Home buying thread

fred sanford said:

Those must have been record breaking years. I have an ice scraper because I used to live further north. In the last 23 years in central Florida, I think I've used it 3 maybe 4 times.

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Yeah it definitely wasn't common and I only saw it on days where I had a 6AM start time. Never had to deal with later during the day. And yea, not thick ice either, thin enough that I just used a credit card to scrape it off. Was just a student in a $400 car, I didn't own an actual scraper

fred sanford said:

Those must have been record breaking years. I have an ice scraper because I used to live further north. In the last 23 years in central Florida, I think I've used it 3 maybe 4 times.

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I'm in the panhandle and we don't even own an ice scraper. Granted, we park in the garage, but the cold is still pretty mild. This year I think we had one cold week, and it was like 2 days below freezing, and the rest upper 30's.

Before we moved here, I told my wife that the average temperature was about the same here as where we were in the Mojave desert. The difference is the desert has huge swings of 110's in the summer, and teens and 20's in the winter (also, side note, that whole adage about nights being cold in the desert is retarded; if it's 115 during the day, it probably won't go below 100 overnight). Whereas here top out around 90, but below freezing is pretty rare.

Yeah, the humidity sucks, but that's only really June - September. And you know where else the humidity sucks those months? Like 2/3 of North America.

Ice scraper doesn't mean much. I lost my scraper when I moved to Houston and even though I parked my car outside all through college in DFW, I never had the need to buy another one. It still drops below freezing for a week or two a year in North Texas, and I've even seen a half a foot of snow in DFW, when I was visiting from Austin (a once in 10 to 20 year storm).

Holy shit, we did it!

Fuck realtors.

This should be the biggest news of the month.

How does this actually stop them from charging a 6% commission still though?

Palum said:

How does this actually stop them from charging a 6% commission still though?

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Well, they weren't charging a 6% commission. They were forcing sellers to include commissions for both agents to even have their home listed on MLS sites as I understand it. This also led to situations where unscrupulous buyer and seller agents would act in concert to maximize commissions and push higher prices onto buyers.

That article is terribly written and acts as if sellers were the ones being held hostage when it was basically the opposite.

Khane said:

Well, they weren't charging a 6% commission. They were forcing sellers to include commissions for both agents to even have their home listed on MLS sites as I understand it. This also led to situations where unscrupulous buyer and seller agents would act in concert to maximize commissions and push higher prices onto buyers.

That article is terribly written and acts as if sellers were the ones being held hostage when it was basically the opposite.

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So this is basically just a cut it out suit, so doesn't really change anything yet, just hypothetically people could try to compete on rates if they decide to?

Different wording maybe more clear Palum

Says all this money for homeowners, I imagine it's the typical got raped for 6% on half million, here's a $12 check

Palum said:

So this is basically just a cut it out suit, so doesn't really change anything yet, just hypothetically people could try to compete on rates if they decide to?

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Very much a "we'll see" in my opinion

Sludig said:

Real estate lawsuit settlement upends decadeslong policies that helped set agent commissions

The National Association of Realtors will also change its rules over commissions and the MLS platforms.

apnews.com

Different wording maybe more clear Palum

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Eh I guess we'll see how long it takes for the dam to break.

I'd much rather pay normal rates for actual services rather than bullshit money for retards.

I suppose best case, there will be fewer, better, high volume agents.

That second article explains it much better

tldr
dude buy house
6 weeks later gets letter from propane company, saying they have agreement with builder, have to use them
dude's contact doesn't saying anything about it.
propane company hasn't sent him any paperwork, but did offer to sell the tank to him for $4k

Goatface said:

Cape man learns he doesn’t own tank fueling heating, cooking of new home

Bob Angelini is about to be out in the cold, literally. He's nearly out of propane -- the fuel used to heat and cook at his newly-built Cape Cod house -- but says he can't get anyone to refill the propane tank. That's due to a heated dispute about who owns it.

www.wcvb.com

tldr
dude buy house
6 weeks later gets letter from propane company, saying they have agreement with builder, have to use them
dude's contact doesn't saying anything about it.
propane company hasn't sent him any paperwork, but did offer to sell the tank to him for $4k

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Kind of retarded to not go after the builder or use title insurance? I think it's hard to argue someone else's leased chattel buried in and required for use of the property by the owner should be disclosed as encumbering the property.

Palum said:

Kind of retarded to not go after the builder or use title insurance? I think it's hard to argue someone else's leased chattel buried in and required for use of the property by the owner should be disclosed as encumbering the property.

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he is suing in small claims court over the $4k value of the tank. if they show him the contract with the builder, guess he could then sue them then.

Must be new to yall, many folks tanks here at least are leased not owned. Depending on the size, 4k isn't even that bad if he wants to own, but the tone to pay it self off over renting often means you're better renting so it's their problem if there's an issue.

Granted the tank service company should have been disclosed for sure yes.
From the article sounds like he handled it like a retard. Just use that company, usually the rent is very cheap and only an issue if they are charging grossly more per gallon than anyone else. Fucking click bait title

Sludig said:

Must be new to yall, many folks tanks here at least are leased not owned. Depending on the size, 4k isn't even that bad if he wants to own, but the tone to pay it self off over renting often means you're better renting so it's their problem if there's an issue.

Granted the tank service company should have been disclosed for sure yes.
From the article sounds like he handled it like a retard. Just use that company, usually the rent is very cheap and only an issue if they are charging grossly more per gallon than anyone else. Fucking click bait title

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I live in the same state as that guy and the tank thing here is frustrating, we ended up just going with our tank guy cause the rent is basically nothing but I called the propane company many times and they were never able to even produce a contract from the previous owner so I knew what my obligation was. I wasn’t even contesting it just asking that hey send me the contract in force so I have it for my records and they couldn’t do it.

didn't know you can rent below ground tanks. checked the places near me biggest they rent is 500g above ground.

Goatface said:

didn't know you can rent below ground tanks. checked the places near me biggest they rent is 500g above ground.

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Yea it's not uncommon. Though it's a lot less of a problem if it's above ground because they can just take it away and you can switch companies.