DoobieBrother
Well-Known Member
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.
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.