Buying A House: C or D?

ramps!

haha, that sounds super fun! But it would require replacing some steep stairs with a ramp, which probably isn't a good look during our icy winters

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2010/1004/360_ramps_0413.jpg

naw, I meant throwing some pieces of wood over the stairs to facilitate dragging it up and down

I've got a self-propelled gas mower with bag. Use it for grass and leaves. I can't believe I used to rake the entire yard.

I live in a city with one of those leaf vacuums, and I still use the mower over most of them.

Used to have a mower with the words NOT FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA over the engine. Made me feel guilty as hell.

I would feel like such a badass if I was pull-starting something that said NOT FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA on it

My wife's grandfather had a huge yard and was ojibwe so he had a 1970s Lawn Chief riding mower to celebrate his heritage. It had a goddamn cigarette lighter so he didn't have to stop mowing to chain smoke.

ILX's inner Hank Hill comes to the fore.

which thread reveals ILX's inner Bobby Hill?

riding mowers with cigarette lighters! I remember those

lollllll

Not my photo, but this is how I learned to drive a stick originally.

http://jacques_lacasse.tripod.com/CubCadet/Cub-Cadet-147_01b.jpg

Like literally I think our tractor was that exact model. I laughed my head off the first time I saw an electric corded mower.

I do not understand electric corded mowers

but I also have a grandfather who, my parents discovered, had multiple saws in his garage where the cord was cut off a couple feet from the saw. in other words, he probably accidentally cut through the cord while cutting something.

haha, yeah I struggle enough with the much lower vacuum cord stakes. corded mower sounds difficult.

My mower is gas, and my weed eater is battery powered. I bought a leaf blower that's corded, which is not something I'd recommend if you have no outdoor outlets (or probably even if you DO have outdoor outlets).

our mower is gas and we also have an industrial-strength weed whacker with a metal blade (for those times when we haven't mowed and the shit is three feet high)

a quarter of an acre of invasive weeds is no fun to mow

My back yard is about 90% clover ground cover (with a few patches of fescue here and there). I love being able to mow it as low as the mower will go and still have it be green as hell. If I could clover up my front yard, I'd probably do it (but it's a hodgepodge of several kinds of grass already).

In 30 years of mowing I've only cut the cord once. It's not hard to manage once you get used to the process.

Too old for McDonaldland playgrounds, too young for riding mowers with cigarette lighters.

Just right for exploring dank ILX threads.

This house belongs to some friends of a friend who are making a career-related exit of Ann Arbor. I'm curious how much of this house's charm is in the furnishing and details and how much is in the house itself.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/705-Madison-Pl_Ann-Arbor_MI_48103_M41457-81517

they've done a great job with furnishings but that is a gorgeous house on its own. i like it more than the columbus one upthread. i went to grad school in ann arbor and would not have guessed that housing is so cheap to buy there.

Yeah I think the house alone is pretty nice, furnishings or not.

My wife went to Michigan and we still know a number of people who live in Ann Arbor, and it's definitely on the list of like 10 places we might consider moving to someday. I'm always shocked at how reasonable housing is when I check out houses there; it seemed so expensive when I had moved there from super brokae-ass Upper Michigan. But compared to where I live now - which is not really that close to Seattle their real estate prices sort of set the norm - it seems super cheap for what you get.

I can imagine that house looks a bit rougher and dated without the furnishings.

The little covered area in back looks new at least. I would do something similar to my house, but the architecture styles would clash and not in a good way.

As firmly anti-Medway as I am, Rochester looks like it has the potential to be nicer than its neighbours.

This property has effectively gone already but I don't know where else you are likely to get well-presented Victorian terraces within 35 minutes of London for a similar price:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52477610.html

The way the country is going Medway towns are likely to be the nu-Dalston #tomorrowspredictionstoday #dontknowckittillyoutriedit

There is definitely scope for a "new Brighton" at least. I am not sure where else relatively young people are meant to go.

Apparently Ramsgate is the place where art people have been going for the past couple of years.

sv tracing the john harris grand tour through the ukip marginals

Is there anything to do in Camden, NY? Because this sumbitch is only $105K.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/32-Church-St_Camden_NY_13316_M41032-40625

http://p.rdcpix.com/v01/la09d4045-m1xd-w640_h480_q80.jpg

I bet you could get it for free.

Only catch - YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS HAVE TO SPEND A NIGHT ALONE IN IT FIRST.

My guess is there are some big plumbing/electric/mold? problems with it. Ghosts schmosts.

that is one of my dream houses!

that is awful it looks like fishmouth ffs

Almost-realistic dream home is for sale about three miles away, and we are totally not in a position to buy it right now. Frustration.

Going to see a house in Rochester this weekend as part of my ongoing tour of the South-East's angriest white communities.

didn't you just move, Nick?

Just = 2 and a half years ago!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-52744853.html?premiumA=true btw

Same time as us (which is probably why I remember) and we still haven't sorted everything out yet!

That seems like a fantastic price, although i'm basing that on big city prices. My Northey lived right around there and his rent didn't seem that cheap. Weirdly I have the same bed as in the picture.

xp the kitchen and bath in that house are from outer space. nice!

Rydon! Every time I go anywhere near Rydon I think of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHpkFOwSEk

Rochester is much nicer than I remember. Definitely geared towards tourism so possibly more outward-looking than Chatham / Gillingham. I only heard one argument about whether the Golly is "just racist because people have made it racist" in the first hour. Saw a pretty nice three-bed terrace for £180k, which seems very cheap less than an hour from London.

UCA has one of its campuses there, so there are a certain amount of ~art students~.

I am selling a house: dud dud dud dud dud

at least right now we have renters so we don't have to deal with preparing it for visits

since we are leaving the country we also get to sell all our stuff! that part isn't so dud since most of what we've acquired isn't worth having

I know this is a stubborn case of depression speaking. But right now I fear my condo will suddenly turn into a massive money pit/liability magnet. Therefore, dud.

I appear to have viewed a house, had an offer accepted and arranged a mortgage in four days. It has all been such a blur i can barely remember what the place looks like. I think it was nice though. It's a small Victorian two-bed terraced in a very nice town within commuting distance of London.

Hooray!

A house down the street from us in North Oakland sold for $250K over the asking price. That's been going on in SF for a while but to see it here is just like WTF. Then as it turns out the buyers already owned a house around the corner- they just 'loved this one so much'... and I'm sitting here wondering jesus christ how much money do you people have, and if you have it why do you choose to live in this JUST OK neighborhood?

so gross