The Real Estate Thread: Buying/Selling/Tips/News

[spike]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Both but also neither.

I went by this evening to look at a few things and do some measurements. I realized the shape of the living room is going to make it very difficult to fit my current furniture in. Kicking myself a bit for not looking closely at the dimensions, walkways etc...before I offered. But it all happened so fast. One of the biggest things I wanted with a new house is a better living room, and I totally whiffed here. Got quotes on some renos also that are more than I'd hoped, but may remove some things though they're fairly small so not much savings. I'm also not sure I understand everything about the quote because i'm a grade-A moron.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I thought I would find the living room size acceptable enough, but now I’m not so sure. The furniture layout and a few other aspects can swing it one way or the other. I hate myself.

is there enough room to get your lawnmower through it like your old house?

It can actually go around the house. I won't know what to do with myself.

Also they left their lawnmower in the garage so hopefully it runs and I won't have to purchase one.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I thought I would find the living room size acceptable enough, but now I’m not so sure. The furniture layout and a few other aspects can swing it one way or the other. I hate myself.

What size TV do you think it can accommodate?

[Bammer]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Great question. Me and Mrs. Bam always get a hotel room with two beds for this reason.

[spike]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Both but also neither.

I went by this evening to look at a few things and do some measurements. I realized the shape of the living room is going to make it very difficult to fit my current furniture in. Kicking myself a bit for not looking closely at the dimensions, walkways etc...before I offered. But it all happened so fast. One of the biggest things I wanted with a new house is a better living room, and I totally whiffed here. Got quotes on some renos also that are more than I'd hoped, but may remove some things though they're fairly small so not much savings. I'm also not sure I understand everything about the quote because i'm a grade-A moron.

Can you take out a wall at some stage to make the LR closer to what you envision?

[Chris_H_2]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Great question. Me and Mrs. Bam always get a hotel room with two beds for this reason.

I too interpreted spike’s question that began with “Lenny” as being asked of you instead.

[BurtReynolds]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Both but also neither.

I went by this evening to look at a few things and do some measurements. I realized the shape of the living room is going to make it very difficult to fit my current furniture in. Kicking myself a bit for not looking closely at the dimensions, walkways etc...before I offered. But it all happened so fast. One of the biggest things I wanted with a new house is a better living room, and I totally whiffed here. Got quotes on some renos also that are more than I'd hoped, but may remove some things though they're fairly small so not much savings. I'm also not sure I understand everything about the quote because i'm a grade-A moron.

Perhaps you accidentally purchased the House of Leaves.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Both but also neither.

I went by this evening to look at a few things and do some measurements. I realized the shape of the living room is going to make it very difficult to fit my current furniture in. Kicking myself a bit for not looking closely at the dimensions, walkways etc...before I offered. But it all happened so fast. One of the biggest things I wanted with a new house is a better living room, and I totally whiffed here. Got quotes on some renos also that are more than I'd hoped, but may remove some things though they're fairly small so not much savings. I'm also not sure I understand everything about the quote because i'm a grade-A moron.

Can you take out a wall at some stage to make the LR closer to what you envision?

Cabinets and countertops would have to be removed completely. I'd have to look and see how wide the wall is again, but I don't think it would make much difference. I'm in the process of getting over it. Thank you for listening and helping.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

lenny which house is your fuckpad?

Both but also neither.

I went by this evening to look at a few things and do some measurements. I realized the shape of the living room is going to make it very difficult to fit my current furniture in. Kicking myself a bit for not looking closely at the dimensions, walkways etc...before I offered. But it all happened so fast. One of the biggest things I wanted with a new house is a better living room, and I totally whiffed here. Got quotes on some renos also that are more than I'd hoped, but may remove some things though they're fairly small so not much savings. I'm also not sure I understand everything about the quote because i'm a grade-A moron.

Perhaps you accidentally purchased the House of Leaves.

Great reference.

[Strat]

Our MN Realtor is facetiming us for a virtual walk through on a home we are very excited about today.

one big thing that has us hesitant is this staircase that leads to the upper level. It is very steep.......steep enough where i could foresee accidents happening.....

everything else is perfect though.

Ugh

[spike]

could it be the old fish eye lens trick making it look steeper than it is?

[Bammer]

Are the stairs to code?

Are they carpeted or hardwood?

Are you over the age of 70?

[Strat]

could it be the old fish eye lens trick making it look steeper than it is?

No, owner/seller is actually the listing agent and acknowledged that the stairs are very steep.

We'd like to make that the primary bedroom as it is the biggest size bedroom in the house but 1)no bathroom up there and 2) strat will fall and break his neck peeing in the middle of the night.

So, whatever, we could use that as home office/flex space but still concerned about the steps. Steps like these are not uncommon in homes of this age in the area but.....concerning.

[Strat]

[Bammer]

This picture could have come straight out of my in laws house in West Seattle. Where Mrs. Bam grew up. Same layout. But theirs are carpeted.

The stairs are steeper than normal yes. Your bigger concern is taking a dive when your socks slip on the hardwood.

[wease]

Our MN Realtor is facetiming us for a virtual walk through on a home we are very excited about today.

one big thing that has us hesitant is this staircase that leads to the upper level. It is very steep.......steep enough where i could foresee accidents happening.....

everything else is perfect though.

Ugh

Damn! Look at the angle on that handrail! Those ARE steep!

[spike]

could it be the old fish eye lens trick making it look steeper than it is?

No, owner/seller is actually the listing agent and acknowledged that the stairs are very steep.

We'd like to make that the primary bedroom as it is the biggest size bedroom in the house but 1)no bathroom up there and 2) strat will fall and break his neck peeing in the middle of the night.

So, whatever, we could use that as home office/flex space but still concerned about the steps. Steps like these are not uncommon in homes of this age in the area but.....concerning.

[Strat]

This picture could have come straight out of my in laws house in West Seattle. Where Mrs. Bam grew up. Same layout. But theirs are carpeted.

The stairs are steeper than normal yes. Your bigger concern is taking a dive when your socks slip on the hardwood.

We would definitely install some tread