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    Posted: 30 July 2020 at 1:58pm
Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:


Originally posted by TheSpookyKids87 TheSpookyKids87 wrote:

Nice home, I just got a two family home myself.


What was the first thing that broke?


Radiator was leaking water within a month. Cheap fix though. Paid to remove three trees that were dead and too close to the house for comfort.
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Originally posted by TheSpookyKids87 TheSpookyKids87 wrote:

Nice home, I just got a two family home myself.

What was the first thing that broke?
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Nice home, I just got a two family home myself.
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We refinanced from a fixed 30-year at 4.38% to a fixed 20-year at 2.98%. 

Sure the economy is in meltdown because of a global viral pandemic, but what a deal!


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Wow man, thats a beautiful home. 

I know you probably dont remember me, my old tag Da Hui (amongst others), but I interviewed you once for a school paper about journalism back when you where at UCF. It's awesome seeing you doing so well now, I looked up to you back then. 
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The goddamned leak came back so I'm filing paperwork through the home warranty folks to come fix it again. 

Good thing we didn't put the drywall back up. 
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Yay on the house! Sorry to hear about your Dad, that sucks... 
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Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Hopefully your life has settled down a little,  

It comes and goes. My dad is still dying slowly, and probably only has months left. That causes some long, not-very-fun depressive episodes where I withdraw. But that's just the nature of things. 

Man, I am truly sorry. 
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Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Hopefully your life has settled down a little,  

It comes and goes. My dad is still dying slowly, and probably only has months left. That causes some long, not-very-fun depressive episodes where I withdraw. But that's just the nature of things. 
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Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

 between this and your sheetrock repair I'm starting to think your SO does all the heavy lifting.

I still do the heavy lifting, just in the more literal sense. I held the drywall square up the whole time while she did a chalk outline to make the template exact. 

It's more that she does anything that requires any sort of precision or technicality. 
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Originally posted by Mack Mack wrote:

Did you do your own plumbing when fixing them and, if so, how did that go?
 

I did not, we called a pluming company. Neither of us have any skills whatsoever at that stuff, and unlike drywall, bad plumbing will destroy a whole house. Although to be fair, I'm not so sure of the skill level of the plumbing company, because we've had to call them twice (The first time they diagnosed/fixed the wrong part) and now it's back leaking again this morning. 

I think we're going to go with a different company this time. 

Originally posted by Mack Mack wrote:

 I can't tell for sure from the picture but if that is a Silestone (quartz) countertop,

It's cheap-o laminate. The little end pieces are starting to come off too, that will need to get fixed at some point. 




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Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

Also there are two holes in the downstairs ceiling due to some unforeseen plumbing issues (A hairline split in the drain pipe coming off one of the upstairs showers was leaking and screwing up the drywall), but I have mostly hidden them via camera angle.

Did you do your own plumbing when fixing them and, if so, how did that go?  (Plumbing is my least favorite home repair . . . it seems like every project requires way to many trips for parts.)

I am the least handy person in the entire world, so my S/O is in charge of fixing them.

Don't feel bad, I am generally handy (have done plumbing-including hooking up a fridge to the water for an ice maker, electrical repair/replacement and minor structural) but can't patch or paint.  I am actually under a spousal edict to never paint anything related to the home/property again.

The (formal) living room. We mostly use it for drinking coffee and bird watching.

I like this room (we have one as well) but my wife would positively swoon over it, especially the amount and size of the windows . . . making the fainting couch a must have item.

The kitchen. I don't know how to describe the color, it's like a mix between sea-foam green and mint green, but I really dig it.

I like the color as well.  I also really like the cabinet doors which match our new pantry much better than our cabinet doors.  I can't tell for sure from the picture but if that is a Silestone (quartz) countertop, I think we have the same one.

Fun story about this fridge -- when we first looked at the house, there was no ice in the ice maker, which we just assumed was because they left it turned off. The owners had already moved out and bought another house. We moved in, turned the ice maker on, and nothing. Could not figure out what the issue was. Finally scooted the fridge away from the wall and discovered there is no water line. The previous owners bought a fridge with an automatic ice maker without the ability to use an automatic ice maker. 

If you haven't hooked it up yet, you can buy a line tap with an on/off valve from Ace (or almost any other hardware store) that really simplifies hooking it up to any cold water pipe.  (Do a search for "water line tap" if you want to see a picture.)

The fireplace is what really makes this room cozy . . .

I am suffering from fireplace envy, it was the one thing we wanted but had to forgo because of space concerns when we did our addition.

Guest bathroom, which is also the bathroom my S/O has claimed as hers because it's way bigger than the master bath: 

Two sinks in our master bath . . . apparently neither one of them is mine when spouse is present.

The other side of the master bedroom. It has his-and-hers closets, one way bigger than the other. I got the smaller one: 

That's life with a spouse/SO.  Had a similar closet set up of one small one and one about 2 1/2 times bigger in the original master bedroom and I of course got the one down the hall in a spare bedroom.



Congratulations on the cool house. 
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Dude that's so cool. Beautiful house. Congrats.

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Congratulations!  Very beautiful house Whale.
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Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

I said I'd do all the mowing and gardening if she took care of the pool


I hate cleaning pools, so between this and your sheetrock repair I'm starting to think your SO does all the heavy lifting.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Too bad she has to clean out the grass clippings when you shoot them into the pool.

Despite the fact we both have PhDs, she's way more detail oriented when it comes to learning how to do something or learning something that has a lot of very specific steps -- like pool chemistry. 
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Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

I said I'd do all the mowing and gardening if she took care of the pool


I hate cleaning pools, so between this and your sheetrock repair I'm starting to think your SO does all the heavy lifting.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Too bad she has to clean out the grass clippings when you shoot them into the pool.
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Awesome house! Hopefully your life has settled down a little, you deserve it. Smile
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Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

How much painting have you done? The paint used reminds me of a professional interior designer.

Master bedroom and guest bedroom, that's it. Everything else is as it was when we bought it -- the folks who lived here before us were realtors so I suspect they had a good eye for what works, paint-wise.  

Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Hate owning a pool yet?

When we were dividing up the labor, I said I'd do all the mowing and gardening if she took care of the pool, which so far has worked out well in my favor. I can walk in a straight line behind a mower without having to think much, she has to do chemistry all the time. 
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You have a gorgeous home. How much painting have you done? The paint used reminds me of a professional interior designer.

Hate owning a pool yet?
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