Today's home shopping: spooky basement

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 02/15/2018 at 22:50 • Filed to: house shopping

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Sweet shim

That’s the bottom of the vinyl flooring you’re looking at.

Mold

Hmm

Bright white mold, soft wood

Stain from mold

Dubious new post... right over this recently sealed crack.

You can’t see it but this pillar already has a split all the way through

Hmm.

Alrighty.

Shimmed with sheetrock

More shims.

Rotted joist

More mold stain

These were pushed up against the south wall... they’re soaking wet.

Recently sealed

Lots of colors

Soaking wet.

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 22:55

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Can you feel the hobo spiders crawling on you?

CB > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:00

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How much for this place?

fintail > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:01

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The first 20 or so seconds of this is what first came to mind:

lone_liberal > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:03

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someassemblyrequired > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:04

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Serious mold and structural issues mean it will only sell for $100K over asking to an all cash buyer.

Chariotoflove > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:10

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So what’s your offer gonna be?

wafflesnfalafel > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:10

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run away quickly

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:11

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Jebus, I thought you were looking at my old house for a second.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:18

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Started out not so bad. Then got worse.

And worse.

And worse...

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:23

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Run!!

Wacko > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:28

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That’s why I don’t have a basement.

I built a heated on grade monolithic slab when I did my major renovations.

My house is high and dry. Fuck you water.

shop-teacher > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/15/2018 at 23:29

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Yup!

functionoverfashion > Wacko 02/15/2018 at 23:36

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Our basement is dry! It’s possible!

Wacko > functionoverfashion 02/15/2018 at 23:41

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I know it’s possible. But a hole in the ground is a hole in the ground.

I just prefer my odds.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > CB 02/15/2018 at 23:56

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375k

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Chariotoflove 02/15/2018 at 23:56

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Knuckle sammich

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 00:23

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Asking a desert rat, what does one do about that kind of water problem? Move the house to higher ground? Dig out and then seal the basement walls from the exterior? The whole idea of basements seems neat, but wacky and unnecessary to me.

benjrblant > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 01:17

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Holy crap. Did that even pass inspection?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > benjrblant 02/16/2018 at 01:33

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No inspection, unless you count what I did as inspecting

Dogsatemypants > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 01:34

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North everett or bothell? Mucho distressed property ima guess 385k?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Dogsatemypants 02/16/2018 at 01:47

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375k in Everett south of Mukilteo Blvd.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > TheHondaBro 02/16/2018 at 01:49

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No(bo)

jkm7680 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 01:50

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It’s s finished basement if ya throw a sofa down there amiright?

Dogsatemypants > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 01:57

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The housing market is gakked out. People need to set down the crackpipes.

Guess assesed value of a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom rambler style with 2 car garage mukilteo, close to boeing and the elementary and middle school. If you are close, when it goes on market you can have first offer.

Dogsatemypants > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 01:59

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I want a basement, but it seems like a bad idea around here.

Steve in Manhattan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 03:55

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Get a vacant lot and build? You should stop torturing yourselves.

And we finally closed on this apartment. Sure, the paint in this building was drying when the Titanic went down, but we’ve got no mold, structural issues, or wobbly columns. Just German roaches ...

McMike > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 05:30

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Even without those soaking wet absorbent sock thing, it’s obvious that basement is always wet. Mold, 4x4 posts sitting on cement, air handler not sitting on ground.

Eww.

punkgoose17 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 02/16/2018 at 06:44

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You have to dig below the frost line for the foundation, so the house does not shift. Ta Da your basement is 70% done.

diplodicus > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 08:20

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Jesus who installed that romex. What a mess.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 08:59

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And knowing this market, they’re hoping for waived contingencies, waived inspections, etc, because if you don’t include those and bid above asking, you won’t get the house due to the starved/crazed market.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Wacko 02/16/2018 at 09:03

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The problem with slabs around here is the amount of water we get. If something starts welling up under there, access to it helps tremendously. Even houses without basements around here (most of them) will have a crawl space so you can access everything and do something about water intrusion.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Steve in Manhattan 02/16/2018 at 09:11

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Building may actually be worse in this market due to the extreme shortage of construction workers. The area is expensive due to the boom, but so is land, materials, and most construction people have been priced clean out of the metro. So you have all these itinerant construction workers that might live in a trailer during some work before moving on. Quality is garbage and they don’t care because why care if you don’t live there (or anywhere near it).

This area has been in a boom town temporary mentality when it comes to construction since the early settlers. Every decade or two a new thing comes, more housing is built questionably for the short term, then a crash comes and nobody cares that their poorly constructed crap was poorly constructed as they flee for somewhere with a better economy.

Thomas Donohue > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 10:00

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So this is weird....I saw ‘spooky’ and saw the first pic and immediately saw the guy on the ground.

Ghost of water stains past? Or maybe I just didn’t sleep last night. But that’s clearly a bow-legged man facing to the right with his arm pointing at the crack in the floor/water leak/mold.

Buy the house and have a seance and find out where the money/body/gold is buried.

user314 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 13:35

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 13:42

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Oh jeebuz, that is really bad.

Counter point, they used the floor joists as the foundation form work on my old house. The buyers inspector identified it as mold. I basically told the buying agent to go fuck off if they expected me to clean concrete off the floor joists, or get any credit for it. They re-inspected the house and agreed with me.

Also a plus they found my lost hammer.

RPM esq. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/16/2018 at 15:35

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I don’t know what you’re talking about, this is a perfect house to start a business cultivating mushrooms or eyeless fish or anything else that thrives in dank caverns.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > RPM esq. 02/16/2018 at 15:39

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I like the word “dank” but you lost me long before that.