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The dude who owned my house before I did left a signed poster of Cris Carter, Randy Moss, and Jake Reed in a closet, and a porno DVD that proudly says on the cover "Filmed entirely in the Czech Republic!" I still have it but haven't watched it.
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the previous tenant in my place put in cool black and white checkered tile in the kitchen so im totally cool with previous owners op thanks for the great thread tho
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Jul 27, 2016 09:27
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oh dope posted:The dude who owned my house before I did left a signed poster of Cris Carter, Randy Moss, and Jake Reed in a closet, and a porno DVD that proudly says on the cover "Filmed entirely in the Czech Republic!" I still have it but haven't watched it. forge a signature and leave it in a closet when i move. gently caress yes edit: the people who lived here before the dude i'm subletting from were insane hippies that built an enclosed back porch area just sort of by themselves I guess? we called an electrician one time and he told us it was so far from being up to code he couldn't understand how it even worked. there's also a fireplace with a chimney back there, even though there was already a fireplace with a chimney in the house. also the landlord's brother did a kurt cobain in a slugbug in the backyard, and the frame of the car is still there, overgrown by bushes. holy poo poo actually this house owns. Cubone fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Jul 27, 2016 09:30
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The previous owners of my house installed one of these outside the downstairs bathroom. http://www.naturespiritinc.com/inc/sdetail/29850/1043 Not hanging on the wall, poorly saw-z-all'd a rough rectangle into the wall and attached the drat thing to a light switch. It glows, emits a grinding noise, and actually moves 50% of the time. The owner had the gall to imply that she was doing us a favor by leaving it. I would remove it, but it is my favorite thing to show guests. "Look at this, it is awful." Same bathroom also had see -through, seashell-filled toilet seat. In order to maintain the "shitter=ocean" theme, the upstairs toilet came with a printed out picture of a fish taped to it. They were from Kosovo. Bones of the house are great, previous owners just had no taste/no idea what they were doing.
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Jul 27, 2016 10:55
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parents got some foreclosed house, and it's got badness in it at some spots. one was having the hot water pipe go and feed water to an outside hose, while also being merged with the cold water pipe at some juncture (since they had put in a shut off valve and i guess the water had to go somewhere?). result was a hose that killed the lawn, and interior hot water that lasted a minute before going lukewarm. also had an electrical socket hooked up to two circuits or whatever, meaning cutting off power on one and thinking it's safe just means you get electrocuted if you then try to work on it. clever, possibly fatal little gently caress you i guess.
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Jul 27, 2016 11:13
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When I bought my house the realtor told me about the old couple that had owned it before us. They were in their 70's and the old man never wanted to do anything, so the old lady would wait until he left for the store or whatever and knock out a widow because she wanted to put in a new backdoor and re-do the kitchen. She figured if she knocked a hole in the wall he'd have to let her finish. She'd do all the work herself. She widened all the interior doorways, added outlets every couple of feet along the kitchen counters, and turned the wasted attic space into a couple of extra bedrooms. Oh yeah, she also put in a bathroom in the master bedroom and added an exterior door and a small porch to another bedroom. Gramma did excellent work, and should have had her own show on HGTV. So I disagree with your premise, OP. *Oh, and apparently she did the "Wait until he leaves and get poo poo done" trick on every project. I wish I'd been able to meet her. Lord Frankenstyle fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Jul 27, 2016 11:18
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Lol if you buy a house instead of renting and letting some other poor motherfucker deal with all the poo poo
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Jul 27, 2016 11:21
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I had to google spring toggles and found a video made by a worthless gently caress, who can't pronounce the letter "H". Thanks a lot, OP. Here's the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO55oYozlxA
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Jul 27, 2016 11:27
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I pay half on the house monthly what rent was for an apartment half the size. Seize the means of habitation.
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Jul 27, 2016 11:27
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Jailbrekr posted:In our 70+ year old house, we found: Did you buy a loving treehouse?
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brylcreem posted:I had to google spring toggles and found a video made by a worthless gently caress, who can't pronounce the letter "H". Yes these pieces of poo poo. I had a bunch that wouldn't even unscrew, they just took a baseball sized chunk of drywall with them when I eventually lost it and ripped them all out. criscodisco posted:I know you live in Columbus, Dave, what part? I live between Johnstown and Granville in the middle of a cornfield. Dirk Squarejaw posted:#7 sounds awesome Inspectors don't look at or care about alot of this stuff. The house was inspected and is structurally sound and up to code, it's just structurally sound and up to code like a drat moron.
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Jul 27, 2016 14:04
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Geirskogul posted:The previous owner(s) of my VW bus were pieces of poo poo. Silicone, self-tapping screws, etc. You're fat, use way too many decals, what happened to the kitten?
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Jul 27, 2016 14:25
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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. There's also an expensive as gently caress looking drafting desk in the garage that the dude bought at auction and clearly never used and didn't take with him. The lot number tag is still on it. It's solid steel and weighs a ton.
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Jul 27, 2016 15:28
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I AM THE TOILET posted:lmao at owning a home lmao at renting, gambling on getting good landlords and endlessly moving
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Jul 27, 2016 15:34
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Ruggan posted:To be fair, who buys a used 1990 civic from a ricer? Yeah gently caress whoever does that *Limps back to his own formerly riced, money pit, 1990 Civic DX (D Extender)*
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Jul 27, 2016 15:38
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Moved in, the house was filthy. The oven had old dried food running down both sides and onto the floor. They just seemed poo poo at basic maintenance. Nothing had been fixed or upgraded in the 10 years they lived there. The house is 40 years old and most of the stuff is original to that. I'll separately blame the original builders for the sink drains that don't quite run downhill into the wall. But these people - Leaky faucets. Running toilets. The master shower has cracks in the fiberglass on the floor. Filthy light switches encased in grime. Worn out power outlets to the point where the plug just falls out. Floors scratched to hell. Out of control ivy covering most of the back yard. Poorly or not even repaired termite damage. Leaky flat roof over the garage. There is a wooden pergola off the back of the house. I'm not entirely sure it has enough lag bolts (if any) into the ledger board. Also the vertical supports lean a few degrees to the left. They did try to dress up a few things. New hinges on the cabinets! All of them are crooked and not installed properly. They attempted landscaping work with lots of black fabric just covering up the weeds and then a layer of black mulch that is about a single mulch piece deep. This also was used to cover up a number of broken sprinkler heads. Also about half of the sprinkler system was just PVC pushed together with connectors and no glue. The walls inside are horrible. Every hole looks like it was patched by smashing a wad of spackle in there with a bare hand. Larger patches were even more half done with exposed mesh tape, all just painted over. Above loving all, don't bother painting if you are absolute poo poo at it. I have to repaint the ceilings because you can't cut in and paint a straight line and got splotches of wall color all over the ceiling. gently caress you I hate painting ceilings. And at least have the courtesy to do two coats. I can see the old color bleeding through everywhere, goddamn.
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Jul 27, 2016 16:08
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Dave_Indeed, I'm a long time lurker first time poster in your thread. The previous owners of my house did a "renovation" in 2008, and I've been suffering with correcting all that for the last couple years. Examples: -budget office fluorescent light fixtures in the t bar ceiling downstairs, nailed in with nails so big I broke 2 claw hammers trying to remove the nails. Finally had to just cut the nails with a cutting disc to drop them. I then posted about it on FB. -Baseboards as door casings. -The ugliest ceiling fan in the master bedroom. Complete with stained glass. -Gold chrome plated everything. -when they did the kitchen makeover they just re arranged all the cabinet boxes and cut them up to make them fit. -said cabinets had a L counter on top with the dishwasher set into the L section. The washer feed line was hooked up using weak lovely hose clamps, with a DrIP TRAY underneath, and then closed off. So I get home on boxing day and JDJDJFBTIDLDNFNG THE kitchen floor is saturated with water. Apparently this has been leaking for awhile but finally the drip tray filled up. The moisture swelled all the oak cabinets. $50,000 later (mostly paid by insurance) I now have a new kitchen. Except the kitchen looked nicer than the rest of the house so I've done new LED lighting, flooring, paint, baseboards, door casings, new not tan electrical outlets and switches, outdoor lighting, appliances. I'm pretty much finished except I have no interior doors in the house except the 2 washrooms. I hate hanging doors so I'm paying to have that done once I'm back from vacation. 3 or 4 times a day I make an awesome joke to the girlfriend that "my doors are always open!" She's started drinking a lot of wine.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:00
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Dave_Indeed posted:Yes these pieces of poo poo.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:02
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my parents' house was wired by a madman if the lightbulb in the garage burns out, the outlet and one half of the light fixtures in the guest bathroom on the second floor will not work several outlets are wired such that the top plug is on one circuit while the bottom is on another
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Jul 27, 2016 17:06
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Tiler Kiwi posted:
Actually that is code for kitchens. It's so that your toaster oven and blender aren't on the same circuit while running. Generally you test the circuit with a tester before tearing into it so that you dont blow a hole through your overpriced Klein side cutters.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:12
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Whoever was with your mother previously really wore her out. Can't even climax in her vagina it's so loose.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:15
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Also, op, when you purchase your next home, get an inspection. You can thank me later. Inspection is pretty worthless because they are only allowed to look at things in plain sight. They can't go into the horrors hidden inside your walls. They might catch things like "this house has no foundation" but not "all the wiring is twisted together and insulated with tape (also the wrong colour)."
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Jul 27, 2016 17:23
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End Of Worlds posted:several outlets are wired such that the top plug is on one circuit while the bottom is on another This is typical in older houses where all of the lighting was done by lamps. So you have half the outlet on a separate circuit on a switch for the lamp, and the other half is always on. Then when people go and install ceiling lighting later, they may rewire so that the switched outlet is always on, and the switch is reused to power the ceiling light. Or maybe they just bury it in the wall because they are madmen.
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Jul 27, 2016 18:14
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My parents bought a rambling old Victorian style house outside Detroit for like $23,000 when they were 20 and that place was 100% haunted no question. Pretty sure the mummy's curse is still following me. Horror movies make me all nostalgic. They sealed up holes in the outside brick and trapped birds in the kitchen cabinets who'd climbed in to nest. Sold it for $200,000ish years later
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Nathilus posted:You're fat, use way too many decals, what happened to the kitten?  Top of previous page in my thread in AI for kitten photos. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Jul 27, 2016 19:01
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The guyt hat owned my house before me was some retiree old guy* that had 3 sons that all left home. When I wired the TV up I would get intermittent signal which varied in severity, on the weather, and on which room the tv was in. I went upto the attic to investigate the aerial and there were literally 3 booster boxes all wired up wrong, with the classic duct tape, and daisy changed together to try and get the signal strong enough for the all the roomns in the house....it didn;t work and I can't see how it would ever have worked. I ripped it all out and got a new aerial and rewired it properly, but then ended up just getting cable anyway. Also, the shower in the bathroom to the master bedroom spat out a piss trickle of hot water, literally like one step beyond a dripping tap, so how he ever showered like that I have no idea. I installed a pressurised system and a power shower. Now I can literally jet wash my skin off. *no it wasn't my dad. Much, much worse: My cousin had to get his kitchen rebuilt as when he actually moved in and started putting stuff in the kitchen cupboards (which looked fine on the outside on the 2 ocassions he inspected the house with his wife), 2 of them were all rotten at the back and smelled something horrid. I went over with a mate who owns a building firm, and ripped that unit out and found loads of OLD OLD food (I don't know how many years), 2 rat skeletons, and loads of maggots. The infestation went along the back of most of the kitchen units and we put construction worker filter masks on sledgehammered it all. Was disgusting work, but very fun to smash poo poo with a sledgehammer. So yeah, previous owners are pieces of poo poo, and I think humans in general are pretty retarded and put up with some dumb poo poo that is easily fixable in some cases, and are disgusting pieces of poo poo in others. spud fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Jul 27, 2016 19:16
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FogHelmut posted:This is typical in older houses where all of the lighting was done by lamps. So you have half the outlet on a separate circuit on a switch for the lamp, and the other half is always on. Then when people go and install ceiling lighting later, they may rewire so that the switched outlet is always on, and the switch is reused to power the ceiling light. Or maybe they just bury it in the wall because they are madmen. can you explain the thing about the garage lightbulb because it honestly sounds like voodoo to me
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Garage... Owner.... All is lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZUFu97vus
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Jul 27, 2016 19:22
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Dave_Indeed posted:I live between Johnstown and Granville in the middle of a cornfield. That's generally a pretty nice area, shame about the trouble you're having. My buddy just sold his house on Eastmoor in Bexley. He had to sell fast before it was foreclosed on, as he'd lose everything (he's got a gambling problem, gambling losses last year totaled 60K). Anyway, the place had tons of landscaping, and he couldn't afford the amount of mulch he'd need to fill it all. He was too proud to just let me pay for the mulch, so he filled the landscaping with grass clippings and spray painted it black. I'll give him this - it looked good from the street. The kitchen windows were dirty, but you couldn't clean them because if you pressed on them they'd fall right out, as they were only being kept in by shims around the frame he had broken off flush and painted the trim color. The entire back of the house was sinking into the ground by the elaborate series of koi ponds/streams that had been leaking for years. Somehow he still managed to get over $300K for it, and they didn't do a thing, just moved right in.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:when I moved into my house there was contact paper on every shelf What is wrong with contact paper?
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I feel like the first pic is the most pathetic just because of the UC game on the TV.
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End Of Worlds posted:can you explain the thing about the garage lightbulb because it honestly sounds like voodoo to me I have no clue because that is some real voodoo if a switched off light has anything to do with completing a circuit. Unless it trips a breaker when it burns out, I couldn't begin to imagine. There are some people who allege that they know what they're talking about in this thread however - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3090739
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How well are the stairs insulated?
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My house's previous owner was very frugal and had a lot of "money saving" features he was proud to show me. My favorite thing was how the water heater was wired through this timer so it could only run for one hour, twice a day. Want to do laundry, wash the dishes, and take a shower? Too bad fuckman, you're out of hot water until 6:00 
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jonathan posted:Actually that is code for kitchens. It's so that your toaster oven and blender aren't on the same circuit while running. Generally you test the circuit with a tester before tearing into it so that you dont blow a hole through your overpriced Klein side cutters. it was not a kitchen outlet
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Jul 27, 2016 20:15
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Dave_Indeed posted:Hahahaha. Oh boy dumb goon is gonna do some DIY house work and I'm sure it's not going to be some awful juryrigged garbage that will collapse and annihilate his whole family 3 months from now.
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Skeleton Ape posted:My house's previous owner was very frugal and had a lot of "money saving" features he was proud to show me. My favorite thing was how the water heater was wired through this timer so it could only run for one hour, twice a day. Want to do laundry, wash the dishes, and take a shower? Too bad fuckman, you're out of hot water until 6:00 What a dick. I would have offered him 50% under asking just to make his rear end ache. criscodisco posted:That's generally a pretty nice area, shame about the trouble you're having. It's pretty cool. I am on the edge of an old 1800's stone quarry with a creek running by the house so it's nice and quiet unless some cyclist rear end in a top hat won't shut the hell up yelling at his buddy about whatever other chach hobbies they have. It's the sound of nature, and then something about Bill's vasectomy being the reason he couldn't ride with them tonight. Bexley is one of those status addresses where your house literally could be collapsing on itself and it would still sell. Super nice unless you walk down the street too far, you're right on the DMZ with the ghetto.
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Who the gently caress buys a used house? Like yeah let me go ahead and get cozy in the same house that some stranger had a bunch of gross sex on and poo poo in and probably puked in. Lol buy new and you won't have this problem.
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Volume posted:Who the gently caress buys a used house? Like yeah let me go ahead and get cozy in the same house that some stranger had a bunch of gross sex on and poo poo in and probably puked in. Lol buy new and you won't have this problem. That's gross as hell, why would you poo poo and puke in your own house?? I do that stuff at work
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Skeleton Ape posted:My house's previous owner was very frugal and had a lot of "money saving" features he was proud to show me. My favorite thing was how the water heater was wired through this timer so it could only run for one hour, twice a day. Want to do laundry, wash the dishes, and take a shower? Too bad fuckman, you're out of hot water until 6:00 not to mention its vastly less efficient to heat the whole water heater up to temperature than it is to just maintain it as you go
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