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I hauled 88 tons of garbage out of my house in the process of remodeling it. I bought it in 2008 only having seen it from the road. (13) 30 yard containers (8) 40 yard containers I've flipped 5 houses since then. Three of which were gut-remodels and I still haven't tossed as much poo poo in all those places combined as I did on my house. Don't buy houses you haven't seen folks.
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We rent a decently renovated semi and it's pretty decent except for it seems the PO decided to do a lot of the finish work on a gut Reno himself. So things look OK from a distance but up close everything is a bit off. Crooked grout lines and tiles that don't line up at the edges, doors that stick and don't hang well, wavy walls where the drywall was redone, lovely cheap railings, kitchen drawers that don't totally line up... It's like they were 70% there but didn't have the tools, knowledge, patience and money to do it right. So far my landlord has had to carry out probably 2k in basic repairs. I imagine what is under the drywall is equally sketchy. Which is great fine for a renter but I wouldn't buy this house in a million years. But... I live in Toronto so houses like mine are selling with unconditional bidding wars for 100k over asking. No inspection clauses, no conditions, no protection. Many idiots are taking out huge mortgages to buy lemons. In a few years these cheap flip job places will bankrupt their owners. Oh and since it's a semi and we share a common wall with our neighbours I can clearly hear them arguing and talking all the time. I guess soundproofing wasn't in the budget? I am looking to buy soon but man this hot market is making me want to keep renting a while longer. Let someone else pay for the repairs for now...
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Jul 28, 2016 00:51
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i lost my job a while back and am selling my house now and i couldnt give a gently caress less about all the little things wrong with it, that's not my problem anymore eat poo poo watch out CANPOL goons im bringing my white middle aged blonde haired male self and my family to BC to make BC great again
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Jul 28, 2016 00:53
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NihilismNow posted:Inspection is pretty worthless because they are only allowed to look at things in plain sight. A valid observation anywhere but in Goonville, where 90% of the issues cited are in plain sight.
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Jul 28, 2016 02:24
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Chinatown posted:if u destroyed these then: Tore it down, but took photos for posterity. Attached is one of the teenage masterpieces.
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Jul 28, 2016 02:31
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And another. I expect that whoever did this artowk is also reponsible for the weird collection of Sun Run tags and 70's porn stuck to the ceiling of the now destroyed shed.
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Jul 28, 2016 02:35
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Turns out the previous owners replaced part of the water main with 1/4 inch PVC pipe like you'd see used in a sprinkler system. The unreplaced sections of pipe were all shot through with holes, partially stopped up with roots. GOD drat PIES of poo poo!!! e: aslo the scroll wheel on my mouse just stopped working, WTH!?
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Jul 28, 2016 02:38
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Do it ironically posted:i lost my job a while back and am selling my house now and i couldnt give a gently caress less about all the little things wrong with it, that's not my problem anymore eat poo poo Dude fight me. I'll kick your rear end and then drive to work to do my job I still have because I don't suck at everything.
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Jul 28, 2016 03:01
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Fuckin assholes had a bunch of warrants out for them. I was cheefing ze reefer last week and the entire goddamn Sheriff's department (well four guys anyway) knocked on my door guns drawn wanting me to prove that I wasn't some dickhead who moved out two years ago and was wanted for missing his court date for a bunch of total Levi Johnston poo poo. Dude apparently crashed his truck into a cop car while high on bath salts because he was too busy punching his pregnant girlfriend to look where he was driving, when getting a ticket for this he tried to drive off and ran over the cop's foot, then he didn't show up to court and this was his last known address. Meanwhile the air in my house is purple and I'm trying to pretend I'm not too high to see straight while fumbling for my ID with literal guns pointed in my face.
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Jul 28, 2016 03:25
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Today I went outside to fix some poo poo gutters that keep overflowing on the end that doesn't have a downspout. They all have the old (or cheap) rear end spike and ferrule setup. So I knocked the one side out with a pry bar and a hammer. Lifted up the low side and see like a dozen finishing nails nailed under the gutter and then bent up like that would do anything?? Going to go ahead and confirm the guy that built the house was a redneck cheap rear end and the people that bought it before me were worthless idiots. My house is also a wasp fortress FYI. Mud Daubers were actively trying to murder me the whole time I was up on the roof. I declare Jihad. A Jihad on wasps. Bug bombing the piss out of those dick heads in the attic this weekend. Taping off the vents and murdering them all.
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Aug 2, 2016 02:54
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So I've been painting the Green Bay Packers room aka the shrine to the effects of human growth hormone Before we bought the place:  We are doing a lighter color. I have to do three coats of paint to cover up this green. Never had to do more than two in my life.
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Aug 2, 2016 05:53
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i go to open houses and pee in ur sink
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Aug 2, 2016 05:55
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:when I moved into my house there was contact paper on every shelf and carpet in the bathroom This is where I live now and it is Hell
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Aug 2, 2016 05:57
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Dave_Indeed posted:poo poo I just bought this sweet as light switch plate at Home Depot fam.
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Aug 2, 2016 06:04
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Vacation Tenzin posted:This is where I live now and it is Hell Instead of contact paper, there was christmas-themed wrapping paper on every shelf, held down with 4 little loops of masking tape. For like 40+ cabinets and 20+ drawers. P funny really.
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Aug 2, 2016 07:12
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We took off the old contact paper and put it new contact paper because gently caress paying for new cabinets.
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Aug 2, 2016 15:13
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FogHelmut posted:So I've been painting the Green Bay Packers room aka the shrine to the effects of human growth hormone why would you not just prime with killz first?
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Aug 2, 2016 17:08
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My sister just bought a used car only to find out that the odometer was rolled back by the previous owner.
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Aug 2, 2016 17:09
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Ruggan posted:they didn't restain their deck for the 10 years they lived in it, and the builder failed to leave any gap between the boards. This is odd, you see, because new decking normally shrinks a great deal after installation. The deck boards are first installed tightly butted against one another, but shrinkage over a period of weeks will create a natural gap of 1/4 inch or more. This makes me wonder what kind of wood this decking is. LOVE, VITALIS
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Aug 2, 2016 17:17
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Dave_Indeed posted:Jihad on wasps.  Launch your offensive at dawn or dusk, and slap that cover on toute de suite.
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Aug 3, 2016 01:47
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The people who last owned my house obviously cared about it and put a lot of time and money into it in places. Then they moved out and let their offspring and several of their friends rent it for a time and lol they didn't give a poo poo about anything. When we had it inspected the dude fount the roof was leaked through causing mold in the attic spaces AND the underside flooded at some point when the sump pump failed rotting out a lot of the posts holding up the house. Their realtor was quoted that evening saying "I'm going to go drink now" when discussing it that evening. Needless to say they got to eat the gently caress out of those repairs cause no one was going to buy this place as it was. It's all good now and bit by bit I"m putting in awesome modern stuff and loving ceiling fans all over. Edit: i've spent a lot of time above/under the house doing things and it all looks fine now LethalGeek fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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Aug 3, 2016 08:13
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FogHelmut posted:So I've been painting the Green Bay Packers room aka the shrine to the effects of human growth hormone Why are you changing anything here Change thread title to "previous owners and how they ROCK rear end"
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Aug 3, 2016 08:37
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Marv Hushman posted:Please note that Raid products, even those that claim to kill on contact, will only make them mildly depressed. Two full cans into a nest, ZERO kills. I ultimately had to suit up and chop it down into a plastic bin. Hell with paying some yokel $2-300 to set himself up for repeat visits. Raid didn't make them depressed when I used it. It just pissed them off and they went full battle of Britain on my house. You can use ant killer (powder) on them, since they are related species. And yeah, lucky they are slackcunts and you can get them in the morning before they wake up.
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Aug 3, 2016 11:27
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im gay posted:My sister just bought a used car only to find out that the odometer was rolled back by the previous owner. Talk to a lawyer.
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Aug 4, 2016 09:27
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Germstore posted:Previous owner installed 4 4-foot 4-light fluorescent fixtures in a two car garage. 16 goddamn tubes and 8 ballasts to change. Once they started going out I switched them out with led fixtures that are equivalent to 2 2-foot tubes for each fixture and it's plenty of light. Do it ironically posted:i lost my job a while back and am selling my house now and i couldnt give a gently caress less about all the little things wrong with it, that's not my problem anymore eat poo poo Do you think losing your job and deciding to move to BC are in some way connected, perhaps?  
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Aug 4, 2016 11:32
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Marv Hushman posted:Please note that Raid products, even those that claim to kill on contact, will only make them mildly depressed. Two full cans into a nest, ZERO kills. I ultimately had to suit up and chop it down into a plastic bin. Hell with paying some yokel $2-300 to set himself up for repeat visits. I did that two years ago. And as a side note I think it's hilarious how every method of exterminating wasps has a final step of running away. The can of raid I had told me to go out there at dusk and stick the can into the hive entrance, unload for 10 seconds then fuckin run away. Except you're right because they don't actually die on contact. Actually they have plenty of time to get out and sting the hell out of you, so I suited up in some thick leather gloves and full burglar attire and went out to this giant rear end cocoon. The instructions said not to wake them up by being a loud rear end in a top hat so I snuck up there and I get maybe 2 feet away from the nest and I'm getting my poo poo ready to go... wife opens the back door and yells at me that I should be using a red light according to the internet. What an idiot. Thankfully they didn't wake up and allowed me to murder them all with chemicals. Cool follow up story. I found a wasp nest in my grill tuesday night under the cast iron grate. They all died in a firey inferno it was pretty convenient.
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Aug 4, 2016 14:22
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'70s-era floral wallpaper on every surface of every room including the ceilings, drenched in decades of cigarette smoke
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Aug 4, 2016 15:07
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There was a wasp nest in the ground at the first house I lived at in Washington. Apparently it was the size of a bus and took 6 men and a backhoe two days to dig out and destroy.
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Aug 4, 2016 15:08
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Enfield posted:i live in a garbage can
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Aug 4, 2016 15:09
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I watched a made for tv movie when I was young about murderous bees, and it said to spray them with soapy water, and they'd die immediately. Hope that helps.
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Aug 6, 2016 07:33
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GOtta clean up the yard
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Aug 6, 2016 12:38
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Raere posted:It's already been 15 years since grover built his house? Can someone get current pics from Google maps? Or more current at least?
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Aug 6, 2016 13:16
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City of Tampa posted:'70s-era floral wallpaper on every surface of every room including the ceilings, drenched in decades of cigarette smoke We're removing exactly that from our hallway. It stripped off easy because it was fabric wallpaper, but that also means we've spent the past two days scrubbing immense amounts of corn starch glue off the walls. Also everything has been painted like 3 times with different colored asbestos paints, and then when they decided they liked woodgrain painted another layer of fake woodgrain instead of just stripping the existing paint. That's been fun to remove.
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Aug 6, 2016 17:26
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Neurolimal posted:We're removing exactly that from our hallway. It stripped off easy because it was fabric wallpaper, but that also means we've spent the past two days scrubbing immense amounts of corn starch glue off the walls. The people who owned our house before us did the same thing! Layer after layer after layer of wallpaper and whatever else. The wallpaper smells terrible when it comes off and we have to air the house out for days before it's better
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