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H.P. Hovercraft posted:$4k rebate from SMUD for switching from a gas heater to electric wtf?
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RandomBlue posted:wtf? they want everything electric, nevermind yearly brownout warnings during the summer
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Aug 10, 2023 03:22
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why would i use my heater in the summer
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Aug 10, 2023 03:23
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:why would i use my heater in the summer to open your pores
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Aug 10, 2023 03:28
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My house is now the local facebook group cover picture  I"m dying lmao
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Aug 10, 2023 03:59
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Cute house, tho, mr. humblebrag.
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Eason the Fifth posted:I bought mine at the end of 2021 and have dropped about 15k so far (replacement chimney, new crawlspace jackposts, misc plumbing and heating and electrical repairs) and I'm still looking at another 10k on a furnace and oil tank and 1k on a new stove soon. This doesn't include a broken ceiling fan, some desperately needed remodeling of a bathroom and laundry room, or weather-proofing, or things I really should do like get my crawlspace sealed up. poo poo is expensive. Anyway im not having kids, i have a house what thing cost the most so far? were you at least aware of it going in?
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Aug 10, 2023 04:11
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My house is now the local facebook group cover picture i love it. what does your attic/3rd floor look like if you dont mind?
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Aug 10, 2023 04:14
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Willa Rogers posted:Cute house, tho, mr. humblebrag. That's right
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i am harry posted:no that’s the sort of thing an inspection should catch Inspections miss a lot more than you think. Our house burned down in 2018 and needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. Our city has some incredibly, annoyingly thorough inspectors (unless you're friends with our mayor king) who went through every part of the house with a fine tooth comb over the course of a year, coming out more times than I can remember. They did two separate inspections of the sewer system despite the sewer lines obviously being completely untouched by the fire. We had our own plumber conduct a full video inspection of the existing sewer lines before we started the rough-in. Anyway, those same sewer lines collapsed four months after we moved in and cost almost $20k to repair. If we had sold after the rebuild, which we were thinking about doing, there was nothing anyone could have ever done to know they were buying a ticking time bomb. Even the guys who replaced the line didn't really understand the extent of the damage until they started trenching. Nothing quite that major, but the inspector we got for the condo my partner's parents are moving into also missed some pretty pricey repairs. A lot of really expensive problems tend to be in areas that you can't access without digging or cutting.
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Aug 10, 2023 04:43
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RadiRoot posted:what thing cost the most so far? were you at least aware of it going in? Yep, almost everything was picked up during the inspection. A few things broke ahead of schedule (the jackposts) that I had to prioritize, thus moving other (important) things, like replacing the furnace, off for another year. Here's to hoping she holds for the winter. So far, the chimney was the most expensive thing (~8k), though I did have a tree fall on my house in Jan that came up to about ~25k in damages. Insurance covered that part, thankfully, but I spent another 2k taking down a tree next to the one that fell. Also I have another rotten tree I should take down too. 
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Eason the Fifth posted:Yep, almost everything was picked up during the inspection. A few things broke ahead of schedule (the jackposts) that I had to prioritize, thus moving other (important) things, like replacing the furnace, off for another year. Here's to hoping she holds for the winter. chimneys are something i never gave much thought on since i never pictured myself really using one. hoping your winter is a good one too.
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Ammanas posted:they want everything electric, nevermind yearly brownout warnings during the summer I love how PFC turned this into homeowner chat anyways I used BrandonBucks to get a shitton off a grandfathered solar array and battery, when our garbage utility company cuts the power I can still post
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Aug 10, 2023 07:48
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The market still sucks. Illinois is still up 0.8% year over year. Don't sell. Go on a sellers strike. We need to get that number back to 22%>
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Aug 10, 2023 12:40
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Might as well doxx myself. This is what I'm buying. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/401-S-Chester-St-Blacksburg-SC-29702/2058019383_zpid/ It's my post-divorce bungalow, with just enough room for me and my two boys. Roast me? Congratulate me? Defenestrate me? Whatever. This is hell world, and I'm doing my best. My favorite features are the quiet close cabinets and drawers, and being a block away from my kids' school. The laminate is pretty high quality, too. Seriously, I'm taking too much pride in this. Someone do something.
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Aug 10, 2023 14:00
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Bastard Tetris posted:I love how PFC turned this into homeowner chat It was always supposed to be homeowner chat, the OP started this thread so I'd quit posting about houses in the Doomsday Econ thread
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Aug 10, 2023 14:14
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my house is across the street from my kids elementary. absolutely worth every single penny not to get her up early and into a car to go there. I don’t even have to put on clothes for her to go to school now!
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Aug 10, 2023 14:15
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i am harry posted:my house is across the street from my kids elementary. absolutely worth every single penny not to get her up early and into a car to go there. I don’t even have to put on clothes for her to go to school now! I'm 30 minutes away now, at my mother's. I am weeping to get into my own home and to be that close. The middle and high schools are 2-3 blocks away, too. So in a few years they can walk to school and let me sleep in. I don't think I will opt to take them to school in my boxers. That seems....problematic Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:(he failed) There is no containing the Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud.
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Aug 10, 2023 14:57
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anonumos posted:Might as well doxx myself. This is what I'm buying. congrats and the quoted is a big factor for our family as well.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:02
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anonumos posted:Might as well doxx myself. This is what I'm buying. congrats! I like it. It's good.
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Aug 10, 2023 15:55
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anonumos posted:Might as well doxx myself. This is what I'm buying. super nice and perfect for your family size kids will love the yard when it grows in
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Aug 10, 2023 16:03
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euphronius posted:super nice and perfect for your family size It's already grown in since the Realtors pictures. I'm going to screen in the back porch, throw up a small privacy fence around it, then a chain link or wire fence around the back yard. Some bushes, banana palms, flowers, trampoline, swings...gonna be a nice place. Railings on the front porch. So many plans.
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Aug 10, 2023 16:40
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it’s nice to see someone is building normal sized houses on decent lot sizes somewhere in the world
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dude, it's small and manageable, and given the world, a decent price. genuine congratulations
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euphronius posted:it’s nice to see someone is building normal sized houses on decent lot sizes somewhere in the world The builder chopped a 3/4 acre corner lot into three. The houses are identical on the inside. It seems to be good quality; will know for sure today or tomorrow when the inspection comes back.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:dude, it's small and manageable, and given the world, a decent price.
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they even put ceiling fans in . wow maybe there is normal in your hell state
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euphronius posted:they even put ceiling fans in . wow Ooooh yeah forgot about those. They're nice, too, not like those painted sheet metal fans most builders use. Wish there was a fridge... I think they lingered in the market because Blacksburg, sc isn't wealthy, nor is it close enough to Charlotte or Spartanburg to be a bedroom town. All three houses lingered for over 100 days. All three went under contract in July (I was waiting on the proceeds of selling the marital home and thought I'd be SOL after the first two went under offer). anonumos has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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anonumos posted:Ooooh yeah forgot about those. They're nice, too, not like those painted sheet metal fans most builders use. Wish there was a fridge... 98.6% of "poor" households have a fridge
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looking at the listing more, i'm even more impressed actual lighting everywhere. cabinet faces that are ACTUAL LUMBER wtf. vinyl plank flooring is actually nice (i installed it myself in my own kitchen). A simple roof that will be easy/cheap to repair/replace. how did this get built??????
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anonumos posted:Might as well doxx myself. This is what I'm buying. that's a good buy, I'm slightly jealous congrats
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:looking at the listing more, i'm even more impressed Dude I don't know! It's the middle of nowhere. Like in the city even at this sqft they'd be easily 350k. Who uses this build quality in am old iron town on the border of NC and SC? Only reason I'm in this area is my ex wife married some loser who's parents have land here. They're staying rent free in his departed grandmother's old house. I couldn't expect her to move back to the city, so I'm commuting an hour every other week (I wfh when I have custody, week on week off). I'm beyond lucky. A lot of things have come together for this to work.
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builder saved money not doing a basement . but maybe that is normal in the area
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sending my bats to this guy's new address
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euphronius posted:builder saved money not doing a basement . but maybe that is normal in the area It's becoming more common. It's cleaner, cheaper, and more durable, but if any of the underground bits break you're sawing open the slab. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:sending my bats to this guy's new address Have the bats' rep reach out first. I have a much better address for them. Mwahahaha
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euphronius posted:builder saved money not doing a basement . but maybe that is normal in the area absolutely normal in South Carolina basements are abnormal in most of the country I had two friends who had never left the state move to Baltimore at 28 years old and were like "what do I do with this??" lol it's for storing all the cold weather poo poo you need!
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Gunshow Poophole posted:absolutely normal in South Carolina Also the red clay makes basements miserable. If a house has a basement here, it's gotta be finished. Unfinished basements are a mold bomb.
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anonumos posted:The middle and high schools are 2-3 blocks away, too.
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there are loving finger joints on those cabinet faces. that's not exactly technical carpentry, but like... it's so cheap and so prevalent just using a piece of laminated MDF. Just can't figure out how this happened.
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