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19 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

I don't think you want all the expense that comes with renovating an old spooky house like that.

Yeah, I know. I can still have haunted mansion dreams though. 

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1 minute ago, garbagepailcat said:

Yeah, I know. I can still have haunted mansion dreams though. 

You could buy a house in the city and turn it into a haunted house.....

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It actually looks pretty standard for antebellum / neo-classical architecture.  The farther north (and the smaller) the home is, the pronounced the facade tends to be compared to the rest of the home.

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1 minute ago, scoobdog said:

*adjust monocle*   

It actually looks pretty standard for antebellum / neo-classical architecture.  The farther north (and the smaller) the home is, the pronounced the facade tends to be compared to the rest of the home.

fixed. 

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fuggstop Monster Mutant

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10 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

Why are you congratulating her on ... the process?

Her decision and her readiness to buy a home. Many these days NEVER are in such a position. 

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1 minute ago, fuggstop said:

Her decision and her readiness to buy a home. Many these days NEVER are in such a position. 

That's an odd thing to congratulate, but cool.

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discolé monade Monster Mutant

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Just now, scoobdog said:

Family of architects and builders.

ahhhh. 

so you're all kinds of mcsmarty pants. 

i knew it was a style of antebellum. but when i think of that design, i think of pillars and such. like greek revival. 

 

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scoobdog Monster Mutant

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1 minute ago, discolemonade said:

ahhhh. 

so you're all kinds of mcsmarty pants. 

i knew it was a style of antebellum. but when i think of that design, i think of pillars and such. like greek revival. 

 

Antebellum is unique because it's a blend of a few neo-classical predecessors.  Georgian architecture in Colonial America minimizes or dispenses with entirely the columns, while French Neo-Classical tends to incorporate the colonnades directly into walls.  Somewhere in the middle of those two you have the hodge podge architecture that predominates Early American and French Louisiana.  Obviously, a historic Louisiana plantation is going to have more columns, particularly because of the need for large front porches and porticos, but even those columns aren't as ornate as the columns you might see in, say, Versailles.

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E_NAD Villager

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Don't think I'll ever buy a house.  Not because I can't afford it, but just because the chores of home ownership infuriate me.  I'll probably buy a condo at my most extreme.

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I rented a kinda spooky old house. There was what i assumed to be a haunted room and I found a big leather spanker paddle in the basement @Kudasai

The refrigerator moaned and wailed in the night.

Water leaked in the windows and pipes leaked all over the basement

The garage was made of spiders

If u took one step the floor would creak for 5 seconds

And i found some unopened rolls of toilet paper from 1972

I miss it

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11 minutes ago, Poof said:

I rented a kinda spooky old house. There was what i assumed to be a haunted room and I found a big leather spanker paddle in the basement @Kudasai

The refrigerator moaned and wailed in the night.

Water leaked in the windows and pipes leaked all over the basement

The garage was made of spiders

If u took one step the floor would creak for 5 seconds

And i found some unopened rolls of toilet paper from 1972

I miss it

I knew I forgot something

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21 hours ago, E_NAD said:

Don't think I'll ever buy a house.  Not because I can't afford it, but just because the chores of home ownership infuriate me.  I'll probably buy a condo at my most extreme.

Right? Fuck having an HOA and having to keep the grass and hedges cut and keep up maintenance on the place as it continually falls apart.

You know what i hate the most about grass? The HOTTER it gets, the more it grows!

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6 minutes ago, fuggstop said:

Right? Fuck having an HOA and having to keep the grass and hedges cut and keep up maintenance on the place as it continually falls apart.

You know what i hate the most about grass? The HOTTER it gets, the more it grows!

Upon reconsideration I'm now house shopping.

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23 hours ago, scoobdog said:

You could buy a house in the city and turn it into a haunted house.....

How do you do that?  Do you buy a house and murder someone in it?

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On 7/26/2018 at 5:12 PM, jackiemarie90 said:

I want to be able to afford a house

Nobody can afford a house, that's why there's mortgages.  But when you consider that the rent on a decent apt. runs pretty close to a mortgage payment you find that the tough part is just getting the down payment together. 

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On 7/26/2018 at 5:02 PM, garbagepailcat said:

I keep wanting to buy spooky houses in the middle of nowhere that look haunted, like this one

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2327-Culleoka-Hwy-Culleoka-TN-38451/81170099_zpid/

But I think I’m going to end up with a ~normal~ house in the ~city limits~

I’m being denied my old house dreams! 

For me, a house in the middle of nowhere is a dream home.  Unfortunately, "In Cold Blood" did for that dream what Hitchcock's "Psycho" did for taking showers for many people.

tsar4 Monster Mutant

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Yeah, I've heard that.  Didn't read the link, but saw some article stating that even those with a 6-figure salary can't afford it.

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6 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

Yeah, I've heard that.  Didn't read the link, but saw some article stating that even those with a 6-figure salary can't afford it.

ppl love to say that. so does the news but cmon 100,000 cant afford a $3,000/mo apartment?

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8 minutes ago, Ginguy said:

That amazes me given the generally squalid conditions in the city, particularly San Fransisco.

Those conditions come from richer businessmen and tech workers pushing out families that have lived in this part of town for decades. A lot of people are losing homes, or saw their rent go up leaving others to stay on the streets.

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45 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

Remember though that 100K really means around 70K take home.  Then there's the rest of the COL.

yea but still thats 35k. like 3k a month left after rent.

garbagepailcat Elder

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On 7/26/2018 at 6:47 PM, discolemonade said:

i always wanted a big old creepy house but my gawd, they are always money pits. always. 

that house though...it looks like it should be on AHS. something weird about the roof i guess. 

Right!? I think the old white and blue paint and that poorly placed bay window are doing it for me. 

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NaBarney Monster Mutant

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9 hours ago, garbagepailcat said:

The house I looked at today has a stripper pole and a claw foot bathtub. 

Spook’t

Yoooo so you found the one right? The haunted house hunt is over 

garbagepailcat Elder

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10 hours ago, Nabloom said:

Yoooo so you found the one right? The haunted house hunt is over 

Idk. That one was in Georgia. I found out today that Tennessee will just give me $15,000 for a house if I live in shitty parts of their state, so 🤷🏼‍♀️

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13 minutes ago, garbagepailcat said:

Idk. That one was in Georgia. I found out today that Tennessee will just give me $15,000 for a house if I live in shitty parts of their state, so 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was going to say that Culleoka is a bigger shithole than most of the shitholes in TN but I figured u knew that already. 

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I’d rather live in a shit town in a badass house than a shit house in a badass town. I don’t leave my house anyway. My only real requirement is that there is a Taco Bell. Chick-fil-A is a plus. 

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9 hours ago, garbagepailcat said:

I’d rather live in a shit town in a badass house than a shit house in a badass town. I don’t leave my house anyway. My only real requirement is that there is a Taco Bell. Chick-fil-A is a plus. 

Oh in that case I will recommend (looking at a map of the zip codes eligible for the free $15k) the counties I would otherwise tell you to stay all the away from - Rhea, McMinn, Meigs counties, which are the shitholes to end all shitholes but at least they're close to the two best big cities Knox and Chat, and far away from the two worst Nash and Memphis. So u can stay home all the time but still be close to some occasional cool idk shows or whatever ur into w/out the bullshit traffic 

Athens Niota Sweetwater area looks like straight Middle Earth in some places, w probably a lot of spooky old meth houses to choose from 

Idk anything about the ones bordering KY or out west but in my head it generally gets cooler from west to east. 

My long term plan for like my 40s-retirement is to eventually plop a storage container down on the land of whichever one of my friend's dads dies first and just live in that 

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2 minutes ago, Nabloom said:

 

My long term plan for like my 40s-retirement is to eventually plop a storage container down on the land of whichever one of my friend's dads dies first and just live in that 

Can I store some shit there?

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NaBarney Monster Mutant

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1 minute ago, Buddyroe360 said:

Can I store some shit there?

It's probably gonna be pretty filled up w my mattress on the floor and fish tanks but you can bury w/e in a hole out back or something 

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16 hours ago, Nabloom said:

It's probably gonna be pretty filled up w my mattress on the floor and fish tanks but you can bury w/e in a hole out back or something 

In Frankfurt there was a guy who built a living space out of containers in a community garden. Working plumbing and everything, the only requirement was that if you stayed you had to help with any maintenance.

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I've been wanting to buy a house and the prices are really good in atlanta, but I'm waiting to get my credit score up another 30 points so I can lock in that sweet 3.5% rate.

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