Lanx
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why don't you start building a gazebo, sounds like you can just marry off your entire clan in your backyard
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Home buying thread
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Jysin
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May I ask what you did for a living that allowed so much free time to develop your property and have balanced family life?
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Self employed in the music industry. It allowed me to work mostly from home/studio, and do 2-3 day business trips for scouting and relations. Got out of that business, doing renovations and rebuilds now. Have a staff, mostly direct traffic rather than do the work myself. I spend several years treating my home/property like my primary job, and it's remarkable what you can accomplish when you work 8 hour days on your own home. At the point of buying the place I didn't really need to work anymore, so I focused on things like creating a home and being with my family. Business pretty much took care of itself.
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My kids don't have enough cousins for that. And we're not in West Virginia.
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Update, additional data point...
Reference from original post awhile back: Listing price started at 355, dropped to 335. They’re getting it for 315, plus the seller is paying 7500 in closing costs.
Home inspection only found minor issues. Two sections of the privacy fence, beams are fine, but boards are pulling away from the 2x4s. Pretty simple fix. Seller offered to lower the purchase price $1k and have us fix it. Agreed to that.
The appraisal came in at 328, so with a purchase price of 314 they are already ahead. My very stubborn (also old) stepdad is having a hard time understanding how he can "have equity already" when buying a place, but that's what the market is doing around the Walmart HQ area.
Reference from original post awhile back: Listing price started at 355, dropped to 335. They’re getting it for 315, plus the seller is paying 7500 in closing costs.
Home inspection only found minor issues. Two sections of the privacy fence, beams are fine, but boards are pulling away from the 2x4s. Pretty simple fix. Seller offered to lower the purchase price $1k and have us fix it. Agreed to that.
The appraisal came in at 328, so with a purchase price of 314 they are already ahead. My very stubborn (also old) stepdad is having a hard time understanding how he can "have equity already" when buying a place, but that's what the market is doing around the Walmart HQ area.
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Palum
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I mean if the market was actually hot they wouldn't be selling it for 50k under asking, just saying...
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It's 50k under the original listing price, yes. But they dropped it to 335, which is when the offer process started. The seller is on a timeline, as their preferred builder is ready to start building their home on some land they own. I don't recall when I first posted, but the closing date is April 8.
There is definitely some cool down in the area, but buy/rent ratio is still strongly tilted towards buy.
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Captain Suave
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
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I just had fences done. Cheapest I could find from a reputable outfit, regardless of materials, was $60 a linear foot, so about $9k for your job. Quotes ranged up to almost twice that for fancier trims. (This included removing and existing fence.)
Gravel
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Yeah, ordered a bunch of 4x4 posts, 2x4's, and fence pieces from the lumber company and had them delivered. I think it all went up in a day with just my wife and I (well, two if you count curing the concrete for the posts).
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yeah got a quote for black iron fence that might be 100 linear feet of 6k install and materials.
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Yep, my thoughts exactly. I was more concerned that the guy didn't do a very good inspection, but looking at the report it's reasonably thorough. Biggest ticket item is two 8 ft sections of fence.
Tmac
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YMMV. My area is pretty hot.
My friends found a house for $545k last week. It was on the market for less than a day, they immediately went to look at it since their realtor was the listing agent, and an hour later someone put in a full cash offer.
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Siliconemelons
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so anyone have any exp with out in the mountain boonies, if you just happen to build something with no government involvement... what are the chances of getting no scoped by a random inspection? ... in lets say... the blue ridge region / range GA/NC
Gravel
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Wasn't sure where else to post this, but a couple weeks ago I bitched about my fucked up home builder. We just got back from a week away, and our lift station wasn't working. The water was basically almost topped out, so there wasn't much I could do and had to call a plumber.
Turns out, someone threw a fucking vape pen in it, and the pump I guess got caught on it. Luckily it didn't burn it out or break the fucking thing, cause that's like $4k.
Like, what kind of fucking asshole throws a vape pen in there? There's no way that thing is ever going to somehow end up in the sewer. It's just a ticking time bomb to destroy the pump at some point.
Turns out, someone threw a fucking vape pen in it, and the pump I guess got caught on it. Luckily it didn't burn it out or break the fucking thing, cause that's like $4k.
Like, what kind of fucking asshole throws a vape pen in there? There's no way that thing is ever going to somehow end up in the sewer. It's just a ticking time bomb to destroy the pump at some point.
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Seananigans
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Lanx
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They do it on purpose. They are illegals or foreign born temporary workers that come here and build these large houses that look like mansions to them. They put shit in the walls and leave shit under the sod because it is their tiny way of saying "fuck you" to rich people. It is the same reason they take no pride in their work even when some of it is truly great.
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