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Motronic posted:Yep, this. Electric heat is a deal killer here. Well, I mean, usually unless you got some crazy good hookups and can score free or cheap datacenter leftover generators and are willing and able to deal with that kind of thing. Maybe I am confused but how is a six cylinder engine only putting out 185 Watts?
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I think he means 185 amps
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Motronic posted:While LPG is heavier than air, a leaking buried tank is not going to trigger "I accidentally 1000 gallons of heating oil from my rusty UST into the creek". In fact, I'm not aware of any residential level remediation events. Do LPG tanks need to be buried these days? It’s been 20 years since I lived there but almost every house in Kansas outside the city limits had a big 500 gallon propane tank painted white or silver. They had to be set back from the house of course, but almost everyone had one.
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Leperflesh posted:I think he means 185 amps Sorry, yes - amps in "single phase" (actually split phase). It outputs slightly more when wired for 3 phase, but that doesn't do me much good for a residential install.
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I really regret not getting a heat pump that can be controlled by my tenants nest. They keep it running 24/7 at 71 degrees. While the 8kw solar system certainly helps offset the usage it is really wasteful of them. At least with the nest I could schedule it to not run as high whole they're out.
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Why don't they have separate utilities that they pay themselves? Or at least a contractual maximum power bill which they have to pay any overages? This is the kind of thing that can cause a huge risk to rental profitability.
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The rentals not so much about profitability as it is offsetting the mortgage. The going rate for a 2 bedroom 2nd floor around here is 1800ish and we charge them 2250 so even with excessive usage we are doing well. Other than the electric usage they're ideal tenants and it's not worth something making a fuss over. Just wish it was tied to the nest.
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If my utilities were static costs, you best believe I'd have my heat set at 70 instead of 65 when I'm home and 60 when I'm asleep/away..
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Sepist posted:The rentals not so much about profitability as it is offsetting the mortgage. The going rate for a 2 bedroom 2nd floor around here is 1800ish and we charge them 2250 so even with excessive usage we are doing well. Other than the electric usage they're ideal tenants and it's not worth something making a fuss over. Just wish it was tied to the nest. There's gotta be a way to wire them together, might be worth contacting a hvac company or an electrician. It'd probably just take running more wires to where the Nest is? That's what they had to do when I installed my Nest. Nest even paid for it lol.
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My understanding was that my mini split would need the wifi adapter for any home automation but at the time I cheaped out and bought the unit that isnt compatible with the adapter. If these splits ever die I'll just replace them with a more advanced unit
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Sepist posted:My understanding was that my mini split would need the wifi adapter for any home automation but at the time I cheaped out and bought the unit that isnt compatible with the adapter. If these splits ever die I'll just replace them with a more advanced unit I lot of mini splits have a "dry contact" adapter box (or it may be part of the unit already) where you can, at it's simplest, wire in a regular thermostat. That may work as is with a nest or it might require a transformer. Depends on the brand.
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Bought a slightly older (1992) house that has been very well-maintained and was an absolute steal for the location, price, and amount of space (2865 sqft). few things as we begin some minor updates/renovations: 1. The hot water heater is on the other side of the house, so it takes a while for hot water to get to the master and guest baths. Is a timed recirculating pump an effective solution or is it snake oil? Does it gently caress with the plumbing (the house has copper, not PEX) to have hot water in there more frequently? I'll admit that I know comparatively little about plumbing, so whatevs. 2. The formal dining has some pretty ugly wallpaper. Remove, reprint, and retexture, or just prime and paint over it? My handyman said that if you remove the wallpaper, it might reveal imperfections in the drywall and necessitate more repairs, so it's risky either way.
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IT BURNS posted:Bought a slightly older (1992) house that has been very well-maintained and was an absolute steal for the location, price, and amount of space (2865 sqft). few things as we begin some minor updates/renovations: Put new wallpaper over it! I think the old owners removed some wallpaper to make this home sell easier and painted everything white. When we moved in we put classic wallpaper in the dining room immediately. Although if you do want boring solid color walls, don’t fret over having to patch up the drywall. Take a good hard look at the drywall finish throughout the house, it’s probably not any worse than what that looks like. Fixing those imperfections is part of a good paint job anyway and you’ve got to expect that.
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this is garbage advice
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Potrzebie posted:Can't wait for the solar panels to go up. Just look at this completely ridiculous economic calculation! It's even inflation adjusted. The reason it is this amazingly good is due to government incentives. It'd be 15 years or so to break even w/o incentives. LOL, no. Turns out our trainwreck of a government just voted in a conservative budget that hates solar installations. So our expected incentive is between 0 and 20%, to be payed somewhere between 2019 and the death of the Sun.  On the sort of good side, this still means we'll break even in 13 years. Just not 9 as we expected.
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IT BURNS posted:Bought a slightly older (1992) house that has been very well-maintained and was an absolute steal for the location, price, and amount of space (2865 sqft). few things as we begin some minor updates/renovations: Just adding a pump doesn't do anything, you also need to install a recirc line for that pump to go on. If you already have a recirc line, then adding a pump is generally fine. If not, you're looking at running a 1/2" pipe from your furthest (or close to furthest) fixture back to your water heater. Also keep in mind that your energy costs are going to go up. First you'll be paying to energize the pump, and you might experience additional heat loss in your pipe, meaning more work for your heater. Are all of your HW pipes insulated? That would be a higher priority than adding a pump. Having water flowing all the time is really no issue for the pipes.
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Finally identified the root cause behind the drain line backing up when I run the washing machine. Turns out the drain pipes underneath the foundation have a "running trap", which is an old-school trap that builders installed at the end of a main drain line back in the day. And the thing doesn't have enough capacity for my washing machine. Plumber gave me two choices: 1. Spend $10,132 excavating under the foundation and removing the running trap 2. Avoid running the washing machine in "heavy duty" mode, and run it in "delicates" mode as often as possible Easy decision.  Of course, I now have to disclose this if/when I sell the house. 
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That disclosure makes your house a pain in the rear end to sell, and you will end up giving that money back to the buyer to make the deal. Do you really want to live with this the entire time you own the home and then pay to fix it for the next owner? (also, get more quotes)
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This is a bit of a kludge, but you could build a reservoir tank next to the washer for it to dump the water in, and then have that tank hooked up to the drain. Adjust the output flow of the tank to where it doesn't overwhelm and backup the trap. I would still get the trap removed long term but that'll let you function for the foreseeable future.
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Motronic posted:That disclosure makes your house a pain in the rear end to sell, and you will end up giving that money back to the buyer to make the deal. You are right, I would definitely get it fixed before selling the house. It's just not the type of thing that requires urgent fixing, and has only a negligible impact on my quality of life, which is why I'm OK living with it, at least for the time being.
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enraged_camel posted:Finally identified the root cause behind the drain line backing up when I run the washing machine. I wouldn't disclose an original feature of the house unless required by law (lead, asbestos). Don't lie if asked.
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H110Hawk posted:I wouldn't disclose an original feature of the house unless required by law (lead, asbestos). Don't lie if asked. I'm not a lawyer, but I seem to recall you are required by law to disclose any known major maintenance items or other issues the house has.
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And yet no one ever does. 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm not a lawyer, but I seem to recall you are required by law to disclose any known major maintenance items or other issues the house has. Yes, I believe this is the case.
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I don't think you have to disclose that your old house is not that same as a new house.
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I mean, the way the plumber explained it was that it is very much a feature of ALL houses built around that timeframe, and it only became a flaw because I connected a modern washing machine. I'll definitely talk to my realtor next time I see her and see what she says, though.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm not a lawyer, but I seem to recall you are required by law to disclose any known major maintenance items or other issues the house has. Neither am I. Nor am I a home expert. Sounds like people really should get a sewer inspection if they want to know it's current state. To you it works fine. I would fix it if you want but dollars to donuts the last 3 people to own that house knew the same information, and you should have found it when you bought it.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm not a lawyer, but I seem to recall you are required by law to disclose any known major maintenance items or other issues the house has. Does it apply to things that aren’t technically broken or a maintenance item? I never hear about lawsuits against the people selling houses with undersized, groundless knob and tube wiring. I had a sewer inspection done on my house and got the owner to repair the line but it was actually busted.
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Fallom posted:Does it apply to things that aren’t technically broken or a maintenance item? I never hear about lawsuits against the people selling houses with undersized, groundless knob and tube wiring. (Again, I'm no lawyer, so take this with the appropriate boulder of salt) It's not that you're not allowed to sell the house, you just have to tell the prospective buyer "oh BTW there's knob and tube in there". And even then that's only if you know about it, which can be hard to prove.
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Crazy idea, how about just being a decent human being and disclosing it because it's the better thing to do?
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couldcareless posted:Crazy idea, how about just being a decent human being and disclosing it because it's the better thing to do? Hrmm sounds expensive. Doesn’t everyone get the sewer scoped when they do inspection anyway?
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StormDrain posted:Doesn’t everyone get the sewer scoped when they do inspection anyway? Everyone in this thread is advised to; but absolutely not, no, most people do not do that.
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Yeah that's not part of a standard inspection and I would have loved to now that I know we have old a poo poo clay pipes that love roots.
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Hey, since we're talking about disclosures... So we bought our house almost 3 years ago. There's a neighborhood drainage ditch on the adjacent property (which is owned by the HOA). The previous owners said that this was an "easement" on the disclosure form. However, since it's not actually on our property, that's not really true... here's the exact question on the form: the disclosure form posted:Is the property subject to any utility or other easements, shared driveways, party walls or encroachments from or on adjacent property? And their answer: the sellers posted:[Yes] Property is adjacent to neighborhood easement. So here's the issue: we found out recently that the drainage ditch is classified by the city as an "intermittent stream," which means that we can't do much of anything within a 50' buffer zone of the bank... and about 30' of that buffer zone is on our property. So fences are OK, but within that boundary we can't install retaining walls/hardscaping, irrigation/sprinklers, and we technically we can't remove any plants without replacing them. I got a "wink wink nudge nudge we don't enforce it unless people complain" from a city representative... but that's not really comforting. Anyhow, my question is: based on the question from the disclosure form, is this something that would need to be disclosed? This is the only question on the form that comes remotely close to this subject. Follow-up: if we thought the previous owners may have known and not disclosed, how do we find out? The only way I can see would be denied/marked up permits from the city or HOA. Would we be able to get a history of permits from the city/HOA just by asking? Or would we need actual legal action like a subpoena to get that stuff? I'm not sure either party would keep denied permits. I know the real answer is "talk to a lawyer," but I'm just looking for general information right now. I mostly want to make sure that we don't need to remember this when we sell, but also this basically prohibits us from doing some improvements that we were planning, and MIGHT impact some other improvements. It's not that big of a deal, but if I can find evidence that they knew and didn't tell us I'll be kinda pissed...
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I think you would have a tough argument to say that disclosure is required.
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gvibes posted:I think you would have a tough argument to say that disclosure is required. That was my thought as well, but I didn't know if there was some sort of legal background or definition of any of those terms that might include a stream buffer zone. Of course even if it's required, we'd have to prove that the PO knew about it, which would be nearly impossible. I, however, have an e-mail trail with the city... so it'd be easy to prove that I knew about it. I think the biggest thing that bugs me is that the buffer zone encompasses almost half our deck. The deck is original and in poo poo shape... we plan on replacing it with a screened in porch. The city representative we talked to said that HE would approve a permit for a screened in porch if he was assigned to review it, but it could easily get rejected depending on who reviewed the application... so it's a crap shoot basically. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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wrong thread
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QuarkJets posted:Employer gave us all $0 paychecks because they haven't been doing our taxes right Wrong thread, but that sucks
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QuarkJets posted:Employer gave us all $0 paychecks because they haven't been doing our taxes right Why did you repost this from reddit?
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Jealous Cow posted:Why did you repost this from reddit? Good question sir, surely we will need to greatest detective of all time to figure this mystery out
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