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Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:32 am
by kg1961
I wish I could pay cash and work at walmart and still have a 100k play money. I wish
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:30 pm
by vwdude
Wow, houses are so cheap elsewhere.
So just an update... We put an offer in again on that first house.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:10 pm
by kg1961
Good luck hope you get it
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:16 pm
by trickyricky
kg1961 wrote:Good luck hope you get it
Same here....
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:55 pm
by vwdude
Well it looks like we are closing escrow next week.
Thanks guys. Were doing some work before we move in. I'll try to put up some before, during and after pics.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:30 pm
by hardcoredore
vwdude wrote:Well it looks like we are closing escrow next week.
Thanks guys. Were doing some work before we move in. I'll try to put up some before, during and after pics.
You're doing work on it before you close?
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:27 pm
by vwdude
Nope, after we close but before we move in. It's a BAD idea to do any work on a house that you don't own yet.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:16 am
by hardcoredore
vwdude wrote:Nope, after we close but before we move in. It's a BAD idea to do any work on a house that you don't own yet.
Exactly [emoji3]
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:56 pm
by mr tibbs
Congrats man! I hope everything works out this time!
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:53 pm
by ttocs
congrats on the house and the American dream, really big debt!
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:50 pm
by vwdude
ttocs wrote:congrats on the house and the American dream, really big debt!
Haha thanks.
Actually, I'd say yes and no to the big debt. With our equity from selling our town home we were able to pay off all other debt, so I will only have my student loan and the mortgage. So yes, it's huge debt, but still not really. I'd rather have the big debt of a mortgage than throw away money on rent. In the next year or two the house will probably get paid off too, I can't say more than that now.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:39 pm
by vwdude
Update for anyone keeping track, we closed escrow on the first house in this thread and he moving truck is coming tomorrow. We've been staying with my in-laws now for almost 2 months. I can't wait to get moved in and settled..
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 4:16 am
by knightrider358
Congrats man!!!!!
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:59 pm
by vwdude
Thanks.
We moved in this weekend. All went well. We started construction on the kitchen (replacing the lighting with cans/LEDs, adding similar lighting in the eating area and family room. Also cutting an opening from the eating area to the family room, having power and bracket run to put my tv above the fireplace, and gutting/replacing the second bathroom upstairs.
It'll be up living here while they are working but it's still better than living with the in-laws.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:21 am
by vwdude
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:24 am
by ttocs
and so it begins.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:25 am
by vwdude
And here are the new lights going in to the kitchen...
And done...
They still did caulking around the lights. We had to get a dimmer installed because the 5 lights were too bright. If we went with less then it would have looked funny.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:27 am
by vwdude
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:27 am
by vwdude
ttocs wrote:and so it begins.
Haha yes. We wanted to do the work wrote moving in but conditions were so bad with the inlaws that 2 months was our limit.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 6:08 am
by vwdude
Not sure who is following but I have been updating pictures.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:33 am
by RayBuck
vwdude wrote:Not sure who is following but I have been updating pictures.
It 's coming along. I like the new opening.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:06 pm
by knightrider358
Looking good man!
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:22 pm
by vwdude
I updated again. They actually finished tonight but we were too tired to take new pictures again. I'll update tomorrow with the final shots.
Recap:
Bathroom got gutted and redone
Hole got cut in to wall between dining room and family room
Family room got mirror removed and Tv put up over fireplace
Lights were installed in kitchen, dining room, and family room.
We also replaced the master bath toilet with a new efficient dual flush toilet. No need for pics, we all know what a toile looks like.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 6:58 am
by trickyricky
Looking very good....did you make sure a proper header was build over the opening? Am pretty sure who ever did it, framed the correct load bearing header. But it sure is looking way better, that guess bathroom was horrible...not anymore.
Re: Just bought a new (to me) home
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 7:02 am
by vwdude
Hey Ricky, I should have snapped some pictures before they added the drywall, but yes I think they used 4x8 or 4x10 above and below and then they triped the 2x4s on the sides. That looked more so than I've seen in a while.
Thanks for the compliments. The bathroom was horrible, I wouldn't trust the bath to have my son use it. The built in soap dish was broken off with a sharp piece sticking out.