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Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
Did you check for a horse head? Maybe someone was making an offer you couldn't refuse?
Did you check for a horse head? Maybe someone was making an offer you couldn't refuse?
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
This is really funny if you have the board layout to have newer posts above older posts.
This is really funny if you have the board layout to have newer posts above older posts.
FadeToBlack&Gold
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
Every time I think about buying a house, there's the whole "maintain the landscaping" thing that stops my lazy arse in its tracks, with flashbacks to being told, "your father has asked you to mow today" after getting home from school, and then sweating like a pig doing my parents' lawn(s) from age 12-18 - they made me do it at the "up north" place, too. That would be every 5 days in a rainy year, plus the "up north" weekend mowing.
Not that I couldn't afford a lawn service, but I refuse to pay someone to do something I could do myself (but currently don't want to), and it's the bad memories that matter.
Every time I think about buying a house, there's the whole "maintain the landscaping" thing that stops my lazy arse in its tracks, with flashbacks to being told, "your father has asked you to mow today" after getting home from school, and then sweating like a pig doing my parents' lawn(s) from age 12-18 - they made me do it at the "up north" place, too. That would be every 5 days in a rainy year, plus the "up north" weekend mowing.
Not that I couldn't afford a lawn service, but I refuse to pay someone to do something I could do myself (but currently don't want to), and it's the bad memories that matter.
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To add onto Fade's post....it's the little maintenance things that I don't want to deal with. I didn't mind mowing or shoveling snow. But you have appliances, A/C, exterior siding/painting, water heater, painting interior, windows, plumbing, whatever. It all adds up. I'll take my apt, apt for a single guy, and if anything breaks, I just call someone to fix it, no charge. No equity? Yeah, don't really care. An apt makes perfect sense for me, I love it, and as for neighbors? Met my first one last week in 10 years, b/c they felt ALL THE BASS was appropriate at midnight. And they were cool about it.
To add onto Fade's post....it's the little maintenance things that I don't want to deal with. I didn't mind mowing or shoveling snow. But you have appliances, A/C, exterior siding/painting, water heater, painting interior, windows, plumbing, whatever. It all adds up. I'll take my apt, apt for a single guy, and if anything breaks, I just call someone to fix it, no charge. No equity? Yeah, don't really care. An apt makes perfect sense for me, I love it, and as for neighbors? Met my first one last week in 10 years, b/c they felt ALL THE BASS was appropriate at midnight. And they were cool about it.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
yawn!
yawn!
MarkEagleUSA
C'mon Q!
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
Good morning to tLodge!
Good morning to tLodge!
Lady wore Black
pawn in game of life
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
Good Morning, Lodge!
Waiting impatiently to see if the offer we placed on a townhouse has been accepted. Hubby and I decided to swing for the fences. We are getting sick of losing out on places because of investors buying them and turning around to rent them out.
Good Morning, Lodge!
Waiting impatiently to see if the offer we placed on a townhouse has been accepted. Hubby and I decided to swing for the fences. We are getting sick of losing out on places because of investors buying them and turning around to rent them out.
Twitch Boy
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My own parents use that exact line of thinking to talk me out of a house. Hence, I went condo.
The big reasons I wanted to own instead of rent are 1)) bigger/better selection of possible locations and 2) some level of protection from rent (mortgage) increases. If I break even on the sale I'm happy.
Every time I think about buying a house, there's the whole "maintain the landscaping" thing that stops my lazy arse in its tracks, with flashbacks to being told, "your father has asked you to mow today" after getting home from school, and then sweating like a pig doing my parents' lawn(s) from age 12-18 - they made me do it at the "up north" place, too. That would be every 5 days in a rainy year, plus the "up north" weekend mowing.
Not that I couldn't afford a lawn service, but I refuse to pay someone to do something I could do myself (but currently don't want to), and it's the bad memories that matter.
My own parents use that exact line of thinking to talk me out of a house. Hence, I went condo.
The big reasons I wanted to own instead of rent are 1)) bigger/better selection of possible locations and 2) some level of protection from rent (mortgage) increases. If I break even on the sale I'm happy.
dxmnkd316
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It's a lot of work, but it's not bad. Just get a yard that's flat and small. My stupid *** bought a house with a hilly front yard and I regret that.
Or I suppose you get a house with a huge flat yard and get a lawn tractor. That will be my next house.
It's a lot of work, but it's not bad. Just get a yard that's flat and small. My stupid *** bought a house with a hilly front yard and I regret that.
Or I suppose you get a house with a huge flat yard and get a lawn tractor. That will be my next house.
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I hate yard work. Everything about it. When I was younger people would say "wait until you get your own place, then you will enjoy it." Wrong, it sucks.
If my wife said right now "hey, let's move to a townhouse" I could be packed by noon.
Good luck LWB! Hope it works for you this time!
I hate yard work. Everything about it. When I was younger people would say "wait until you get your own place, then you will enjoy it." Wrong, it sucks.
If my wife said right now "hey, let's move to a townhouse" I could be packed by noon.
Good luck LWB! Hope it works for you this time!
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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Yeah, yard work sucks. But I do love getting the snowblower out. That's my favorite chore. In fact, it's so much of a "chore" I will do my neighbors' driveways if they don't have a snowblower.
I had a couple of grass areas die this winter. I need to reseed but with this screwed up weather, I also have to wait.
I hate yard work. Everything about it. When I was younger people would say "wait until you get your own place, then you will enjoy it." Wrong, it sucks.
If my wife said right now "hey, let's move to a townhouse" I could be packed by noon.
Good luck LWB! Hope it works for you this time!
Yeah, yard work sucks. But I do love getting the snowblower out. That's my favorite chore. In fact, it's so much of a "chore" I will do my neighbors' driveways if they don't have a snowblower.
I had a couple of grass areas die this winter. I need to reseed but with this screwed up weather, I also have to wait.
FadeToBlack&Gold
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
If I could post the Trump, "WRONG!" meme in here, I would.
If I could post the Trump, "WRONG!" meme in here, I would.
FadeToBlack&Gold
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
Yes, but I'm confused as to why you would enjoy that, but hate mowing/yardwork. I see it as basically the same thing.
In the winter, obviously. To blow snow. Off my driveway.
Yes, but I'm confused as to why you would enjoy that, but hate mowing/yardwork. I see it as basically the same thing.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
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I dunno. I'm guessing it has something to do with it not being a sauna outside, the machine has Jeremy Clarkson levels of power compared to a lawnmower, my [strikethrough]soil[/strikethrough] clay sucks so my lawn is never great no matter what I seem to do, and I'm allergic to the pine tree in my front yard so mowing around it is a PITA.
There's nothing better than powering through the plow berm and throwing the snow halfway to Wisconsin.
I dunno. I'm guessing it has something to do with it not being a sauna outside, the machine has Jeremy Clarkson levels of power compared to a lawnmower, my [strikethrough]soil[/strikethrough] clay sucks so my lawn is never great no matter what I seem to do, and I'm allergic to the pine tree in my front yard so mowing around it is a PITA.
There's nothing better than powering through the plow berm and throwing the snow halfway to Wisconsin.
St. Clown
Ideas Posted are Likely Not My Own
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #190: Springing Forward
You can spread gypsum onto a lawn, and over the course of 10 years or so actually create a small layer of black soil. It's a tedious process to consider, but it's possible. And it's about as complicated as spreading fertilizer.
You can spread gypsum onto a lawn, and over the course of 10 years or so actually create a small layer of black soil. It's a tedious process to consider, but it's possible. And it's about as complicated as spreading fertilizer.
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