Buying A House: C or D?

Caek, I have no problem with people doing whatever they want to feel like they're doing their part. Just over sanctimonious (and frankly, often very classiest) BS

Sanctimonious I’ll grant you by this is a thread for people buying a house. A lot of us are buying in the most unaffordable markets on earth. Classist is a stretch.

I like line drying because the physical act of hanging up damp clothes to dry is surprisingly zen-like and calming to me. Also, with the dry air from the Santa Anas my clothes dry faster than they do in the dryer.

we bought the old dairy farm house. i am scared.

Wait is this the retaining wall house???

no, this is the foundation house

Lol I got a foundation guy, I can send him your way. Whereabouts is the house?

Congrats, sufjan! GL with the foundation--how bad could it be?

thanks, io. xp is the foundation guy named Todd? House is off 192 in Mission Canyon. It's not up high on the mountain or anything. Just old and probably has clay underneath. Prepare David Thewlis.

Foundation guy is Colin. Foundation guy #2, that is. Congrats!

No one but me cares but I have a minor homeownership saga going on.

1. When we moved in there was dingy but serviceable beige carpet in our basement.

2. Insert 13ish years of kids, pets, beer, spilled coffee, imperfect potty training, slightly-too-raucous band practices, etc.

3. It looks hideous in the extreme but it had several pounds of furniture and about 2,000 books on top of it.

4. Just as a lark we decided to get an estimate on replacing it. Wow, just two thousand dollars? Heck, sounds great! Go ahead! I'd feared it would be way more. Crap, if I'd known how affordable it was I'd have done it long before.

5. I spend like three days boxing and moving stuff to make it possible to do the installation.

6. The day comes and... it's raining. Apparently they can't do it if it's raining. Fuck. Okay, reschedule.

7. On the rescheduled day, welp, they took a look under the old carpet and there is what looks like asbestos. From circa 1940. No can do.

8. I get an asbestos testing company out and yup, they need to do full abatement - another three thousand dollars. Yikes.

9. Only after that's done can we re-engage the carpet installers.

Bear in mind, the whole time, our thousands of books are in storage, I can't use my music studio and my wife can't use her office.

I guess we don't have much choice - if it's not done now it will just be kicking the can down the road. But argh.

We wust wanted to not look at a coffee stain from 2008, yo.

In general, I think the recommendation is to cover over asbestos rather than remove it? But maybe that's just for walls and roof stuff?

Unfortunately it's in the adhesive under the carpet, and no professional will touch it now without remediation.

If I could do the job myself, I might consider just covering it and pretending nothing was found, but a) I am way too tired and b) I am not skilled enough or devious enough

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYPbY6hOct/?igshid=9h9fxt2uzewy

Despite the location, I could get down with living here and dedicating my life to renovating it.

Without a serious budget I think lifetime project might be generous. But with a kitchen, a shower and enough heat to survive the winter I could get by.

god that account is such a rabbit hole. i want to buy any of those new york ones. and there are two really interesting ones in crisfield, md. they don't advertise that it's 3 ft above sea level, goodbye houses.

Living in the sunbelt sucks, everything was built after 1965.

that library front desk would be great for the new wfh future.

I think it would be dope as a bar

Now way to put in a vent without being unsightly but inlay an induction cooktop and have the ultimate home breakfast station.

I think it would be dope as a bar

this. an open floor plan kitchen was my first thought.

Music space? Coffee house / wine bar with folkie acoustic gigs, jazz combos, piano and cabaret singers?. Cutesy marketing about how it's the only library you don't have to be quiet in.

This and every cheap church that comes up, I think recording space.

dude, churches are more ideal for music venues because they are already categorized for "group assembly" so it is far less likely you'd have to upgrade them to current building (etc) codes for that purpose. Also, some have living quarters built in, or have historic use of building for a living unit, so you could actually have a residential occupant (or host touring acts or have an artist in residency thing) ... like, churches were the original live/work/event warehouse spaces

so many 'they recorded in an old church' indie band release narratives to contend with, though

buy an old whispering gallery to escalate

I know a guy from college who bought a church and literally has been renovating it for almost two decades -- I think he does have some money but is doing a lot of the work himself. It seems like you have to want that kind of lifetime project for its own sake, he's that kind of guy.

Also, that thing has 4500 sf of space just on the main floor! You don't want to deal with that shit -- just the sheer amount of renovation and maintenance that amount of space means, not to mention heating, cooling etc.

"help yourself to some breakfast. we keep our cereal boxes in the old tabernacle."

"west elm doesn't make a barstool that's the exact height of a martyr's crypt. you have to make it yourself."

friend of a friend bought an old historic church 7-8 years ago with the idea of making it into a recording studio but afaict having access to all that extra space has just removed the guardrails from his gear-hoarder tendency, and hes basically been walling himself up there inside a giant tomb of broken amps and garbage-picked gear ever since

https://i.imgur.com/ozqsw1V.jpg

"for this album we wanted to go back to the basics: just 7 monsters in a room making music"

never noticed before the attention to detail in the sets and props. Sweet silverface fender amp

So many church renovations go horribly unless you want to live in a completely open space. The whole sanctuary/balcony/alter space just doesn't cut up well. You get a bunch of boxes and dumb hallways and it's just a waste.

plus a Space Echo and one of the weird '70s drum machine

the Muppets might be recording a live album for Castle Facer

friend of a friend bought an old historic church 7-8 years ago with the idea of making it into a recording studio but afaict having access to all that extra space has just removed the guardrails from his gear-hoarder tendency, and hes basically been walling himself up there inside a giant tomb of broken amps and garbage-picked gear ever since

I have seen this happen to so many people ... though most of them are/were renters ...

So many church renovations go horribly unless you want to live in a completely open space. The whole sanctuary/balcony/alter space just doesn't cut up well. You get a bunch of boxes and dumb hallways and it's just a waste.

I think the best one I've heard about that wasn't an event space or arts ed org use was living quarters + porn studio

"I don't know how to set up a music studio or renovate a house, I think I should try to do both at the same time on hard mode"

"for this album we wanted to go back to the basics: just 7 monsters in a room making music"

"I'll be announcing my pizza topping preference from the pulpit in 15 minutes."

there is always a muppets picture.

live caught my first mouse that's been living in the back yard. Cute little guy. Going to release him 10 miles away in a park by the ocean (where he might be eaten?).

aw what did cute mouse ever do to you?

he pooped in our laundry area which is stupidly in an unconnected sliding door shed with so many entry points outside.

also put him under my hat to cook a coq au vin, and it turned out awful.

I released him and when I turned around, a hawk had landed on my car. I may have picked a popular area for this. Anyway, it's morning and I released him in an area with lots of cover. Should have a chance. If a beautiful bird gets breakfast, that seems like a better outcome than killing traps? I guess I am wondering, though. Many opinions of every kind available on the internet.

how did you know it was *his* poop did you do a dna analysis

12 of his peers (beanie babies, including 1 princess diana bear) convicted him before I loaded him into my car.

before you all attack me, I did not remove the princess di bear from its case during trial

We use snap traps. Call us callous, but it's a sanitary issue.