@katbyter@werehatrack Holy shit !! you too? For nearly two years.Calls,texts…I was replying to both and just gave up.The real kicker??..I don’t own or live on the property!!
@katbyter@werehatrack
Have you gotten the actual on-paper letters purportedly from a “young family who’d love to have your house,” with all the nauseating appeals to your heartstrings? Barf.
We have an older house (1890’s), original part has the small rooms one expects, which feel quite cozy for the most part. Then subsequent expansions by previous residents added two really big (comparatively) large rooms, with fairly junky modern construction. And that’s where all the junk accumulates, and we mostly live in the smaller parts of the house.
My daughter’s apartment is ~11 sq ft smaller and has larger closets than the first floor of my condo, yet feels a lot larger. Her bedroom is a bit smaller and kitchen is ~1/2 the size, leaving a lot more space for the large open living room and dining room area. Tho she really doesn’t like the small kitchen. And I’m not certain whether closets could towqards living space.
@baqui63
For example, unfinished basements don’t count. This is also a clue when you see a listing for just a “finished basement”, but not the specific rooms that includes. It means they didn’t get a permit to modify the house, get it inspected, and add to its square footage and room listing, which also increases the property taxes. Kinda shady, but if you will be a home buyer, it is a very good question to ask about when you see it. Doesn’t make it a bad thing or a deal-breaker. Just a disclosure.
If they didn’t get the basement finishing permitted and inspected, then you as the new buyer, are accepting the house “as is” and inherit any defects and responsibilities going forward, including the costs for correcting the lack of permitting and safety/code inspections. Unless you “pass the buck” and claim ignorance or perpetuate the “finished basement” claim when you go to sell the home.
As a buyer, you can insist the seller get that permit and inspection in your offer, (to correct “errors and omissions” in the legal description in the contract for the sale), or not, and take the risk. Ain’t unregulated free markets wonderful? You can lie about what you’re selling as long as you’re honest about lying. Examples: supplements and cosmetics.
@baqui63@werehatrack
Supplements: “These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.”
Cosmetics: This product makes you “look younger/sexier”, or “temporarily reduces the appearance of blemishes and/or wrinkles”. i.e. completely subjective terms.
If cosmetics actually had any effect, they would have to legally be classifed as a drug, and be subject to the FDA.
@Harbingerdc Yes, defined rooms. Don’t need a ton of them, and they don’t have to be huge, but individual rooms rather than open plan. Easier for figuring out where furniture goes, and cozier.
@Harbingerdc Yes to this. I have no desire to live in a warehouse or a barracks. I reserve a special corner of my hate basket for open kitchens, which give up storage space, then leave the counter space open to view. More than a couple of appliances on the counter (because there’s no storage space) make it look messy. Gimme a galley kitchen with a walk-in pantry, and I’m in love.
@mike808 not necessarily… it doesn’t need to travel at all, let alone through time and space.
Timelord tech implemented “Bigger on the Inside” in all sorts of places…
10’s over coat for example, had pockets that were bigger on the inside.
Yes. Organized storage space. Largish office space. Cozy family room. Kitchen with a place for all the stuff and counter that is usable. Dreaming.
I have a dream design for building a ranch home out in the woods that will never happen except in dreams. I will stay forever in my current place or sell everything and move to a better climate after retirement.
Many large rooms, a big garage, a workshop and a lot of yard for my cactus herd.
a roof.
@mehcuda67 “I don’t often stay in a house, but when I do, I prefer a house with a roof.”
“Stay dry, my friends,” said the least interesting man in the world.
A few (or more) large rooms to hold the many small rooms. For obvious reasons.
No termites, and about a third as much collected Stuff as I’m currently looking at. (A massive dejunking project is slated for July.)
@werehatrack so you are saying you want another mehrathon!
I just want a big kitchen.
@awk Cook outdoors?
No mortgage
@katbyter Achieved here.
Now, if I could just find a way to autodestruct all the assholes who keep calling me wanting to buy my property…
@katbyter @werehatrack Holy shit !! you too? For nearly two years.Calls,texts…I was replying to both and just gave up.The real kicker??..I don’t own or live on the property!!
@katbyter @werehatrack
Have you gotten the actual on-paper letters purportedly from a “young family who’d love to have your house,” with all the nauseating appeals to your heartstrings? Barf.
@katbyter @werehatrack So far I’m just getting postcard and robo-letters.
A self sorting house would be great.
Many small rooms = claustrophobic and like living in prison cells. Ideal is many large rooms. Open floor plan is more free
@hammi99 so, boxes instead of briefs
We have an older house (1890’s), original part has the small rooms one expects, which feel quite cozy for the most part. Then subsequent expansions by previous residents added two really big (comparatively) large rooms, with fairly junky modern construction. And that’s where all the junk accumulates, and we mostly live in the smaller parts of the house.
My daughter’s apartment is ~11 sq ft smaller and has larger closets than the first floor of my condo, yet feels a lot larger. Her bedroom is a bit smaller and kitchen is ~1/2 the size, leaving a lot more space for the large open living room and dining room area. Tho she really doesn’t like the small kitchen. And I’m not certain whether closets could towqards living space.
That typo at the end is “… count toward living space.”
@baqui63 They do. It’s considered “finished” space and counts towards total square footage and tax basis.
@baqui63
For example, unfinished basements don’t count. This is also a clue when you see a listing for just a “finished basement”, but not the specific rooms that includes. It means they didn’t get a permit to modify the house, get it inspected, and add to its square footage and room listing, which also increases the property taxes. Kinda shady, but if you will be a home buyer, it is a very good question to ask about when you see it. Doesn’t make it a bad thing or a deal-breaker. Just a disclosure.
If they didn’t get the basement finishing permitted and inspected, then you as the new buyer, are accepting the house “as is” and inherit any defects and responsibilities going forward, including the costs for correcting the lack of permitting and safety/code inspections. Unless you “pass the buck” and claim ignorance or perpetuate the “finished basement” claim when you go to sell the home.
As a buyer, you can insist the seller get that permit and inspection in your offer, (to correct “errors and omissions” in the legal description in the contract for the sale), or not, and take the risk. Ain’t unregulated free markets wonderful? You can lie about what you’re selling as long as you’re honest about lying. Examples: supplements and cosmetics.
@baqui63 @mike808
And it is truly amazing what the FDA and the Department of Agriculture regard as “not lying” in many cases.
@baqui63 @werehatrack
Supplements: “These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.”
Cosmetics: This product makes you “look younger/sexier”, or “temporarily reduces the appearance of blemishes and/or wrinkles”. i.e. completely subjective terms.
If cosmetics actually had any effect, they would have to legally be classifed as a drug, and be subject to the FDA.
I like separate, defined rooms. All that open space is, to me, intimidating.
@Harbingerdc Yes, defined rooms. Don’t need a ton of them, and they don’t have to be huge, but individual rooms rather than open plan. Easier for figuring out where furniture goes, and cozier.
@Harbingerdc Yes to this. I have no desire to live in a warehouse or a barracks. I reserve a special corner of my hate basket for open kitchens, which give up storage space, then leave the counter space open to view. More than a couple of appliances on the counter (because there’s no storage space) make it look messy. Gimme a galley kitchen with a walk-in pantry, and I’m in love.
I also like to have walls to decorate appropriately to the individual room.
With a secret, hidden room, for obvious reasons.
@hchavers Exactly. For doing secret, hidden activities. Like making meth, or a kill room. Is that why you needed all of that plastic sheeting?
@hchavers I need one behind a bookshelf.
That or a batpole.
@blaineg @hchavers
I’m not sure how big a room you could get behind a batpole!
Like space, the extra junk is just part of the social/mortgage contract.
Small rooms so that people can have their own spaces to decorate. And Privacy
bigger is better
Turrets and a drawbridge.
I want a house that’s bigger on the inside.
@earlyre That’s called a TARDIS.
/image tardis
@mike808 not necessarily… it doesn’t need to travel at all, let alone through time and space.
Timelord tech implemented “Bigger on the Inside” in all sorts of places…
10’s over coat for example, had pockets that were bigger on the inside.
Cavernous Large rooms that echo for hours. Thats living fat and living large. Jes how I roll.
Yes. Organized storage space. Largish office space. Cozy family room. Kitchen with a place for all the stuff and counter that is usable. Dreaming.
I have a dream design for building a ranch home out in the woods that will never happen except in dreams. I will stay forever in my current place or sell everything and move to a better climate after retirement.