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Yikes. That is about the point where I lose patience, gut the place to the studs, and put up fresh sheetrock (and new insulation, and wiring, and plumbing, while I'm in there) because it is less frustrating. Cleaning up layers from POs just sucks. Of course, I also said I would be done by Christmas 2010. This way lies madness, and 40 yard rolloffs, so choose carefully. 
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Live in 1/3 of the house while the rest is being done, gently caress it.
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Make sure you know exactly where the property markers (iron pipes or granite posts, usually) are before you put up the new fence. In some areas, if you put the fence up not on the property line, after a certain number of years, it means you've claimed that land and it's now legally yours (if you put it on their side of the line) and if they put the fence up on your side, it means they own your land now. Can result in some ugly neighbor bickering and redoing of fences. Also, holy poo poo, those posts are GONE. I can't believe it's still standing.
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The Dave posted:Buying warped wood? Hey, you never know, it could be straight but rough on one side and a quarter inch under nominal size!
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Jesus. Bank bureaucracy is the devil.
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That sounds like banks alright. I got the same kind of runaround trying to buy a short sale property years ago when the owners had already destroyed and abandoned it. I still refuse to do business with that bank.
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Banks with huge bureaucratic disasters in the way of getting literally anything done are both our worst enemies and their own worst enemies. At least you're making progress on getting it fixed one way or the other. E: same thing goes for insurance companies. My insurance company was too hidebound to change my rates to match my newly shiny driving record a number of years after I stopped getting equipment violations, but was happy to create a completely new account and policy for me and my wife that had another car and another driver on it and cost less than half what I'd been paying before. Thanks I guess? kastein fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Probably, but it's better to overprepare than assume it'll be fine and do the bare minimum, right?
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Awesome! That's great news dude.
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If it can wait till I'm out there next for working on our property (probably in the next month or two?) I'll see if I can spare some time to swing by.
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He really is. Dude has helped me twice now out on the KP. I think he's buttering me up for lumber camp rebuild adventures... Not that I mind  Glad you got the old lender squared away, that's great news!
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Have you checked wood prices recently? I don't think I'd be buying pressure treated landscape timbers anytime soon. 
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MikeyTsi posted:Welp, discovered that smart switches don't work so well (at all) if you don't have a neutral wire, which a house built waaaaaay before 1985 doesn't have. You're going to need to be more specific now because I live like 15 minutes from elviscat and am also an electric goon  If you aren't working on a GFCI circuit, there's a good chance you can simply run the neutral on that switch to ground instead. Many of them even include a green sleeve for the neutral pigtail that magically makes this legal.
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MikeyTsi posted:All I'm seeing is "Michael I'd LOVE to come by sometime and marvel at the ridiculous decisions made by prior occupants." I sure would, I'm always down to marvel at someone else's problems instead of my own.
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