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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I stuck a mailbox on the place I'm moving to yesterday i lived in rhode island for like three months but i thought i was gonna be there way longer. streetview doesn't do it justice but i painted mine baby blue with a white fleur-de-lis. it was very pretty 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:People here are actively ruining 1890s era townhomes by trying to jam all the HGTV poo poo into them instead of just adapting to the floorplans. The one real estate person I know claims there's a really weird split happening where regular buyers (who want a place to live) will routinely dip out on great deals because of some tiny little outdated imperfection, while all the assholes buying to flip or rent will just throw down huge bids on literally anything. I don't know how true that is generally, but it's gotta be another feedback loop that's driving up prices if it's actually the case. If typical buyers are going around rejecting perfectly fine homes because of slightly worn hardwood floors or poor layouts, then there's a huge loving incentive for flippers to come in and do these dirt-cheap, surface-level remodels.
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I saw exactly that happen with the house I eventually ended up buying. A couple came in before us, saw that it had baseboard hot water heat, and walked out with less than four minutes viewing the house. (It has a separate forced air cooling system that they'd have seen had they stuck around.) Another house I looked it was an 1890s rowhouse that had the walk-in closet and double vanity bathroom retrofitted in. The gutters were completely hosed and actively destroying the brickwork but it went contingent within a week. e:    Gotta turn sideways to get to the shitter and you have to go through a bedroom to get to the back deck but by god, I got my HGTV touches in. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud has issued a correction as of 16:41 on Jul 7, 2023 |
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Jul 7, 2023 16:33
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lmao "house of the month"
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:lmao "house of the month" mad?
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Jul 7, 2023 16:53
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no I got my plaque for house of the decade years ago you nerd.
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my standard for a house is “habitable”.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:no I got my plaque for house of the decade years ago you nerd. I didn't put the plaque there, stay jealous though
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:lmao "house of the month"
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Paradoxish posted:The one real estate person I know claims there's a really weird split happening where regular buyers (who want a place to live) will routinely dip out on great deals because of some tiny little outdated imperfection, while all the assholes buying to flip or rent will just throw down huge bids on literally anything. Makes me wonder if buyers are all watching House Hunters and are so impressionable they assume they need to turn down a house over something minuscule like the walls in the sitting room not being their favorite shade of blue or a tree across the street looking funny. It’s just boomers watching garbage daytime TV and taking whatever it says for granted all the way down.
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boomers dance to the strings of the cable puppet masters
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Makes me wonder if buyers are all watching House Hunters and are so impressionable they assume they need to turn down a house over something minuscule like the walls in the sitting room not being their favorite shade of blue or a tree across the street looking funny. 100%, and the entire purpose of House Hunters is product placement.
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why are all those house shows Canadians 80% of the time? is it because canadas real estate market has been hosed longer?
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the people who started them are Canadian
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There was a couple here that was on House Hunters and they did an expose in local media, everything right down to the budgets and what the couple does for a living is fake.
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love it or list it and property bros are all Canadian
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a lot of the house flipping shows in the states are based in Texas and Missouri for some reason.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:a lot of the house flipping shows in the states are based in Texas and Missouri for some reason. chip and joanna gaines have made the waco area worse in a way that's worse than before, somehow
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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/441-Houghton-Ave-Marlin-TX-76661/127191765_zpid/ drat someone could do a lot with this if they don't mind a burning cross every once in awhile  the pink and green marble in the fireplace is super unique
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all I see is $$$$$$$$$$$$ upkeep
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maybe something more move-in ready
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i say swears online posted:maybe something more move-in ready that's what that house will look like in 6 months when it's relisted for $1.5 million
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Portland prices may actually be going... Down? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1108-NE-Davis-St-Portland-OR-97232/53853891_zpid/ $539,000, 1000 sq ft. Buy it before it gets HGTV'd! 
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Failson posted:Portland prices may actually be going... Down? Lmao yes I want to pay half a million for a home right across the street from the industrial bread bakery
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Failson posted:Portland prices may actually be going... Down? Craving lemon loaf now, thanks a lot
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Lmao yes I want to pay half a million for a home right across the street from the industrial bread bakery I think bakeries will cause that whisky fungus sometimes.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:I think bakeries will cause that whisky fungus sometimes. Lol yeah It’s actually a really interesting listing because on paper that house is in an absolutely phenomenal location but also if you actually know Portland you know that whole area shifts from cute old houses/bars/restaurants to light industrial/bread factories/car dealerships/meat wholesalers like a couple blocks south and a couple blocks east. Very good practical demonstration of why looking at comps doesn’t always work
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meanolmrcloud posted:in my metro area, everything outside the ring of 1960ish sprawl is this. the wealthy have fled to them, and it’s a fuckin trip pulling up to a whole gigantic field of nearly identical McMansions, with the new concrete and not a tree in sight. it feels like a movie set. feels more like the inside of a golden retrievers ear who lives in the country; full of fat swollen disgusting ticks just big old clumps of ticks all bunched together on the landscape with no trees
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How you can tell that a country can only build single family detached homes on individually owned lots: https://twitter.com/scottdaviscre/status/1677405522998206464 To be clear, I think this is a good thing broadly. You can go buy one of these! They exist! It even has a warranty! It is a house that you can live in for $130k, and you own the land that it's on, this is not a "tiny house illegally parked" situation. https://twitter.com/scottdavisCRE/status/1677421173657796608
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Twerk from Home posted:How you can tell that a country can only build single family detached homes on individually owned lots: I can't wait to see a return of these houses to this thread in a couple of years when they're all $300-400k
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oh yeah the cold texts I get from home flippers are getting weirder and weirder. I'm too hungover to screenshot the text I got so I'll type it out: "Hi spacemang, I recently came, came, just came across (my home address which isn't for sale) Any interest in a sale? Let's set up a walkthrough soon. Available this week?"
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spacemang_spliff posted:oh yeah the cold texts I get from home flippers are getting weirder and weirder. I'm too hungover to screenshot the text I got so I'll type it out: Why does this work anyways? Like if I were going to hypothetically sell to an obvious flipper couldn't I just do the cheap reno myself and pocket the higher sale price? Someone coming to you to buy your house like this is basically out in the open saying that they want to turn around and sell it for more than they will offer you. It'd be like having your own business and then hiring a boss to skim profits from you. We get these texts all the time cause our neighborhood is hot but even if we were ever thinking of selling instead of just living here till we die on our cheap af mortgage I know we'd get way more from putting it on the market than just accepting a random person coming by hoping for an easy profit. PoundSand has issued a correction as of 17:47 on Jul 8, 2023 |
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PoundSand posted:Why does this work anyways? Like if I were going to hypothetically sell to an obvious flipper couldn't I just do the cheap reno myself and pocket the higher sale price? Someone coming to you to buy your house like this is basically out in the open saying that they want to turn around and sell it for more than they will offer you. It'd be like having your own business and then hiring a boss to skim profits from you. people are really lazy though
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PoundSand posted:Why does this work anyways? Like if I were going to hypothetically sell to an obvious flipper couldn't I just do the cheap reno myself and pocket the higher sale price? Someone coming to you to buy your house like this is basically out in the open saying that they want to turn around and sell it for more than they will offer you. It'd be like having your own business and then hiring a boss to skim profits from you. yeah I've been tempted to reply back with some asinine offer, like 2 or 3 times what it's worth but I don't because I assume that will be taken as an invitation to continue contacting me. if I were to sell this house (i'm not) I'd just do all the renos and upgrades myself like the last people who owned it did
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PoundSand posted:Why does this work anyways? Like if I were going to hypothetically sell to an obvious flipper couldn't I just do the cheap reno myself and pocket the higher sale price? Someone coming to you to buy your house like this is basically out in the open saying that they want to turn around and sell it for more than they will offer you. It'd be like having your own business and then hiring a boss to skim profits from you. I think it's to catch people who are desperate and/or in a tight spot.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I think it's to catch people who are desperate and/or in a tight spot. it’s this I take it as an opportunity to use my saved 8==========D~~~~(): ascii dick sucking animations
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Propublica did an expose a few months ago about how companies like we buy ugly houses are built entirely around finding and taking advantage of the desperate, right down to trolling funeral notices and going after the newly widowed.
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