House buying/owning advice

[Phil Titola]

I live in an old warehouse that used to be a Southwestern Bell switching station, you ignorant fucks. Get on my level.

Did they have to knock windows out for it? Our switching stations are gigantic w/o many windows. https://goo.gl/maps/Fagn4ma3CNbR5TFv5

[yoga-like_abana]

Steve Dave must have one of those famous hidden front porches I’ve heard so much about. Makes his new build unique

[nicname]

Steve Dave must have one of those famous hidden front porches I’ve heard so much about. Makes his new build unique

Whenever I come across another one of those things I will snap a photo and post if on the go EMAW blog.com!

 

[pissclams]

I live in an old warehouse that used to be a Southwestern Bell switching station, you ignorant fucks. Get on my level.

Did they have to knock windows out for it? Our switching stations are gigantic w/o many windows. https://goo.gl/maps/Fagn4ma3CNbR5TFv5

The AT&T station downtown had its switches located in the basement to avoid weather related issues, the lack of windows may have just been a design decision.

[DaBigTrain]

Steve Dave must have one of those famous hidden front porches I’ve heard so much about. Makes his new build unique

Whenever I come across another one of those things I will snap a photo and post if on the go EMAW blog.com!

 

Maybe a couple of pics will start appearing on your Google+

[Tobias]

[steve dave]

i don't know why you guys are being jerks about old houses.

This feels like a Dax pit scene where he goes on a seven consecutive post rampage about how everyone else is melting down.


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[star seed 7]

Yeah dlew, why don't you want to live in a treeless, soulless, beige and tan 'burb that will suck all joy and creativity from your heart?

I love old houses. Of course I am a former history teacher so I have a lot of interest in the past. We lived in a house for 2 years that was built in 1890 and I loved it. We heated it primarily using a pot bellied stove and it was great. Our current house was built in 1954 and I recently found an old photo of it right after it was built with old 40's cars lining the street. I thought it was pretty neat.

They knocked down the dilapidated house next to me and built a new house there and now they don't have a single tree on the property, like wtf. They took out like 5 trees!

[WillieWatanabe]

I would like a new house in an established neighborhood with lots of old growth trees. I hate driving through new burbs.

[DQ12]

i don't know why you guys are being jerks about old houses.

This feels like a Dax pit scene where he goes on a seven consecutive post rampage about how everyone else is melting down.


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New[house]anon is treating me very unfairly!

[CNS]

I would like a new house in an established neighborhood with lots of old growth trees. I hate driving through new burbs.

I don't know if PV will still let you, but for the last 15-20 years, this is exactly what PV was for.  Buy some tiny 1950's home with 1 acre and a bunch of trees, demo crap box, build mcmansion and act like you are in Leawood due to proximity.

IIRC, PV has been trying to stop this as of late, but I may be wrong. 

[yoga-like_abana]

The annexation of Prairie Village.

[wetwillie]

Buying a small parcel in PV for 600k is quite the flex

[cfbandyman]

I would like a new house in an established neighborhood with lots of old growth trees. I hate driving through new burbs.

I don't know if PV will still let you, but for the last 15-20 years, this is exactly what PV was for.  Buy some tiny 1950's home with 1 acre and a bunch of trees, demo crap box, build mcmansion and act like you are in Leawood due to proximity.

IIRC, PV has been trying to stop this as of late, but I may be wrong.

I've been detached from their scene for a bit, but correct, they have been trying to reign it in.

Buying a small parcel in PV for 600k is quite the flex

It's so insane. Like I think of my house (though soon to most likely be sold) being torn down and replaced, and even at a ~300k price that seems so crazy to do, let alone PV numbers.

[Stupid Fitz]

My first house was in PV. Small, standard PV, 2 bed 2 bathroom for around $150k in prob 2004 or so. Great house, great street. Sold it in 2009 for $185k. Just looked and it has a tax appraised value of $331k today. I can't imagine being out of college a couple of years or whatever and walking in to that house and paying over 300k. It just seems impossible. Hell, we struggled with the thought of paying a mortgage at 155k or whatever.

[Institutional Control]

I once lived in a house built in 1862 in Lawrence. I had excruciating pain followed by half of my face becoming numb for a month due to mold in the iron ducts. It was a very charming experience, as I chugged scotch to numb the pain (just like the old settlers!) and thought wistfully about what the original owners must have experienced during Quantrill's raid.

Nice try, Spracs.  Everyone knows all of Lawrence burnt down in 1863.

[Rage Against the McKee]

The fire damage probably led to all of the mold.

[Spracne]

No! You fools! It's all true. I suspect the house was spared because it was constructed of native limestone, also known colloquially as "rock chalk."

[mocat]

wow I can't believe the disney world guy prefers mcmansions to historic architecture that's crazy

[steve dave]

I'm getting my jumbo disney world mcmansion painted this month. it's shockingly cheap. I always assumed getting a house painted was like $15k or something.

[DQ12]

I'm getting my jumbo disney world mcmansion painted this month. it's shockingly cheap. I always assumed getting a house painted was like $15k or something.

I painted houses one summer in my youth, and we charged like 3 grand or something for a regular sized old leawood house.  I recently learned that $3k is not the going rate anymore.

[steve dave]

I'm getting my jumbo disney world mcmansion painted this month. it's shockingly cheap. I always assumed getting a house painted was like $15k or something.

I painted houses one summer in my youth, and we charged like 3 grand or something for a regular sized old leawood house.  I recently learned that $3k is not the going rate anymore.

Ours is about $7,000. I feel like that is not a bad deal.


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[CNS]

I painted mcmansions a few times in 1997 and they were going for $6k then, so not bad.

[yoga-like_abana]

sounds like steve dave is getting the college works painting crew

[steve dave]

sounds like steve dave is getting the college works painting crew

My neighbor’s company, but very well could be college kids doing the painting. And, folks, at these prices I am fine with that.


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