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| Silky Johnson |
Back to work this week. I thought it'd be much more of an overwhelming change than it has been, alas it truly is like riding a bike.
That said, my weekend to work!
Whatchu doin'? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
It's been an eventful week. It looks like I'm buying a house. Had an offer accepted on Tuesday and my mortgage agreement confirmed today. Everything's been very smooth so far but I'm still expecting things to go wrong at any second.
We're going for some food and wine this evening. The rest of the weekend will be quiet, as I should probably start clinging on to my cash. Last night I did see Dredd at the Leeds International Film Festival. Still my favourite film of the last ten years. |
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| Trance-M |
Congrats Jack, assuming it won't go wrong. Buying a house always is a big step in life.
F1 in Brazil this weekend, so I'll be watching.
Football match tomorrow morning, hopefully it will be dry, but rain is expected. Regarding kids football, today this video went viral, very funny :)
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It's been an eventful week. It looks like I'm buying a house. Had an offer accepted on Tuesday and my mortgage agreement confirmed today. Everything's been very smooth so far but I'm still expecting things to go wrong at any second. |
Congrats! |
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| Paradox Lost |
Flew down to LA for the weekend to visit the bro. Gonna catch Emerson, Seaman, and Howells as part of their 3D project (which I didn't even know existed until this week) for some kind of Boiler Room-ish session over at the Mixmag offices. From there they're migrating to Hollywood and playing Station 1640.
RANN, where you at?
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Everything's been very smooth so far but I'm still expecting things to go wrong at any second.
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My best friend went through the same, stressed out expectations, only when it came to selling his house, so much so that he would occasionally have me drive by just to make sure the place wasn't engulfed in flames.
Good for you, though. |
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| ziptnf |
Home ownership is one of those things that seems straightforward enough but when you actually get into the details you realize that it's something you will basically be gradually improving over many years.
We bought a home built in the 50's and it's got plaster walls, the roof was shot, it had copper wiring that needed to be replaced along with a completely new electrical panel and service line, a 25 year old HVAC, a cement sump basin, etc. Of course, they managed to get whatever home inspectors they paid enough to say that it was fine and that they didn't need to replace any of it. So of course it was left up to us. It's a nice little house outside and in, but a lot of the needed to be replaced.
Oh, right, as far as my weekend, eh I have no plans really. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| The house we're buying is 110 years old. It's a big Edwardian terrace with four bedrooms and a sprawling basement I've already earmarked as a rave cave. It will need a lot of work - we're already scheming to rip the whole kitchen out - but it's got loads of character. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Holy crap I am so jealous! It's my dream to own/live in a century home. I always check the listings here to see when the oldest places go up for sale, to get an idea of what we'd be dealing with should we ever actually buy. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Paradox Lost
Flew down to LA for the weekend to visit the bro. Gonna catch Emerson, Seaman, and Howells as part of their 3D project (which I didn't even know existed until this week) for some kind of Boiler Room-ish session over at the Mixmag offices. From there they're migrating to Hollywood and playing Station 1640.
RANN, where you at?
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Argh, I saw that lineup a while back. It's going to be epic - that club is literally about 6 mins from my house, but sadly I'm flying to ing DC first thing tomorrow morning so i'll miss all the shenanigans :whip:
| quote: | Originally posted by Sys J
It's been an eventful week. It looks like I'm buying a house. Had an offer accepted on Tuesday and my mortgage agreement confirmed today. Everything's been very smooth so far but I'm still expecting things to go wrong at any second.
We're going for some food and wine this evening. The rest of the weekend will be quiet, as I should probably start clinging on to my cash. Last night I did see Dredd at the Leeds International Film Festival. Still my favourite film of the last ten years.
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Congrats Jack - buying a house is ing great. Over time, I learned to hate paying extortionate rent to pay of someone else's mortgage. I feels so nice to actually own the thing and be like "yes, I'm going to knock through that wall or drill a hole there and I only have to ask myself".
| quote: | Originally posted by Ziptnf
Home ownership is one of those things that seems straightforward enough but when you actually get into the details you realize that it's something you will basically be gradually improving over many years.
We bought a home built in the 50's and it's got plaster walls, the roof was shot, it had copper wiring that needed to be replaced along with a completely new electrical panel and service line, a 25 year old HVAC, a cement sump basin, etc. Of course, they managed to get whatever home inspectors they paid enough to say that it was fine and that they didn't need to replace any of it. So of course it was left up to us. It's a nice little house outside and in, but a lot of the needed to be replaced.
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Lol tell me about it. You just have to get really good inspections prior to buying. They;re worth every single penny. My house is 1913 which is about as old as they get out here.
The previous owner who had been in there 30+ years declared there were no problems on the disclosures,and didn't want to give any credits as such.
The inspector pulled me to the side and said it's in decent shape, but do not sleep a night in that house without ripping out every piece of wiring as it's a complete electrical deathtrap and it will kill us if we don't.
Turned out all the wiring was original and consisted of a conductor, wrapped loosely in paper, and soaked in oil :haha: This is one case where they thankfully don't make em like they used too.
And there's a giant asbestos pipe from an old furnace. Still have to remove that but as long as I don't lick it, it's not killing me (as far as I know). |
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| Guest |
Congrats Jack! We're still in the process of deciding where we want to end up living. I also want to pay off my student loan before starting up a mortgage... which shouldn't be too much longer; next year or two, depending how aggressive I am this coming year in paying it off.
We're getting hit by our first snowstorm today and tomorrow, so we're just hunkering down and drinking hot chocolate. Not a bad start to the long weekend if I do say so myself! |
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| Lira |
I had written a long post, but TA ate it, so all I want to say is that Trance-M's gif had me in stitches and I'm trying to get used to this piece of information:
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The house we're buying is 110 years old. |
Not even hometown existed 110 years ago... And it's the capital of the country! :p |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Yeah, but even my Dad is older than Brasilia.
One of the funny quirks of Leeds is that it clearly underwent massive expansion around the end of the 19th Century, and most of the inner suburbs appear to have all been built at once. This manifests in two main ways. Firstly, there were thousands of houses built with identical layouts, so you can step into a house in one part of Leeds and find it has the exact same layout as another house you were in the previous day, miles away on the opposite side of the city. Secondly, streets are named in clusters, so you will get Autumn Street, Autumn Grove, Autumn Place, Autumn Terrace and Autumn Avenue all in a row next to each other, with 90% of the houses on each street being practically identical to each other! You can imagine how confusing this gets when visiting people.
The house we are buying (hopefully, touch wood, fingers crossed) is thankfully not as generic as that, but it's still on a street where almost all of the houses have the same layout. One of my friends used to rent a house on that street about seven years ago, and when we went to view this one I knew the layout immediately. |
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