Mine installed a pegboard in the pantry. It’s incredibly useful for hanging up pots and pans.
They installed some sort of sound isolating suspended/floating (?) ceiling in my apartment. I absolutely love it. In my neighbors apartment I could constantly hear people above, but in mine it’s almost always silent.
I have a terrible problem in my apartment with noise through the ceiling. I am curious what this is that you have installed as I havent seen any good options such as this. Can you take a picture of this or something? I would love to explore options to get rid of the noise.
Is it something like this?
How the fuck do yall afford houses?
I got lucky on the fact that I’m old now so I was able to buy a house in 2014 with a low interest rate. I also live in a low cost of living area, my mortgage, which includes property taxes and house insurance is $1k/mo. The majority is that goes to taxes and insurance, interest is about $60/mo. I have 5 more years on the 15 yr mortgage. I’ve gotten lucky that we’ve not had to have any major repairs in the past ten years, but I was looking for houses that were who built with good roofing and hvac systems since those are the two killers. The house has a lot of dated aesthetics from every decade from the sixties onwards, but that stuff is easy and cheap, plus you’re probably going to do that kind of stuff anyway.
The owner prior to the last planted fruit trees in the 70s. I love having fresh fruit to eat/share.
The previous owner switched the central AC to split units. Definitely saves on electricity being able to cool/heat individual rooms vs the entire house.
As a kid we moved into a house in the middle of winter, the previous owner had left the fire ready to go, including matches and a couple days worth of wood.
In the living room they routed audio cables through the walls for a surround sound system
Mine hired a bad realtor who listed the house poorly. It means we didn’t compete with cash offers and could actually buy the house.
I wish there was a website listing bad or lazy realtors.
That’s how we got our first place. The sellers still got 2x what they’d paid for it seven or eight years before. But the price was relatively low, so we could afford it.
My friend got his townhouse that way. It was a pretty decent place, and nobody was interested because there were, like, 2 almost-identical exterior shots, maybe one of the kitchen? and 5 from the master bedroom. None from the living room or anything like that
Mine had a single grainy outside shot, worse than Google Street view at the time and called it a contractors special. They essentially put all the red flags they could in the listing, for what was a very manageable purchase (yes we did the flooring before we moved in, and fixed some walls, but we were looking at full guts before, just to get anything.)
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They planted two plum trees and one cherry tree. I picked so many plums this year. Still have a bunch on the freezer ready to go in pies. Made two batches of slivovice moonshine back in the fall just so they wouldn’t go to waste.
Bars on the windows and a nice big hedgerow out front. Extra security, and occasional package deliveries are obscured from the street to deter porch pirates.
Kept the left over floor tiles. Nearly 30 years later I needed to replace one, had a box ready to go.
Remember folks, you’re supposed to leave extra shit like this behind for exactly this reason
Some day those VGA cables will be needed
And the pouch with the CDs I’ve burnt with my favourite albums from 2010 that I’ll play in a truck I’ll steal once the zombie apocalypse starts
…can’t think of a single thing.
Fuck you, Larry.
My apartment used to be owned by a landlord cop who moved to Florida. So I appreciate that he reduced the population of landlord cops in my area by 1
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NYC’s mayor is literally one. Turns out landlords and cops both enjoy abusing people to their benefit
You would think… An ex of mine had a cop for landlord for a while. He neglected to change the keys after the previous really sketchy tenants. Guess who got burglarized. And yet they never found the culprits, not recovered the items.
Nothing.
And that’s why we were able to afford it.
Same. The redneck stuff would be more concerning if I didn’t know how to fix redneck stuff.
They had me. Right now I’m back at my parents’ house.
Patched CAT6 cable to nearly every room in the house. WIFI is good these days but still cant compete with good ol ethernet.
Kitchen faucet is hands free if you put batteries in a thing under the sink. I don’t think the last people used it because it didn’t have batteries when we moved in. Works great though, turning a faucet on and off without touching it is really convenient when your hands are dirty.
How long do the batteries last?
Not sure yet, more than 1 year at least. It takes AAs so they are easy enough to replace.
Nice I thought it was going to be less then a year. I also had the thought of just plugging into the garbage disposal outlet but that might take the redneck engineering to accomplish.
