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January 8, 2010 at 1:54 PM in reply to: More land, lowering costs, where would you move here in the West? #500927January 8, 2010 at 1:54 PM in reply to: More land, lowering costs, where would you move here in the West? #501173
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ParticipantIf I could convince my wife to leave California, my top choice would be Denver. Failing that, northern Arizona might be my next choice; Flagstaff seems about my speed. If you can tolerate religious people, there’s always Utah.
Participant[quote=Navydoc]This is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.[/quote]
We’re having the same experience in our new house… but I had a funny realization the other day: We rented our old house for almost eight years; the only “renovations” we did were yard improvements, a little painting, and some built-in furniture; we’ve done that much in a month in our new house…
But frankly, we could have knocked out an annoying wall, added insulation, refloored the kitchen, changed out the underpowered toilet, cut down a tree, etc, and the landlord would have been fine with it. It just never occurred to us to make an investment in our rental… partly because we weren’t sure how long we’d stay, and partly because we’d never had a long term rental before.
As for the other question, the old guys who prefer their mistresses should have chosen a better wife.
Participant[quote=Navydoc]This is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.[/quote]
We’re having the same experience in our new house… but I had a funny realization the other day: We rented our old house for almost eight years; the only “renovations” we did were yard improvements, a little painting, and some built-in furniture; we’ve done that much in a month in our new house…
But frankly, we could have knocked out an annoying wall, added insulation, refloored the kitchen, changed out the underpowered toilet, cut down a tree, etc, and the landlord would have been fine with it. It just never occurred to us to make an investment in our rental… partly because we weren’t sure how long we’d stay, and partly because we’d never had a long term rental before.
As for the other question, the old guys who prefer their mistresses should have chosen a better wife.
Participant[quote=Navydoc]This is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.[/quote]
We’re having the same experience in our new house… but I had a funny realization the other day: We rented our old house for almost eight years; the only “renovations” we did were yard improvements, a little painting, and some built-in furniture; we’ve done that much in a month in our new house…
But frankly, we could have knocked out an annoying wall, added insulation, refloored the kitchen, changed out the underpowered toilet, cut down a tree, etc, and the landlord would have been fine with it. It just never occurred to us to make an investment in our rental… partly because we weren’t sure how long we’d stay, and partly because we’d never had a long term rental before.
As for the other question, the old guys who prefer their mistresses should have chosen a better wife.
Participant[quote=Navydoc]This is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.[/quote]
We’re having the same experience in our new house… but I had a funny realization the other day: We rented our old house for almost eight years; the only “renovations” we did were yard improvements, a little painting, and some built-in furniture; we’ve done that much in a month in our new house…
But frankly, we could have knocked out an annoying wall, added insulation, refloored the kitchen, changed out the underpowered toilet, cut down a tree, etc, and the landlord would have been fine with it. It just never occurred to us to make an investment in our rental… partly because we weren’t sure how long we’d stay, and partly because we’d never had a long term rental before.
As for the other question, the old guys who prefer their mistresses should have chosen a better wife.
Participant[quote=Navydoc]This is my first holiday season in a home I own in 16 years and I can say it is absolutely better. I decorated the house without concern for nail holes, I recently finished a home gym in the basement (dywall, electicity, rubber floor and all) and am currently framing out the stage for the home theater. Wet bar is next.
Do you think I could do all this in rented housing? I’m having the time of my life doing it too.[/quote]
We’re having the same experience in our new house… but I had a funny realization the other day: We rented our old house for almost eight years; the only “renovations” we did were yard improvements, a little painting, and some built-in furniture; we’ve done that much in a month in our new house…
But frankly, we could have knocked out an annoying wall, added insulation, refloored the kitchen, changed out the underpowered toilet, cut down a tree, etc, and the landlord would have been fine with it. It just never occurred to us to make an investment in our rental… partly because we weren’t sure how long we’d stay, and partly because we’d never had a long term rental before.
As for the other question, the old guys who prefer their mistresses should have chosen a better wife.
ParticipantVery good thread, everyone. I’m saving this for when my wife wants a custom house… then again, she’ll probably want to general the project herself 🙂
ParticipantVery good thread, everyone. I’m saving this for when my wife wants a custom house… then again, she’ll probably want to general the project herself 🙂
ParticipantVery good thread, everyone. I’m saving this for when my wife wants a custom house… then again, she’ll probably want to general the project herself 🙂
ParticipantVery good thread, everyone. I’m saving this for when my wife wants a custom house… then again, she’ll probably want to general the project herself 🙂
ParticipantVery good thread, everyone. I’m saving this for when my wife wants a custom house… then again, she’ll probably want to general the project herself 🙂
ParticipantThere’s definitely a huge dichotomy between the $50-90/sqft costs you cite and what actually gets charged for rebuilds. Apparently, after last year’s fires in Santa Barbara, rebuilding cost $300/sqft. And that was true even when folks were only insured to $200/sqft.
The mortgage broker we used (who claims to own several rental properties, and probably has good contacts in the industry) told us he paid about $300, so it doesn’t seem to just have been the chumps.
ParticipantThere’s definitely a huge dichotomy between the $50-90/sqft costs you cite and what actually gets charged for rebuilds. Apparently, after last year’s fires in Santa Barbara, rebuilding cost $300/sqft. And that was true even when folks were only insured to $200/sqft.
The mortgage broker we used (who claims to own several rental properties, and probably has good contacts in the industry) told us he paid about $300, so it doesn’t seem to just have been the chumps.
ParticipantThere’s definitely a huge dichotomy between the $50-90/sqft costs you cite and what actually gets charged for rebuilds. Apparently, after last year’s fires in Santa Barbara, rebuilding cost $300/sqft. And that was true even when folks were only insured to $200/sqft.
The mortgage broker we used (who claims to own several rental properties, and probably has good contacts in the industry) told us he paid about $300, so it doesn’t seem to just have been the chumps.
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