Given the climate here, there're so few days where AC is really a necessity that it's one thing I'd never worry too much about. Proper heating, of course, is a whole other ball of wax.
My parents did their best to kick us all out (in a very nice way!) once we turned 18
It sort of back-fired; two of my brothers have since returned (although one is only for a year) and my dad had to help subsidise my sister's apartment
My sister's apartment is gorgeous. My dad decided to open a new surgery (he's a vet) and got an excellent rent on an ex-beauty parlour. It was beautifully decorated and he only had to clean a little. The rent includes a a very spacious upstairs apartment; my sister works for my dad and pays reduced rent as a result
I was a little jealous, but then reminded myself that she still has to live in my home town
But before I sucked it up and got roommates again I was paying $1425 a month in rent for a "nice" 1 bed/1 bath here. I know people whose mortgages are lower than that.
I actually just moved. Now have I have two roommates and pay $600/month but this is probably also the shittiest place I've ever lived. One of my roommates was just telling me the company that owns the property was thinking about closing the place and tearing it down until the current manager moved in and brought a couple of tenants with her.
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Home ownership eh?
Welp, I live/own a duplex with my brother. My half (upstairs) got robbed Thursday mid-morning while the missus and I were at work. Guy kicked in the back door. My brother was downstairs at the time and hear pounding on our door but he didn't bother to go look and see who was at the door because he was busy deciding to take a shower instead. He checked our back door a little later and whoops.jpg
Stole an iMac, two 23" Cinema Displays which killed my tower when they ripped them off, stole the Wii with Rockband 3 in it, and the mic, etc, etc.
Annnnd, just found out our deductible is $2500
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But yeah, when I pay rent I just feel like I'm pissing away cash while my friends in areas with more affordable housing are building equity. I'm 26 and most of them have a house or are thinking about buying one, whereas I have no idea how I could afford anything here without getting married and having two sets of savings and incomes to pay the mortgage. It's ridiculous.
The more I think about it, the more I'd like to. But then again, I can't blame him too much for being plain ol' oblivious? He apparently thought it was our mom visiting me at 10:30am when I and my lady are always at work.
The more I think about it, the more I'd like to. But then again, I can't blame him too much for being plain ol' oblivious? He apparently thought it was our mom visiting me at 10:30am when I and my lady are always at work.
....god dammit I wanna kill him.
I had a similar thing happen to me. My folks were out shopping, when I heard the door open I figured they had just come back. When do you investigate a door opening?
Fortunately, I had two giant German Shepherds and they scared the dude off. But we bought deadbolts after that, and I've been careful ever since.
..until a dude walked into my apartment at one am because we'd neglected to lock the door behind us.
The more I think about it, the more I'd like to. But then again, I can't blame him too much for being plain ol' oblivious? He apparently thought it was our mom visiting me at 10:30am when I and my lady are always at work.
....god dammit I wanna kill him.
does your mom usually kick the door in?
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These weatherposts make me a little bit happier that I live in Las Vegas
I mean, it gets hot as hell, yes, but 0% humidity? Seems an equitable trade to me even if it means I burn my ass off (literally) sitting in my friend's car (he got leather seats [he is retarded {brackets}])
Plus there's like zero goddamn mosquitoes woot
Love spiders, snakes, flies, etc, but mosquitoes? fuck right off
I once lived in a house with a neighbour who was of the opinion that students had ruined her entire area
She campaigned against students; wrote to newspapers, walked the streets berating students (or anyone who looked like a student) and was generally unpleasant
When a guy and I had been first searching for the house we had knocked on her door by mistake, and were screamed at in return
She would complain whenever she thought we were being 'noisy'. Our house was actually really quiet - and one time she complained all that had happened was one of us had walked up the stairs
Once she came round to complain and my dad was visiting and met her at the door. She was so startled, and immediately fled
I moved out; the others remained. One night, when all five housemates were out, their back door was smashed in. Everything in the house was trashed. One of the housemates was an architecture student and he had every single last project destroyed. All of their computers were taken.
The lady next door waited until after 2 am, once the housemates had returned home to find the devastation, to go around and complain about the 'noise they had been making'
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The more I think about it, the more I'd like to. But then again, I can't blame him too much for being plain ol' oblivious? He apparently thought it was our mom visiting me at 10:30am when I and my lady are always at work.
....god dammit I wanna kill him.
does your mom usually kick the door in?
Well, that's the thing. He hears pounding on the front door, thinks it's our mom, gets in the shower, gets out, hears more shit going on above him, thinks for a bit, calls our mom and finds out she's not visiting lol, then only decides to check the back door.
I'm not too upset over the computers and other material shit, it happens. I am upset that they took my fiancés stuff. She had some jewelry of her grandmas, not expensive, but sentimental stuff that you can't replace.
And I could get mad at him, and call him on his...lack of having a clue? I guess. But what's it going to do at this point other than start a shitfest.
My grandmother had all of her heirloom jewels stolen; years later she'd still look in any jeweler's or pawnbroker's windows, just in case
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edited June 2011
I have a feeling that'll be how it goes for a while. Costume jewelry in a little copper tobacco box. Nothing of any real monetary value, but they took it because it was small and shiny. Fuckers.
I've been ready to move out since 2005, 20 years old and about to wrap up college, but from various combinations of personal unemployment, sudden large car payments (long story), parental unemployment (13 months of!! ), etc. have kept me living at home for these six years
I know it shouldn't since my reasons for not moving were legitimate, but the social stigma of living with parents at >25yrs bugs the shit out of me
Thankfully it won't be an issue much longer, since I made the last payment on my car on Friday and me and the family are gainfully employed, woot
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I'm in a really good situation with my dad, he's in construction and is always moving around depending on the job and for the next 6 months or so we're all living together on this place I just bought. I haven't lived with him for about 7 years (boarding school, then moved out on my own straight out of school) so it's really enjoyable being able to see him regularly and we get on famously, which is great. I imagine that if I spent any more than about one week every month living with him it might be a different story though.
(I only read this first page, this thread is probably about drugs, dicks, or food now)
We (I'm not using the royal we, I'm married) found a house we liked and put an offer on it. It was a four bedroom Cape Cod with two full baths and a dry, unfinished full basement on half an acre. Someone else also put an offer on it. They offered a little more, and we didn't want to offer anymore, so I guess we will start looking again.
I'm tired of renting, and so is my wife. We haven't had awful experiences, but we have rented three different places, and not really enjoyed it anywhere. This latest place is almost equidistant to our jobs, it is kind of quiet, and it is a good place for the money.
But the landlord is also a roofing contractor and something and is super into church stuff I think, so he is sort of hard to get in contact with, despite his office being in the next building over. The latest thing is I can't get the damn windows open to put an air conditioner in. They are painted shut, but I think there are also old and not meant to open. They don't have any locks or handles, and two of them started to separate when I tried opening them.
It was 105 degrees outside, but I'm not sure how humid it was.
All I know is that it was easy to take, until I got into my car.
*Humidity was 80% today.
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I guess this applies? Our grandparents are living with us now.
Which is difficult when I need to stay up to do work, because our office doubles as the guest bedroom. And my fatigue has become problematic, so I get home, and feel to exhausted to do anything but sleep for a few hours that I could otherwise be using to work. And I got home much later today because of the stupid Finals schedule.
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Seattle has "high" humidity, but it's something about the dew point that usually keeps us from really feeling it
The first time I ever went to the south, I helped my little sister move down to louisiana (her fiancee had just gotten a job as a diver) and got my first taste of "real" humidity. The heat exchanger in the house he had rented for them wasn't working, and her name wasn't on the lease yet so the management company didn't want to talk to her.
holy FUCK that house was uncomfortable. I would never, ever live in those conditions without air conditioning.
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I love going into June with it still 50's and rainy
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It sort of back-fired; two of my brothers have since returned (although one is only for a year) and my dad had to help subsidise my sister's apartment
My sister's apartment is gorgeous. My dad decided to open a new surgery (he's a vet) and got an excellent rent on an ex-beauty parlour. It was beautifully decorated and he only had to clean a little. The rent includes a a very spacious upstairs apartment; my sister works for my dad and pays reduced rent as a result
I was a little jealous, but then reminded myself that she still has to live in my home town
It got SOOOOO hot, ohmygod. There was only one tiny window. Some days it would not cool down enough for us to be able to sleep until 2-3 am
and I actually like the heat. I had the heater on at work today.
fuck you, you live without AC in those conditions
thanks, founding fathers, for choosing a swamp. Good Job Mission Accomplished.
80 degrees
80% humidity
But before I sucked it up and got roommates again I was paying $1425 a month in rent for a "nice" 1 bed/1 bath here. I know people whose mortgages are lower than that.
I actually just moved. Now have I have two roommates and pay $600/month but this is probably also the shittiest place I've ever lived. One of my roommates was just telling me the company that owns the property was thinking about closing the place and tearing it down until the current manager moved in and brought a couple of tenants with her.
Welp, I live/own a duplex with my brother. My half (upstairs) got robbed Thursday mid-morning while the missus and I were at work. Guy kicked in the back door. My brother was downstairs at the time and hear pounding on our door but he didn't bother to go look and see who was at the door because he was busy deciding to take a shower instead. He checked our back door a little later and whoops.jpg
Stole an iMac, two 23" Cinema Displays which killed my tower when they ripped them off, stole the Wii with Rockband 3 in it, and the mic, etc, etc.
Annnnd, just found out our deductible is $2500
no it is not
it is raining
Yes, this. I'm getting by without AC here in California but I can't really conceive of living back in the South without AC. It just doesn't compute.
At my parents' house right now it is 77 degrees (25 celsius) with 78% humidity. It's 11:20 at night. Like hell I wouldn't have AC there.
did you kill your brother?
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I went to the store earlier and was hanging around longer than I needed to because it was air conditioned
I'm at 80 degrees and 72% humidity at 12:21 am
If you go outside even now, it's immediate swamp ass.
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The more I think about it, the more I'd like to. But then again, I can't blame him too much for being plain ol' oblivious? He apparently thought it was our mom visiting me at 10:30am when I and my lady are always at work.
....god dammit I wanna kill him.
That's at night. It'll get to around 40 tomorrow.
I had a similar thing happen to me. My folks were out shopping, when I heard the door open I figured they had just come back. When do you investigate a door opening?
Fortunately, I had two giant German Shepherds and they scared the dude off. But we bought deadbolts after that, and I've been careful ever since.
..until a dude walked into my apartment at one am because we'd neglected to lock the door behind us.
Now I'm paranoid as hell.
does your mom usually kick the door in?
woops
I mean, it gets hot as hell, yes, but 0% humidity? Seems an equitable trade to me even if it means I burn my ass off (literally) sitting in my friend's car (he got leather seats [he is retarded {brackets}])
Plus there's like zero goddamn mosquitoes woot
Love spiders, snakes, flies, etc, but mosquitoes? fuck right off
She campaigned against students; wrote to newspapers, walked the streets berating students (or anyone who looked like a student) and was generally unpleasant
When a guy and I had been first searching for the house we had knocked on her door by mistake, and were screamed at in return
She would complain whenever she thought we were being 'noisy'. Our house was actually really quiet - and one time she complained all that had happened was one of us had walked up the stairs
Once she came round to complain and my dad was visiting and met her at the door. She was so startled, and immediately fled
I moved out; the others remained. One night, when all five housemates were out, their back door was smashed in. Everything in the house was trashed. One of the housemates was an architecture student and he had every single last project destroyed. All of their computers were taken.
The lady next door waited until after 2 am, once the housemates had returned home to find the devastation, to go around and complain about the 'noise they had been making'
students
Well, that's the thing. He hears pounding on the front door, thinks it's our mom, gets in the shower, gets out, hears more shit going on above him, thinks for a bit, calls our mom and finds out she's not visiting lol, then only decides to check the back door.
I'm not too upset over the computers and other material shit, it happens. I am upset that they took my fiancés stuff. She had some jewelry of her grandmas, not expensive, but sentimental stuff that you can't replace.
And I could get mad at him, and call him on his...lack of having a clue? I guess. But what's it going to do at this point other than start a shitfest.
My grandmother had all of her heirloom jewels stolen; years later she'd still look in any jeweler's or pawnbroker's windows, just in case
I know it shouldn't since my reasons for not moving were legitimate, but the social stigma of living with parents at >25yrs bugs the shit out of me
Thankfully it won't be an issue much longer, since I made the last payment on my car on Friday and me and the family are gainfully employed, woot
Ok.
Now what?
Satans..... hints.....
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The average number of deadly scorpions, spiders, insects, and wallabies per square meter
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We (I'm not using the royal we, I'm married) found a house we liked and put an offer on it. It was a four bedroom Cape Cod with two full baths and a dry, unfinished full basement on half an acre. Someone else also put an offer on it. They offered a little more, and we didn't want to offer anymore, so I guess we will start looking again.
I'm tired of renting, and so is my wife. We haven't had awful experiences, but we have rented three different places, and not really enjoyed it anywhere. This latest place is almost equidistant to our jobs, it is kind of quiet, and it is a good place for the money.
But the landlord is also a roofing contractor and something and is super into church stuff I think, so he is sort of hard to get in contact with, despite his office being in the next building over. The latest thing is I can't get the damn windows open to put an air conditioner in. They are painted shut, but I think there are also old and not meant to open. They don't have any locks or handles, and two of them started to separate when I tried opening them.
All I know is that it was easy to take, until I got into my car.
*Humidity was 80% today.
Which is difficult when I need to stay up to do work, because our office doubles as the guest bedroom. And my fatigue has become problematic, so I get home, and feel to exhausted to do anything but sleep for a few hours that I could otherwise be using to work. And I got home much later today because of the stupid Finals schedule.
Seattle has "high" humidity, but it's something about the dew point that usually keeps us from really feeling it
The first time I ever went to the south, I helped my little sister move down to louisiana (her fiancee had just gotten a job as a diver) and got my first taste of "real" humidity. The heat exchanger in the house he had rented for them wasn't working, and her name wasn't on the lease yet so the management company didn't want to talk to her.
holy FUCK that house was uncomfortable. I would never, ever live in those conditions without air conditioning.
Baby, to be absolutely fair, Perth is usually high-temps low-humidity in the summer and low-temps high-humidity in the winter.
That said we had a muggy 40 Celsius day with 78% humidity this past summer. THAT sucked and we had no A/C. But it was also a rare occurrence.