House buying/owning advice

[wetwillie]

Get someone who looks at you the way dlew looks at asbestos, plaster, and knob and tube wiring

[steve dave]

Get someone who looks at you the way dlew looks at asbestos, plaster, and knob and tube wiring

He’s trad in almost all aspects of his life


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[mocat]

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

Check out this hot POA.  It needs a lot of work, but you dump 400k into that baby and you're sitting on 7300 sq ft. You're a 3 minute walk from the streetcar, and a short ride down to the Royals game.  All for less than $800k. My wife and I could both, realistically, commute via streetcar from there.  My child(ren) would have issues with schools, but there are some really quality and educational youtube channels these days!

Is that alluring or what?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3512-Kenwood-Ave-Kansas-City-MO-64109/2341351_zpid/

central hyde park is elite. too much house tho

[DQ12]

Get someone who looks at you the way dlew looks at asbestos, plaster, and knob and tube wiring

So true.  I crave it.  I’ll never do it (and I shouldn’t) and it will be one of the great regrets of my life.

I did drive passed it on the way home from work tonight.  The old girl needs a lot of love.

[sys]

pretty house.

[cfbandyman]

It's a really cool old house, and agree on too much house. That is so much to attend to. If it was 2500 sqft you coulsell it at probably 200k, and then dump 350k into it and it'd be the belle of the Hyde Park ball

[DQ12]

It's a really cool old house, and agree on too much house. That is so much to attend to. If it was 2500 sqft you coulsell it at probably 200k, and then dump 350k into it and it'd be the belle of the Hyde Park ball

You’re underselling Hyde Park.  There’s quite a few old houses over there that have already undergone really nice restorations. 

It’s very hit or miss, but the house I posted is the eyesore of the surrounding few blocks imo.

[ben ji]

Beautiful house (Minus the radiators) but what are you going to do with 8 bedrooms?

My favorite block in KC is right next to that on Janssen place but you better play it safe and get a new build out in Spring Hill.

[steve dave]

I’ve become less and less interested in physical houses as I’ve gotten older. I always planned on building 1 more custom home on a big piece of land or renovating some existing one to live the rest of my days in but now don’t see the point.


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[WillieWatanabe]

I’ve become less and less interested in physical houses as I’ve gotten older. I always planned on building 1 more custom home on a big piece of land or renovating some existing one to live the rest of my days in but now don’t see the point.


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eat Arby's.

[DQ12]

Beautiful house (Minus the radiators) but what are you going to do with 8 bedrooms?

fill it with children in our younger years.  run a (tasteful!) bordello in our elder years.

[ChiComCat]

My takeaway is that dlew wants to chicat's neighbor pretty badly.

The talk for the next streetcar extension is on Linwood, although I'm sure that's 5 years off at best.

[catastrophe]

I’ve become less and less interested in physical houses as I’ve gotten older. I always planned on building 1 more custom home on a big piece of land or renovating some existing one to live the rest of my days in but now don’t see the point.


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Which non-physical houses are piquing your interests these days?

[wetwillie]

I think it involves AA metal

[mocat]

I think it involves AA metal

lol

[XocolateThundarr]

As a soon to be empty nester, seriously considering selling our soon to be too big house and building a barndo on 40-50 acres.

[IPA4Me]

As a soon to be empty nester, seriously considering selling our soon to be too big house and building a barndo on 40-50 acres.

Fantastic plan. I've been doing the RV life as an empty nester but grabbing an apartment to help my 19 y.o. kiddo get on her feet.

Building a 1200-1400 square foot ranch on ten acres in the next year or so.

I've been looking at larger land but I really don't want to take care of it. I'd rather travel and flip someone a $100 to mow while I'm gone.

[XocolateThundarr]

As a soon to be empty nester, seriously considering selling our soon to be too big house and building a barndo on 40-50 acres.

Fantastic plan. I've been doing the RV life as an empty nester but grabbing an apartment to help my 19 y.o. kiddo get on her feet.

Building a 1200-1400 square foot ranch on ten acres in the next year or so.

I've been looking at larger land but I really don't want to take care of it. I'd rather travel and flip someone a $100 to mow while I'm gone.

Plan is to find a piece of ground that has good hunting and enough drainage that I can build a watershed.  Will only mow the area immediately around the structure....probably a couple acres.

[pissclams]

As a soon to be empty nester, seriously considering selling our soon to be too big house and building a barndo on 40-50 acres.

Fantastic plan. I've been doing the RV life as an empty nester but grabbing an apartment to help my 19 y.o. kiddo get on her feet.

Building a 1200-1400 square foot ranch on ten acres in the next year or so.

I've been looking at larger land but I really don't want to take care of it. I'd rather travel and flip someone a $100 to mow while I'm gone.

Plan is to find a piece of ground that has good hunting and enough drainage that I can build a watershed.  Will only mow the area immediately around the structure....probably a couple acres.

that sounds like a safe haven for disease ridden ticks

[XocolateThundarr]

As a soon to be empty nester, seriously considering selling our soon to be too big house and building a barndo on 40-50 acres.

Fantastic plan. I've been doing the RV life as an empty nester but grabbing an apartment to help my 19 y.o. kiddo get on her feet.

Building a 1200-1400 square foot ranch on ten acres in the next year or so.

I've been looking at larger land but I really don't want to take care of it. I'd rather travel and flip someone a $100 to mow while I'm gone.

Plan is to find a piece of ground that has good hunting and enough drainage that I can build a watershed.  Will only mow the area immediately around the structure....probably a couple acres.

that sounds like a safe haven for disease ridden ticks

Those SOBs are everywhere as it is.  May as well get bitten by ticks from my property and not someone else's when hunting.

[wetwillie]

What does a 50 acre parcel with a suitable building site go for these days?   

[XocolateThundarr]

What does a 50 acre parcel with a suitable building site go for these days?   

Depends on where you are at.  Anywhere from $1500 to $7000+ per acre.  The good news is I don't necessarily need the property to have a suitable building site on it.  I have the technology to fix that once I buy the property.

[Pete]

Hit me it up you guys land amazing places to kill animals. My son is super into that, and probably is not a psychopath.

[wetwillie]

What does a 50 acre parcel with a suitable building site go for these days?   

Depends on where you are at.  Anywhere from $1500 to $7000+ per acre.  The good news is I don't necessarily need the property to have a suitable building site on it.  I have the technology to fix that once I buy the property.

Oh that's a lot cheaper than I thought.  Land in NE KS seems to be going for 10K+ an acre

[yoga-like_abana]

I have just shy of 5 and now am thirsty for more adjoining land.