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Motronic posted:I want to follow that thread. If it doesn't exist you know what needs to be done. 
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New thread starter: is this house falling over or was the photographer drunk?
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Mar 29, 2024 22:37
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that's a feature, you could make a great airbnb experience out of it
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Mar 29, 2024 22:39
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Never buy a property that expects you to assume an existing lean. 
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I'm gonna go with "drunk photographer" and the house is on a hill. I've seen much more extreme examples, for example:
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Sir Tonk posted:Is there a thread for making fun of listings? I found this GBS thread from 2022 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4002006 it didn't last very long but maybe if it was invaded and resurrected by a bunch of BFC goons, it'd have legs
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PYF would probably be better, it wouldn't get driven off the page as quickly.
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yeah probably
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Sir Tonk posted:Is there a thread for making fun of listings? 
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Eric the Mauve posted:Am I the only goon here cynical enough to wonder if "oh I wanted to use it someday for a meditative retreat" is the whole story behind her purchasing this property five years ago? The signs had to have been there five years ago that the location was in the likely path of near-future development. Eric the Mauve posted:Yes absolutely. The plot owner is definitely a CA hippy who wants to become a HI hippy, they're a dime a dozen so I have no doubt that she intended to keep this plot of land. Maybe if this was in Connecticut it'd be different, but a person wanting to host "healing women's retreats" on an undeveloped acre lot on the big island is actually the most believable part of this story. Paradise Park has hundreds of one-acre plots in it, and the developer only bought about a dozen of those. It's pretty common in HI for these kinds of sub-sub-developments to not even be contiguous, more often it's individuals buying plots directly from the county (like this woman did) and hanging onto them until they save up enough to hire a developer of their own. A common play is to build an ohana unit that's like 500-700 sqft and live in that while a larger house gets built next to it, then you rent out one of them. Regardless, I don't think that this woman had any ill or "outrageous" intentions. This is a fuckup somewhere between the developer and the construction company, with the county sharing part of the blame because they approved the permits.
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The request was for making fun of listings
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Shifty Pony posted:PYF would probably be better, it wouldn't get driven off the page as quickly. PFY: I'm existing just for listings.
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Epitope posted:Her story on it's face isn't terribly sympathetic. She made a speculative real estate purchase. It sounds like she didn't do anything legally wrong, so the legal system should be on her side to some degree. I for one don't think it should be to the same degree as a condo build encroaching on grandma's zucchini garden. I don't think that her story is sympathetic so much as the other parties involved are all the most unsympathetic sorts around. "Real Estate developer" is one thing. That they're so reckless as not bother surveying their plots adds a whole new level of lazy scammer to the mix.
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The pyf thread for bad houses would probably work. It doesn’t get too many posts
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Rotten posted:The pyf thread for bad houses would probably work. It doesn’t get too many posts Like the deck of a bad house. Fitting.
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Sir Tonk posted:Is there a thread for making fun of listings? If there is it needs to include this one.  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3599-Hector-Rd-Newcastle-CA-95658/95947261_zpid/
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> Never occupied, a house perpetually waiting for a party a bit longer than six words, but a pretty sad story nonetheless
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Nybble posted:> Never occupied, a house perpetually waiting for a party To be fair, it literally looks like that. It's not someplace anyone would want to live. It's someplace someone with way too much money has as a plaything that they use every once in a while......if they can find the right "someone with too much money". It will more likely go to some aspiring airbnb host.
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I can't stop seeing this room as having 4" of water for a floor.
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Ditocoaf posted:The request was for making fun of listings I appreciated this post 
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Motronic posted:To be fair, it literally looks like that. It's not someplace anyone would want to live. It's someplace someone with way too much money has as a plaything that they use every once in a while......if they can find the right "someone with too much money". It will more likely go to some aspiring airbnb host. They've apparently been looking for the right someone for about a decade, initially at nearly double the price.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3999970 That one seems more design focused, not sure making fun of fixtures would fit the theme when you have the geodesic domes dominating discussion.
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Sir Tonk posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3999970 That thread is mostly great, but also a perfect example of why you should post pictures in a thread itself instead of linking out to whatever you're talking about. Every post that linked out is now meaningless, every post that included pictures is good. Be considerate of future readers! Nothing on the internet is permanent. Except Something Awful. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Well, everything linked to imgur pre-~July 2022 is permanent. Management has no interest in publishing a list of new images on the forums since that point in time so anything that's low traffic is likely to get lost again Tweets will go away someday, too. CSPAM will be
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im getting really sick of touring amazing houses, getting my hopes up, then discovering afterwards in the disclosure that the place needs $75k in repairs because the foundation is literally crumbling or the roof hasn't been touched since the 60s.
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Kuvo posted:im getting really sick of touring amazing houses, getting my hopes up, then discovering afterwards in the disclosure that the place needs $75k in repairs because the foundation is literally crumbling or the roof hasn't been touched since the 60s. This is my experience as well. Everything is falling apart, rotten, and/or infested. The worst part is people live like that, these aren't abandoned homes by any means. For me, homeownership was about having a higher quality of life than renting, and not having to deal with the bare-minimum home quality that landlords provide, but a lot of people prefer just living in squalor it seems.
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90s houses, at least here, did not age well. who thought this was a good idea. why would I want railings and slight changes in elevation everywhere. and this is like every house that was built from 90 to 93 
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This was before roombas were invented
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They used to refer to the bonus room as a "den" and it often had a sunk floor. You're supposed to sequester your kids and their messy toys there for playtime, I think.
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mistermojo posted:90s houses, at least here, did not age well. who thought this was a good idea. why would I want railings and slight changes in elevation everywhere. and this is like every house that was built from 90 to 93 I understand the day to day impracticality of it, but I legit love that style.
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mistermojo posted:90s houses, at least here, did not age well. who thought this was a good idea. why would I want railings and slight changes in elevation everywhere. and this is like every house that was built from 90 to 93 Pretty sure it was to better define spaces without having walls. Basically a half-way point between open concept like people do today, and the more closed off styles with clearly defined spaces that you see earlier.
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Might as well just have half walls so you can put buffets/cabinets against them
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Sunken dens were a thing in the 70s I thought, it's like an indoor swimming pool but exclusively for loads
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QuarkJets posted:Sunken dens were a thing in the 70s I thought, it's like an indoor swimming pool but exclusively for loads I feel like the Sunken Den was the traditional place to put The Family Computer (Gateway that came in a cow box / Macintosh Performa) in the late 90s.
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yeah our early 1980s california ranch that I grew up in had a sunken living room with a railing on one side between it and the dining room, and the other edge was against the entryway so it was just a long low step, so it's not specifically an early 90s feature
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My uncle's house had a layout like that when we were kids. I dug it at the time? The walkway from the main doors to the kitchen/back of the house was one level, step down to a living room on the side of this walkway, step back up to the dining room. I kinda remember there not being handrails at first, but they were certainly there later on. It was a BIG house, so you didn't really feel the space you lost with this feature. They owned it since the 80's, might have bought it in the late 70's.
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not all is lost. if anyone's got 650k you can own this absolutely beautiful home in Minneapolis close to the river https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/144-Melbourne-Ave-SE-Minneapolis-MN-55414/1968851_zpid/
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mistermojo posted:not all is lost. if anyone's got 650k you can own this absolutely beautiful home in Minneapolis close to the river https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/144-Melbourne-Ave-SE-Minneapolis-MN-55414/1968851_zpid/ 
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Shhh, don't let people know the MSP market is really good That house is walking distance to a lot of cool breweries and restaurants and stuff and a short bike ride down a dedicated bike path along the river to downtown or north loop.
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