Buying A House: C or D?

Hallways, we have them. But that looks like it used to be a shopfront?

Ah, I hear ya. Like this:

http://photos3.crye-leike.com/photos/littlerock/4/1/CARMLS10375341b.jpg

so: we told the sellers' broker that we were not interesting in their counteroffer and said we were looking elsewhere

within a week the seller came back with a MUCH better counter, slightly higher than we would have liked but within our budget, firm price

we went for it

p&s agreement signed, getting the deposit together

inspections next week?

shit what is happening

!

wau yay

any of you wanna buy my house? I remodeled the bedroom and bathroom and a new stoop/porch deck but will let it go for $2k over my purchase price

Sorry, I don't think I can swing two houses at the same time.

Just found out I sailed through the underwriting process with flying colors. I close on July 31st! Wowee wow!!! I'm about to own a house.

:DDDD yay!!!

we just had serious damage to our inside ceiling from a freak rainstorm that came at the absolute worst moment in our re-roofing process :(

the contractor will fix it, but I am not happy today.

oh and congrats JF, hopefully nothing like that ever happens to you.

Sorry to hear! (And yeah, I hope not.)

congrats JF!

i am just now wrapping my head around all the closing and associated costs etc. and whooooooeee i am white knuckling thru waves of anxiety right now

you will make it through

want to fake timeshare? we could house swap for a weekend sometime

Congrats and good luck.

Also once you own a house, and end up with a bunch of small things that individually would take an afternoon or maybe a weekend to finish, for the love of god just fix the damn things when you have a chance and do not wait until you decide to buy a new place and have to suddenly do all the work on your old house in four weeks before you rent it out or sell it. Just don't do it.

do not wait until you decide to buy a new place and have to suddenly do all the work on your old house in four weeks

Nightmare material ^^^

It's mine now. I'm a homeowner. Now I can bitch about property tax like an adult!

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nice!

we had one more terrifying rain scare last night, I had to get up and throw towels down, but it was just a summer shower and it only leaked in one spot (which is all wood, no drywall). they are almost done rebuilding the eaves.

huzzah! good stuff JF

our home inspection turned up some troublesome stuff -- electrical stuff like extension cords used as permanent wiring, corrosion on the panel, also the roof turned out to be in rough shape -- so it started to look like a money pit. we're bailing. disappointed but also a bit relieved and grateful for the learning opportunity.

Holy shit, is this what the Austin housing market has come to? http://www.austinhomesearch.com/homes-for-sale/TX/Austin/78702/2410-E-11th-118932966#_

Wow, that's getting almost California level. Really good area?

Single lot for sale - Great opportunity and has a great view. Home on property has "good bones" but most likely a tear down.

lol that's fucking hilarious

$315,000

what a fuckin joke

not that boston is any different

If anyone in Atlanta or who wants to move to Atlanta could buy the house right next to me for super cheap, you'd be doing me a huge solid. The guy who rents it right now is a crummy neighbor who leaves his two dogs tethered to the porch all the time and they bark at any and every thing.

https://www.redfin.com/GA/Atlanta/3025-Park-St-30344/home/24574220

I kind of can't fathom that you can buy a house like that for $55,000 that close to a major city. Like I could more than buy it just with the equity I already have in my apartment, kind of makes me want to just pack up and move to Atlanta.

Man, that is cheap. Is there a rest if the story to it?

I hate typing on an ipad, btw.

That's pretty much the typical price for homes that haven't been modernized/renovated in this part of town (which is not the hippest part of town by any means, but it's not gross either). My front door to my office in midtown Atlanta in the mornings takes about 16 minutes by I-75.

I mean the pics make it look reasonably well-kept, although the "as is" in the ad makes me think maybe not.

I mean, thats less than what I payed in 2001 for a 1200SF house built in the 40s.

With Berber carpet.

I'm sure the interior pics were taken before the current tenant moved in. I have no idea what it might look like inside now, because this dude has two dogs tied to his porch and sprays the piss and shit off the porch each night with a hose.

I actually tracked down the guy who I bought my house from on Facebook and let him know it's for sale. He's a contractor and did a lot of the updating of my house before he sold it. He said at closing that he mainly focuses his efforts in the last couple years on this neighborhood, so perhaps he'll bite.

(those photos make that house look like it has massive subsidence problems)

(also, 3 bed / 2 bath and there are only 6 pictures? and two of those are of the outside)

I found out that I actually own a third of my neighbor's back garden!? I bought this house in April. The estate agent was apparently completely unaware of this.

BUILD! BUILD!

Yeah I want to put a little studio out there with a rollaway bed and a typewriter but the lovely Emma B says the idea makes her skin crawl, she can already imagine the damp and the spiders and the freezing air.

I got somewhat obsessed with my property lines this summer, only to to lose interest when I figured out the posts were buried six inches in the ground.

Which, yeah, I can shovel that, but I'd probably be at least halfway over on my neighbor's side too.

It's weird in that it's the farthest third of their garden that belongs to us. So we'd have this kind of avenue that then crooks around behind what's left of their garden.

I got my property surveyed and it turns out my entire lot is about two or three feet toward my neighbor to the south than I thought. As in, my property line on the north is literally the edge of my driveway and the giant tree (I would bet the trunk is between 4 and 5 feet in diameter) on the south is about 2/3 on my property.

I think surveyors generally use a metal detector to find the lot markers, pplains. You should borrow one, you might find buried treasure, too.

xp demand a percentage of the garden's yield

I think surveyors generally use a metal detector to find the lot markers, pplains. You should borrow one, you might find buried treasure, too.

I might be old, but I don't have those type of friends yet.

Haha

Used to irk me that my back neighbor north of the old house had his own little Michigan peninsula connected to my backyard. It was cut off from my property by the parcel line and cut off from him by the drainage ditch that snaked through the neighborhood. Dude had even built a little bridge over the ditch.

http://i.imgur.com/wGbe5ew.jpg

And look at my northeast corner. No one laid claim to that one really. Lot of outlaws and raccoons lived there.

Seems like a good place to bury treasure.