Home Buyin/Maintenance Thread - Where most of us are 30ish but act 47. Oh, and fuck home inspectors

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  1. Lip

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    Are you going to buy again? Seems to me like that's not a lot of profit if you're going to use a lot of that money on closing costs for your new place.
     
  2. Festus McBadass

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    My heat isn't working. Woke up this morning and my house was 51° inside :killme:
     
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  3. Jax Teller

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    I entered into a debt consolidation program a few months ago. Unfortunately one of the downfalls is that your credit drops initially because all your accounts close and you have no available credit. So it will take some time to buy again.On the bright side, that kind of profit would easily pay off all my debt other than car note and student loans. Also I do VA loans so I don't need a down payment and only had to put 1K towards closing costs on this house.
     
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  4. The Blackfish

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    Have you considered gay porn?
     
  5. Jax Teller

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    Do I have to change my name to Grant? If so then I'm out.
     
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  6. The Blackfish

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    I don't believe so. 25-30k in debt not including student loans, mortgage or car payment is a lot of hookers and blow
     
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  7. Jax Teller

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    To be fair. That kind of profit would easily pay off my debt outside of car and student loans. And still leave lots for hookers and blow.
     
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  8. Jax Teller

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    Also I kind of want to live closer to Nashville than I do currently and wouldn't be able to buy without a wife probably. At least not until I have a few years of raises at work.
     
  9. UA412

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    You could always go back to the sandbox.
     
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  10. Jax Teller

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    Being douchy or just making a joke? Hard to tell these days. And no I'm perfectly happy where I'm at now.
     
  11. Bishop

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    :pray: its a easy fix and that it can be done quickly with the weather getting bad this weekend.
     
  12. One Knight

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    other than the hassle of showings and having to always be prepared for them on short notice, it doesn't hurt to put it on the market and see what offers you get.
     
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  13. NineteenNine

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    Just take an hour long shower, boom. It's drained.
     
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  14. Festus McBadass

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    Me too. Have a guy coming out this afternoon to look at it
     
  15. The Blackfish

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    This is TMB, so he was probably doing a little of both
     
  16. Jax Teller

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    And a bama fan at that. We all know i have a bad standing with most of our fanbase. The majority of that being my fault.
     
  17. Jax Teller

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    For real though, lechnerd what kind of update were you looking for about that blasting?

    They are done now I think. They did a couple big blasts after that but they had what looked like giant rolls of black foam over the blast site. So when it went off it almost looked like videos of asphalt coming apart but no flying debris. I still worry about that amount of blasting affecting the plumbing and shit but I have no leaks yet.

    Of course now these sorry fuckers are leaving trash all over their site which is blowing into our part of the land. I talked to the HOA about it, hopefully they get something done.
     
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  18. lechnerd

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    That's what I was curious about, continued blasting, were they still going, etc.
     
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  19. Festus McBadass

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    Turns out my gas company came out yesterday to change my meter and left my gas off.
     
  20. Bishop

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    You able to turn it on or do they need to come back out?
     
  21. Doc Louis

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    Oh they'll need to come back out and are booked for two weeks. Thanks Atlanta gas light
     
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  22. Bishop

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    Been there with AGS before :whyioughta:
     
  23. Festus McBadass

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    Coming out between 1-5, so probably at 5:30.
     
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  24. NDfanPSUgrad

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    just got a detailed quote for a gas fireplace install. Remote control thermostat is $150 at one place $238 at another. Anyone ever tie their fireplace into a Nest or Ecobee? Not sure if it's possible. Simple wall thermostat is $30.
     
  25. UA412

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    I'm an Arizona Wildcat fan. Thought people knew that.
     
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  26. Duck70

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    Interested in this as well. I have a insert being installed a week from now and am unsure of how a Nest or Ecobee would connect to that.
     
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  27. Festus McBadass

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    It's up to 68° in my house :praisehim:
     
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  28. NDfanPSUgrad

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    If I am forced to pay $238 I would just hook it up to something that I can control with my phone. I really don't want another remote. At our last house we almost never used the fireplace and when we did we just adjusted the wall thermostat.

    Does your unit come with a remote? Curious how much they are charging.
     
  29. Jax Teller

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    Well I need to go back to the bullpen apparently.
     
  30. Frank Martin

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    good game of fifa the other night

    the pass on the second goal was magnificent
     
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  31. GoodForAnother

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    Recessed lighting installed. Massive change. Easier than I thought. Bless the man who invented push-in electrical connectors

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  32. slogan119

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    Talk to me about these.
     
  33. GoodForAnother

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    You plug em in and cut a hole in the ceiling and shove em through the hole then they light up
     
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  34. slogan119

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    Light switches? Or just The Clapper?
     
  35. GoodForAnother

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    I just took the wire from the old fixture and fed it into the cans, then wired them in Series. The cans are LED so the eight I installed use less power than the fluorescent fixture I removed.
     
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  36. UA412

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    What do you mean by this?
     
  37. The Banks

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    He had one light fixture up there that connected to the light switch, once he connected his first can light to that circuit, he ran wire to the next one, then to the next, and so on, so that all the lights operate off of the same switch.
     
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  38. UA412

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    Yeah but the individual lights need to be connected in parallel?
     
  39. CraigAnne Conway

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    I think with those types of lights, they are theoretically wired in parallel via the internal wiring, but they are installed as if you're doing them in series.
     
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  40. CraigAnne Conway

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    I'd love to do this in our living room, as we have no overhead lighting currently, but it's a vaulted ceiling and I doubt there's enough clearance for those cans, though there is a ceiling fan up there, so there might be some room. About how deep were the cans?
     
  41. UA412

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    Gotcha. That's interesting. Know relatively little about them.
     
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  42. Baron

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    tell me more about your white vase collection gfa
     
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  43. GoodForAnother

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    Six inches or so. They make a shallow version I believe, but I had attic space so I just got the cheapest cans they had.

    Wedding centerpieces
     
  44. GoodForAnother

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    They have connectors that allow you to daisy chain them. Each light has three hookups so you can run them all off one wire without having to split in a separate junction box.
     
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  45. Jax Teller

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    Was it this thread that someone had posted a link to a website with all kinds of furniture building plans and how tos?
     
  46. lechnerd

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    If you have a nerd side and an Echo-Sony-Plex setup this might interest you:

    Guy can turn on his TV, change channels and inputs and watch tv shows and movies via plex all through Alexa. Never have to worry about not finding the remote again.
     
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  47. southlick

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  48. kentucky_dawg

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  49. slogan119

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    Gotcha. I was curious how you did it since we have no overhead lights or wiring in our living room.