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Author Topic: Hellish home buying stories, anyone? Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-09-2009 06:52 AM                     Yeah, we plan on renting a place...there always homes to rent in our neighborhood (Annapolis has many Navy types that come and go). What better renters than those that are in the neighborhood with a known length of stay (give or take a couple of months). When the bulldozing begins, we will own our property outright so yes, just the cost of the taxes...government stuff...plus, I'm sure the new loan for the new house. Steve  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-09-2009 08:30 AM                     The color schemes in our house are all my wife's ideas. We initially agreed that she could do what she wanted with the house and I got the basement and the garage. Well now half of the basement is my kid's stuff and 1/4 of it is laundry stuff. My wife parks in our two car garage (my truck is too big to park inside) so I get the other half of the garage. Now my kid's stuff takes up 3/4 of that space so I am left with about 1/4 of the basement and 1/4 of the garage. I think there may be a conspiracy to slowly shove me out.... I wasn't crazy about the colors she picked for the bathroom or the dining room at first but it grew on me. It was hard painting lines around a room that is not level or square when I did the bathroom. The lines also pass by things like the mirror and shower surrounds that are level so I had to make the lines look parallel with those things and at the same time look parallel with the ceiling that wasn't level. If one or the other would have been off it would have been painfully obvious. Sorry, that's my OCD coming out again.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-09-2009 12:34 PM                        Our house was previously occupied by one of those "do-it-yourself" guys. The furnace (forced-air gas) was always a little loud-ish, but we didn't think a whole lot of it because the furnace was only a few years old. Eventually it started getting even louder and would "overload" (shut itself down) maybe once a winter. We get frequent brief power outages around here so we didn't think too much of that either, but finally it got bad enough that we called in the repair guy. He told us that the furnace was way TOO BIG for the house and it was overloading just trying to push all that air through the ducts. He said if the protection circuitry ever failed, we could have a fire. I was thinking, OK, this guy just might want to sell us a new furnace, so I called in another guy for a 2nd opinion. He said the same thing -- said the previous home owner probably was at a "Home Depot" buying a furnace, and the salesman said "For only $500 more you can get TWICE the BTU's!" or something like that, so he wound up buying more than the house needed. He said there were two options: Replace all the ductwork in the house with larger ducts, which of course was impossible without tearing out the walls; or vent some of the heat OUTSIDE the house to reduce the "load" on the furnace. But, that would only solve the overload problem; the noise was just because the blower unit was too damn big, and we'd also be paying for heating up the outside. We opted to cut our losses and buy a new furnace. Later on, we were having new cabinets installed in the kitchen. The installer told us that the previous cabinets (yes, installed by our "do-it-yourself" previous owner) were attached so poorly that it was amazing they hadn't fallen off the walls.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-09-2009 01:05 PM                     Restricting outlet volume actually reduces the load on a centrifugal air handler. The extra pressure might make ductwork noiser though. The pressure would actually be less than half an inch. An acquaintance once connected an organ blower capable of 10 inches of wind to his home HVAC system and promptly pushed some connections apart. Anybody got a pleasant story to relate on home ownership or purchase?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-09-2009 01:13 PM                     (I agree, I love that door as well... I'd do gold trim around the windows and paint it antique green..) Yep, when we got our home, the next year a new furnace had to go in due to the old furnace's plenum from all the heat, suddenly shattered. Then had to run a new drain line from kitchen, new water line from the alley (luckilly, the sewer line was replaced two years before..) ..just something when you get an older home.. We bought our home - a 1942 frame house - in 1989,two years after we were married,for $1000 down. Took only 45 min to do the paper work since our credit history was real clean, we both had a good income coming in. Even the title people where we did all the closing told us that this was one of the rare occasions that a transaction like this went so smoothly. -Monte  |  IP: Logged John Hegel Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Lake Mills, Iowa Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-09-2009 07:52 PM                        quote: Bill Enos Anybody got a pleasant story to relate on home ownership or purchase? I'm having good luck so far. I purchased this house back in May. Over the summer I have been slowly redoing the whole thing.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-12-2009 09:19 AM                     Nice job John!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-12-2009 11:32 AM                     Nice job? No stove before, no stove after!  |  IP: Logged John Hegel Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Lake Mills, Iowa Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-12-2009 09:10 PM                        The stove is in now. The appliances are white I wish I would have went with stainless, but the price was right so white won the battle.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-16-2009 02:21 AM                     Nice work. Is that real or virtual staging?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-16-2009 03:29 AM                        I never really understood the point of "island" counters in kitchens. People these days seem to need a shit-ton of countertop space. Why? Stop eating so much you fat asses! I mean god damn! Another thing I do not like is high ceilings with open spaces in homes. Most new homes have an extremely high ceiling at the front door, many homes extend this somewhat in order to feel more "spacious". I hate that. I see it as space that I could have utilized if there were a room or something useful there instead of air. They are also echo chambers. I guess homes these days cater to the super-claustrophobic. I think claustrophobic people should be homeless. That way they never have to worry about their phobia since they are always outside in the gutter.  |  IP: Logged John Hegel Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Lake Mills, Iowa Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-16-2009 04:46 AM                        The crap in the pics is 100% real staging. As for the island, I was just following trend in hopes of selling this thing in 3-5 years.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-16-2009 12:54 PM                     Joe never disappoints with his posts. A kitchen is the single most expensive room to remodel in a house. Kitchens have become more of a gathering area in a lot of homes and are therefore getting bigger and having more emphasis placed on them. Even after remodeling ours, when my wife bakes cookies at Christmas for our families, she quickly runs out of counter space for the cooling racks and cookie sheets. I definitely agree with you on the extremely high ceilings in most new home entrances. My sister-in-law has one and it just seems like a heat hog since all the heat rises. It's also a waste of space in that they could have had an extra room on the second floor. They also have to have special ladders to change the light bulbs in the chandelier and the dust on that thing is out of control because it is out of reach.  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 10-16-2009 07:34 PM                     Before and after of my kitchen This pic was before it was done done. The completed version features two 20amp GFI's and valence lighting. Before hand the receptacles on the countertop were tied to the fridge, hood and master bedroom receptacles... all being fed by a nice knob and tube setup. I did the electrical, insulating, dry-walling and painting. We contracted out the cupboards, flooring and plumbing.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-16-2009 09:47 PM                     I dunno...the old one had a "High-Fidelity" system. Steve  |  IP: Logged

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