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Just curious Jane.........is it the prospect of having to deal with the workers if you made improvements? That's a problem with me. Oh.....then there's that small issue of money........Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
It's really hard to know which problem to deal with first, since there are so many problems that are tied together. Or would you just rather move?
Haha! Naw, people like that would build a 6,000 sq ft mcmansion out in the ‘burbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
These owners chose to spend a ton on exterior masonry which is not immediately obvious. It isnt flashy. And they dont even have a swimming pool.
I don't like to deal with people--that was always my beloved's job--so there's that. Money isn't so much a problem. I've wanted to move out since I moved in, and I should have. I've just lately realized how impractical a two-story house is. "Busting a move" seems to be my downfall.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
I would get a realtor to tell you what needs to be done to sell. They may even give you recommendations for people to do the work. Then buy a condo.
Can you. Uy another property, move your stuff, and live there before doing any work on the current house? And really, why do you need to do work? In your high cost area there are many people who would love a bargain fixer upper.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
IL, that’s how we did our last 4 moves but we did fix things for a quick sale.
I've thought of that, but I'd be too nervous that Chez Decay wouldn't sell, and I'd go down in flames. Maybe my nephew, the contractor/engineer, will be between jobs eventually. I'll figure something out.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
My city house has a difficult upstairs area. The floor plan is very much circa 1990 with its big bathroom, no walkin closets, spiral staircase to the third floor. But I certainly will not be doing work on it to change out that floor plan. The next owners can fix it ip circa 2020 so that owners in 2045 can change it out yet again.
yes, if yoi cant buy outright house #2 within a comfort zone, it is best not to,risk that scenario.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
This isn't exactly a rant, but my stroke-affected relative, who had to sell her house due to medical expenses (the rant part) just used the proceeds to buy a tidy prefab in a senior park. It's a nice, safe area and she's happy with it. I'm sending her an Instant Pot as a housewarming gift.
That's what Mom did after Dad died. When she died, it was sold in a matter of weeks full price cash offer w 7d possession requirement. She had a lawn that was cared for under the monthly rental. Her flower beds were her work. She LOVED it!Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
She's planning on installing raised beds with wheelchair access--she's an avid gardener. (That gene skipped me.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gardnr
She notes happily that there's a sushi restaurant, a coffee shop, and a cannabis dispensary all within easy wheeling distance of the new place.
When I read IL's rant about the copier on Tradd's thread, I thought about a peeve/rant I had yesterday.
I went first thing in the morning to drop off DHs (sorry to be indelicate) stool sample at the lab (national chain lab). I dropped it off for expediency--I could have also put it in the mail.
So when I walked in at 8am on Monday the place was mobbed. I walked up with my stuff and said "I just need to drop this off."
The person behind the desk said, "Please sign in at the kiosk and select 'specimen drop-off'". So I went to one of the kiosks. Thankfully we were already in the system and I only had to manually input 3 screens of information.
I didn't see any specimen buckets for drop-off, so I went back to the desk and said, "I don't have to wait for all these other people, right?? I'm only dropping this off." She said, "No, you don't have to wait. Please sit down." (Hmm. Sit down and do what? Not wait?)
So I wound up waiting for 10 minutes to have someone input the drop off into the computer. Then I simply walked to the drop-off place and dropped it off.
Next time it goes in the mail.
Woke up today wondering why the Mueller report is so much more important to the news media than our friends and neighbors in the areas being flooded and what they are doing or might need?
Magic lilies are the bane of my existence here in Hermann. I do not exaggerate when I say I have dug out 12 buckets ( 5 gallon buckets!) of the things. I give them away. We also composted many of them.
This is now my second year of digging the MF things. At some point I want to, ya know, plant my own stuff and not have to suffer the crap previous owners put in the ground.
The rampant non- blooming daylily. The ubiquitous non blooming Siberian iris. There is way too much of this junk.
Is that the ones also called suprise? Tall, usually pink. Spring up overnight. UGLY!!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
yes. Aka surprise lilies or naked ladies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Float On
I like the flowers because they bloom at a time when all of my perennials are done blooming. However they take up so much damn room. And then, after the Flowers disappear, I don’t know where they are underground and like last year I planted important plants on top of them and now I can’t dig out some of the clumps of magic lilies because I’ll disturb the roots of the other good plants and oh woe is me
Nothing like turning Easter into a time to give your kids more crap........including a whoopee cushion. :(
Cancer is a bi**h. A friend's husband was fairly recently diagnosed with lung cancer (not a smoker but is a farmer). Tumor wrapped around parts of his heart so surgery unsuccessful. The doctors resorted to chemo and radiation. Suddenly they found it had spread to his bones. It is so hard to see such a lovely tight family so hurt and afraid. The wife is also undergoing subsequent testing to see why her thyroid cancer markers are so high (she had treatment last year for thyroid cancer.)
It is just so sad.
Sweet, that’s really sad. A couple we were good friends with both died of cancer. We did a lot of things together and really miss them.
Jo! Today's report was awful. The family has been through so much in the last 2 years....... Both my parents died of cancer. Cancer sucks!:(Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
Gardnr, I met Jo at the retreat she organized with Bonnie Hunter. She is just as nice a person in person as on her blog.
Everyone on my mom’s side of the family has died of cancer also. My husband got prostrate cancer at 49 but is in remission.
I'm not handicapped, but I do use the handicapped restroom at work, which also doubles as an all-gender restroom. My peeve is: guys who leave the seat up. I feel like putting up a sign above the toilet that says: Picture this--you're in a wheelchair, and you can barely get the door to this room open because the administration is too lazy to put an automatic door on it. You wheel yourself over to the toilet, and before you can sit on it, you have to touch the dirty seat that some inconsiderate person left up for you.
On another level, I think it's insulting to anyone to leave a seat up.
I think it is sometimes left up by men for the same reason it's left down by women, they're both inconsiderate of the others needs.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugalone
I imagine most people in wheelchairs carry grabbers (I have one in practically every room, and in my car). But you're right--wh o wants to deal with biohazard on their way to the toilet.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugalone
It a woman’s restroom so seat should not be up just because others are allowed to use it. The people I know in wheelchairs don’t carry grabbers.
You women are a possessive bunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
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Originally Posted by frugalone
I just look at it in terms of simple math: women need it down all the time, men need it down some of the time. Plus women tend to go more often than men, per my observation.Quote:
You women are a possessive bunch.
So, (#times women use the facility) + (#times that men use the facility with the seat down) > (#times men use the facility with the seat up).
All meaningless numbers without also calculating the percentage of women vs the percentage of men within the total workforce.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
Plus, having the seat up is very bad Feng shui.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Ha ha, now that changes everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
My rant today is about people who are rude on the bus. I realize it's public transportation and scattered here and there, there are going to be some loonies in the mix but I'm not fond of being told I can't stand somewhere - that I'll have to move - because I'm white. You could say this is what minorities have to deal with and I'll grant that, though usually in subtler forms - but I'm not racial. If I were surely you'all would have picked up on that by now.
At any rate, I survived to my stop and got off the bus intact but....that just sucked. That's all. Rob
This month's National Geographic issue on cities talks about rats living in sewer lines and peeking their heads up in toilet bowls. My lid is staying down!
Well ya know Rob there are plenty of people who will tell you that you ARE “racial” (I think you meant racist) simply because of your privileged upbringing. But being woke and all to those invictim land, I am sure this is not news to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by gimmethesimplelife
I'm pretty sure the chair user I know does--I'll have to ask. How would you pick things up, otherwise?Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Knowing me, I'd carry a full complement of accessories, but that's just how I roll...
Have you ever sat down with the seat up? You fall in!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I'm familiar with the problem, let's just say I've been awakened in the middle of the night by the scream "Allllaaaaannn!" more than once.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Love these delightful insightful discussions that have a basis in reality as well. My chuckle for the evening so thanks for that.
You make me VERY thankful to have my DH in more ways than one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan