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My dad installed a curtain on one of his kitchen cabinets in a house he rented when I was a child. The landlord wouldn't allow him to install a cat flap so he removed a section of the floorboards underneath one cabinet and installed a plank ramp to the ground below (the house was on a slope and had no siding on the crawlspace, so easy access for cat). The curtain stopped the draught while allowing cat in and out at will. Before he moved out he put the floorboards back in place and re-mounted the cabinet door.
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FCKGW posted:An acre of land for $95k idgaf what the house looks like, goddamn It's in the middle of nowhere. You can get 53 acres nearby for $172,900 https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sa...517_rect/11_zm/
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FCKGW posted:An acre of land for $95k idgaf what the house looks like, goddamn $1200-4500/acre in northern Idaho. Catch is you just have to live in Idaho.
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Aug 18, 2017 16:45
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Gounads posted:It's in the middle of nowhere. at least the other one has services
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Aug 18, 2017 16:55
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FCKGW posted:An acre of land for $95k idgaf what the house looks like, goddamn I know where I can get you 10 acres for that. How do you feel about defunct mining operations?
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Aug 18, 2017 17:06
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there wolf posted:How do you feel about defunct mining operations? I dig 'em.
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Aug 18, 2017 17:46
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there wolf posted:I know where I can get you 10 acres for that. Usually the buyers just get the shaft.
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Aug 18, 2017 18:00
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At least this time we are not digging deep for the puns.
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Aug 18, 2017 18:09
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And with that, hopefully they'll be tailing off.
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Aug 18, 2017 18:33
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nmfree posted:And with that, hopefully they'll be tailing off. Nah, this is a rich vein, we're not punning for gold here.
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Aug 18, 2017 19:46
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Close thread, goldmine.
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Aug 18, 2017 20:37
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tangy yet delightful posted:The actual people building the house are getting the same $X/hr without regard to how expensive the land underneath may be. 2x4s are still the same price etc. As a contractor, no. We use better people when the budget allows, it just makes everyone's lives easier. Higher budgets have higher standards, so we like to hire the guys who get it right the first time.
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Aug 18, 2017 21:12
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StormDrain posted:As a contractor, no. We use better people when the budget allows, it just makes everyone's lives easier. Higher budgets have higher standards, so we like to hire the guys who get it right the first time. Glad to be wrong on that one, and that's good to know 
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Aug 18, 2017 21:18
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StormDrain posted:As a contractor, no. We use better people when the budget allows, it just makes everyone's lives easier. Higher budgets have higher standards, so we like to hire the guys who get it right the first time. You would think that the economics of house building would work out that it'd be cheaper to hire the people that don't gently caress up.
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Aug 18, 2017 21:23
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:You would think that the economics of house building would work out that it'd be cheaper to hire the people that don't gently caress up. Not when there's no consequences to the gently caress ups.
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Aug 18, 2017 21:24
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Jaded Burnout posted:I dig 'em. Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Usually the buyers just get the shaft. Lake on property. Started out as a real pit, but with some additions from the previous owners, it's now anything but basic.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:You would think that the economics of house building would work out that it'd be cheaper to hire the people that don't gently caress up. There's only so many of those guys in town, for starters. Also, piece work is really common in construction. You tell a dude 'I'll pay you fifty bucks to do that', and he gets fifty bucks for it regardless of how many times you have to tell him to fix it. The worker still tracks his hours, and you work out what his hourly pay for that chunk of time is when you pay him (because everything government-related is in $/hour). If that goes below minimum wage, you still have to pay him minimum wage, but now the dude is at the top of your 'replace this guy' list. If it goes into overtime, you figure out the flat time rate for whatever piecework he did in overtime, and you pay time and a half on that rate. That's all if you're an above-board contractor. If you're not, then the only hours going on his time card are the ones you think it should have taken, and overtime mysteriously never happens. That's one of the ways wage theft happens in construction, and it's always an open secret among construction workers in town as to who will engage in that kind of dicking-around. That circles around to point one--especially in a hot building market, some companies will find it completely impossible to hire good workers because they've been effectively blackballed by every skilled guy in town.
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Aug 18, 2017 22:17
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KillHour posted:"I want my house to look like the hipster coffee shop downtown but we have to use my Grandma's old furniture." - The person that owns this house fuckin lol look at the location there is no "hipster coffee shop downtown" in East Buttfuck, Louisiana
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InediblePenguin posted:fuckin lol look at the location there is no "hipster coffee shop downtown" in East Buttfuck, Louisiana yeah West Buttfuck really got gentrified first
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He calls it "The Chomper".
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From Tumblr, via reddit http://capstonecompany.com/property/19197-river-apt-c-athens-ohio-45701/  Sure you might die in a fire, but $675 for 2400 square feet! Although for $150 more you get windows http://capstonecompany.com/property/19197-river-apt-b-athens/ And for $2,200 you get the rest of the mansion http://capstonecompany.com/property/19197-river-apt-a-athens-oh-45701/
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Aug 20, 2017 04:00
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I'm honestly failing to see what's so bad bout that if the price is right. It's the helps quarters, and the thing in the kitchen is a gigantic wine rack, presumable because this is the kitchen that the help cooks the family meals in and stores the wine. Yes, whoever built a place this recently set up that way was watching too much Downton Abbey, but it's not terribly out of the ordinary for an old family estate. The strangest part is how new it is.......
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It'd be a really depressing place to live with the current set-up, but if you were able to decorate and repaint it might be nice. Definitely a misleading picture, though. Do you still get access to the pool? NGL, that'd influence me.
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Aug 20, 2017 04:14
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I'd live in that place like a muthafucka. I paid 640/month for a sleazy assed motherfucking place that was like 1/8th the size of that with a moldy rotten assed bathroom and a cokehead landlord that was constantly waking me up at 3am with loud obnoxious 1980s hair metal. I was there for 11 years. gently caress, for that matter, I paid 220,000 for a condo, thats 1/5th the size of that joint. My mortgage is almost twice what that rent is.
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It wouldn't be that bad if the bathroom was built in a corner of the bedroom, but gently caress going that far through those tunnels every time you need to pee at 3 am.
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Motronic posted:I'm honestly failing to see what's so bad bout that if the price is right. There are no windows so it is almost certainly an illegal domicile and you will die a firey death. But besides that all those HVACs will probably make it quite loud (and without windows you've got serious carbon monoxide risk), you have to travel through two loooong dark hallways and a 50-foot room if you need to pee in the middle of the night,. and since the mechanicals are all in there repairmen have to go into your apartment to fix anything above you. As for how new it is, per one of the Reddit comments Terry A. Anderson built it with the multi-million settlement from the Iranian government after his release from 6 years imprisonment. He went bankrupt some years later and lost the property. The basement was strictly a wine cellar/storage/mechanical area, was not used as living quarters for servants/maids and did not have a kitchen/bathroom until it was turned into an apartment.
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The floor plan makes me think there's a window in the bedroom and an exterior door just outside the bathroom. It also shows a sink in the utility room; seems like a shame not to have built a half bath in there. A big unknown would be how sound travels between the basement and the much more expensive ground floor. The higher rent is going to win those arguments. It's a fifteen minute drive from Ohio University. For a college student or two that's a hell of a deal. Put up bunkbeds and curtains in the big space and now we're talking highly illegal death trap.
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Anne Whateley posted:It wouldn't be that bad if the bathroom was built in a corner of the bedroom, but gently caress going that far through those tunnels every time you need to pee at 3 am. Chamberpots are gonna make a huge comeback
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The Twinkie Czar posted:The floor plan makes me think there's a window in the bedroom and an exterior door just outside the bathroom. It also shows a sink in the utility room; seems like a shame not to have built a half bath in there. A big unknown would be how sound travels between the basement and the much more expensive ground floor. The higher rent is going to win those arguments. There are a bunch of other enormous apartments from that same management company that have actual windows (but are probably death traps in other ways). It's southeastern Ohio, rent is cheap. i.e. a 2000+sf basement apartment in Athens for $690 http://capstonecompany.com/property/7997-rolling-hills-apt-b-athens-ohio-45701/
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Yeah, that might seem like a great deal, but it would be depressing as gently caress to live in. Every room has an HVAC either in it or right next door, only bathroom is a long walk from anywhere in the apartment, one window in the entire apartment... some of you are massively underestimating the need for natural light in your living environment. It's cheap, but there are much better places (with windows!) for just as cheap - you could get a four bedroom house for that in Athens.
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ahhhhhhhhh. I've been using a really nice ring saw to cut tile for a few months now and haven't touched anything wood related in a while. I'm going to kill myself when I go back to it. I did take some big maples down yesterday that were right up next to my neighbors house with a come along, missed the house AND the garage. Free wood!
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Aug 20, 2017 20:26
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For lefties that hate people borrowing their tools.
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I find myself strangely drawn to a floorplan that puts my bedroom at the end of a crazy long hallway. I won't argue for one second that it's practical/good design, it just seems.... den-like? Wait, am I a furry for wanting to live in a warren?
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Slugworth posted:I find myself strangely drawn to a floorplan that puts my bedroom at the end of a crazy long hallway. I won't argue for one second that it's practical/good design, it just seems.... den-like? 
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Slugworth posted:I find myself strangely drawn to a floorplan that puts my bedroom at the end of a crazy long hallway. I won't argue for one second that it's practical/good design, it just seems.... den-like? 
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Slugworth posted:I find myself strangely drawn to a floorplan that puts my bedroom at the end of a crazy long hallway. I won't argue for one second that it's practical/good design, it just seems.... den-like? uh 
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:ahhhhhhhhh. I've been using a really nice ring saw to cut tile for a few months now and haven't touched anything wood related in a while. I'm going to kill myself when I go back to it.
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Slugworth posted:I find myself strangely drawn to a floorplan that puts my bedroom at the end of a crazy long hallway. I won't argue for one second that it's practical/good design, it just seems.... den-like? I wouldn't worry about it. It's probably just some backwards memories from the future, where retreating deep inside caves and basements is the only way to get rest without the risk of a radiation storm frying you up. You're just dreaming of better times.
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