See, what did I tell you
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
We had to replace a couple gates and a fence in our yard this summer. It was definitely more expensive than I would have guessed (although all three quotes we got were within $200 of each other), but I'm glad we kicked it off when we did. Talking to the foreman when they were here the other day, he said if we signed the contract now it would be 60-75% higher than what we paid.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
I bookmark this thread to remind me that it's for the best that I still rent
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
note to self: let house fall down around me
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
that appears to be the course i'm on
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
OTOH, periodically checking Redfin / Zillow and seeing my house is guesstimated at 180% what I paid for it in 2009 makes my retirement more realistic. Have delayed refinancing, but am going to jump on it now, aiming for a 10 year fixed. Will still pay less than current payment, and will keep applying extra monthly to principal. 2008 build. House exterior's in good shape. Feel lucky that original home builder CamWest had deserved reputation for good quality. A few appliances are starting to die glorious deaths, like my garbage disposal, too. Coincidence or AI evidence?
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
xxp - torn between the shiftiness of renting and wishing Iβd have been able to buy and the anxiety attack I have for mymomβs roof every time thereβs a chance of hail.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
Q: couches - where can you get one, like, tomorrow?A: nowhere
A: nowhere
Used, everywhere.
― Alba, Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
My god, that's almost...immoral. Walnut! Did they have trouble driving fasteners through it?β Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, June 10, 2021 8:45 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
β Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, June 10, 2021 8:45 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes! it's taking them like 30 minutes to put up each board at the moment.
here's the gate. bottom half is some tropical hardwood. top half is "construction grade" walnut ($11/ft). they're going to stain it to look like the bottom. there's another 30 ft of this to go.
https://i.imgur.com/oAXylDL.jpeg
and i agree it is immoral but they told us it would probably add 3-4 months delay if we waited for more suitable wood, so immoral it is!
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Nice bookcase you've got there!
― pplains, Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
fwiw lumber is finally falling
July lumber futures peaked a month ago and are limit down again today, lowest price since April 22nd: pic.twitter.com/2PfiWBKZLp— Conor Sen (@conorsen) June 7, 2021
but appliances and fixtures/fittings are going to take longer to come back in stock.
we bought one of these (i know it's insane $ for some foam but it's big hit, highly recommended if you have young kids, made lockdown bearable). like i say, it's just foam, shipping from inside the US. it took 9 weeks to be delivered.
https://nuggetcomfort.com/products/the-nugget
and now this https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/business/starbucks-shortages.html
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
caek is that big enough for a smallish adult
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Asking for me
yes, i have slept on it
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
Ha we just got our nugget after ordering it like 5 months ago
― Heez, Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
"We believe we will continue to experience below-average levels of new housing supply in our markets which will support future rental rate growth and home price appreciation." Blackstone, in the prospectus for the Invitation Homes REIT— Alex Fisch (@AlexFischCC) June 9, 2021
When they tell you why they're going to do what they then do, believe 'em. pic.twitter.com/FIoRvD12KG— Alex Fisch (@AlexFischCC) June 9, 2021
How do can we stop the REITs? American Homes 4 Rent, another residential REIT buying your neighborhood, recently disclosed its Achilles' Heel in another SEC filing--more homes equals more vacancies and slower rent growth. pic.twitter.com/mL41xlUqjL— Alex Fisch (@AlexFischCC) June 10, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
I have a wooded vacant lot out my kitchen windows, with squirrels and woodpeckers and raccoons. Lately there's been guys in orange vests wandering around and it stresses me out, I know they want to build an ugly apartment building there (aka "podium building"). I'm torn because California obv needs plenty of new housing but this weird hilly lot has never been built on (in a heavily developed neighborhood).
I might 'discover' some pre-Christian artifacts over there if I'm forced to.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
Fuck me. We need a new fence and just started the process of looking for bids. One 16' section of our fence collapsed and we figured we should just replace the entire thing because it's all old and patched up. We have a gigantic yard, wondering if we should put this off for a few months...
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
If you can get by, I'd wait and check in a month or so when prices should have stabilized quite a bit.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
xxp ralph fiennes will find your boat
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
xp agreed. we're doing the fence as part of a big job involving the garage, so the lumber craziness is getting lost in the noise of that project, but i would not do a fence on its own right now. it might make sense to find the contracter and book them for like september/october though. it seems a lot of them are booked weeks in advance.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
so caek are you saying I should invest in INVH instead of trying to buy a house?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
sadly yes
right? if you hate blackrock buying homes as investment vehicles wait until you hear about homeowner cartels around the country conspiring to keep supply low and prices high https://t.co/SyQoJL8DES— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 10, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
It does seem safer to invest in hundreds of thousands of houses than one house, which could catch fire and wipe me out
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Ideally Iβd just rent a house directly from the state
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
Anyway splashing $1k into INVH just to annoyβ¦someone. Myself.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Used, everywhere.β Alba, Friday, 11 June 2021 2:45 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
β Alba, Friday, 11 June 2021 2:45 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
OTM, we just got a great* set of dining room chairs for a local auction house for what seems like a very reasonable price for 6 solid walnut chairs.
*greatness is still to be determined lockdown only ended last night, but if we really donβt like them we can keep them until we find something we do like and then back to the auction house they go.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 10 June 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
Estate/divorce/house clearance auctions are good too.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Thursday, 10 June 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
are there not bedbugs down under
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 11 June 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link
homes get more valuable because not owning a home gets worse.
https://gen.medium.com/the-rents-too-damned-high-520f958d5ec5
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 June 2021 11:12 (two years ago) link
Even in Philly, the housing market is wild. Fixer-uppers in our neighborhood are going for as much as we bought our renovated house for in 2018, and newly renovated stuff is going for almost double.
Some friends who live on the other side of "a line" that divides one part of the city from another had a couple move into the house across the streetβ they bought their house for 120k in 2011. The house across the street went for 850k to a couple who recently came to Philly from New York.
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
is the line school districts?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 11 June 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
omg you bought the sex couch!
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/02/10254737/nugget-after-dark-tiktok
― sarahell, Friday, 11 June 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
Why doesn't it come in white? π§’
― Alba, Friday, 11 June 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
maybe it does/did and you can find a used one?
― sarahell, Friday, 11 June 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
All couches are sex couches. Thatβs one reason to not pick one up off the street.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 11 June 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Only in a trucker hat, surely.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 11 June 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
this is me
http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/clooney-burn/george-clooney-burn-after-reading-11.jpg
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 11 June 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
We have accumulated most of the furniture needed for day one at this stage and have anything we're bringing with us in storage but still no completion date
Any day now.....any day now.....
― Eschew things thirty two times before swallowing them (darraghmac), Friday, 11 June 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
are there not bedbugs down underβ mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 11 June 2021 2:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
β mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 11 June 2021 2:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The spiders ate them all.
Seriously though, I never gave it a thought, but itβs does appear that is a risk, but not a massively common one down here.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 11 June 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
why would bedbugs be a problem for dining room furniture?
― sarahell, Friday, 11 June 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
They can live in wood, apparently.
― Alba, Friday, 11 June 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
BlackRock thinks it's classic
― treeship., Sunday, 13 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
i like #lumber #twitter memes
@LumberTrading pic.twitter.com/PCTnBBRaBE— Andrea Matranga (@andreamatranga) June 14, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Fuck me, next door's house is on the market at twice market value and has had two viewings so far in 48 hours.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Would get a fella thinking
We have a completion date which is the first actual news in months, the interim period saw our landlady sell up so it'll be skin-of-teeth to get everything done by end of next month but lets see how it goes
― Eschew things thirty two times before swallowing them (darraghmac), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
Got to buy in the same market though so it's a self-defeating argument.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:12 (two years ago) link
How are you figuring out market value?
― Alba, Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
Welp my parents were going to build a house this year but the price has gone up $170k from the 2020 quote they were working towards. Looks like they're going to wait it out and leave all their stuff in storage for possibly 1-2 years.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
Zoopla have a pretty accurate last sold/current value metric for pretty much every house which I've found to be very, very reliable - within Β£10k of selling price for about 3 years round these parts and tested most recently in February.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link