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"ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability" (italianjobr53) 08/17/2020 at 21:52 • Filed to: Houselopnik

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No, I’m not buying a house...yet. But Chris’s post made me look around for one.

This guy is pretty neat imo. Big enough house and 3 deep garage! Its kinda sorta out of town but 10 minutes drive to work and the approach angle is shallow enough for the driveway that my Vette wont scrape on it. If everything works out to plan, I should be able to get a house next year around this time...

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P.S.: I haven’t researched a whole lot about what to look out for and what not in a house so there may be something glaringly wrong with this one and I wouldn’t know.

CB > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:07

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I’m house shopping in eighteen months when I’m set to be out of here. I can only hope for a three bedroom, two bath (what I have now) but with a garage and fenced in yard too.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > CB 08/17/2020 at 22:09

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I want a 2 car garage at least...

CB > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:11

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I’ll accept a one car garage at the moment, but two car is the dream. Mainly because getting into a cold c ar in the winter is awful. Ever had to scrape ice inside your windshield because the condensation in your breath freezes when it touches the glass?

getFuckedHerb > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:16

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wow that is a lot for that little guy. Always bugs me when they go through the work to paint trim that doesn’t match the other trim. The painting is the sucky part, just match it all up!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > CB 08/17/2020 at 22:23

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Oof ...i went to school in the UP so the worst I experienced was -15C, real feel -25C

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > getFuckedHerb 08/17/2020 at 22:25

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Is it a lot? It seemed to me to be what those kinda houses cost in my area.

getFuckedHerb > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:28

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C orrect response, I should have said “That’s a lot for that if it were here”. It may be totally cheap for out there!

We sold our last place, with a 24x30 detached (finished, heated, cooled) with a fresh remodel to very high standards and a lot and a half in the city (hot tub included) for $175k

fintail > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:34

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I house shop now and then too - for when I win the lottery, as it aint gonna happen otherwise, unless I move. Oh, I also seldom buy tickets. Damnit!

A place I like in my area hit the market and sold fast last year. I like this one for the garage, and the originality. The fintail would look good in front of this place. I think it’s a rental now, probably biding time before it is razed and replaced with a boring questionably built mcmodern box or faux farmhouse cliche , etc:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1407-Evergreen-Point-Rd-Medina-WA-98039/48807065_zpid/

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > getFuckedHerb 08/17/2020 at 22:34

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Aah, that’s a good deal! Also, nice C6!!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > fintail 08/17/2020 at 22:37

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Its quite good! But 4.4 mil....ooof

fintail > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:41

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If it was 1/10th the price...I still couldn’t swing it.   But it’s fun to look, I like these preserved old places that were obviously loved by a longtime owner.

ranwhenparked > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 22:57

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I’d like to sell mine and get something, well, not bigger, exactly, but definitely on a bigger lot and outside of town. Larger garage/shop would be nice. Only been here 2 years, but I bought pretty cheap and have built up a bit of equity, and there’s signs that the neighborhood is edging up in price, should be able to get out of it with at least a good cash deposit. Maybe wait until the COVID thing settles down a bit more or we all at least get desensitized to it, whichever comes first.

This one would need some work, but nice location and garages on two different levels

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/40-Park-Rd_Nottingham_PA_19362_M30217-69215#photo33

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/17/2020 at 23:45

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That’s like 1.5 million here, at least. 

gettingoldercarguy > fintail 08/18/2020 at 00:03

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And you own a fintail? Weird.



RooseveltDad > fintail 08/18/2020 at 01:38

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Location, location, and yes, location. 

Grindintosecond > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/18/2020 at 08:40

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If I was still working for a terrible horrible no good verybad regional airline CEO, I would buy that house. It looks very nice. Even has a place to drink wine by the water heater....I think that's what that table is for...

Grindintosecond > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/18/2020 at 08:44

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Careful with them dream houses. Someone’s gotta clean all that space. We’re already talking of a downsize when the  kids are exiting.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Grindintosecond 08/18/2020 at 08:50

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I just want a big garage....

Roundbadge > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/18/2020 at 09:56

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Almost 2k sq ft on a nearly half-acre lot with a 3 car garage and outbuildings, $199k isn’t terrible. That said, some of the pictures give me pause.

1. Forced-air heat, and there’s still a baseboard heater in the upstairs front room?

2. That upstairs bathroom would be inconvenient as hell for bathing.

3. That storage area and mudroom look to be in an addition...and I wonder how well that’s sealed up.

4. Is that an old outhouse in pic 34 ?

5. The outlet with the wire-hiding moulding coming out and running along the baseboard in pic 19. I could be wrong...it might be fine...but that looks like someone took half-measures with their wiring job. I’m c urious what else might be hidden in that house.

Tapas > fintail 08/18/2020 at 11:17

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Same here....I dream about winning a lottery way too much for someone who never buys lottery tickets lol

Toronto real estate got me good. Can’t afford a shoe box without going broke.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Grindintosecond 08/18/2020 at 12:52

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Got a decade before our youngest is 18, but it’s worth considering. We have a big house on 10 acres out in the country, but it’s actually on two 5s, so we could build a smaller home on the other half and sell our existing home, theoretically .

Saracen > fintail 08/18/2020 at 13:09

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Medina is like my dream location. Beautiful.

But yeah, so expensive.  We’ll probably end up near Redmond which is better for my work anyway.

fintail > Saracen 08/18/2020 at 13:22

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I’d take that house anywhere, but it being in probably the best/most serene neighborhood of the area is a plus, for sure. Medina is still a bit WASPY and paranoid, but definitely has a high quality of life. I like to cruise around that area in the fintail.

Redmond is nothing to sneeze at, either.  Former co-worker bought a pleasant but ordinary 70s rambler there in 2015, sold it in 2019 for 60% more, and left the area.  I don’t hold it against her.

fintail > Tapas 08/18/2020 at 13:23

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Teardowns on this side of town are 7 figures.   It’s pretty sad that old house is probably close to land value only, if not fully there.

Saracen > fintail 08/18/2020 at 13:34

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I live in a modest and fairly uninteresting San Diego neighborhood, yet my home has appreciated about that much since I bought it in 2015. Taking that into account though, Redmond’s price per sq ft in the sold listings I’ve looked at is actually less, so for me it’s still better! And I’d get to feel like I’m living in the woods, not right up against my neighbor in the suburbs.

fintail > Saracen 08/18/2020 at 13:58

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Yeah, I would imagine SD is more expensive, it’s a real city and people love the climate. For as nice as it can be, Redmond (or the whole eastside) is still sometimes like a bedroom community, and it really was even 25-30 years ago. If you haven’t experienced a local winter, you’ll have fun - new arrivals seem to like it for a year or two, then the doldrums begin :)   

My old co-worker, who with her husband have Mexico dual citizenship (I think), moved back to Mexico and bought an oceanfront place outright with the simple profits from their Redmond house. They got really lucky, ahead of the curve in the teleworking boom.

Saracen > fintail 08/18/2020 at 14:46

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Bring it on. I’d love to experience a real winter again. N either of us can function in the heat anymore. If it’s cool or cold, I will spend all weekend outside doing yardwork. If there’s any heat, I get a fraction of the work done. I just melt.

I’ve been here for over 20 years, and it’s only getting hotter. People love the idea of living near the beach, but the reality is that the pacific is so effing cold, you’re not going to want to swim in it most of the time. The only time it’s tolerable is when it’s this hot. I’d rather not have to go to a crammed beach to not be miserable with the temperature. I’ll take the cold and the woods over the heat and desert.

fintail > Saracen 08/18/2020 at 16:39

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Not the cold here so much as the damp. Here we can have measurable rain for 30+ days in a row, and it’s that kind of rain where there is precip for 22 hours and we end up with .09" - drizzle. Snow events are usually short-lived, temps below 15F uncommon . But heat won’t be an issue, we have a few minor hot spells in the summer, nothing more. On that note, you can spend a lot on a house and not have AC, look out for that.

I like the dry for clean cars, not so much the heat.   It can be really nice here in October before the real rainy season hits.

Saracen > fintail 08/18/2020 at 17:01

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Perfectly okay with humidity as long as we can beat the heat . A/C is a must for us as well.

fintail > Saracen 08/18/2020 at 19:42

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Heat and humidity seldom coexist here, so you’ll be fine.

Don’t expect AC on a house over 20 years old unless it has had deep renovations, and it isn’t a guarantee on newer builds either.  However, compared to the price of housing here, an AC upgrade isn’t too expensive.

Tapas > fintail 08/18/2020 at 20:19

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:(