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
https://nuggetcomfort.com/products/the-nugget
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
β π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, June 11, 2021 10:11 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's a little hard to explain, but essentially, in West Philadelphia, there were the areas that were red-lined due to government and bank malfeasance/bigotry...but one of the biggest employers in the city (UPenn) is also located in West Philly, and has had a program since the 70s wherein they will fund a large percentage of many Penn workers' purchase of a house *within a proscribed area*. That area originally went to certain line, then it was moved further out, then further out again, this last time finally breaking the barrier of where the government/banks had red-lined back in the day.
We live in this last area. The friends I am speaking of live in the middle area.
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Walked through my new house for the first time today lads, its a pleasant feeling
― Eschew things thirty two times before swallowing them (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
:D so exciting!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
nice, congrats!
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
Oh, we are in about a fortnight.
Seems nice, we'll keep it i think
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
Congrats! We're just renting with our almost-two year old, and expecting to be kicked out sometime around the end of the year. Which gives me about four months to find a job, get a mortgage and find a chain-free house or flat for three of us to move into. NO PROBLEM I'M SURE.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
(When I say "me" I mean "me and my capable and employed partner")
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
Jaysis no pressure
Gluck!
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
i had wondered why houses literally never go for asking price or below where i live. it can't be that hard to guess the valuation, can it? of course it's not.
In addition to sky high prices and near-zero inventory, the Bay Area housing market trades on a sadistic pricing scheme in which homes are drastically underpriced so that buyers are forced into a blind auction. Great story by @candacejackson. https://t.co/4W2j3MW6uw pic.twitter.com/mkNpenLzTh— Conor Dougherty (@ConorDougherty) September 7, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
(i don't live in the bay area but i assume it's the same pretty much everywhere in coastal california)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
all homes should be sold in a single round sealed-bid second-price auction, as should everything else
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
it would make grocery shopping a trifle complex, but hey
― Richard Marxist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
about to embark on an $80,000 foundation repair journey. good news is we will save hundreds on our earthquake insurance every year. just need to live for 200 more years to start seeing a return. ok, it should make us safer for The Big One. maybe also slow down the east-to-west roll of lego heads that hit the floor.
― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
I own curtains as of today
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
The contrast between the last two posts is pretty much the breadth of the home ownership experience.
― Taliban! (PBKR), Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
a wide breadth with one consistent theme: the spending of your money
― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
Hey it only cost me 1/20th of an earthquake-proofing im a happy man
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link