Buying A House: C or D?

I've actually never cleaned my gutters and I looked at them the other day and they were utterly free of debris so dont fall for that racket

lucky!

I have some pretty awesome trees, including a huge-ass maple that shades half of my home that's dropping buds and those big old seeds all over right now

trees always seem like a nci idea when planted but when they become massive overloards of the naeighborhood they seem like tehy shoudl have been planted in a a forest

its better for a residential neighborhood to have medium sized tree, not malpe or oak or white pine, tho I do love trees

oh man i love big trees. my yard has a bunch of small trees but neighbors all around have some tall ones and they surround my back yard, they are very nice

this is why new suburbs are horrible, they cut all the good trees out and have these lame-ass twigs stuck in the yard

yea for sure

the first third of my drive to work is on streets where there's almost a complete tree canopy over the road, trees on both side forming a little roof over me

we have some beautiful tall pin oaks everywhere throughout our town but they were all planted around the exact same time 100 years ago, so they are all starting to die now. some are in better shape than others. the city is replacing them as they cut the worst ones down and trying to diversify the canopy but it is a big change to see a giant oak replaced with a little sapling. houses that i thought looked very cool under a tall tree's shade now look bare and exposed

the linden tree that was in the area between my sidewalk and the street was not doing well and when I let the city know, they cut it down. it was for the best, but the front of my house is going to be hotter this summer :(

There are several enormous giganto trees in my neighborhood and around my lot. There used to be even more, but after one on the lot next door fell on my house (three years before I bought it, which is why it got fixed, updated, and put on the market for me to eventually buy). I love in constant fear of one of the ones at the rear of my lot falling this direction (they're definitely tall enough to reach).

Also, I don't know if this is the ordinance everywhere, but I learned that if a tree falls on your lot in Atlanta/Fulton County, it's the responsibility of the party whose lot it FELL ON to get it removed. That seems fucked up, but it may also explain why the lady who lived here just wanted to get the fuck out after having to deal with some shit like that.

I love old suburbs full of 100-year-old trees, including the ones in my yard. Some of them are dying; all of them need trimming. Every time the tree people come out, it is at least a thousand dollars. Current estimate is $1,500 for the things we should do immediately, and an additional $2,400 for the things we ought to do sooner rather than later.

("We need to call the tree people" sounds way cooler in fantasy novels than it does in homeowning btw.)

Many of our biggest trees are slightly straddling the property line, but my neighbor will not share costs. There is a part of me that wants to wait for something to die then gently nudge it into his den, but that would probably cause more problems than it solves.

Painting, gah, another "a thousand dollars every time you call a professional" thing. Personally I would rather DIY paint outside than inside, because we can't shut down life inside during the drying time. We have no extraneous rooms (four people in 1,000 sq ft), it smells awful for days, and a mischievous preschooler cannot be kept away from wet paint or painting tools.

When was the last time you used new interior paint? It doesn't really have much of an odor anymore.

Low/no-VOC interior paint solves the interior odor issue, but I've never been in a situation where I couldn't leave a room alone at least overnight.

Exterior would always go to pros for me - odds are their spray job will look better than brushed on paint and I don't have to get up and down a ladder a million times (or rent/borrow a rolling scaffold).

When I was working in construction, the number of people in an office who'd mysteriously fall ill when we painted a room on the other side of the office with modern latex paint was hilarious to me. No one is using oil-based paint on an interior anymore.

the previous owner PAINTED THE CEILING BLUE. and the walls.

Previous owners of my home mercifully left the ceiling white, but installed blue high pile carpet to match the sponge-painted walls.

http://i.imgur.com/n4fkCCc.jpg

whoa

they sponge-painted the baseboard heaters

wowee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9-PN1sftaI

I actually had a door to door painter guy come and tell me how shit my house looked and I was lame to nto hire him and I just closed teh door - I know it looks shitty but I am cultivating the haunted hsoeu look

https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/az/concho/669-county-road-8235-stanford/pid_18337473/

i mean

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Contemporary eccentric full log sided custom home on 20+/- acres for the cat fancier! If you love cats this is the home for you! If not bring your sandblaster! Custom build, hardwood kitchen cabinets (Oak, Lacewood, and Bocote) artistically accented with river rock. Cat walkways and in great room Medieval cat castle with different levels (stone). All interior doors custom built (wood). Must see to believe it does exist!!! Once in a lifetime find extremely fun home!

what the

wow

The saddest thing here is that cats actually prefer mid-century modern.

:D

if they wanted to go viral they probably shoulda taken better pictures.

even so apparently...

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this seems fine.
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that seems like the perfect setting for a horror film

getting deep dream vibes

chef michael symon's house is for sale: https://www.redfin.com/OH/Cleveland-Heights/2080-Kent-Rd-44106/home/66296322

now that's my shit

never mount a tv over the fireplace, though. worst home trend ever

That's where mine is, but it's a) a decommisioned/decorative-only fireplace now and b) there was literally no place else to put it because of where the windows are and a built-in bookcase.

our soon-to-be house has a perfectly-installed bracket above the fireplace that will be mercilessly removed. i can't stand watching stuff at an upward angle.

i wonder if michael symon watches himself cook on that kitchen tv while he cooks.
can't believe that house is less expensive than my 2 bedroom apartment in a not totally desirable neighborhood in brooklyn.

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/renovation/news/a32031/home-improvement-fails/

That house is pretty rad, especially the kitchen. I'm honestly kind of surprised at how small the fridge is, compared to the giant monstrosities I expect to see in fancy kitchen remodels these days. But TV over the fireplace is terrible, always. Even moreso when new houses are built with something specifically for a TV in that space. I'm struggling to think about where to put the TV in our new house and refuse to put it over the fireplace even if that might be the most logical spot.

Finally sold our current house yesterday, two weeks later than we were supposed to, thanks to the lender being a dolt and screwing up a couple of things. So I technically do not own a home nor do I have a lease anywhere for the next two weeks when we close on the new place.

Congratulations and good luck!!

Our dumb American house finally closed yesterday, after two years! we hadn't paid the mortgage for a year, intending never to live in the USA again, so we didn't care about foreclosure, but the bank was happy to take a short sale since it wasn't gonna sell (or rent) any better as their property.

my advice is to avoid buying or for that matter living in the American midwest but ymmv

my advice is to avoid buying or for that matter living in the American midwest but ymmv

Too late. Though honestly there is a lot about moving back to the Midwest that kind of bums me out.

i miss boston a lot sometimes and i just spent last week in colorado thinking "why would anyone want to live anywhere else" but having a tiny mortgage on a 5 bdrm cool old house in a decent city is pretty dope, hard to get that anywhere outside the midwest

btw i love euler always referring to his house as a his "dumb midwestern house" itt

that phrase has loomed in my head since we closed and i worry that someday i might refer to my place as that

btw i am also not a fan of the TV over the fireplace. TVs in general are ugly and suck even if a necessity (for me), no good place to put one really

in a cabinet that can close imo

good point

fuck that, I have no shame in my television watching. that sucker gets a place of honor alongside the wall, with my most comfortable furniture facing right at it

yes agreed but it's nice to be able to cover up the great black void if one wants.

toilet notch resplendent