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DoobieBrother

DoobieBrother

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Hey 600!
Happy late-late birthday, D!
Been a busy few days.
Found out that the city we live in has a huge fee for any new home build, which puts it all out of our reach.
A $15,000 subdivision improvement fee or access fee, or whatever they call it.
Either way, it put a new home build out of our budget so we went back to looking for a pre-built house.
Ironically, we found one only 3/4 of a mile away from the bare lot we just tried for, with 16-sq.ft. more living space, and has 600-sq.ft. more land (6,969-sq.ft total, or .16-acres), is still located right on the edge of farmland, and it's listed for $150k.
It's 1,360-sq.ft. (126m2), 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, wheelchair ramps front & rear (awesome, since the wife has horrible knee pains when she climbs stairs), decent kitchen, big living room, mid-sized family room, an oversized 2-car garage, and a nice & private backyard suitable for vegetable gardening (and a couple of small outdoors girls in a portable greenhouse).
And the electrical looks very robust.
Each outlet in the garage is on it's own circuit, and there's a 60-amp circuit marked for a welder:



fuse panel pR0n:



potential new Doobieland HQ:


View out the living room window:


A long ramp coming from the master bedroom that I'll convert into a deck (with a ramp).
And a view of the dog kennel the current owners use for their Great Dane. I'll be pulling that all out and re-vamping the lawn. The yard actually goes all the way to the cedar fence in the background.



It's got some minor issues, so we're going to offer $140k and negotiate up from there to a maximum of 145k-ish.
This one is in better shape than our previous house was when we first bought it, but we are going to slowly upgrade it over a 5-year period until all affordable upgrades are in place (laminate wood floors, central A/C, wall removal to open up kitchen & dining room to the living room, new shingles on the roof, etc)
Hopefully this one will go through.
 
Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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jigfresh said:
I've learned if you want potheads to wish you happy birthday, you need to tell them it's your birthday... ON your birthday. And then if they still don't say anything, I say... now is the point you wish me happy birthday. :) You guys should have seen my FB post on my bday.

EDIT: Oh yeah... forgot... Happy Birthday!!!!! We all owe you a great big thanks for starting this club. So thanks for being born a long time ago, so you could round us all up together 40 something years later. It's changed my life!
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that is it jig short term memory loss anyone, and a very happy birthday dst. the bad thing is I saw his post and then slap forgot to send my greetings. my bad man
 
Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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looks good to me doobie View attachment 2758271 only a bunch of growers would take pics of a breaker box WP_20130319_002.jpg this is the one I wired for my grow at my place I just moved from still may have it moved down here some time. I picked up my osb today and will build my flower room after work. I will make my rips there on the big saws for nice straight cuts. took a while to get someone to come through with a ride to lowes, but now I have what I need. time to get the 600 burning again.
 
DoobieBrother

DoobieBrother

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I thought a few of us would get a kick out of it :-)
Will sure make running a small grow safer.
Going to be running small A/C units in each grow box (veg & flower), so the extra fuses will offer some peace of mind.
If we buy the house, I'm doing the wall removal (really just making an opening 6 to 8 feet wide in a wall that divides the living room from the kitchen & dining room) on the day we take possession so it will be ready for new carpet and/or laminate wood flooring that we'll have put in before we get moved in and unpacked.
It already has ducting in place for central A/C, so we might do that this winter so it's ready for next summer.
Then I start designing a raised-bed garden set up for veggies & berries next year, and read up on the soil mixes swiped from Monsieur Whodat, et al.
I'm writing all this in an effort to debunk my super power of jinxing every project I get involved in by talking about it ahead of time.
One of the reasons why I don't get overly emotional or worked up over possible future events: "Show me the money!!!"
So this is my way of man'ing up and breaking that hex.

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Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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I know how you fill doob I think I have the same hex myself, but we keep trying anyway. it isn't like you can just give up. I wish you lived closer I can do everything you want done and a shit load more man. I enjoy helping good peeps. they are just in short supply now days. all the circuits will be very nice it is how I wired my old grow building, and I never through a breaker. I have a welder hooked up to it as well, and would turn it up to 200 amps for gouging while my lights and acs where running. you should be good to go sir. I have extra space for new circuits here and only one to the room I grow in now, so I see some work to put in the next few days.
 
supchaka

supchaka

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The problem with buying a used house is that it goes from thinking you can pick what you want to buy then after a few months turns into what can I put a bid on and them sell it to me?! I got to a point where I didnt even consider the first renovation I was gonna do anywhere cuz it was a 50/50 chance we'd even get it. It goes from picking a dream home to finding as many houses that you can "live with" and putting offers out left and right and crossing fingers. Thats definitely the one thing buying new has going for it. I've bought new twice and used once and I wouldnt ever want to do used again. just my .02
 
jimmer6577

jimmer6577

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Doobie good luck on the house search. I'm with DR.D81 if closer we could hook you up. Last year while framing, roofing, sidding my house I had friends stop by and help here and there for beer, smoke, and food. Believe me money payment would have been cheaper than this was for a bunch of deadheads at random ages. Wouldn't change it for the world though. Just rambling. sorry dobbie on the new house project but good things come to good people in due time.

D happy really late Bday. Nice pics, my daughter, me, and the puppy actually biked around the trail on 1 of my lakes yesterday. It's been since last summer since I've even took my bike out of the shed. Loved the 3 hour yesterday regret it this morning bad.
 
jigfresh

jigfresh

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supchaka said:
The problem with buying a used house is that it goes from thinking you can pick what you want to buy then after a few months turns into what can I put a bid on and them sell it to me?! I got to a point where I didnt even consider the first renovation I was gonna do anywhere cuz it was a 50/50 chance we'd even get it. It goes from picking a dream home to finding as many houses that you can "live with" and putting offers out left and right and crossing fingers. Thats definitely the one thing buying new has going for it. I've bought new twice and used once and I wouldnt ever want to do used again. just my .02
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Well we found the house of our dreams right off. And the people who were selling knew we loved it. Plus we bought near the top of the market... so we are fully stuck in our dream home. Even when you win, you can lose.

Our friends just sold their house. It's 3 times the size of ours in a completely incomparable neighborhood. Meaning we live in the trashy part of the mountain and they live in the ritzy, every house comes with a slip in the private lake part of town. They just sold their house for less then we paid for ours. And they sold it for only slightly more than what we still owe on our house.

It doesn't bother me at all. Totally doesn't eat at my soul to know I will probably never make back in our lifetimes the money we've lost on this house. Not one bit. :)

But seriously I do feel blessed, that if I have to be stuck underwater somewhere for many years... it's a real nice place.
 
giggles26

giggles26

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Hello 6, just checking in to say high, whoops I mean hi or maybe it's cuz I'm high lol. Either way hope all has been well in the 6, from the few pages I've read looks like shit is dank as usual in here, hope everyone is well. Been real busy with the new house and all the fun projects it brought.

Stay high my friends, no bud pr0n for me today but I do have some tile pr0n :D



Oh and happy bday D! I'll smoke one for ya!
 
giggles26

giggles26

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Good to be around bro, hope all is well with you and mrs jig.

Before floors.


After restoring floors and my girl painted.

 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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Hey Gigs, was wondering about you earlier today. Good to see/hear the new home is coming along.

Im curious about your be nice or leave sign :-) thats some nola shit right there,,, or doc bob has gone country wide :-)





This was given to me by someone when I moved away from nola to denver, right before I joined riu... Its in the "green house" getting rusty.



^^^ thats should be the 600 motto.



Heres me trying to make watermelon syrup by filtering and reduction... about 8 more hrs to go probably lol This was like eight 10lb sugar baby melons, now just a few gallons of red sweetness. Will let yall know how it goes.



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