Home Improvement
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Lanx
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Daidraco
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Heres some shit for you :
There is this Boarding house we manage thats changed hands probably half a dozen times since we picked it up. The current owners live in southern California and the property is here in Virginia. The house has 5 different tenants in what should be a single family home. Its 1950's in age and in the ghetto, worth in total about 90k. Each tenant is paying ~700 bucks, my company gets 15% and I pay the guy that works for me 10% to handle all the cash app and BS that goes along with it. ANYWAYS - the entire basement of that property has that Green Outdoor Carpet in it and people live down there.
If there is anything Ive learned from that property - those poor folks know the housing landlord - tenant rights better than fucking lawyers.
TJT
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While that is a pretty nice margin I don't think I'd want to deal with being a slumlord. A guy I know bought a 4plex in the Austin hood in like 2012 and does all that cashapp garbage personally still. Sounds like a nightmare.
I'm renting out my old house to a friend of mine who recently got divorced for $2k a month until he finds another place to buy. Dude is a pretty successful attorney but down in the dumps due to the divorce right now and just wants to chill for awhile. We'll see who I find after that.
I'm renting out my old house to a friend of mine who recently got divorced for $2k a month until he finds another place to buy. Dude is a pretty successful attorney but down in the dumps due to the divorce right now and just wants to chill for awhile. We'll see who I find after that.
BrutulTM
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I think you guys are being too dismissive of the carpeted garage idea. Imagine on your day off you could go to your car, hit a drive thru or two, and come back home without even having to put on shoes. If you work from home you barely need to own shoes at all. Luxury.
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Loser Araysar
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My next home improvement project is putting in a backyard sauna hopefully before winter. I was looking at these off the rack models, but they only go up to 160F in temp. The Russian banyas Ive been to are normally 200F+ (but come to think of it, I think they were all built with stone and tile so the wood probably cant withstand this much heat). Might just do the Finnish one that goes up to 160F, I dont know yet. The hardest part is picking a good one because its not like I can just return this thing after spending $6K and assembling it and I dont trust any of the customer reviews
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Lanx
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dude i saw the pics of your house, your backyard is practically chinese
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Loser Araysar
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ToeMissile
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Loser Araysar
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my backyard is a shit show, i wont lie. land erosion, trees, varying slope of 5-20 degrees, mostly weed grass
i think i said before i dont want to end up spending a lot of money and time on maintaining the grass so i'm happy to finish building my firepit patio and sauna first, and then figure out if i want to bother with the landscaping (I probably wont)
i think i said before i dont want to end up spending a lot of money and time on maintaining the grass so i'm happy to finish building my firepit patio and sauna first, and then figure out if i want to bother with the landscaping (I probably wont)
Daidraco
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So I just got back from the house that Im working on. Im going to flip it immediately instead of waiting out the taxes. The foreman I work with is talking about putting down in the main level a "Ceramic Wood Flooring" instead of actual wood flooring, or similar. I was thinking a waterproof Bamboo, personally. After just a couple minutes of goodling, it looks like its just tiles that are stained / pre-stained to look like wood flooring? Does anyone have any experience with this? Even if laid professionally, does it look cheap? Google just doesnt seem to give me a good idea about it. But according to this guy, he says its gorgeous.
ToeMissile
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I’ve seen it in a few bathrooms that looked really nice. I personally wouldn’t want tile throughout the majority of my home. Guess I would worry about chipping/cracking it all the time. *shrug*
My dad has porcelain tile in his house. Properly installed it's goddamn near indestructible, unless you start dropping bowling balls on it.
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House I sold last year had tile all over the place. No chips, easy to clean.
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