hahah every time I see A Martinez in a tv show, I think of Santa Barbara
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 September 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
When I was a little kid, I thought Santa Barbara (the show) was somehow linked to Hanna Barbara, so I would watch the first several minutes of it hoping to see cartoons.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
it was on at 2pm (iirc) right before the cartoons and children's shows so ... it makes sense to me
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 September 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
got a quote of $160k for replacing a leaning retaining wall. this house likely not happening.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 September 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
selling agent also gave us a survey, claiming it showed the wall on neighbor's property. It clearly has the wall outside of the neighbor's parcel line. So I think dude is just trying to scam us.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 September 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
So dud, i guess
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 September 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, September 17, 2020 2:58 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Me too! I mean, I learned after the first time though.
― 📺👁️ (peace, man), Friday, 25 September 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Damn there goes my plan of renting and/or buying Surfjan’s condo
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 September 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
well we are just asking the seller to pay for it. they likely won't want to. so a bunch of inspectors/engineers made money off us. and we will remain houseless.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 September 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
My retaining walls are making me not want to own property. I have three of them, two where I'm the upside neighbor and one the downside. They are all slowly failing. One is serious. After being replaced once 10 years ago, my 80-foot redwood tree which is beloved by the residents of the entire block continues to push out my wall into the neighbor's deck. I know I'm going to have to take it down, but it's huge and is hanging right over their house, and it is in the middle of the block with no street access whatsoever, so the idea of trying to remove it gives me nightmares. And thinking about dealing with the 12 or so other owners on neighboring properties who will inevitably be angry about it also really stresses me out
― Dan S, Friday, 25 September 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
yeah, I am permanently off retaining walls after this.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 September 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Retaining walls are pretty much a given in a lot of parts of my town because it’s so hilly. The upside of that is that there are a handful of excellent local stonemasons who really know how to deal with them. We have a couple of old stacked stone walls and a stone and mortar wall and all are holding up well according to the people we had look at them.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 26 September 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
All mention of this gives me shivers. I am wondering what am I going to do. How liable will I be for damage to my neighbor's property? Can they really take a four-foot diameter tree in sections out through my house to the street? Because there is no other way
― Dan S, Saturday, 26 September 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
probs with a crane
― micah, Saturday, 26 September 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
depends on where you live? ... stonemasons are great in theory, but if you live somewhere earthquake prone? Not the best idea, I think the general material used is concrete in that case? ...Also, depending on where you live, the tree issue could be fraught, like ridiculously fraught.
― sarahell, Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
on the plus side: if you have a whole bunch of fraught trees, you can grow apples
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
the velvetundergrowth of retaining walls
― sarahell, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
i'd get that checked if that's a problem for you, likely mold
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
Not many people have built a retaining wall, but every one of them started a band
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
hahahahah thank you!
― sarahell, Sunday, 27 September 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
every one of them started a lawsuit
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 27 September 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
offering on a different house built in the 1850s. But no retaining walls, thank gourd. it's funny how an old house built in the 1970s is gross, but you go back to 1850 and all the gross shit becomes "charming".
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
"You installed this floating bamboo floor 15 years ago? It looks like dogshit. This is the original farmhouse wood floor from 1850? How chaaaaaaaaaarming."
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
"my head hits the ceiling in this room! People sure were hobits back then. Chaaaaaaarming hobits."
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
as much as I like living in a city, if I were going to buy a house now I would buy one far away from everybody
― Dan S, Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
this sentiment, along with low interest rates, is why we must pay a 20% surcharge in this market.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
people from LA bringing their De Niro Heat scheme money my way to escape the Heat
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
:) my friends in rural northwestern Connecticut and in the Great Barrington area of Massachusetts (the Berkshires, one of the greatest places I have ever visited) have said that property there can't be had now because it is all bought up
― Dan S, Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
Great Barrierington
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
the great city flight will result in lots of folks missing one million great food options.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
and good jobs after zoom work hits the wall
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
I think cities still have a future
― Dan S, Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
As skate parks
― May you live in interesting Times New Roman (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
my experience of Great Barrington and Marlborough was that they had great food options
― Dan S, Sunday, 4 October 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
maybe if you like snowcones!
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
just kidding. I'm sure they are wonderful.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 October 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
Philadelphia housing market is nuts right now, but that's mostly New Yorkers cashing in their chips to live in a cheaper city that remains close enough to NY
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 4 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
My friend in Richmond, VA listed her house at noon today, but said she couldn't share a link to the listing because it never made it that far. Immediate buyer!
jfc
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 October 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
I've stayed in Great Barrington and other nearby towns a bunch of times and there are def great food options up there. What you miss out on of course is the sheer number and variety of options that you can only get from density.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link
Oh hi just sold house in 48 hours with 5 offers over asking, some all cash. But now I will be a buyer in a hot sellers’ market so turnabout is fair play I guess. Oh and I will be competing with SG so that will be fun :)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 5 October 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
yay quincie on the west coast!!! just remember that you are moving to a place with earthquakes
― sarahell, Monday, 5 October 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
I’m baffled by DC ppl asking why on earth I would move to California. I’m like hello have you BEEN there?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 5 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
I mean yes earthquakes but jesus that’s better than congress
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 5 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
yeah, we will likely need to sell our place before we get anything here. Maybe the market will also cool off in a year, and rates will remain low. I wouldn't worry about competing with us. I'd worry about the LA folk brining their loot. I love DC when visiting, but our weather is certainly better! I'd add a warning about the wildfires, but you already experienced it.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 5 October 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
*bringing. don't know if people in LA treat their money like a thanksgiving turkey.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 5 October 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
They probably brine their turkey in money.
I, on the other hand, am a commoner who even after selling our DC place will need a *whispers* mortgage.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
we will be needing the biggest mortgage of all time. our mortgage will probably kick off the next crisis as hedge fund managers see it plod across their tickers. they'll make a movie where David Thewlis sees our mortgage and pukes into his office trash can. sorry, everybody.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah send me your lender, gonna need a hunk of dough
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
We’re refinancing from 3.625 bought last summer to 2.75 now. We may not stay but that’s hundreds of dollars a month if we do.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
You probably know this, but you need to factor in the closing costs on the new mortgage when you compare the savings. I did the calculations when we refinanced a number of years ago and it only made sense if we were staying in our house for longer than 3 years (which we did).
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link