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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: Kat Kid on March 16, 2009, 04:18:23 PM
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Looking at Founder's Hill & Highland Ridge
married
two incomes
not enough bank/very :ohno: yet for a house
any experiences w/ these two? Other suggestions?
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should add currently live in a 1 bedroom sh1thole and looking @ 2 bedrooms for office/ksufans.com surf & xbox zone.
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not sure man. this year's 2009 'lams's Annual The Chipotle KatKid 7 Day Chipotle Challenge came up over lunch today tho, can't wait
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Looking at Founder's Hill & Highland Ridge
married
two incomes
not enough bank/very :ohno: yet for a house
any experiences w/ these two? Other suggestions?
Good plan to hold off on the house. Get the student loans paid for and save big bucks for a house down payment in a few years.
No advice on where to rent anything.
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Looking at Founder's Hill & Highland Ridge
married
two incomes
not enough bank/very :ohno: yet for a house
any experiences w/ these two? Other suggestions?
Good plan to hold off on the house. Get the student loans paid for and save big bucks for a house down payment in a few years.
No advice on where to rent anything.
I'm all like: "LISTEN HERE WOMAN! WE DON'T HAVE ANY F.V.CKING MONEY!"
and she's all like "Yeah, but pfffffftt we'll just like borrow money from our parents."
and I'm like:
:angryMJ:
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Highland ridge :yuck:
(Old and ugly)
Founders Hill :thumbsup:
(Nice and new + in walking distance to the KSU Games, and allows pets if you got 'em)
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Highland ridge :yuck:
(Old and ugly)
Founders Hill :thumbsup:
(Nice and new + in walking distance to the KSU Games, and allows pets if you got 'em)
Highland ridge is brandnew. west side by scenic dr.
have a pet. founders hill good? you live there?
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Highland ridge :yuck:
(Old and ugly)
Founders Hill :thumbsup:
(Nice and new + in walking distance to the KSU Games, and allows pets if you got 'em)
Highland ridge is brandnew. west side by scenic dr.
have a pet. founders hill good? you live there?
Sorry, confused Highland Ridge with that other apartment place over on Stagg hill. No I don't live there. I have a coworker that lives there, really likes it. Nice location too. Can't beat a 5 min walk to KSU sporting events though. They both look nice, the less expensive is Highland Ridge because of location. You might also check Georgetown apartments depending on your price range. It is kinda similar to Founders in that regard
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Westchester Park is nice. You can't live their if you are both students though. Mostly young professionals, very quiet and all around nice place to live.
http://www.westchesterparkapts.com/Vtour.asp (http://www.westchesterparkapts.com/Vtour.asp)
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Westchester Park is nice. You can't live their if you are both students though. Mostly young professionals, very quiet and all around nice place to live.
http://www.westchesterparkapts.com/Vtour.asp (http://www.westchesterparkapts.com/Vtour.asp)
Since when? I lived there as a student with another student. That was 2001-2003.
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Wareham Hotel
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Wareham Hotel
I know, but no availability. March or Sept. Looking at 2 bedrooms also.
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Wareham Hotel
I know, but no availability. March or Sept. Looking at 2 bedrooms also.
some of them are plenty big w/ 1 bedroom. sucks it's full. (but good for them)
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Wareham Hotel
I know, but no availability. March or Sept. Looking at 2 bedrooms also.
some of them are plenty big w/ 1 bedroom. sucks it's full. (but good for them)
need an office/gtfomf room.
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Westchester Park is nice. You can't live their if you are both students though. Mostly young professionals, very quiet and all around nice place to live.
http://www.westchesterparkapts.com/Vtour.asp (http://www.westchesterparkapts.com/Vtour.asp)
Since when? I lived there as a student with another student. That was 2001-2003.
idk. My wife and I lived there in '06-'07. The only reason we could is because she had already graduated.
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I lived in Founders Hill for three years.
Great place on the outside - pool, gym, limestone :lick:
However the place was hastily put together, with some suspect (read: cheap) building material in the last hectic weeks and our apartment suffered for it.
I'll go ahead and list some of the issues we had:
- Kitchen wasn't caulked correctly - water leaked like a bastard down the sides, front and back of the sink when you ran the water.
- Walls are paper-thin, mang. Our family room wall backed up to some Joe's bedroom next door and he could hear our conversations word for word. This also came back to haunt me while hooking up with a girl and talking bad about her roommate who I also hooked up with. She heard the whole conversation. Then when I went upstairs to talk to my roommates about it and complain about her being a looney, she could hear that too. Double whammy.
- No screens on the windows. My roommate almost fell out the third story window catching a football.
- Constant noise from Ft. Riley rattles the entire building.
- No stops on the door. All of the doors LITERALLY slam shut - in all apartments at all times. You'll be laying in bed and your room will literally shake when someone downstairs leaves to go to class. The worst.
- They started towing cars - really late at night. Instead of assigning spots to residents and allotting guest spots, management opened the place up for towing. They started doing it at the worst times too bw midnight and 2 am a couple nights a week.
- Upon checking out of the apartment we had a carpet cleaner come - we also had a cleaning company come in and scrub the walls, baseboards and behind other areas where we only dare put grocery sacks. The place was immaculate. Well, Founders didn't agree - they put down all new carpet, new paint, new blinds and footed us with the $2,000 + bill. We've gone to court over it and they've put it off and put it off - providing no evidence of invoices or anything else to justify the high-cost. My friends father is a landlord and he said he's never seen anything so blatant.
Pros:
- Pool in the spring/summer :love:
- Laundry in apartment
- Gym
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live close to aggieville and enjoy being able to walk to and from rab, so long, etc. whenever you want while you still can. in a few years you guys'll prob have kids or move to a new town for a job or something and not be able to.
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Cambridge Square in the Candlewood area (more room for less $ than Weschester). You can live there if you are both students, you'll just need a co-signer. Very nice, lived there since June '06. All two bedrooms w/ fireplace.
highland and founders are both craptastic construction. Cambridge, Pebblebrook, Weschester, and Georgetown are all great, even have great cabinets from Custom Wood Products.
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I'm havin fun the da westchester. Needs a new basketball goal though.
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Cambridge Square in the Candlewood area (more room for less $ than Weschester). You can live there if you are both students, you'll just need a co-signer. Very nice, lived there since June '06. All two bedrooms w/ fireplace.
highland and founders are both craptastic construction. Cambridge, Pebblebrook, Weschester, and Georgetown are all great, even have great cabinets from Custom Wood Products.
Who the f are you people? I work for a g-damn living. We have two incomes. WE DON'T NEED AN EFFING Co-SIGNER like some pussy Jo-Co d-bag.
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Cambridge Square in the Candlewood area (more room for less $ than Weschester). You can live there if you are both students, you'll just need a co-signer. Very nice, lived there since June '06. All two bedrooms w/ fireplace.
highland and founders are both craptastic construction. Cambridge, Pebblebrook, Weschester, and Georgetown are all great, even have great cabinets from Custom Wood Products.
Who the f are you people? I work for a g-damn living. We have two incomes. WE DON'T NEED AN EFFING Co-SIGNER like some pussy Jo-Co d-bag.
:lol:
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Cambridge Square in the Candlewood area (more room for less $ than Weschester). You can live there if you are both students, you'll just need a co-signer. Very nice, lived there since June '06. All two bedrooms w/ fireplace.
highland and founders are both craptastic construction. Cambridge, Pebblebrook, Weschester, and Georgetown are all great, even have great cabinets from Custom Wood Products.
Who the f are you people? I work for a g-damn living. We have two incomes. WE DON'T NEED AN EFFING Co-SIGNER like some pussy Jo-Co d-bag.
We both work too and go to school, also not even from the state of KS, so stfu. The deal in '06 when we moved in was that if one person was a student you had to have a "co-signer," not really a co-signer though. They don't even check the co-signer's credit (may have been because both of ours are 730 or better), so really its more of a reference. Didn't really make sense, and didn't have to do anything w/ it when we renewed our lease, so maybe they don't ask for that from students anymore. :dunno:
Also there are some nicer town homes along Kimball near the Catholic church (can't remember what they are called, will look at the sign next time I drive by), we almost moved there in '06 but they didn't have any thing available at the time. But my point is that those are worth looking at. They garages and plenty of storage space for all your extra emaw stuff.
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have a mini dach. (thanx sys for sp.) no westchester etc.
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See if Bill Snyder wants some roomies?
The 'rax are pretty sweet,
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If you are sticking around Manhattan and you two have decent jobs, i.e. not CHIPOTLE...then I'd put back all the money you can in the next couple months and buy a house w/ that down payment. I don't know if the market can go that much further down but you can buy a house for 15% lower than what it was five years ago at this point in some markets/places. Great time to get a house if you are in a steady, well paying job.
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If you are sticking around Manhattan and you two have decent jobs, i.e. not CHIPOTLE...then I'd put back all the money you can in the next couple months and buy a house w/ that down payment. I don't know if the market can go that much further down but you can buy a house for 15% lower than what it was five years ago at this point in some markets/places. Great time to get a house if you are in a steady, well paying job.
Probably be quicker to just throw your money in the garbage.
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If you are sticking around Manhattan and you two have decent jobs, i.e. not CHIPOTLE...then I'd put back all the money you can in the next couple months and buy a house w/ that down payment. I don't know if the market can go that much further down but you can buy a house for 15% lower than what it was five years ago at this point in some markets/places. Great time to get a house if you are in a steady, well paying job.
Probably be quicker to just throw your money in the garbage.
How? How is it that what dr00d said doesn't make sense?
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i think manhattan will still will go down more. hopefully the nbaf thing helps out and keeps prices fairly stable.
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If you are sticking around Manhattan and you two have decent jobs, i.e. not CHIPOTLE...then I'd put back all the money you can in the next couple months and buy a house w/ that down payment. I don't know if the market can go that much further down but you can buy a house for 15% lower than what it was five years ago at this point in some markets/places. Great time to get a house if you are in a steady, well paying job.
Probably be quicker to just throw your money in the garbage.
You mean like........wait for it........................................renting?
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have a mini dach. (thanx sys for sp.) no westchester etc.
We had a cat at westchester. There are specific buildings where you can have pets. Also has a tennis court. 2 pools. Ice cream socials. fitness center. huge patios. Gazebo.
But go ahead and live at Founders Hill. I'm sure they have ice cream socials all the time. :rolleyes:
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I bet Manhattan house values stay pretty steady. The midwest outside of place like where Michigan Cat live is pretty boring on the upswing and the downswing.
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I bet Manhattan house values stay pretty steady. The midwest outside of place like where Michigan Cat live is pretty boring on the upswing and the downswing.
yeah, i don't think they'll go much lower but do think they'll keep going down some. manhattan upswinged way to much after the brac announcement a few years back. people from ft riley told builders in mhk and jc that a lot of the new people coming in would be higher ranking people who had money and would stay in the area long enough to want to buy. this didn't/isn't really happening. a buddy of mine bought a house about five years ago in mhk for 90,000 then sold it exactly one year later for 145,000. prices have slowly been working their way back down the last 3 years.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
Buy a $10k house in MI you cheap ass!
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
Buy a $10k house in MI you cheap ass!
just had an awesome get rich quick idea. will buy a michigan house for a couple grand and rent it to michcat.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
Buy a $10k house in MI you cheap ass!
just had an awesome get rich quick idea. will buy a michigan house for a couple grand and rent it to michcat.
That is a good idea!
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
Buy a $10k house in MI you cheap ass!
just had an awesome get rich quick idea. will buy a michigan house for a couple grand and rent it to michcat.
That is a good idea!
just stumbled across this and would love to know who owns the house on 725 osage...
http://www.themercury.com/Classifieds/PropertyValues.aspx
Owner:
GO KATZ PROPERTIES LLC
Address:
00725
Street:
OSAGE ST
2009:
138124
2008:
151900
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Agree with this. That is what scares me about our place. Scared about needing to move quickly.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Agree with this. That is what scares me about our place. Scared about needing to move quickly.
steve dave, you're in Omaha. no reason to worry one bit about the Omaha market. it's Omaha for pete's sake! Omaha!
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Agree with this. That is what scares me about our place. Scared about needing to move quickly.
steve dave, you're in Omaha. no reason to worry one bit about the Omaha market. it's Omaha for pete's sake! Omaha!
Yeah, I know. :gocho:
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1. We don't have enough $ for a down payment on a house
2. We don't have enough money for durable goods/home furnishings that go with a house
3. There is a good possibility we move in 5 years.
4. Manhattan houses are either way too fixer upper or above our price range. Also, most homes in Manhattan are made out of crap or filth. Would rather hop around the luxury apartments.
Also, update we pulled the trigger on Highland Ridge
verrrrrrrry :ohno: about this though:
http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/KS-Manhattan-Highland-Ridge-Apartments-851922.html (http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/KS-Manhattan-Highland-Ridge-Apartments-851922.html)
AWEFUL MANAGEMENT
From: -Anonymous-
Date posted: 11/17/2008
Years at this apartment: 2008 - 2008
As you have read in other review, this apartment complex leaves a lot to be desired. The apartment itself isn't too bad, but you can tell that they were put up quickly and as cheap as possible. Sound transfers easily between floors, especially when someone is moving into the apartment above you at midnight! Upon moving in, my husband and I noticed a great deal of bug issues, including fleas. This started a long going battle with the management. This is our biggest complaint about this complex. The management is horrible. The property manager will not take responsibility for any landlord duties, she even told us they would not take care of the fleas (issue #1). After an ongoing battle and the complex agreed to spray.
Issue #2: The complex advertises FREE WIRELESS INTERNET on their website. However this service is not available to all resident. It is impossible to access the interest due to limited IP addresses, a problem the management could easily fix. This was stated as an amentity to the complex. When confronted about the inability to connect, the management stated it was not their problem. They also stated that internet "is a service they offer. If it works, it works. If not, they we have to get out own service." This is false advertisement and internet was one of our determining factors. The management overall is VERY POOR! I WOULD NOT RECCOMMEND THIS COMPLEX TO ANYONE!!!
Highland Ridge Ain't all that
From: -Anonymous-
Date posted: 9/16/2008
Years at this apartment: 2007 - 2008
I lived at Highland Ridge for a year but moved out immediately once my lease was over. The first bad sign was that I had to wait 3 months before moving in because the apartment complexes were still being constructed when I first showed interested and signed the paperwork. They constantly changed my expected move in date, which caused a inconvience to me because the lease at my old apartment ran out and my these apartments weren't ready so I had to find somewhere to live for those 3 months. When I finally got to move in, there were dead insects all over the apartment and my bar was all scratched up (you know I reported that on the inspection sheet). I lived on the first floor and the spiders were a huge problem. No matter how much I sprayed or the pest control did, the spiders never went away. And these spiders weren't your tiny or small housesize spiders, these things were long and hairy. Anyways - The walls aren't very soundproof because I had loud male neighbors upstairs who like to have big social gatherings late at night, particularly girls. I have two kids and lived in a 3-bedroom apt. The noise got so bad that I had to move my youngest son into the other room with his sibling just so he can get some sleep. The most aggrevating thing about Highland Ridge is that the leasing office never answers their phone. You can leave a dozen messages and they rarely return your phone call unless it's dealing with delinguent rent, of course. One plus thing is that management did get a little better after the first property manager left but since you can't get anyone to answer the phone when you have concerns, the improvement wasn't that much bigger. The heater in my unit constantly stopped working at the wrong time (late at night when temperature drops). The maintenance guy is very friendly and quick to respond; he's an asset to this apartment community. Some tenants who have dogs don't comply with the rules of walking your pets in the designated area so beware of that. I had one neighbor who allowed his dog to poop right by patio everyday and he never cleaned it up! Some parents don't watch their children so they run all around the property messing with people's cars, playing in the dumpsters, playing in the club house, and vandilizing the swimming pool. Beware of stuff around the apartment starting to fall apartis a major warning. I think they did a rush job while building these apartments too fast and now everything's falling apart. Good luck.
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SPIDERS!!!!!11!!
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sounds like one of your neighbors is a dog nazi. you dog sounds pretty stupid, but it is probably capable of learning to crap on that dicks lawn/patio/car/whatever.
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1. We don't have enough $ for a down payment on a house
2. We don't have enough money for durable goods/home furnishings that go with a house
3. There is a good possibility we move in 5 years.
4. Manhattan houses are either way too fixer upper or above our price range. Also, most homes in Manhattan are made out of crap or filth. Would rather hop around the luxury apartments.
Also, update we pulled the trigger on Highland Ridge
verrrrrrrry :ohno: about this though:
http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/KS-Manhattan-Highland-Ridge-Apartments-851922.html (http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/KS-Manhattan-Highland-Ridge-Apartments-851922.html)
AWEFUL MANAGEMENT
From: -Anonymous-
Date posted: 11/17/2008
Years at this apartment: 2008 - 2008
As you have read in other review, this apartment complex leaves a lot to be desired. The apartment itself isn't too bad, but you can tell that they were put up quickly and as cheap as possible. Sound transfers easily between floors, especially when someone is moving into the apartment above you at midnight! Upon moving in, my husband and I noticed a great deal of bug issues, including fleas. This started a long going battle with the management. This is our biggest complaint about this complex. The management is horrible. The property manager will not take responsibility for any landlord duties, she even told us they would not take care of the fleas (issue #1). After an ongoing battle and the complex agreed to spray.
Issue #2: The complex advertises FREE WIRELESS INTERNET on their website. However this service is not available to all resident. It is impossible to access the interest due to limited IP addresses, a problem the management could easily fix. This was stated as an amentity to the complex. When confronted about the inability to connect, the management stated it was not their problem. They also stated that internet "is a service they offer. If it works, it works. If not, they we have to get out own service." This is false advertisement and internet was one of our determining factors. The management overall is VERY POOR! I WOULD NOT RECCOMMEND THIS COMPLEX TO ANYONE!!!
Highland Ridge Ain't all that
From: -Anonymous-
Date posted: 9/16/2008
Years at this apartment: 2007 - 2008
I lived at Highland Ridge for a year but moved out immediately once my lease was over. The first bad sign was that I had to wait 3 months before moving in because the apartment complexes were still being constructed when I first showed interested and signed the paperwork. They constantly changed my expected move in date, which caused a inconvience to me because the lease at my old apartment ran out and my these apartments weren't ready so I had to find somewhere to live for those 3 months. When I finally got to move in, there were dead insects all over the apartment and my bar was all scratched up (you know I reported that on the inspection sheet). I lived on the first floor and the spiders were a huge problem. No matter how much I sprayed or the pest control did, the spiders never went away. And these spiders weren't your tiny or small housesize spiders, these things were long and hairy. Anyways - The walls aren't very soundproof because I had loud male neighbors upstairs who like to have big social gatherings late at night, particularly girls. I have two kids and lived in a 3-bedroom apt. The noise got so bad that I had to move my youngest son into the other room with his sibling just so he can get some sleep. The most aggrevating thing about Highland Ridge is that the leasing office never answers their phone. You can leave a dozen messages and they rarely return your phone call unless it's dealing with delinguent rent, of course. One plus thing is that management did get a little better after the first property manager left but since you can't get anyone to answer the phone when you have concerns, the improvement wasn't that much bigger. The heater in my unit constantly stopped working at the wrong time (late at night when temperature drops). The maintenance guy is very friendly and quick to respond; he's an asset to this apartment community. Some tenants who have dogs don't comply with the rules of walking your pets in the designated area so beware of that. I had one neighbor who allowed his dog to poop right by patio everyday and he never cleaned it up! Some parents don't watch their children so they run all around the property messing with people's cars, playing in the dumpsters, playing in the club house, and vandilizing the swimming pool. Beware of stuff around the apartment starting to fall apartis a major warning. I think they did a rush job while building these apartments too fast and now everything's falling apart. Good luck.
pakers galore at kk's place this fall everyone! no need to get a hotel, he'll have an xtra room for everyone to crash in. :ksu:
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you can rent out the swimming pool cabana/movie theatre! OB BOWL GAMES AND MARCH MADNESS KATPAK'RZ BROS!
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you can rent out the swimming pool cabana/movie theatre! OB BOWL GAMES AND MARCH MADNESS KATPAK'RZ BROS!
BIG SPLASH CONTESTS! :ksu:
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you can rent out the swimming pool cabana/movie theatre! OB BOWL GAMES AND MARCH MADNESS KATPAK'RZ BROS!
BIG SPLASH CONTESTS! :ksu:
:lol:
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you can rent out the swimming pool cabana/movie theatre! OB BOWL GAMES AND MARCH MADNESS KATPAK'RZ BROS!
friend of mine did that all the time to have watch parties. no cleaning up!!!
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SPIDERS!!!!!11!!
Lived in a basement apartment on Moro with spiders the size of a human hand. So big that when you shined the flashlight under the couch to see where they were you could see their eyes staring back at you. I'm physically shaking just remembering.
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Good God but there are an awful lot of FPs around here. :blank:
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Good God but there are an awful lot of FPs around here. :blank:
I bet your place is spider city
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you can rent out the swimming pool cabana/movie theatre! OB BOWL GAMES AND MARCH MADNESS KATPAK'RZ BROS!
BIG SPLASH CONTESTS! :ksu:
1) i've got an absolutely killer preacher seat for a guy my size. not a bad can opener either. flying squirrel and watermelons are my weak spots.
2) kk- after you move in you should take a buncha dish soap and laundry detergent and sneak over to that wyndam heights fountain late a night and dump it all in. i bet it overflows all the way into anderson and cars will have to drive through it. :woot: :rofl:
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Maybe in states other than Kansas.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Maybe in states other than Kansas.
No, Kansas is included. Companies in Kansas treat employees like sh*t just like every other state.
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Good God but there are an awful lot of FPs around here. :blank:
I bet your place is spider city
I prefer spiders to the things they eat so I keep a mini wild kingdom going.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Maybe in states other than Kansas.
No, Kansas is included. Companies in Kansas treat employees like sh*t just like every other state.
I've bought & sold 2 houses in Wichita area within the past 6 years and got out ahead on both; right now sitting in a house that's appraised 20K higher than what I paid for it. I doubt I'd get that out of it right now, but I don't see how I could not make $$ even if I had to sell in these crapty times.
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Good God but there are an awful lot of FPs around here. :blank:
I bet your place is spider city
I prefer spiders to the things they eat
Yeah, that's totally normal. :blank:
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Good God but there are an awful lot of FPs around here. :blank:
I bet your place is spider city
I prefer spiders to the things they eat
Yeah, that's totally normal. :blank:
Normal is just so vastly overrated. :popcorn:
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I've bought & sold 2 houses in Wichita area within the past 6 years and got out ahead on both; right now sitting in a house that's appraised 20K higher than what I paid for it. I doubt I'd get that out of it right now, but I don't see how I could not make $$ even if I had to sell in these crapty times.
It will go down, if it hasn't already. Even in little ol' Wichita. The idiotic belief that housing will never go down is a big part of what led to 40 year interest only loans and all the other high-risk bullsh*t.
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Good God but there are an awful lot of FPs around here. :blank:
I bet your place is spider city
I prefer spiders to the things they eat
Yeah, that's totally normal. :blank:
Normal is just so vastly overrated. :popcorn:
(http://media.bonnint.net/apimage/ae7a7cee-9b59-4545-a04f-029b41a1174e.jpg)
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Maybe in states other than Kansas.
No, Kansas is included. Companies in Kansas treat employees like sh*t just like every other state.
I've bought & sold 2 houses in Wichita area within the past 6 years and got out ahead on both; right now sitting in a house that's appraised 20K higher than what I paid for it. I doubt I'd get that out of it right now, but I don't see how I could not make $$ even if I had to sell in these crapty times.
Are you factoring in transaction costs realty fees, closing costs etc? Even if you have 20k equity that can get eaten up pretty fast with fees. Next to impossible to sell a house FSBO right now.
Even during the upswing in housing prices I think most people way overstated what they made on their homes. When you buy you have closing costs and then you always do some redecorating. Over the years you end up doing maintenance and upgrading different things. Then you sell and you pay the realtor 6%. Add all that crap together along with the interest you paid on the loan, HOA fees, property taxes, homeowners insurance etc. and there are a lot of people that think they made 50K on their last home and really probably just broke even or lost from what they could have done renting over the same period.
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heard bad things about founders hill. had friends that lived there, hated it. walls were super thin, and way overpriced.
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Maybe in states other than Kansas.
No, Kansas is included. Companies in Kansas treat employees like sh*t just like every other state.
I've bought & sold 2 houses in Wichita area within the past 6 years and got out ahead on both; right now sitting in a house that's appraised 20K higher than what I paid for it. I doubt I'd get that out of it right now, but I don't see how I could not make $$ even if I had to sell in these crapty times.
Are you factoring in transaction costs realty fees, closing costs etc? Even if you have 20k equity that can get eaten up pretty fast with fees. Next to impossible to sell a house FSBO right now.
Even during the upswing in housing prices I think most people way overstated what they made on their homes. When you buy you have closing costs and then you always do some redecorating. Over the years you end up doing maintenance and upgrading different things. Then you sell and you pay the realtor 6%. Add all that crap together along with the interest you paid on the loan, HOA fees, property taxes, homeowners insurance etc. and there are a lot of people that think they made 50K on their last home and really probably just broke even or lost from what they could have done renting over the same period.
Actually, sold all of my homes in the past without a realtor; not planning on moving any time soon, but if I did, 4 houses on my block have sold within the past 4 months and were only on the market for 2 months or less.
Second house I sold to buy this one, had the buyer pay all thier own closing cost, but the house I bought the seller paid all of my closing cost, left me a fridge, oven, & Dishwasher & insulated the attic & put new gutters on. I spent $1500 between new carpet & remoddeling the kitchen.... When the market was good, my house was worth about 15K more than it is right now.... There was a time when I was about 35K ahead...
Still don't see how I would have ever been in a better situation renting... but to each his own.
Mortgage, 5.5% @ 15years... which is tax deductable...
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home ownership is a f*cking waste of money.
not a waste of money imo, just not an "investment".
yeah. I guess it's better for old people. Young people move/change jobs too often these days to make homeownership a good idea. IMO!
Maybe in states other than Kansas.
No, Kansas is included. Companies in Kansas treat employees like sh*t just like every other state.
I've bought & sold 2 houses in Wichita area within the past 6 years and got out ahead on both; right now sitting in a house that's appraised 20K higher than what I paid for it. I doubt I'd get that out of it right now, but I don't see how I could not make $$ even if I had to sell in these crapty times.
Are you factoring in transaction costs realty fees, closing costs etc? Even if you have 20k equity that can get eaten up pretty fast with fees. Next to impossible to sell a house FSBO right now.
Even during the upswing in housing prices I think most people way overstated what they made on their homes. When you buy you have closing costs and then you always do some redecorating. Over the years you end up doing maintenance and upgrading different things. Then you sell and you pay the realtor 6%. Add all that crap together along with the interest you paid on the loan, HOA fees, property taxes, homeowners insurance etc. and there are a lot of people that think they made 50K on their last home and really probably just broke even or lost from what they could have done renting over the same period.
Actually, sold all of my homes in the past without a realtor; not planning on moving any time soon, but if I did, 4 houses on my block have sold within the past 4 months and were only on the market for 2 months or less.
Second house I sold to buy this one, had the buyer pay all thier own closing cost, but the house I bought the seller paid all of my closing cost, left me a fridge, oven, & Dishwasher & insulated the attic & put new gutters on. I spent $1500 between new carpet & remoddeling the kitchen.... When the market was good, my house was worth about 15K more than it is right now.... There was a time when I was about 35K ahead...
Still don't see how I would have ever been in a better situation renting... but to each his own.
Mortgage, 5.5% @ 15years... which is tax deductable...
I agree to each his own. I know some have made money owning homes no question but I just think people often overstate what they made and don't count all the cost that go with ownership. Take the guy you bought from it sounds like he dumped a lot of money just to get his place sold between the closing costs, the repairs, the appliances he left and probably has to replace at his next house etc.
I'm a homeowner myself and have been quite awhile. I don't think it's a bad idea and each situation is unique. Right now people are probably undervaluing home ownership and the benefits and that is why homes are relatively cheap. A few years ago people were over valuing homeownership and discounting the risk and pittfalls that go along with it. Around that same time people were demonizing renters saying how it was just throwing money away. That isn't always the case sometimes it makes sense to rent and sometimes it makes sense to buy. Either way I don't think you can count on flipping a house for a big profit and you should look at your home as a place to live not an investment. Some day it may turn out to be an investment but the catch is you've always got to live somewhere so people seldom see the actual cash profits from their home sales until they're really old or dead.
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Honest to god truth.... The house I'm in now was on the market for 9 months because it had a leaky basement. I fixed the leak problem with $75 worth of corrugated pipe, some heavy duty plastic, & a used sump pump kit I bought from my dad for $50; not to mention about 3 days worth of digging. From the time the house was listed to the time I bought it their asking price dropped 15K and I offered 10K less than that. They counter offered splitting the diff. and I told them I would accept if they left the appliances mentioned above and made the fixes I questioned about.
I think people get into trouble with houses when they just don't put the effort in making a house livable. Every house I've lived in the prior owner was satisfied living in a house that had literally no insulation in the attic, shoddy electrical work, holes/dents in walls or no trim, out-dated inefficient appliances, & crappy plumbing; all things that are relatively easy to fix.
Home ownership comes with a lot of work. I guess if you don't ever want to worry about rolling up your sleeves & doing some work around the house, mowing your own lawn, or paying for a new water heater when it goes out, than it's not for you... but I actually enjoy all that stuff. And I don't see how anyone can't see a situation where home ownership would be better than renting. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but saying owning a home is a waste of money is pretty retarded.
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I'm not saying it's for everyone, but saying owning a home is a waste of money is pretty retarded.
Says the guy who loves digging in dirt for 3 days and buying water heaters.
:lol:
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Fixer-uppers.
:jerkoff:
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I lived at Chase Manhattan for a summer. No complaints.
And the pool PWNS the UC pool since you get the whole pool pretty much to yourself. You can get so drunk and not worry about pissing people off.
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Anybody ever see anything freaky going on in the UC pool? That was always what I heard about that place.
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Hey KatKid, I'm actually in the process of pulling the trigger on Highland ridge also. Took the tour today for a 3 person and everything looks great. The only downside was that it's kind of out there, but it's not really that bad. So... just thought I'd let you know that another fellow message boarder might be one of your new neighbors.
Ayo
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Hey KatKid, I'm actually in the process of pulling the trigger on Highland ridge also. Took the tour today for a 3 person and everything looks great. The only downside was that it's kind of out there, but it's not really that bad. So... just thought I'd let you know that another fellow message boarder might be one of your new neighbors.
Ayo
thanks bro.
Will welcome you to katpak events and such.
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Have you considered a double wide in Ogden