The Home Ownership Thread

[brokencycle]

I think one of my dimmers blew out (less than a year old). I found the breaker tripped, and when I reset it, one of the dimmers stopped dimming (all others still work fine).

 

[PhilKenSebben]

She just going to pretend you’re still on lease?

She is going to pretend he is still on lease, he is going to pretend he is off lease. It is truly a tale as old as time

 

[jbarwick]

So we have the house in pretty good shape after the last 3 weeks of seemingly endless shipments. In the spring we will look to landscape lighting and changing a few things outside but pretty excited to be at this place in home ownership. The last house had a solid $100K worth of **** to do on the inside and I don’t think I was ever going to be happy with the outside.

 

[PhilKenSebben]

So we have the house in pretty good shape after the last 3 weeks of seemingly endless shipments. In the spring we will look to landscape lighting and changing a few things outside but pretty excited to be at this place in home ownership. The last house had a solid $100K worth of **** to do on the inside and I don’t think I was ever going to be happy with the outside.

Sometimes the houses with 100k are the best houses to own (or atleast I keep telling myself as I look at our ever I creasing list of **** to do)

Also, landscape lighting is key. If you plan on doing it yourself, I HIGHLY recommend volt lighting. Great product, great service, very fair prices it seems!


In addition, so far, I would recommend bath planet to people. It is a vinyl bathtub liner system where they remove the old stuff. And then put vinyl in everywhere. The fixtures are all commercial grade kohler, delta, moen etc, the work is well above average, and the end result is pretty good all in all. I will take some pictures in the near future and share. It is on par with actual tile( I think our bill was like 22k for two bathrooms, but we also had them do other work like remove soffits and some electrical which added to the cost and I could have done but just didn't)

If you are lookinf at remodeling bathrooms, give them a look at the flcery least. You might be surprised. Plus, it is pretty quick. Both bathrooms will be completed by one guy in 1 week total. Plus, ours was complicated pull out, more straight forward jobs are simpler and take less time!

 

[Numbernine]

I was hoping you'd weigh in. I visualized the leak at the connection at the top of the P trap, so its probably a thread leak?

Yeah could be but the best course is to actually confirm the leak location if at all possible. I usually try to repeat the condition where it leaks and get in there with a rag, an inspection mirror and a good flashlight. If that assembly is Durham it’d be a drag to tear that apart and reassemble it just to find out it was running down from something above

 

[RedLantern]

no it's definitely at the top of the p-trap. I can see water spurting up from that connection.

 

[Piobaire]

Oh yeah. Except she crossed out the memo where I wrote "cancellation of lease effective Dec 31 2020" and wrote in "January rent," and then wrote "do not accept lease cancellation" on the reverse under her endorsement.

That just made me laugh. I purposely sent her $100 more than the monthly rent so it was clear it wasn't a rent payment, so I'm curious if she'll send me a $100 refund.

This has "small claims court" all over it.

 

[Numbernine]

no it's definitely at the top of the p-trap. I can see water spurting up from that connection.

If you decide to take that on and have any questions pm me. Always glad to help . One of the options you might have is to cut the pipe on both ends of the assembly, repair it on the bench and re install it with no-hub couplings. If it were me that’s what I would do

 

[Van Veen]

This has "small claims court" all over it.

I mean, if she gets a new tenant to move in before March 1 she has no damages, unless she wants to pretend we wrecked the place.

 

[double00]

this thread is amazing

 

[Piobaire]

I mean, if she gets a new tenant to move in before March 1 she has no damages, unless she wants to pretend we wrecked the place.

Cost of cleaning the place, cost of obtaining a new tenant...there's damages to be had.

 

[venividivicibj]

 

[Piobaire]

Right in the area someone wants $1.25 million for 11 acres. WTF?

Nka Dufort Rd, Priest River, ID 83856 | Zillow

Nka Dufort Rd, Priest River ID, is a Vacant Land home. The Rent Zestimate for this Vacant Land is $1,994/mo, which has increased by $1,994/mo in the last 30 days.

www.zillow.com

 

[Lizard23]

Sometimes the houses with 100k are the best houses to own (or atleast I keep telling myself as I look at our ever I creasing list of **** to do)

Also, landscape lighting is key. If you plan on doing it yourself, I HIGHLY recommend volt lighting. Great product, great service, very fair prices it seems!


In addition, so far, I would recommend bath planet to people. It is a vinyl bathtub liner system where they remove the old stuff. And then put vinyl in everywhere. The fixtures are all commercial grade kohler, delta, moen etc, the work is well above average, and the end result is pretty good all in all. I will take some pictures in the near future and share. It is on par with actual tile( I think our bill was like 22k for two bathrooms, but we also had them do other work like remove soffits and some electrical which added to the cost and I could have done but just didn't)

If you are lookinf at remodeling bathrooms, give them a look at the flcery least. You might be surprised. Plus, it is pretty quick. Both bathrooms will be completed by one guy in 1 week total. Plus, ours was complicated pull out, more straight forward jobs are simpler and take less time!

+1 on volt lighting.

 

[Van Veen]

Cost of cleaning the place, cost of obtaining a new tenant...there's damages to be had.

Then I countersue for rent abatement back to February (due to the fact that we couldn't turn the lights on in more than 1 bedroom at a time because of electrical issues), the costs of the repairs I made (law is clear that tenants must be compensated at fair market value for repairs), and for my full security deposit returned (she didn't comply with notification requirements, and the penalty for that is not being allowed to keep any of the security deposit even for valid reasons). That's about $6-7k worth of damages on my end. ?‍♂️

I also claim that she's ginning up damages in retaliation for us making valid repair requests, and that we were harassed every time we made a repair request. I have plenty of written evidence of that, and I have photo/video documentation of the condition of the house when we moved out.

See bullet #2: