Author Topic: House buying/owning advice (Read 110949 times)

Youngfei · « **Reply #1300 on:** May 17, 2022, 10:56:32 AM »

Will your insurance does not cover the cost of repairs? If not and the repair cost is too high for you, you can use some other options. For example, if you are over 62 years old and the house is your property, you can learn about the reverse mortgage process and use their help to get money to repair your house. Thus, you will not need to spend your own money, and you will get enough money to make a complete repair of the roof of your house. It seems to be a very convenient and profitable offer.

steve dave · « **Reply #1301 on:** June 01, 2022, 07:36:56 PM »

We’ve reached the top finally

https://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1532149494917124096

michigancat · « **Reply #1302 on:** June 01, 2022, 07:49:09 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on June 01, 2022, 07:36:56 PM

We’ve reached the top finally

https://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1532149494917124096

That's a weird graph lol

steve dave · « **Reply #1303 on:** June 01, 2022, 08:16:38 PM »

If you don’t sell your home in summer just eat it

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #1304 on:** June 02, 2022, 08:20:56 AM »

We decided to stop looking in this market, because we're not complete psychopaths.

steve dave · « **Reply #1305 on:** June 02, 2022, 08:40:26 AM »

I wouldn’t expect it to come down much if at all. But at least the rate of increase appears to have stalled out.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #1306 on:** June 02, 2022, 09:16:59 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on June 02, 2022, 08:40:26 AM

I wouldn’t expect it to come down much if at all. But at least the rate of increase appears to have stalled out.

inventory is still sheet

catastrophe · « **Reply #1307 on:** June 02, 2022, 04:50:45 PM »

Yeah I think I agree with one of the commenters to the tweet that the price drops might be more reflective of what people can afford based on the rising interest rates.

Inventory has always been my gripe.

wetwillie · « **Reply #1308 on:** June 02, 2022, 05:40:36 PM »

As long as Investment funds are buying single family homes and taking them off the market forever it will be a low inventory game

CHONGS · « **Reply #1309 on:** June 02, 2022, 05:51:43 PM »

I am about to take a bath on getting my sewer line replaced.

Tobias · « **Reply #1310 on:** June 02, 2022, 06:19:14 PM »

Ts and Ps on that…

star seed 7 · « **Reply #1311 on:** June 02, 2022, 06:57:19 PM »

CHONGS · « **Reply #1312 on:** June 02, 2022, 07:01:05 PM »

Looks like it's going to take three days :(.

Spracne · « **Reply #1313 on:** June 02, 2022, 07:44:26 PM »

Sorry bud

. Good luck with that crap.

CHONGS · « **Reply #1314 on:** June 02, 2022, 08:05:45 PM »

Well I have 12 foot deep crap filled death trap in my back yard right now.

Tobias · « **Reply #1315 on:** June 02, 2022, 08:35:16 PM »

we "lucked out" last year, ms tobias' sewer was pretty shallow and got like 100' new sewer line run from cleanout to (somehow) an existing pvc stub at the main tap and like 50' of galvanized water service replaced for like somewhere in the 5-6k range, assumed it'd be like triple that going in. like someone had previously done all the expensive annoying work and left the easy bits

DQ12 · « **Reply #1316 on:** June 03, 2022, 09:56:34 AM »

sewer insurance came recommended by our agent

KCFDcat · « **Reply #1317 on:** June 03, 2022, 01:27:09 PM »

New driveway quote in April was 27k. They called me back last week to schedule it and told me it went up to 41k. Woof.

mocat · « **Reply #1318 on:** June 03, 2022, 02:28:50 PM »

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #1319 on:** June 03, 2022, 02:30:25 PM »

just bought 4 new toilets and a garbage disposal at Lowes. Really hanging with the contractors is good fun

wetwillie · « **Reply #1320 on:** June 03, 2022, 02:56:06 PM »

Quote from: KCFDcat on June 03, 2022, 01:27:09 PM

New driveway quote in April was 27k. They called me back last week to schedule it and told me it went up to 41k. Woof.

We talking just standard stuff or like a radiant heated stamped concrete fancy one?

bucket · « **Reply #1321 on:** June 03, 2022, 02:59:31 PM »

Quote from: wetwillie on June 03, 2022, 02:56:06 PM

Quote from: KCFDcat on June 03, 2022, 01:27:09 PM
New driveway quote in April was 27k. They called me back last week to schedule it and told me it went up to 41k. Woof.

We talking just standard stuff or like a radiant heated stamped concrete fancy one?

Ya, I was picturing a fully-paved, windy, 1/2 mile drive lined with Italian Cypress.

pissclams · « **Reply #1322 on:** June 03, 2022, 03:03:39 PM »

Quote from: Dugout DickStone on June 03, 2022, 02:30:25 PM

just bought 4 new toilets and a garbage disposal at Lowes. Really hanging with the contractors is good fun

pavers

CNS · « **Reply #1323 on:** June 03, 2022, 03:33:15 PM »

Quote from: KCFDcat on June 03, 2022, 01:27:09 PM

New driveway quote in April was 27k. They called me back last week to schedule it and told me it went up to 41k. Woof.

Nothing has caused that. Your contractor is just throwing you a number he can't say no to.

I work with concrete weekly and it has gone up $10/CY. Labor is up a couple bucks an hour in the last year, but not since April. Literally, nothing is causing this except that he doesn't want the job for $27k anymore.

catastrophe · « **Reply #1324 on:** June 03, 2022, 04:21:00 PM »

I get the point, but labor shortage still counts as a cause.

If only we had a source of cheap labor that desperately wants to work and pay taxes in the US.