So, to recap…
- We’re moving soon. Any help appreciated, especially with cleaning, painting, repairs, and moving!
- Here’s a nice little tour! (Expect real photos this weekend!)
- Got my PC back; it’s still having issues with shutdown, but basically seems pretty stable otherwise. A new mobo helps.
- Also got my first credit card. Do you believe that?!
Things are looking, as it were, up.
The house thing, though… boy, is that place a mess. It’s incredible how much TLC the place needs. Holly did a fantastic job on the place already, but we’ve barely scratched the time-scarred surface. So if you’re bored this weekend, or anytime over the next month or so….
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My boyfriend and I looked at that place awhile ago. what a mess. good luck with all the repairs!
You’d be surprise what a little paint and some curtains would do to a place. After having been razed to the fucking ground and rebuilt from scratch, anyway.
I didn’t mean to sound rude. I just meant it was way out of my league to go through all the work. The closet I come to being handy with house stuff is sewing. If you need paint and low on cash check out recycling places, some places that take that kind of stuff will give you the paint other people are throwing away. My old next door neighbor went there and got her paint that way.
that wasn’t rude in the slightest – i hope i didn’t give that impression (that i thought it rude)! No, you’re right, it’s way too much work. We’re totally in over our heads with this. But it’ll work out (if it doesn’t cave in on top of us).
So, you two bought a house or is it another rental? *Eyebrows* It’s still cool to be moving. Conga-rats, J-man!
It’s a rental. Thinking about buying it. It’s dirt cheap, and might not be worth it. It’s in pretty bad shape. Now you need to make a conga-rat icon. You shouldn’t have said it… but now it HAS to happen. I really want to see that. Please!
How cute! It looks so happy. :) You know what sucks? A house like that would be around $1300 a month here. :( I think we’re just gonna do another condo. Which is still like $1000 a month.
Were it in good repair, it probably would fetch something similar here, too. However, it’s in really crap shape. Ergo, we pay less than half that. Thinking about buying it, if it’s not gonna cost twice as much to fix up.
LOL. That’s what I meant though – a house in shape like that would be $1300. If it was nice, you’d be looking at $1600 at least – maybe more if it was in a good neighborhood.
the neighborhood is awesome. i hear that a bunch of gay people are coming in and fixing it up. yay, we live in a gay zone! i’m totally allied lolz!1!! actually, it’s funny – there are houses about to fall in, and there are these sweet-ass extraordinarily beautiful homes there. all of them huge. most of the neighborhood looks pretty swanky, and the rest is condemned. rofl lolz!!1!
If gay men are buying houses there… BUY IT! Seriously. Especially if you can get it cheap. :)
Actually, looking at it again – you probably should buy it. Get a home inspector out there & make sure that the foundation/plumbing/electrical/roof are all good. Everything else can be fixed up over time. Seriously, if we could find a cute house like that for 45k… Even if you only put 5k down at the asking price & 7% interest, it looks like your payments would be under $300 a month.
“Cute” is perhaps a bit of an overstatement! Endearing? Maybe. Like an old guy with hairy nostrils who keeps “accidentally” showing you his penis, but just loves plants soooo much and always gives you a $20 bill two days before your birthday. Yeah, maybe that one. Foundation: crumbly but otherwise ok. Just a bunch of rocks cemented together, really. Supposedly no problems with flooding. Plumbing: supposedly new. Electrical: omg need electrician STAT!! Roof: i am NOT walking on it, but it looks clean and solid enough.
It’s D-I-R-T cheap, but it certainly has its problems. I’m not too sure about the electrical system, and that’s a minor gripe compared to all the other stuff: the rotted wood around windows, the holey plaster walls, broken everything, pirate skeletons in a crumbly cellar… Speaking of which, whenever i go down into that cellar, i swear to “Bob” i’m watching out for Shelob. No shit. It’s fucking crazy down there. Fucked all the way up. Fucked up, fucked down, fucked side to side; it’s fucked. But yeah. We’re on it, if it’s not a complete waste and won’t cost twice as much to repair shit.
oh, i forgot to add:
ok, just kidding about the attic. the fridge, though, smells funkier than Bootsy Collins’ gym socks.