, is there any reason for me not to use something like EasyOff or whatever oven cleaner I can find at the grocery store?
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