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Is this the highest YoY hike in mortgage rates historically, by percentage?quote:The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.29% this week, up from 6.02% the previous week, mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac reported on Thursday.
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mawarannahr posted:i’m going on my third year in a for-profit property and my rent hasn’t gone up at all, should I hug my landlord? yes. pay your rent on time, keep a clean home, be a good neighbor, and thank your lucky stars when it all pays off, as in your case.
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Sep 28, 2022 04:48
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fart simpson posted:yep. and you should prostrate yourself before your landlord and offer gifts and sing praises nah, you don't need to be obsequious; I've reported under-heating & no garbage collection (landlord didn't pay the trash bill for a month, lol) to the city & gotten landlords in trouble for that poo poo. as far as repairs go, my experience has been the opposite of fitzy fitz's, bc at least at my current place they like it when you call in a repair that the engineer can handle rather than needing a plumber or w/e bc I let something go. BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:The stories about cranking rent up on stable long term tenants just baffle me .. like maybe my perspective is skewed but if I had a stable tenant i would be terrified to raise rent at all for fear of them leaving at my last place when the building was sold my rent went up 30 percent, so I moved. At my current place, my annual increases have been under 1 percent for the last four years.
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Sep 28, 2022 18:37
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yeah: steam-heat radiators & heating rules per city code. sept. 15 to june it has to be 68F inside 6 ft from any windows or doors, or something like that. when the city came out, most of my apt. was in the low 50s, and the kitchen (small, leaky door) was in the 40s. it had been like that for three days, bc the owners of the prop. mgmt. co. were out of the country, it started on a holiday weekend (jan. 1, iirc), and it took that long for the inspector to come out. I wasn't the only tenant who called the city. The inspector visited a few apartments, issued something scary to the mgmt. co., and the next day & thereafter we had good heat.
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Sep 29, 2022 04:14
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I have a hard time understanding how bad a hurricane is going to be. I can never remember the categories. same, except burn degrees. BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:sure, but lets say you go from HOF poster Willa Rogers and your next tenant is How Are U and they text you democrat propaganda all the time I don't know what HOF stands for & urban dictionary makes it sound like even I would rather have how are u as a tenant than me. 
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Sep 29, 2022 21:04
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well, that's much better than the shart or w/e the def was on urban dictionary.  I'm usually good at sussing out acronyms, too.
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Sep 29, 2022 23:38
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spacemang_spliff posted:a year or so ago my mom sold the house we grew up in because it was basically too much house for her and my step dad, they couldn't maintain it and couldn't really afford it. some house flippers offered to buy it as is. it's up on zillow now and goddamn it looks like poo poo. what in the name of industrial prison lighting is going on with that third-down left-hand ceiling fixture?
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Oct 28, 2022 20:21
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:People like sterile. Clean pallette, they can go hog wild!* when my friends were prepping their 100-yr-old victorian for market last year their agent told them to paint all the natural woodwork white & the off-white walls all grey. they had already gotten an offer accepted on a place they were buying tho so they sold their old house without loving it all up.
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Oct 28, 2022 20:24
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2822-Dwight-Ave_Pittsburgh_PA_15216_M30723-82999 why aren't these places using that software that replaces uggo furnishings with tasteful decor? like, even fsbo listings use that poo poo these days, but this is repped by a sotheby's affiliate, which is extra lol given the sotheby name's (former) cachet.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:32
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the last 3 rental leases I've signed specifically stated that you can't cover your windows with anything other than curtains or blinds.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:58
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Minimum lot sizes + habitable square footages + mandatory setbacks are a huge part of why anyone under 40 can't afford a place of their own anymore. also why the 1/3 of americans over 50 living alone, as cited in the story, can't afford to buy a place of their own.
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Nov 29, 2022 21:38
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peggy from natick is correct: gas leafblowers suck & everyone should leave the leaves.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:01
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grow the grass + leave the leaves are 2 initiatives I wholeheartedly support, even tho I'm a renter, bc they both favor laziness, which I also wholeheartedly support. 
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Dec 11, 2022 18:03
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no lies detected.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:28
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I know that density is good, especially in a place like l.a., but a teardown for a home like this to be replaced by only a duplex should be a crime. https://twitter.com/esotouric/status/1611568549524299777
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Jan 8, 2023 22:11
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projecting what? that old things are good, lol? bc I would beg to differ, but I grew up (and now live) in a city with beautiful victorian architecture & have a soft spot for it.
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Jan 8, 2023 22:39
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A Bakers Cousin posted:an old mansion replaced with luxury apartments still doesn't seem like a loss it's being torn down for two units, not a complex.
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Jan 8, 2023 23:09
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The sales listing has it as 4 bedrooms/2 baths. Interior pics make it look fugly as hell.
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Jan 9, 2023 01:27
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Nice backyard worth $1 million+ sales price. And the upper windows being barred is an elegant touch. I'm starting to change my mind about the teardown.
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Jan 9, 2023 01:29
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Ammanas posted:no government entity is going to ban buying homes to rent them, even if it's wildly in their interests to do so that's where the evil HOAs come in handy.
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Jan 11, 2023 03:34
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The modest 4b, 3ba victorian that my friend grew up in, which her parents bought for $19k, is on the market for $1.1 million. (Her family sold it off 20 years ago.) Even in here in the chicago northern burbs that's a wildly inflated price & I'd be surprised if it sells for much more than $700k.
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Jan 11, 2023 20:42
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Lol illinois. As of 2019 property taxes were $18k, lmao. They went down slightly during covid year 2020 but were still $17k. The house last sold in 2013 for $725k after my friend's family sold it in the early aughts for $350k.
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Jan 11, 2023 21:00
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Colorado had dirt-cheap property taxes when I was scoping out homes there a decade ago. Cook County probably has the highest property tax in IL, and then living in a city in which a tax-free non-profit keeps gobbling up property doesn't help either.
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Jan 11, 2023 21:15
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actionjackson posted:how is 4BD/3BA modest bc it had tiny rooms + two baths when it was first built. My friend grew up there with four siblings. I think someone finished the attic at some point, and my friend's ex (a contractor) built an enclosed back porch on it, and some rooms have been merged, but I grew up in a similar house & it was far from spacious at the time. (That house, too, has since had an attic finished & some other renos.) Think large (and especially the catholic) 60s families. There was a rowhouse across the street from us with 4 bedrooms + finished attic but they had 10 freaking kids. They called it the baby boom for a reason!
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Jan 11, 2023 22:06
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Oh, yeah: I've been paying my clients' prop. tax bills + also hear my house-owning friends grumble. Pretty slick of them to delay sending out the bills by five months & coincidentally put the mailings after the november elections!
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Jan 11, 2023 22:09
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My clients get letters on the reg from (non-Burke or crony) lawyers soliciting appeals; they charge a flat (fairly low) percentage of the amount saved (and nothing if the appeal fails) so it's worth considering.
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Jan 11, 2023 22:11
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This seems cheap for a FLW-designed home but if it's like his others then the inside is a wreck by now. Outside's pretty, though. And lol at the property taxes mentioned in the kicker. quote:Oak Park home that is an early design by Frank Lloyd Wright listed for $595,000 
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Jan 17, 2023 00:23
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interior = wreck confirmed, from the one inside pic on the listing. lmao, a teardown that can't be torn down.
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Jan 17, 2023 00:25
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actionjackson posted:this is one of the few detached homes I was interested in (size + really good location), but if you check the price history it's obviously a completely overpriced flip. $345/sq ft, lol.
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Jan 17, 2023 20:23
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War and Pieces posted:This is far from a wreck this looks like something immediately livable. I see ceiling (water?) damage & a wrecked floor. But the real tell is that this was the only interior photo.
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Jan 18, 2023 03:46
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Beautiful ceiling fixture, tho; I wonder if it's original.
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Jan 18, 2023 03:47
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lol This three-bedroom home in Clifton, Nottingham, is mostly unremarkable — the two-story brick structure is priced at a reasonable $222,000 and photos of the interior show a humble family-oriented abode with wall-to-wall carpeting and plenty of natural light. Social media denizens, however, were quick to notice a standout oddity after the house listed on the platform Rightmove: Despite its average appearance, two things are very, very wrong. Namely, there’s part of a bloody “keep out” sign visible in a mirror over the living room fireplace — and a grim reaper appears to be lurking just outside the front window. The haunted house-level details, it turns out, are leftover Halloween decorations that unfortunately made it into the listing.
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Jan 18, 2023 23:42
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It's bordered by cities & suburbs & has had the same boundaries for 150 years. There's suburban sprawl but Chicago itself is hardly "sprawling."
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Jan 19, 2023 17:39
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mastershakeman posted:lol How long has zillow been giving "zestimates" on rental values for single-family homes? That's the first time I've noticed it.
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Jan 20, 2023 17:14
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That catlick family with 10 kids I mentioned who lived in a row house across the street from where I grew up only had one bathroom, lol.
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Jan 20, 2023 20:46
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Beached Whale posted:Bold new vision from the Biden administration on the issue of rental affordability I read another story about it & it's just more grift $ for some politically connected NGOs.
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Jan 26, 2023 00:44
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Gross San Francisco hoarder home sells for $500K over ask with 12 offers (more pics at link  )
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Feb 2, 2023 22:15
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I was thinking it'd be a teardown. Hoarder remediation is p. difficult to pull off.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:The house across the street from me had hoarders- young couple bought it for like ~150k more than what I payed for my house the street that is 2x the sqft and bedrooms. I mean, the land value can exceed the property's worth, and that's likely the case with that house (in SF). Tear down, build a fourplex, sell each unit for $2-3 million (if not more).
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mawarannahr posted:ive been renting a 1br in a small condominium for a few years (moving out this month ok but you're a scrub for not flattering a cornered box at the seams for the recycling bin. 
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