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Homebuying... I hate the process


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Call_Me_Ishmael

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ESPECIALLY in a hot market.

 

10 houses made the shortlist yesterday to look at today. This morning, three were not under contract.  Of those three, 1 was actually sold this morning before we got there, and the other two were completely unsuitable (present owners of one were smokers, both had had no effort to repaint, and one was the absolute lowest-grade anything you could put inside a 3900sqft home.  Why, just WHY?).

 

I get to do it again tomorrow.

 

Screw it, I'm going to go kill something.

 


Did I say Call Me Ishmael?

 

You should call me Luna.


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I bought a house 3 months ago, I feel your pain

 

It helps my future father in law used to be a contractor, he helped us paint and fix a few things.

 

Of course, I bought a house in a rural area, a very cold market of Western Maryland



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Amid's Three Step Plan for Happiness in the Short and Long Terms

 

-or-

 

You Don't Live in the Last Century, fuzzy bunnyng Act Like It

 

-or-

 

Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Homely Corpse

 

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1. Never get married

2. Never have children

3. Never own property

 

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Edited by Amidatelion, 02 May 2015 - 03:17 PM.

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Amid...

 

My first kids were born in the last century,

 

My first house was bought in the last century,

 

and I got married in the last century.

 

I'm 48, three kids, a wife, and soon, a new mortgage.  I'm so old skool I should be wearing a hoodie.


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Did I say Call Me Ishmael?

 

You should call me Luna.


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sounds awfull first world problems are worst



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Yep.  Today I installed a new over-the-range microwave in the house I bought (closed on) Tuesday.  I also epoxy-coated the garage floor, where I will be storing my three roadracing motorcycles, two dirt bikes, a metric ton (no joke) of tools, and two motor vehicles.   Edit:  my two eldest kids will have to park their vehicles on the street:  quel domage!

 

Tomorrow, I'll be replacing faucets and doorknobs throughout, with Italian brass (as in 'made in Italy').  Then I'll rebuild the fireplace surround with Coronado Virgina Ledgestone (in Sand), which will take me two weekends, since I will be moving on Sunday/Monday.

 

The new refrigerator (it seems to be a Texas thing to bring yours when you move, but since I came from Arizona, I left mine...) comes Tuesday.  We'll need to order takeout Monday night, or go eat in a restaurant (and not take any leftovers home).

 

Ah, and the water heater I'll replace the current 10-yr old and non-Energy Star rated one with will come on Friday. I'll need to spend some time Saturday replacing it, and taking the old one to the scrapyard (again, literally).

 

Total first world issues, all of them, except the actual move.


Edited by Call_Me_Ishmael, 03 July 2015 - 05:39 PM.

Did I say Call Me Ishmael?

 

You should call me Luna.





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