You want a bad paint job, Sarameg. It scares off a lot of buyers and is the easiest thing to fix. Or in this case, an INSANE paint job. Everyone told us to look for the worst house in the best neighborhood we could. the house you can improve--the neighborhood not so much.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 61*
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.
Scrappy - Oct 22, 2008 4:14:54 pm PDT #5955 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
msbelle - Oct 22, 2008 4:21:04 pm PDT #5956 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
yeah paint is EASY and relatively cheap. that is distracting though. and what was on the ceiling in that one room?
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2008 4:22:01 pm PDT #5957 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Marrying a pirate is every Somali girl’s dream. He has power, money, immunity, the weapons to defend the tribe and funds to give to the militias in civil war," - from an op-ed in the Egyptian paper, Al Ahram.
sarameg - Oct 22, 2008 4:25:38 pm PDT #5958 of 10001
It's more the scary crumpled ceiling that gets me.
One of my thing is I want central air...or a price that I can put it in soon after. I am not equipped to cope without air in this climate.
I also don't want too much of a fixer upper. I know my limits. I can deal with an old ugly kitchen for a period of time...I guess that's key: I want functional over pretty, but that doesn't need to be brand spanking new. And I kinda hate some of the new kitchens they put in. I'd rather have old cabinets I hate than new ones I hate (given I have the world's ugliest crap cabinets now, shouldn't be a surprise.)
(this is msbelle's doing. I have to give blamecredit where it is due.)
Ooh, one of the houses I looked at had the ugly cabinets, but they had custom-made organizing...contraptions inside. Pull outs and swivels and drawers-in-cabinets and it was amazing. Had I been able to afford that place, I just would have replaced the fronts eventually. The use of space was amazing.
sarameg - Oct 22, 2008 4:28:34 pm PDT #5959 of 10001
Loki just went over to harass MK on the loveseat, did that, and then just curled up on his butt, wrapping his tail around him. LOVE. And this is with Devi asleep at the foot of the futon.
2 out of 3. 2 out of 3.
eta: and then MK got up for a drink.
(Well, MK is looking a little annoyed, but not enough to wake back up.)
Sue - Oct 22, 2008 4:32:23 pm PDT #5960 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Tom, seriously, army surplus?
My brother had that style of coat. He used to wear it while working on his car.
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2008 4:35:06 pm PDT #5961 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
msbelle - Oct 22, 2008 4:38:54 pm PDT #5962 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tom: [link]
Jesse - Oct 22, 2008 4:43:38 pm PDT #5963 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
24 beers!
Sue - Oct 22, 2008 4:47:49 pm PDT #5964 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Msbelle and I are thinking alike.
ETA; Uh, it's the same one...
Which includes the always important feature:
Made for the great white north, can handle more than the cold, can also carry 24 beers in the pockets.