Timelies all!
Sleepy...
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Sep 10, 2008 2:06:15 pm PDT #8088 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
sarameg - Sep 10, 2008 2:11:26 pm PDT #8089 of 10003
I got home 15 minutes ago. I dear, strongly, emphatically do not want to go to work tomorrow. But there isn't much choice in the matter.
Pix - Sep 10, 2008 2:12:07 pm PDT #8090 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I Zestimated the house we rent (it's part of a two-house property) and discovered that it is worth $100,000 less than our landlady paid for it in 2006...and that was before she dumped $150K+ into renovation. Ouch.
Please gods, don't let her lose the house. We are never going to be able to find another place that will allow our menagerie in LA.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2008 2:29:48 pm PDT #8091 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::sigh::
I swear, I've spent more time rescheduling things than doing things recently. But I have gotten some bites off my resume, so that's something.
megan walker - Sep 10, 2008 2:40:27 pm PDT #8092 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The house we live in was purchased in 2000 for $721,000 (list $579,000!) Zillow says its over a million now, but there's no way the owner could get that without a lot of work. Of course, they also say it is a 3 bed/2 ba, which is quite a stretch.
I don't think, given the work it would take to bring it up to the level of what I've seen for sale in the neighborhood, it would go for much more than $800,000.
Cashmere - Sep 10, 2008 3:04:03 pm PDT #8093 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
I don't know how much I trust Zillow's estimates. But I know our Columbus house is still on the market for less than they paid us for the buyout. The good news is that it's still $20K over what we paid for it in 1999. And we really didn't sink that much into improvements. I'm just glad to be out from under it.
Dana - Sep 10, 2008 3:18:10 pm PDT #8094 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Given that Pushing Daisies doesn't premiere for another few weeks, is there any TV on Wednesday night I need to be watching?
sarameg - Sep 10, 2008 3:25:44 pm PDT #8095 of 10003
What is it with FOX and putrid liquidation ?
Jesus christ.
My parents' first house cost $18k. But that was 33 years ago. Sold it for a little over twice that 17 years ago. Wonder what it would go for now.
Interesting tidbit: that house originally was a modular house on a base somewhere circa WW2. When they closed it post-war, the landlady bought a whole bunch of them and moved them to LC and that street to rent. I didn't know that until recently. Explains some things about that house (like how easy it was for grass to grow inside the walls- it was basically plunked on a slab, so it wasn't quite sealed to the foundation. And the closets were clearly prefab, in retrospect.) It wasn't really obvious it was a modular. Most of its issues were minor, structurally it was sound and solid.
sarameg - Sep 10, 2008 3:27:23 pm PDT #8096 of 10003
Ooh, zillow says $116K.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2008 3:30:23 pm PDT #8097 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Zenstimate on my building is laughable - it's only about twice what we paid for our co-op, and there are 12 units in here. But since they don't give the # of bedrooms, I suspect they're looking at the 2-family homes on the rest of the block and extrapolating from the estimated square footage.