Yeah, it should be county. I'm just assuming, maybe wrongly, that Texas doesn't offer as many state services so the property (county) taxes are higher to compensate. If that's not the case, Texans need to grab and shake their county governments.
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Cad
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No matter how you slice it TX has one of the lowest overall tax burdens in the country. The property tax does not make up for lack of income tax.
Yeah luckily we don't want much changed and our colors will be neutral. The only real big things we are doing is that "server room" upstairs which anyone else will see as a storage closet and network connectivity throughout the house which nobody does around here.
Thats actually how I got my house on a pretty good deal. Pretty heavily customized house and then at the last minute the financing fell through for the person who was building it.
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But like Cad said nothing was off-the-wall. The room above the garage is a standard option, the stamped patio is a standard option, the fenced back yard is a standard option, you could choose like tier 1-4 carpeting, flooring and things like that. They couldn't do anything insanely custom.
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That's a good price for the garage, frankly. And rather than focusing on a particular type of cable, make sure if you put Cat 5/6 cable throughout that they put it in conduit. That way you can replace it with whatever cable comes next. As I have been redoing my house I made sure to put huge conduits, four of them, from basement to first and second floor, and across the house. I can run wire from any room to any room without opening drywall. A whole house upgrade of any kind would be pretty simple here.
Now I know the argument is that everything will be wireless soon, but electricity won't ever be wireless, and at least I have flexibility to do whatever is needed.
I refuse wireless, I like good old fashioned hard cable. I am debating on putting ports in strategic locations though to run POE and WAP's to though. That is going to be a long debate though.
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Eomer
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Interesting, I had no idea builders would operate like that. My sister and bro when they were building custom homes made monthly progress payments. But those were houses in the 700k-1m range, including the lot. And rebuilds in mature neighborhoods. I'd imagine things are quite different if you're building something out in a new subdivision that looks identical to every other house on the block.
My parents spent like 5k to wire their house with CAT5 prior to wifi being heavily present. Anymore with a good router wireless feels exactly like wired. My gaming rig is still on a hardwire but that is only because it is right next to the router and I don't feel like buying a wireless card for it.
My last house was originally 685k in a new subdivision identical to every other house on the block.
I know of several developments with higher costs that are cookie cutter as well.
At least in America the price and cookie cutter are not exclusive descriptors.
Noodleface
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Just putting about 3 computers in there. Nothing huge which is I bracketed it in air quotes.
TJT
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Seeing some properties next week. I have a pre-approval letter that I printed out at various amounts. Going through USAA for the VA loan, and I have a Real Estate Advocate (not sure what this guy does) and a USAA 'approved' realtor assigned to me.
Looking for the usual 3/2:
1. Near Schools
2. Community Pool. Cuz I like having access to a pool all the time
3. Decent yard facing towards farmland (easy).
4. Open floorplan
5. Fuck carpet.
6. High ceilings.
Those are really my main things to look for. But considering whats available I don't think it will be too hard to accomplish this in the area I am looking. Will probably put out some offers next week and see what happens.
Any of you have any tips about this part of the process?
Looking for the usual 3/2:
1. Near Schools
2. Community Pool. Cuz I like having access to a pool all the time
3. Decent yard facing towards farmland (easy).
4. Open floorplan
5. Fuck carpet.
6. High ceilings.
Those are really my main things to look for. But considering whats available I don't think it will be too hard to accomplish this in the area I am looking. Will probably put out some offers next week and see what happens.
Any of you have any tips about this part of the process?
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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I'm sure it's a factor, but it's just more stubs/paperwork in most cases I'd think. I've been at my current job 8 months after being at my prior for 10 years. No problems here except our appraisal just came back an hour ago $9k short. Back to the negotiating table for us.
Cad
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Seems kind of unnecessary, just put them in a cabinet with ventilation.
It's also where she is storing Christmas decorations and the like, it's just a good spot for all the cabling to terminate into and be out of sight.
The TV will be mounted to that wall as well.
Noodleface
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I think the idea of a server closet is cool, I just don't know what I'd put in there. These days when a NAS can fit on a tiny spot on a shelf I don't even know.
I do wish the guy wired our house with cat6 though
I do wish the guy wired our house with cat6 though
You really interested in swimming around in piss and shit? I could see if it is a YMCA and an adult-only pool but fuck swimming around with a bunch of toddlers in shitty diapers and kids who think the pool is a giant urinal.