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Serjeant Snubbin posted:Approximately five year follow up post, after all the flooding and what not ... https://artandseek.org/2021/01/14/waterfront-land-donation-completes-boundaries-for-trinity-river-park-project/ They might be able to start construction next year
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Cheap! Here's a $785K 676 sqft house in San Diego. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1230-Monroe-Ave-San-Diego-CA-92116/16954103_zpid/
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Weembles posted:Cheap! The outdoor area probably doubles or triples the living space. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Sep 22, 2021 14:58
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Weembles posted:Cheap! Whoa, WTF? There is a lot to unpack here. Also, imagine living in an area where you can have your washer and drier outside the house.
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Sep 22, 2021 18:37
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MrChrome posted:Whoa, WTF? There is a lot to unpack here. there's not enough room!
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Sep 22, 2021 18:45
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More crapper construction  There's a "toot your own horn" joke in there somewhere. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Sep 22, 2021 20:36
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MrChrome posted:Whoa, WTF? There is a lot to unpack here. hot water tanks too I've seen that on shows before and was like WTF.
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kid sinister posted:More crapper construction That doesn't look comfortable. . . like even for a second.
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I've never had an urge to dispose of bodily secretions in a tuba but it at least reminded me of a joke in The Naked Gun 3.
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So back in I wanna say '16 or '17 - I think '17 - we lost about a dozen shingles in a hurricane off the front slope of the house roof. Called my parents/landlords, they called the GC my mother and I work with and he sent his nephew out to have a look-see. Couple days later, he comes back with the shingles, only they're not quite the same color as the existing ones, so with our blessing (thinking he's a professional), he pulls a few off the back of the house, right near the valley where the gabled patio roof meets the gabled house roof. So we have a little patch of slightly-darker shingles that you kinda sorta notice in the right light. Fast forward...I dunno, end of '19 or so and I'm sitting at the kitchen table remote-working when a drop of water just...falls on my hand. Look up and there's a little water pooling at the corner of the AC vent, the bottom corner right over me (vaulted ceilings). That's when I notice, about a foot away from it and 4 feet downslope of the peak of the vault, a brown stain about 8 inches wide. Since then, that has grown into a spotty tan line along what I assume is a drywall seam, another one on the other side of the vault, looks like a couple panels down from the vault, gray areas around all three of the can lights in the kitchen, and the absolute capstone, the moisture in the hallway light globe. 90% of it is on the same side as the original water spot. I know it's something I need to get looked at but that's a lot of money and we already need to hit them up about kitchen drawers that need replaced (three of the cheap particle-board fuckers gave way), the new dishwasher we need, the new oven we need, and repositioning the loving water heater so the dryer can properly vent to the outside. At this point, I'm really just curious what the gently caress he could have screwed up in the process of ripping off the shingles and replacing the dozen that he repurposed.
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He screwed up the flashing. Or there was already another problem there. DO NOT WAIT TO TELL THEM. This will get progressively more expensive as this leaks, and it a lot more serious than your kitchen drawers.
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D34THROW posted:I know it's something I need to get looked at but that's a lot of money and we already need to hit them up about kitchen drawers that need replaced (three of the cheap particle-board fuckers gave way), the new dishwasher we need, the new oven we need, and repositioning the loving water heater so the dryer can properly vent to the outside. Letting water come in from your roof knowingly for years is going to put you in a much much much worse and worse spot as it continues to go on and is a much greater concern than everything else you listed. In the short term is it something that can at least have a tarp put over the patched area?
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Weembles posted:Cheap! What is up with that basement? Is it even a basement, or like a lower outdoor level? And surely it rains sometimes there - is a little hutch over the W/D sufficient?
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D34THROW posted:At this point, I'm really just curious what the gently caress he could have screwed up in the process of ripping off the shingles and replacing the dozen that he repurposed. Dude re-tarred it?
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Jows posted:What is up with that basement? Is it even a basement, or like a lower outdoor level? The house is sorta pushed out over a hillside and I think the basement is just the area under the overhang. If the price didn't grab all the attention, being suspended over a canyon filled with dry brush and eucalyptus trees in a drought prone part of the country would be a good crappy construction post in itself. As for the laundry, It's a relatively common set up in older homes in San Diego, so I guess it works well enough. I'm not sure I'd be thrilled with it personally, though.
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D34THROW posted:
Others have said it already, but I can't stress this enough: this is your #1 priority if you don't want serious, long-term damage to your house and health. Water will gently caress poo poo up in ways you can't even imagine. Black mold, broken tiles, collapsed ceilings, destroyed subfloor, on and on, all kinds of fun.
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If you want to do it on the cheap buy a clear can of Flex seal and slather the area. It will prevent further damage and won't stick out like a sore thumb. Forgot to mention, also apply it at least three to four feet above where you think the trouble spot is. Blistex fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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D34THROW posted:
who gives a poo poo about the money or the fact that they are your parents. Fix your house. Yesterday. What the gently caress.
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Sep 23, 2021 15:49
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I just noticed the full title here pretty sure our mouse feces are structural The Dave posted:Letting water come in from your roof knowingly for years is going to put you in a much much much worse and worse spot as it continues to go on and is a much greater concern than everything else you listed. we're in year 2 of having someone try to fix our hosed flashing  -- I am not attempting it myself, 45 degree angle roof 40' off the ground, gently caress that, also I've never touched flashing and doing this ex-post-facto is... hard.last year, round #1 got us from "small deluge every time it rains" to "small drops only during severe storms" but obviously we need to solve that too before I can put all the inside walls I have apart to let this poo poo dry, back together. Also lol I've had that wall taken apart for a year, when it rains I go move the plastic sheeting and stick my finger into where I removed rotten poo poo....
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Sep 23, 2021 16:52
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Crunchy Black posted:who gives a poo poo about the money or the fact that they are your parents. Fix your house. Yesterday. What the gently caress. Some landlords get lovely about people asking for repairs, even if it's the kind of thing that will save them money in the long run. This can lead to lovely stuff like having to find a new apartment when they don't want to renew your lease (because they just put a bunch of money in and now want a more lucrative tennant) or in this case family drama I guess.
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Like I said, I know it needs fixed.Cyrano4747 posted:Some landlords get lovely about people asking for repairs, even if it's the kind of thing that will save them money in the long run. This can lead to lovely stuff like having to find a new apartment when they don't want to renew your lease (because they just put a bunch of money in and now want a more lucrative tennant) or in this case family drama I guess. Not so much family drama as their savings have dwindled dramatically in the last 18 months: - August of last year, our AC went up and they replaced it. That was like $6k or $7k down the drain. - November of last year, our Traverse poo poo the bed and our credit was poo poo, so my parents bought us a 2019 Caravan cash ($21k) and we pay them (interest free) instead of a car loan. - Early this year, my mom's Buick went up, so they bought a 2020 Kia Soul (another $20-odd-k) cash. - Our Moenstone sink cracked a while ago and we finally got around to asking for a new one when the sprayer on the faucet started pissing all over the cabinet underneath, so we figured might as well kill two birds with one stone. That was another $600-$700 down the drain. Now, the reason this stuff has been piling up is A) I was out of work for a while because my wife was having a difficult pregnancy and I was on LOA from work, so no income. They basically gave us a deferment on approximately $20k in rent, so during the time we weren't paying, we didn't want to bother them. B) Our garage is in the process of de-shittifying; I have some horrible habits (that I am working on) of piling things up and not taking boxes and cardboard out for recycling when I should. Apart from illness, we are on track to unfuck the garage. The roof is item #1 on the list; we've lived without kitchen drawers for a while, the dishwasher is still functional, and the oven is still (minimally) functional.
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The roof should be item #0 on the list. Any roof leak is a full blown emergency that will continue to create more and more very expensive damage. You seem to know it "needs fixed" but don't seem to grasp the fact that delaying this has turned a simple and cheap repair into multiple thousands of dollars and counting.
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D34THROW posted:Like I said, I know it needs fixed.
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If someone chooses to be a landlord, they should be aware that it's not just a free ride, it takes investment and care.
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PurpleXVI posted:If someone chooses to be a landlord, they should be aware that it's not just a free ride, it takes investment and care. I will keep it really simple, if you want the house to keep its value as a house you have to fix the roof.
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"The house I live in is literally melting but if I tell my parents about it I might not get new drawers" I was really behind and decided to to skip ahead, are there any other posts of this quality in the past year or so?
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It seems a lot like you are trying to convince yourself this is no big deal since it's not impairing your day to day. As other posters have mentioned, you are saving a small amount of money today to pay a huge amount of money at some point in the future that cannot be predicted.
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If I was a landlord, and had a tenant not immediately report a roof leak as soon as they noticed it and could get in touch with me, that tenant would be searching for new accommodations as soon as I could legally compel them to do so. Roof leaks are the one thing in home ownership you do not gently caress around with. It gets fixed right the hell now, if not sooner.
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D34THROW posted:Like I said, I know it needs fixed. do you like black mold cause this is how you get black mold
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The fact that someone pulled shingles from an intact section of roof to use them somewhere else for cosmetic reasons is already the dumbest thing I have heard roof wise.
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Don’t fix the leaky roof because it will provide ongoing content to this thread, but do join respirator crew because we don’t want the mould spores to kill you.
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Blistex posted:The fact that someone pulled shingles from an intact section of roof to use them somewhere else for cosmetic reasons is already the dumbest thing I have heard roof wise. It's an accepted practice. If done by a competent roofer. Replacing shingles is not difficult once you've done it once. Take care, nail it down where the nails should go, and you're good. Problem is old roofing systems with brittle shingles that can't be bent back far enough to slip in & nail a replacement. Then, it gets interesting. I got a 20-year roof installed in 1985 to last until the end of 2019.
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Got another Zillow doozy https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5125-Mystic-Trl-Dallas-TX-75241/26776730_zpid/
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The Glumslinger posted:Got another Zillow doozy Sex parties definitely happened at this house.
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Sup dogg, I herd u liek huge generic houses so we built three more onto ur house so u can, uh, decorate
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Zil posted:Sex parties definitely happened at this house. Absolutely. I'd gently caress a stranger there.
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PainterofCrap posted:It's an accepted practice. If done by a competent roofer. Replacing shingles is an acceptable practice. Removing shingles that do not need to be replaced to repurpose them somewhere else is stupid. If you're still going ahead with the idea, then you need to tar above and below the area, and each shingle you move as the tar strips have been compromised and (unless they are relatively new) will not re-adhere properly. Since I gave up teaching two years ago, roofing has been my bread and butter, and the cardinal rule is that you don't "break the seal".
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The Glumslinger posted:Got another Zillow doozy wow, this guy really liked indoor hanging plants. check out all the anchor hooks on the ceiling    
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