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Kreeblah posted:What's the plan for when employees tell them to gently caress off and quit instead? Or are they still stubbornly assuming that labor is an infinite pool to draw from? commercial real estate is doomed long term but in the next few quarters the return to office people are going to be be triumphant once the businesses that forced "their" people back get hosed proper then we shall see Number come for the cre firms
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actionjackson posted:So obviously you do this for a living so you are the expert, looking again it looks more like 25k, so that might have been a misread by me. Honestly Im pretty sure you know more about this stuff than I do, no irony, it seems like a passion of yours. I always learn new stuff whenever you post about interior design. Ive only been doing it for 3 years so I am far from expert .. Just sharing what Ive seen, every market will be different. I should have said that I really only work on entry level city homes, so like $250-500k, usually in preparation to sell, and everyone wants the same stuff .. White shaker cabinets, white quartzite w grey vein, stainless steel appliances, subway tile backsplash, black hardware etc. Generic & inoffensive but widely appealing. Sounds like you have better taste, but that comes at a bit of a price premium. Bottom line - I think were at different price points and I should have prefaced my statement accordingly. Looks like prices have gone up a bit but you can still get name brand appliance packages for $3-4k Whirlpool, Samsung, etc. Viking, Wolf, Thermadore different story  . Ive heard the IKEA appliances are a good value too but never used them.I never wanted to work on a house that big if I could avoid bc I find it vulgar & obscene, but youre correct the sky is the limit w some of these renos. Downside is that Im already getting bored w these cookie cutter kitchens, so maybe at some point Ill look for a higher end contractor to work for. What kind of counters are you doing? My favorite is probably concrete but it requires a whole bunch of extra reinforcement in the cabinets & floor joists to support the extra weight  .. probably why you dont see it often
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why do you like concrete more than granite?
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Ornery and Hornery posted:re: these types of cabinets - serious question for the thread. If you make the drawers and doors smaller so that the fit into the frame, rather than going over it, it's a lot more expensive. You get less room and imo I'm not sure it looks better, it just looks different  as far as why those scandavian ones look good / bad its material as well. Sometimes it looks like a veneer with a very plastic looking top coat and a silver handle, coincidentally a style that cheap office furniture has copied, and other ones look like real solid wood or normal painted wood and that's more traditional and so kinda classy Antonymous has issued a correction as of 19:59 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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i say swears online posted:why do you like concrete more than granite? I just love the industrial look of concrete I guess. Granite just looks dated to me, very 2002. It can look nice in the right applications of course but I guess its just too many kitchens have it. Thats probably why I like the concrete counters so much, since theyre uncommon  
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:My favorite is probably concrete but it requires a whole bunch of extra reinforcement in the cabinets & floor joists to support the extra weight though you may be pouring more mass as shear strength without steel reinforcement is poor, and more tricky with forms and polishing. i'm a perma-renter 4ever since im poor but yes polished concrete looks nicer than granite.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:good for you move to the suburbs and seduce someone else's housespouse do this a couple of times until you've got a polycule of housespouses who will help pay your mortgage
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from my friend's experience there are no shortage of late-20s women who just wants a dude with a house and hot tub 25 minutes from the city
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every winter i bring up getting a hot tub to my fiancee and every year she (correctly) says "no you dumbass"
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spacemang_spliff posted:every winter i bring up getting a hot tub to my fiancee and every year she (correctly) says "no you dumbass" hot tubs are disgusting cesspools of bacterial breeding grounds that require meticulous care and attention constantly checking pH level, replacing ozone generators every 3 days, and dumping a bunch of chemicals to make it habitable and if you try to gently caress in them everyone is getting a UTI and staph infection. but god drat they are nice as hell in the winter like sitting outside in a hot tub in the rain is great. completely loving grotesque wasteful americana consumption though. in other words, your fiance is smart as hell, put a ring on it.
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Xaris posted:hot tubs are disgusting cesspools of bacterial breeding grounds that require meticulous care and attention constantly checking pH level, replacing ozone generators every 3 days, and dumping a bunch of chemicals to make it habitable and if you try to gently caress in them everyone is getting a UTI and staph infection.  what about my zone approved authentic japanese bathhouse in my backyard 
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Xaris posted:hot tubs are disgusting cesspools of bacterial breeding grounds that require meticulous care and attention constantly checking pH level, replacing ozone generators every 3 days, and dumping a bunch of chemicals to make it habitable and if you try to gently caress in them everyone is getting a UTI and staph infection. Get a sauna instead
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i am harry posted:why don’t we talk about what can actually be done with home equity because I’d like to know; house value increasing 50k since purchase doesn’t mean poo poo if all the other houses are doing the same. it’s not like any of us will sell and be able to move into a more expensive house for less money. you can take out loans against your home equity, if you're foolish
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bawfuls posted:In my very limited anecdotal experience this has been the case. In early March we offered 20% over asking on a house which needed significant work to be livable. There were 16 other bids and they informed us they weren't even interested in our second offer unless it was all cash. I'm pretty sure that's how I got my condo in 2018. My offer was not the highest offer (by a really wide margin, too; I want to say, like . . . $25k?), but the name on the higher offer sounded like an institutional investor. The seller asked me if I could come up a bit ($5k), and then took my offer instead. I strongly suspect it's because the seller knew I was actually gonna live here instead of just flipping the place or putting it up on AirBNB. In the end, I paid $325k for what the seller had paid a bit over $100k for several years prior, and a nearly identical unit just sold for $525k a few days ago. This whole situation is hosed. None of this is even remotely sustainable. Edit: To be clear, while I'm really glad I have this place, it's not exactly a place I'd want to be forever. But I also don't see that changing with how loving insane prices are. As much as this thing's appreciating, everything else around here is going up even more. Kreeblah has issued a correction as of 21:50 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Crusty Nutsack posted:love having another thread to read that depresses me daily Just make Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud the IK. Sure, he hasn't posted in the thread, but it was made to do what he loves most in the doomsday econ thread, shitpost about housing. Don't tell him, just make him IK and see if he ever notices.
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Crusty Nutsack posted:love having another thread to read that depresses me daily A cool feature that the forums software has is that you can click on as many threads as you want, and choose to not click on others 
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Just make Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud the IK. Sure, he hasn't posted in the thread, but it was made to do what he loves most in the doomsday econ thread, shitpost about housing. I was speaking as a renter that's mad at the housing market, not a button haver. but lol at that plan bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:A cool feature that the forums software has is that you can click on as many threads as you want, and choose to not click on others sounds suspiciously like quitting 
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Xaris posted:hot tubs are disgusting cesspools of bacterial breeding grounds that require meticulous care and attention constantly checking pH level, replacing ozone generators every 3 days, and dumping a bunch of chemicals to make it habitable and if you try to gently caress in them everyone is getting a UTI and staph infection. there is even a rash named after hot tubs, Hot Tub Folliculitis! hot tubs are only worth the money if you are rich and have parties with attractive people often. otherwise just get a nice bathtub and you'll be clean at the end and not sitting in your yard covered in clorine. i guess if you are lyndon b johnson and need big jets blasting your rear end and balls then maybe the hot tub is for you, but i think fancy bath tubs can have those too.
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bonelessdongs posted:lmao I thought 90k for a trailer was ridiculous but now there's a trailer going for 175k and 300/month in park fees. I have a friend who bought a house with a few acres for around that price three years ago A trailer in my park sold for $200,000 and my lot rent is $900/mo 
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Crusty Nutsack posted:love having another thread to read that depresses me daily We should change the forum title from C-Spam to Doomspam
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Lacrosse posted:We should change the forum title from C-Spam to Doomspam I'm pretty sure it was at one point, sometime in 2020 prob
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the bathtub at my place is too small to actually take a bath in. it's designed for people who are 4'6" or something. it's bullshit
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my toilet handle and light fixture switch both broke this weekend. today maintenance guys came in and fixed em for free. god drat renting owns!!!!!
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my apartment balcony got replaced for free, because the siding was not in good shape
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Casey Finnigan posted:the bathtub at my place is too small to actually take a bath in. it's designed for people who are 4'6" or something. it's bullshit they are so tiny, op I want to be in the tub, not just my legs
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:actionjackson lives in a condo which means it's gonna be more expensive bc of the increased risk. Shoot a nail in the wrong spot and you hit a water pipe and flood your downstairs neighbors condo, with no accessible water shutoff valve in reach. Plus it's a pain in the rear end to work in a condo,but mostly it's the increased risk. this exact thing happened to my fiances's cousin. some electrician drilled into the sprinkler in her second story condo last year. she burned through her insurances housing allowance super quick which is why I doubled the default on mine. the other day I remembered my old neighbor put his house up for sale for like 1.6 mil to get people to stop bothering him with unsolicited offers lol
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Casey Finnigan posted:the bathtub at my place is too small to actually take a bath in. it's designed for people who are 4'6" or something. it's bullshit main reason for buying imo
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cool av posted:my toilet handle and light fixture switch both broke this weekend. today maintenance guys came in and fixed em for free. pfft, If I replace my light fixture and toilet handle that's easily 2k in liquidity based on current markets for us home owners For sale: 2 bedroom house, unstable foundation, NEW TOILET HANDLE AND LIGHT FIXTURE *you have 50 cash offers*
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housing market: putting liquidity in hot tubs
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Cspam 2025: International Water Shortage: Put Your Liquid Assets Into Hot Tubs
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Imo ban all posters who own property. Tf are you doing here
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SorePotato posted:Imo ban all posters who own property. Tf are you doing here
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SorePotato posted:Imo ban all posters who own property. Tf are you doing here this
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bawfuls posted:this is like half of cspam, maybe more they should be killed
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SorePotato posted:Imo ban all posters who own property. Tf are you doing here the housing crisis thread turned into a bunch of computer touchers complaining about how expensive their kitchen remodels are. this thread should be moved to D&D where it can have brunch. shameful!
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AnimeIsTrash posted:they should be killed
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19 o'clock posted:the housing crisis thread turned into a bunch of computer touchers complaining about how expensive their kitchen remodels are. Lol they also turned the econ thread into stock market chat.
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