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The Home Improvement Thread
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TacoXpo
HOAX DENIER
TacoXpo
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Have it breed with Lazarus!
TacoXpo
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Did Obama move near you?FUCK... my house has LOST 12 million dollars in value over the last 30 days!! Damn!
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TacoXpo
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I'm just about to list a 1970s 1,500 sq ft home for $1,325,000. 7,000 sq ft lot that has 5 story apt building looking over the back yard. Dumpy kitchen. Clean otherwise. Something about an ocean and a large search engine employer nearby.Ok... I'll sell it for 1.5 million. I'll throw in the shed and mower.
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Have it breed with Lazarus!
He's still in my garage... not sure what to do with it. Don't feel right trying to sell it nor give it away.
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I'm just about to list a 1970s 1,500 sq ft home for $1,325,000. 7,000 sq ft lot that has 5 story apt building looking over the back yard. Dumpy kitchen. Clean otherwise. Something about an ocean and a large search engine employer nearby.
Just read in our local paper that the town I live in is the 3rd fastest growing city in America! WTF...
CENSUS: Pflugerville ranks as third fastest-growing U.S. city
Taco Loco
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That's not a good thing.
It's exactly why we wanted to move from Conroe/The Woodlands 2017Conroe is America's fastest growing city, census reveals
Texas has quite of few of growing cities, too many liberals coming here also.
Although we have a good retirement home already, I'm thinking after the boys finish HS, were planning to move further out, smaller house, larger shop & Mo land.
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
Need some other opinions on something. We might end up staying in our house for a few different reasons but mainly a smaller house in our neighborhood is retarted expensive and interest rates are up. Plus all the houses that we are seeing need $10k-$30K of work when they are already priced at a premium. Doing the math it's making less sense to sell and downsize since it would not be any cheaper and fixing up a smaller house would make are total investment higher than the value of the new house. IF we stay we have a sunroom that is about 300 square feet and is considered condition space to the county due to the window unit. Its all windows so its expensive to cool in the summer. We have some patio furniture and a TV out there. We don't really use it and I go out there to watch TV sometimes. My friend brought up a crazy idea to remove the windows and turn it back into a covered patio. Reduce my square footage with the county and lower my taxes. I have the biggest house on the street so if I did this I would be the same size as the 2 other 2 stories on the street. Plan would be to put in a sink, counter top, bar, and make it an outdoor kitchen.
I would reduce my tax cost about $100 a month plus the savings of having to heat and cool it. Am I crazy for reducing the square footage of my house? Picture for reference. This is about half the room and the side I would do the outdoor kitchen and bar.
I would reduce my tax cost about $100 a month plus the savings of having to heat and cool it. Am I crazy for reducing the square footage of my house? Picture for reference. This is about half the room and the side I would do the outdoor kitchen and bar.
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I know on my property tax statement it mentions my covered patio (they don't know about the outdoor kitchen but I have seen them on other peoples property tax statement).. what I'm doing a shitty job of saying, is that taking the windows out might not lower it as much as you think. It will still be up to the county to appraise the home and now instead of a home with x amount of feet it will be a home with x-300 sq feet with a covered patio and outdoor kitchen. Might come out a wash.
Oswego
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it could be worse..... you could make this list like my town did
These Are The 10 Worst Cities In New Jersey For 2017
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it could be worse..... you could make this list like my town did
These Are The 10 Worst Cities In New Jersey For 2017
Which one was yours? Phillipsburg didn't look bad in the photo... looked really nice actually.
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Mauzer
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Ha! My brother just got an apartment in Pflugerville, he just graduated and is starting work with Dell next month
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
I am probably going to put screens in place of the windows to keep the bugs out.
"Oh you just made improvements to your house by taking out old leaking windows! Let me add another $1,000 to your house value since you just improved your property!" said the tax man. /S
Anything you do to the house and put it on record with the city is going to be seen as an improvement.
Since you said you're staying in the house, I would demo the window and move the door over. Frame up the outside and inside so you can extend the bar over.
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
I get what you are saying. I talked to the county yesterday and the tax man point blank told me not to make it fancy with an outdoor kitchen and all that. I told him no worries on that and that I was tired of paying to heat and cool the space that we dont really use.
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tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
I like the idea of making it a patio. I am not sad to see the windows go if we do this. I'm just trying to get other opinions if I am crazy for considering to reduce the square footage of the house.You know they make screens that go in front of windows that open! And both keep bugs out.