That picture puts something into perspective for me: GFs parents completely remodeled the house 7 years ago before they started renting it, so once we get past the immediate repairs, it should be really nice. Like, all the walls are solid, the floors are level, the layout is good...
Does anyone know what this is? There are two of them hanging in the stairs to the basement. They're full of liquid and there are yellow... beads? at the top.
Does anyone know what this is? There are two of them hanging in the stairs to the basement. They're full of liquid and there are yellow... beads? at the top.
Thank you! They look like a commercial product so I figured it was something like that. If they absorb moisture these ones look pretty well depleted, so I guess I can get rid of them.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Does anyone know what this is? There are two of them hanging in the stairs to the basement. They're full of liquid and there are yellow... beads? at the top.
They soak up moisture in the house.
Interesting, I have never heard of this stuff before. I presume this is what they look like when not depleted? The product photo is really confusing since it makes it look like they come with water, but the video makes it clear the water comes after the dehumidification happens..
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Does anyone know what this is? There are two of them hanging in the stairs to the basement. They're full of liquid and there are yellow... beads? at the top.
They soak up moisture in the house.
Interesting, I have never heard of this stuff before. I presume this is what they look like when not depleted? The product photo is really confusing since it makes it look like they come with water, but the video makes it clear the water comes after the dehumidification happens..
That one is fully used up. The top half generally has small balls that capture moisture and dissolve. Once they dissolve the water runs into the lower half of the bag.
They are great for small areas which aren’t covered by dehumidifiers, or places that see infrequent humidity.
MichaelLCIn what furnace was thy brain?ChicagoRegistered Userregular
We have DampRid tubs scattered around.
Same idea; chemical pellets in the top of the tub over holes, water collects in the bottom. You're supposed to be able to reuse tub and just add more pellets but they get too clumpy and gross.
It took a year of being in the house, but last month we finally found and ordered a dining room table. It and the bench will be here next month and then we wait until September for the chairs to show up.
They want 300k for a house they paid 100k for FOUR MONTHS AGO. Fuck whoever owns this place. It's not even in a good neighborhood.
Look at that sterile, lifeless interior. This is an investment company, guaranteed.
The lack of a fridge lends a lot of credence to that idea. There was a recent report of some programmer who came up with an AI buying program to grab undervalued homes for investment firms to flip so that's not great.
They want 300k for a house they paid 100k for FOUR MONTHS AGO. Fuck whoever owns this place. It's not even in a good neighborhood.
Look at that sterile, lifeless interior. This is an investment company, guaranteed.
The lack of a fridge lends a lot of credence to that idea. There was a recent report of some programmer who came up with an AI buying program to grab undervalued homes for investment firms to flip so that's not great.
Which is hilarious because that's basically exactly the same rake Zillow stepped on last year, wonder why they think they can do better.
We have reached the nadir of bathroom reno, wherein I have no shower access tonight. It's all uphill from here!
We were 3 days without our shower when we did ours. Between the installation and letting the sealant cure, along with the new drywall and mud. We showered at our friends those 3 days.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Last time I had a bathroom renovated we bathed in a large plastic tote on the kitchen floor and dumped the water in the flower bed.
Baffling that people could be young and broke and dumb enough to decide that's the best solution and still have enough ready cash to renovate a bathroom, but I guess we just hit that sliver of the Venn diagram at the wrong time.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
...listen, as someone in his mid 30s who just bathed in a large plastic tote in the kitchen I am feeling very attacked right now
The solution is obvious. No bathing until you finish.
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My MiL is making us move. We had an agreement to buy the house by July 2022 for the remaining balance on the mortgage. We’ve been paying the mortgage for 6 years but since we had to file for bankruptcy and it isn’t 2 years until October she won’t give us more time.
Because the house is now worth about 200k more than what’s owed on it she wants her money.
Are we going to get back any of the money we paid into the mortgage for 6 years? Nope.
I’m so pissed off about it. I’m happy in this house and I don’t want to move and make my kids move but she’s so fucking greedy she doesn’t care.
Her biggest excuse she keeps using is that she’s “retired”
She’s not fucking retired! She can’t work as a nurse anymore because somehow through all of her schooling she never learned that a vaccine can’t “change your DNA”
So unless some miracle comes along and $170,000 falls into our lap I’m going to have to find an apartment and probably lose my animals and cram all of us into a small ass space for a year directly because of someone who is SUPPOSED to be family.
I’m so very tired
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
...listen, as someone in his mid 30s who just bathed in a large plastic tote in the kitchen I am feeling very attacked right now
I, uh. Well, the important thing is smoke bomb
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I really didn't have the energy to drive somewhere else, it's way too cold to bathe with the garden hose, and the shower should be be at least usable tomorrow.
This is how I justify my lifestyle.
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My MiL is making us move. We had an agreement to buy the house by July 2022 for the remaining balance on the mortgage. We’ve been paying the mortgage for 6 years but since we had to file for bankruptcy and it isn’t 2 years until October she won’t give us more time.
Because the house is now worth about 200k more than what’s owed on it she wants her money.
Are we going to get back any of the money we paid into the mortgage for 6 years? Nope.
I’m so pissed off about it. I’m happy in this house and I don’t want to move and make my kids move but she’s so fucking greedy she doesn’t care.
Her biggest excuse she keeps using is that she’s “retired”
She’s not fucking retired! She can’t work as a nurse anymore because somehow through all of her schooling she never learned that a vaccine can’t “change your DNA”
So unless some miracle comes along and $170,000 falls into our lap I’m going to have to find an apartment and probably lose my animals and cram all of us into a small ass space for a year directly because of someone who is SUPPOSED to be family.
I’m so very tired
It's uh, super fucked up that she's doing this to her own kid.
Like does she just not want to have any relationship with your partner and kids ever again or what because that's the inevitable, immediate result of something like this.
My MiL is making us move. We had an agreement to buy the house by July 2022 for the remaining balance on the mortgage. We’ve been paying the mortgage for 6 years but since we had to file for bankruptcy and it isn’t 2 years until October she won’t give us more time.
Because the house is now worth about 200k more than what’s owed on it she wants her money.
Are we going to get back any of the money we paid into the mortgage for 6 years? Nope.
I’m so pissed off about it. I’m happy in this house and I don’t want to move and make my kids move but she’s so fucking greedy she doesn’t care.
Her biggest excuse she keeps using is that she’s “retired”
She’s not fucking retired! She can’t work as a nurse anymore because somehow through all of her schooling she never learned that a vaccine can’t “change your DNA”
So unless some miracle comes along and $170,000 falls into our lap I’m going to have to find an apartment and probably lose my animals and cram all of us into a small ass space for a year directly because of someone who is SUPPOSED to be family.
I’m so very tired
It's uh, super fucked up that she's doing this to her own kid.
Like does she just not want to have any relationship with your partner and kids ever again or what because that's the inevitable, immediate result of something like this.
Beyond super fucked up. If she wants to sell the house for a profit, surev she owns it, but she owes you every dime you put into the mortgage and the house.
The only productive ideas i can offer are if you can get her to go to a mediation or group counseling or something with a neutral 3rd party.... I dunno if there's any legal recourse.
3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Oh if she continues in this I would absolutely contact some local real estate attorneys and see if there's an argument to be made for having equity in the house.
You were living there and paying the mortgage? Was it being framed as rent, or was it framed as a long term purchasing of the house from her?
Verbal contracts are enforceable under the law, the question is how well can you actually prove it existed. And legal proceedings would definitely tank the relationship, though it might be completely tanked already.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
That bridge feels thoroughly burned.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Yeah, if she wants to burn that bridge, you might as well throw some gasoline on it by consulting an attorney. Even a verbal contract could carry some weight, especially if you have proof you’ve been paying the mortgage for 6 years.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
We have reached the nadir of bathroom reno, wherein I have no shower access tonight. It's all uphill from here!
We were 3 days without our shower when we did ours. Between the installation and letting the sealant cure, along with the new drywall and mud. We showered at our friends those 3 days.
We wound up without a shower for five weeks during recent work when we weren't expecting _any_ loss of bathroom -- to cut a long story short, we started off thinking we were going to get some ceiling texturing redone upstairs, made a number of "interesting" discoveries about our house, and wound up with:
On the other hand, once everything was done, we finally got around to replacing the bathroom lights, which now look significantly nicer than before:
and when they're on (which is less rainbow-y but more illuminating):
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Does anyone know what this is? There are two of them hanging in the stairs to the basement. They're full of liquid and there are yellow... beads? at the top.
They soak up moisture in the house.
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Interesting, I have never heard of this stuff before. I presume this is what they look like when not depleted? The product photo is really confusing since it makes it look like they come with water, but the video makes it clear the water comes after the dehumidification happens..
That one is fully used up. The top half generally has small balls that capture moisture and dissolve. Once they dissolve the water runs into the lower half of the bag.
They are great for small areas which aren’t covered by dehumidifiers, or places that see infrequent humidity.
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Same idea; chemical pellets in the top of the tub over holes, water collects in the bottom. You're supposed to be able to reuse tub and just add more pellets but they get too clumpy and gross.
It's not a great time to be getting furniture.
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They want 300k for a house they paid 100k for FOUR MONTHS AGO. Fuck whoever owns this place. It's not even in a good neighborhood.
Look at that sterile, lifeless interior. This is an investment company, guaranteed.
The lack of a fridge lends a lot of credence to that idea. There was a recent report of some programmer who came up with an AI buying program to grab undervalued homes for investment firms to flip so that's not great.
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Which is hilarious because that's basically exactly the same rake Zillow stepped on last year, wonder why they think they can do better.
Oh right, it's this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/uwuplq/what_do_you_mean_you_have_seen_it_before_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
hmm, I guess I can't embed that? I forget, are reddit links forbidden?
“ Amazing renovation with all the character of a 1901 home and the convenience of modern living!”
ABSOLUTE LIES
Absolute. Lies.
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We were 3 days without our shower when we did ours. Between the installation and letting the sealant cure, along with the new drywall and mud. We showered at our friends those 3 days.
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Baffling that people could be young and broke and dumb enough to decide that's the best solution and still have enough ready cash to renovate a bathroom, but I guess we just hit that sliver of the Venn diagram at the wrong time.
Because the house is now worth about 200k more than what’s owed on it she wants her money.
Are we going to get back any of the money we paid into the mortgage for 6 years? Nope.
I’m so pissed off about it. I’m happy in this house and I don’t want to move and make my kids move but she’s so fucking greedy she doesn’t care.
Her biggest excuse she keeps using is that she’s “retired”
She’s not fucking retired! She can’t work as a nurse anymore because somehow through all of her schooling she never learned that a vaccine can’t “change your DNA”
So unless some miracle comes along and $170,000 falls into our lap I’m going to have to find an apartment and probably lose my animals and cram all of us into a small ass space for a year directly because of someone who is SUPPOSED to be family.
I’m so very tired
I, uh. Well, the important thing is smoke bomb
This is how I justify my lifestyle.
It's a great motivator for sure.
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It's uh, super fucked up that she's doing this to her own kid.
Like does she just not want to have any relationship with your partner and kids ever again or what because that's the inevitable, immediate result of something like this.
Beyond super fucked up. If she wants to sell the house for a profit, surev she owns it, but she owes you every dime you put into the mortgage and the house.
The only productive ideas i can offer are if you can get her to go to a mediation or group counseling or something with a neutral 3rd party.... I dunno if there's any legal recourse.
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Verbal contracts are enforceable under the law, the question is how well can you actually prove it existed. And legal proceedings would definitely tank the relationship, though it might be completely tanked already.
Yeah, it sounds like it’s been burned and then the ashes salted.
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We wound up without a shower for five weeks during recent work when we weren't expecting _any_ loss of bathroom -- to cut a long story short, we started off thinking we were going to get some ceiling texturing redone upstairs, made a number of "interesting" discoveries about our house, and wound up with:
On the other hand, once everything was done, we finally got around to replacing the bathroom lights, which now look significantly nicer than before:
and when they're on (which is less rainbow-y but more illuminating):
Then I saw… well… all the interior photos. Wow.
Shitty fake HDR photography sure don't help though
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