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gently caress. I was casually looking for duplexes and SFHs with garages and stumbled upon the perfect one on Monday night. Now it's Wednesday morning and the seller has until noon to accept my counter-offer. That went fast.
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I'm signing on a house and in the purchase agreement it lists 2 properties: XXX Name Street and XXX A Name Street It looks like the plot used to be 100' frontage x 300', but the previous owner subdivided it into the 100' x 100' frontage and named the 100' x 200' behind it "A". He then built a detached 25' x 40' garage on a concrete slab. Is there anything I should look into or ask questions about on this? Why did he do it this way and was he required to? It's located in Virginia.
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May 22, 2014 14:14
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Just got the inspection report back on the house and aside from minor issues the big thing that has me worried is the HVAC system. It's a 2 year old A/C heat pump combo but the temperature was 67 upstairs and 53 downstairs. He's recommending an HVAC inspector. (EDIT: ambient was 84 at the time of inspection) Problem is there was an offer for $5500 more than mine when we had a verbal agreement with the seller, and due to this they put a hard cap on inspection repairs at $1000 or they will drop out. Do I have any recourse in further investigating the problem at this point? Anyone have any experience with HVAC and can give me any advice? Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 15:36 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 14:36
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Elephanthead posted:If the home has an open design, any two story is a nightmare to keep the upstairs and downstairs the same temperature. You see builders know that spending 20k on a well designed HVAC system will not increase the price of the house over a $5,000 HVAC system. Thanks for the reply. It is a pretty open floor plan and it's a tri-level. I've done some research and talked with a few people, and we're proceeding. I will probably get an HVAC inspector in just to be sure but the house is too perfect at too good of a price to be worrying about a 14° temp difference on a hot day with a 2 year old unit. I'll probably dick around with the vents and see if I can't get the upstairs more in line with the downstairs, but aside from blinds I think I'll just live with it.
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May 30, 2014 14:25
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Appraisal came in 1% higher than the agreed selling price, which seems to be very common looking back at the last couple pages. Looks like there's not much more in the way of getting this house! Closing date is the 23rd. I already feel poor.
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Jun 2, 2014 14:46
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Previous owner didn't let the primer cure in the rush to get the place ready to sell, so now we have to hand peel it off. Do Never Buy
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Jun 27, 2014 13:19
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Found three dead bats in the past two days in my new house. Saturday afternoon, found one while moving stuff in. It was dead on the floor in the mudroom right next to an outside door. Moved in Saturday night so all the doors were open for a couple hours. Sunday (yesterday) afternoon found two behind poo poo I moved in and sat on the floor on Friday. Same wall, adjoining room. The attic has mesh on the apex vents and there were no sign of them in the inspection. Also heard nothing last night, which was the first night I slept in the house. Do bats die that quickly? What's the likelihood they came in while I was moving in? There were a shitload of bugs on the interior ceiling lamps that night and no sign of dead bugs yesterday morning.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:24
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fknlo posted:I know it's decently busy between 5 and 7. It's busier than the street I live on now, but not by a crazy amount. I just don't get the huge deal with living on a mildly busy road. The noise isn't that bad and you get used to it quickly. I'm super ok with it if it lets me get into a house at $80ish a square foot when comps are in the $100-150 a square foot range. Kids.
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Jul 22, 2014 13:57
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edit: ehhhhhhhhhhhh
Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Sep 16, 2015 17:12
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Zhentar posted:I'm still overall pretty happy with my purchase Same. My house (garage) has been awesome and I regret nothing, but I went into it knowing that from a purely financial/"investment" standpoint I'm borderline retarded for buying it. Houses are horrible investment vehicles. uwaeve posted:hi Chloe :skink: Rhombo? Whatup Homeland Defenser :skink: Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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Sep 16, 2015 19:32
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Harmburger posted:415 sq feet, one bathroom(and 0 bedrooms!) Though we're not having children, so it's fine by us. What the flying gently caress are you living in downtown Hong Kong or something?!
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e: I totally forgot about the Rental Property thread... I'll move this there.
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