Home Ownership Is Mayhem
#17
Re: Home Ownership Is Mayhem
We will be having a couple of walk throughs prior to closing, so hopefully we can see and have fixed any of the issues such as snagging prior to closing - but yes, the 1 year 'top to bottom' warranty will cover anything that comes up afterwards.
Luckily we have had several very heavy rains in the last week, and my walk rounds while construction is ongoing have identified where the runoffs are - luckily they are all away from the house and it's on a rise.
That's not even how you spell Dartmoor.
Luckily we have had several very heavy rains in the last week, and my walk rounds while construction is ongoing have identified where the runoffs are - luckily they are all away from the house and it's on a rise.
middle of Dartmore.
#18
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Property taxes....
fighting property tax increases here drives me nuts. Gave in last year and use a company to protest for me and they only charge me 40% of anything they save. But the amount goes up every.single.year.
fighting property tax increases here drives me nuts. Gave in last year and use a company to protest for me and they only charge me 40% of anything they save. But the amount goes up every.single.year.
#19
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Congrats on the upcoming new house.
From my perspective the biggest upside to owning seems to be stability in housing costs, mortgage payments seem more stable and allow you to plan further into the future vs renting.
From my perspective the biggest upside to owning seems to be stability in housing costs, mortgage payments seem more stable and allow you to plan further into the future vs renting.
#20
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Get the sewer line scoped - basically ensuring the house was actually hooked up to the main. Prior to closing run all the taps (stress test the plumbing) to see if there is an obvious leak. Make sure the hot water and furnace are this year and not an installed surplus which has been in a warehouse for a year or two.
#22
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Re: Home Ownership Is Mayhem
We will be having a couple of walk throughs prior to closing, so hopefully we can see and have fixed any of the issues such as snagging prior to closing - but yes, the 1 year 'top to bottom' warranty will cover anything that comes up afterwards.
Luckily we have had several very heavy rains in the last week, and my walk rounds while construction is ongoing have identified where the runoffs are - luckily they are all away from the house and it's on a rise.
That's not even how you spell Dartmoor.
Luckily we have had several very heavy rains in the last week, and my walk rounds while construction is ongoing have identified where the runoffs are - luckily they are all away from the house and it's on a rise.
That's not even how you spell Dartmoor.
#23
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What a cruel bastard (not you, your friend). What sort of person thinks 'that dog's barking is bothering me, so I'll dump it in a place where it'll be frightened and lonely before dying in agony'. If I knew him, I'd spit in his psycho face.
#24
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What do I wish I knew? I wish I knew that the next door neighbors didn't have several small, yappy dogs that find absolutely any and all reason to bark as loud as they can 24 hours a day. It's ridiculous. I work from home full time now and all I hear is those bloody dogs all day. The owners have a dog flap, so they go in and out of the house all day and bark anytime if even a leaf blows past their house. If you hadn't guessed it already, I am not a dog person.
I f**king hate barking dogs and this would drive me nuts. Do you have an HOA? Many HOAs have noise rules, and some have specific mention of dogs. Many cities / counties also have some legal recourse for noise. Maybe a chat with the local police might be in order?
I once had a neighbor who's dogs barked incessantly from the minute they left the house for work until the moment they returned in the evening. When I spoke to them, they said their dogs never barked (and they didn't, when they were home!). Luckily, back then, I was a workaholic myself so was out almost all the time the neighbor was out; if I were working from home, I'd have been driven insane. Luckily they moved out not long after.
Last edited by Steerpike; Nov 26th 2019 at 4:45 pm.
#25
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The only things I would be concerned about with a new build is a HOA, which you already it doesn’t have (that would be a deal breaker for me, even if it was my dream house) and the plot size. We have a load of new builds going up. The houses are twice the size of ours, with half the plot of land. You can literally reach out and touch the neighbors house. That being said, if my house is anything to go by, houses out here aren’t built to last like back home.
#26
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https://dor.georgia.gov/property-tax...ead-exemptions
#27
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HOA would drive me crazy, living in a condo building there is a strata (similiar to an HOA) and it just ends up being nit picky rules and a few people on power trips who seem to thrive on making sure every nit picky rule is enforced. I once left a plant in the window and it was visible from the street, that is the against the rules, nothing is allowed to be on the window sill and visible from the street and the limitations on how many plants, and chairs can be on the patio, some rules makes sense, but they just end up being so petty, but the arguments on the facebook group between residents and the nit picky ones is entertaining.
The only things I would be concerned about with a new build is a HOA, which you already it doesn’t have (that would be a deal breaker for me, even if it was my dream house) and the plot size. We have a load of new builds going up. The houses are twice the size of ours, with half the plot of land. You can literally reach out and touch the neighbors house. That being said, if my house is anything to go by, houses out here aren’t built to last like back home.
#28
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That is absolutely pathetic!!!! My wife’s boss got into trouble for leaving a bin on the drive of his house. I’m sorry, but if I’m paying big money for my house, I’ll do WTF I like!
#29
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My sister got a warning for trashcan issue as a welcome to the neighborhood. Trashcan can't be out before 6am on trash day, they leave for work at 5:30am so they put it out 1/2 hour early, the busy body in the neighborhood didn't like that.
#30
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Location: San Diego, California
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.... then you are not the kind of person to buy into a community that has an HOA. Get tired of folks who move into our development (because as they say it looks so lovely and well cared for) and then get upset when they are asked to move their dilapidated trucks off the driveway or take in their trashcans after they have been out for days after the trash has been collected - and let us not forget the kids toys scattered around the cul de sacs so other folks are complaining about the place being used as a playground !!