Buying A House: C or D?

you really want to be close to the ice cream

and the pot store. dangerous combo.

ha true. place has the good old house style. I wish daily grind made better coffee. Handlebar is a short trip up. Location will probably be quieter than previous, but a tradeoff being a bit further away from downtown.

We’d reno kitchen immediately

yeah that's what we did with current place

Our place was a totally rehabbed former trap house, so while some elements and original details remain and are rather nice, others-- such as the wall-to-wall in most of the upstairs rooms-- are clearly covering up damaged wood they were too cheap to fix.

The people who bought the place a sheriff's auction, rehabbed, and flipped it were clearly not too happy we are gay, but we were clearly not too happy that they were both FBI agents, so whatever.

they have a show, "Love It or List It or Go to Jail for Planted Drugs"

Fall nesting is hitting me so hard I've watched about 100 tiny house videos on youtube in the last week and visions of wood stoves are dancing in my head. While at the same time living in my OWN tiny house, which is actually a spacious NYC apartment that's overly full of things I don't need.

Our place was a totally rehabbed former trap house, so while some elements and original details remain and are rather nice, others

elements and details of its past as a trap house??? Like, in order to preserve the original charm, we elected to keep the plywood over the windows rather than replace with double-paned glass?

While it would have been an improvement to life-safety and create a cleaner aesthetic, we chose to keep the half-dozen or so long-ass orange extension cords the previous occupants used in place of getting the electrical fixed? Idk, orange is a nice color! Especially in the kitchen, it does have associations with comfort food.

Bidding on a house we never set foot in went so well the first time, we're doing it again. This one has known foundation issues lollllll.

Where is this one

Not on foothill i hope

Oak Park. Was under contract but buyers got cold feet when they did inspection(s). I'm no wuss so bring it.

I mean apparently the owners went ahead and fixed the carbon monoxide leak, so truly what do I have to worry about.

Too close to hope ranch to burn down

you have to spend time a house to fall in love with it

And for it to fall down on YOU *golf swing*

xxxp Nice. Same situation but different houses.

is it a slab or raised foundation?

been really into foundations

raised

Need post and pier replacement, perimeter wall, or floor releveling?

post and pier, maybe.

if we even get the house.

not only is there no dishwasher

there is also no clothes dryer

"i don't even own a dishwasher"

or AC, but I believe the consensus was that Real Santa Barbarans (?) don't do AC.

That's right. We derisively call people with AC "Spanos" and they're excluded from the solstice drum circle.

Having AC would be amazing

You’re in a damn desert Hang ur clothes

^this

It smells good in Santa Barbara

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Well, hang your clothes, but SB isn't a desert (even LA isn't a desert).

dry your clothes in the Santa Ana winds as you drink Kirschwasser from a shell

think of the lack of clothes dryer as a favor they are doing you, so that you can purchase a new one yourselves, as opposed to dealing with an existing one with expensive annoying problems you have to get fixed.

tbh if you don't have kids and you live in southern california then you should not use a dryer 11 months of the year (3 weeks of the year it's on fire, 1 week it's raining). i mean "should" here in the moral sense. if you get one, get an electric one and pay the utility company extra for green power.

uh what? This is assuming a lot about the amount of space people have to live in, their wardrobe, and other time commitments -- I'm sorry but I am not hanging socks and individual pairs of panties on a drying rack ...

I've never had a dryer

i'm not hanging my battletoads cosplay shit outside. i've invested too much time.

Seems like we have this conversation from time to time.

If I had the space and time to air-dry all the clothes, bedlinens, towels, and everything for four persons, multiple pets, and a not-very-efficient household through a harsh winter in 1,000 square feet I suspect I would be doing so. But I don't.

I wish rain water were beer and we had wings, also. But we don't.

it's fine to have, or not have, some of the common household appliances depending on one's preferences and living situation.

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 12, 2020 1:18 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't have a dishwasher or garbage disposal and do not feel a need for them.

call all otm

(fwiw I'm jus playin my parents have always had a dryer even tho I wonder why)

In 20 years we’ll be all nostalgic about having fridges. And food to put in them.

FWIW, in the same week my dryer stopped spinning (after I already repaired it once four weeks ago), washer kept leaving stink on clothes, and fridge started to give out (have been having problems since we moved in and have already had someone come and try to fix), so I am literally getting new all three the same day. New house problems

And for some reason the fridge space between the cabinets is the dimensions of almost no fridge on the market currently -- all are either 1-2 inches too tall or much too small. I bought an LG that was the closest to maximizing the space that I could but wastes like three inches of width.

yeah i think i bought four appliances in one trip the weekend after we closed. the fridge lasted another year and then i replaced that too before it reached a catastrophic stage.

Welcome to Australia, they just build the fridge holes any size they want, and then the fridges come from a mixture of overseas markets with different standards, I wouldn’t be worrying about 3 inches.

it's fine to have, or not have, some of the common household appliances depending on one's preferences and living situation.

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 12, 2020 1:18 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

i used to agree with this but the planet is quite literally dying and if you have the space then you should spend 3 minutes a week hanging your socks up.

valid exceptions, i'm sorry i don't make the rules: your dryer is electric and your electricity is renewable (e.g. Seattle). you need to do laundry every day (e.g. kids, job). it rains all the time (e.g. Seattle).