Random Thoughts 14: I can see clearly now 2020 edition
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It will depend on the age of the house. If it's an older home, they should be focused on the structure, roof, plumbing and electric. If you get feedback on small or cosmetic issues, it could be a sign the buyer is being a ****.
1980 built. We have always tried to keep it up but with that age there is always something to repair.
Of course. As long as nothing major is found, you should be fine. Complaining about a sump pump, which is a cheap fix, is petty.
If they got the radon guy that could be messy. Realtors have been talking and wondering why one guy trips on every house but most rarely get any up here. I probably made a mistake and allowed it to be shown before we were going to update and do several things. Siding is 99% done and there are a couple things still to do but they probably trip on an inspection because you have things like a wire showing (breaker off) for the exterior lights that have not been put back on yet.
Once again, I hate selling things because people have gotten so whiny about everything lately. The local realtors have said the same thing. People want a new house for the price of an non updated 50 year old house.
My MIL had an inspector claim the sump pump didn't work because there was 6 inches of water in the bottom of the pit. I called BS on that as 6 inches isn't enough to trip the float trigger. I took video of the pump working if you lift the float and punched all sorts of holes in the inspectors competency.
If they comeback with a do list tell them to **** off. If they want to buy a "used" house it comes with some wear and tear. We didn't need a real estate agent to sell my mom's house as we had a buyer and it was offered to her at a below market price (less RE fees and more to expedite). If she had come back with a "list" I would have told her to **** off and put it on the market for a higher price. Yes, the electric and pumbing is old cause the house is 100. The new roof, furnance and A/C we had to put in while it sat vacate for four years made it a good buy in spite of the crummy baths and kitchen and plaster issues.
I agree with the inspector **** being a open invite for less ethical bastards to step in. If I am alive to sell this place it's going to be an "as is" sell with my heels dug in. Anything they could find would be BS, it's architect designed addition with a structural engineer doing the structure.
We don't tip when we're in Oregon.
If I'm forced to let them pump my gas (and probably pay a higher price to boot), I'm not tipping them. If I CHOOSE to have someone pump my gas like in the days way back when that was still a thing here in Ames, and I would go out of my way to go to the Sinclair so that I don't have to stand in the rain or snow or cold...hell yeah, I would tip.
My mom never pumped her own gas. I think she bought gas at Kroger and they always had an attendant so I assume the attendant pumped the gas for her. Pretty sure the BP on Roanoke Road still had a full service island.
A question that my common sense side wanted to lay the hammer to yesterday. Was talking about college credits earned while in HS. My daughter should be somewhere from 12-28 depending on what she does. So a light discussion in the small group came up about transfer classes. This one potential ISU student asks, I will be taking this class here at ISU next year, will that count for that class?
I’m thinking, are you kidding? You seriously wonder if a class you take at ISU will count for that class at ISU?
You still have that?
maybe I'm not reading correctly, but could they have been asking about something like whether taking Math 40 counts for the Math requirement? IIRC some lower level classes wouldn't count. Like, you'd still get the 3 credits but it wouldn't fulfill your 3 math credit requirement. Maybe that's what they were trying to ask about?
IL they used to pump your gas, I remember that growing up. It was a big deal when our little Amoco place got shut down in town and replaced by the giant Shell. Not a damn clue why that would be coming back though???
I need to stop at Whole Foods and pick up some more Pau d'Arco tea. With all the sick people around here I've been drinking lots of it.
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Every time I see the "JFK to LHR in under 5 hours" thread title I expect to open it and see it full of JLH pictures and GIF's.
Where I’m basically at. The other oddity here is, it is in my backyard so I don’t want whiny people behind me. If they come back with a list, I will let them know that if they want to do anything with it, they need to break the contract, which I won’t fight. After they do that I will tell them as is (like I have said before) but raise the price 5k for dealing with them.
They house will appraise for much more than what I’m selling it for. I can say this since that is my side job.
The other oddity is that there is nothing forcing me to sell this at anytime. The taxes and insurance is cheaper than what it will cost me to build another garage on our property. I have a list of people wanting to rent it, I can do that for a year and then spin it out.
No, so I don’t give the person away if they are on here, it was like a future finance person asking if taking finance 350 at ISU while in HS would count for Fin350 when they were required to take it for their degree when they come to ISU.
My stepmother never did either, and was horrified that my sisters and I all chose to pump our own most of the time. "Ladies don't do that"...
Dunno - but I also hate those freakin' pre-pay stations on the East coast. I want to pump it full. I'm not going to give them an open-end credit line on my card, so I end up paying for $30 and moving on down the road.
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