I swear a typed a post about invisible dog fences in here...
... Where did I put that post?
I don't want to ruin the magic for you, but those are just a stiff lead attached to an empty collar. You don't need a fence, you can just keep it in the closet.
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Gabriel_Pitt(effective against Russian warships)Registered Userregular
I'm pretty sure he was talking about a dog FENCE which is invisible, not a fence for invisible dogs. I mean, you can use any fence for that. The yard behind it will look the same either way.
ugh boston
People post sublet opportunities on the university marketplace sometimes. Studio apartment with a kitchenette the size of my ass: $2500+
so dispiriting.
Tearing up the bathroom floor. It is coming up like loose dirt. The cheap assholes used particleboard instead of plywood. Wax seal around the toilet wasn't installed right, completely obliterated.
One bit of good news though, there's a wood subfloor between the floor and the joists.
Just got back from Home Depot with plywood, fake marble tile, and the necessary flange/seal. $160 bucks. One of the coolest things about homeownership, if you're willing to do things yourself, is that you realize there's nothing magical about a house. It's all just wood, metal, and stone.
And one of the best parts is if you're willing to put a little elbow grease into things, it's actually fairly inexpensive to renovate and repair things. This is why I don't get landlords, sure, maybe it only costs you 50% to half ass and band aid things, but if you have to repair it ever 2-3 years.. maybe it'd be cheaper just to tear it out and fix shit.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Laid out the tile to give my wife an idea what it'll look like. For reference, my adjacent bathroom, which I probably will do eventually but not this month, has the same ugly yellowish linoleum I'm replacing here.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Yeah supposedly it's a problem with this model that the standby stuff burns out.. but I don't really want to fuck around with it either because I hate working soldering irons.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Whelp. Initially seeing those cats on our front stoop camera was cute. Now it's starting to become a bit of a worry, because there's a female who seems to be in heat, and some males looking for her after she rubbed her scent all over our stoop. I feel like it shouldn't be a hassle to borrow some traps for TNR, but apparently I have to be a "certified colony manager" for that which means a two hour class or something when I'd rather be sleeping. Ugh.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
We found a little family of kittens living under our very small front porch. Just left them alone and now they pop up in my back yard once in awhile.
There's a stray that wanders the entire neighborhood but everytime it's cold I can hear it crying on our porch. Pretty sure it'd run if I tried to get close enough to give it food though, and Lando would flip the fuck out if I brought in a cat
I have a feral cat problem in my neighborhood it's a leftover problem from 2009 when the area I live in was abannoned
My neighbor feeds them even though the city passively aggressively asks her not to because of the skunk and coyote problems.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
So I'm through the home inspection portion of buying a house and that is some scary stuff. I wasn't able to go on it, but my wife did, and she said they all agreed for a 70 year old house it's "pretty good".
The problem in my paranoid mind is it's a flip, so the inspector said it's very hard to tell if anything is damaged because it's all new. New flooring, new paint, ect. I called for homeowners insurance, to get the ball rolling, and they told me in 2015 they had a claim for water damage, and I flipped the fuck out and called the inspector and asked if he has any idea what it was. He said none - and that he did moisture checks all over and the house is totally dry. That, combined with the fact we found a sump pump (which, prior to this experience, sump pump was code for "oh god my basement floods constantly" where I grew up), I was ready to just bail. I don't know why but it really freaked me out.
My realtor talked me down when I called and demanded the current owners (who have owned the house for 8 months, just flipping it) find out what this water damage claim was. They have no idea, obviously, and they've updated and renovated most of the house, and we've had rain and snow in 8 months and everything is fine. So it's a problem they took care of.
So we submitted our pretty reasonable list of fixes and now we wait. Appraisal is on Friday from the mortgage company guy, and if that comes through I think we're in the clear? I'm nervous about it because this neighborhood is all over the place in pricing, and our price is at the upper end of it, but I'm really trying to stay calm.
The best news was when I was looking at the inspection and I said "Now on the contract it says there's a garbage disposal and an ice machine in the house, but the inspector didn't see those things."
and my realtor said "Congrats, the sellers are apparently buying you a garbage disposal and an ice machine then."
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That's better than the alternative which is I thought I made the post but didn't.
I don't want to ruin the magic for you, but those are just a stiff lead attached to an empty collar. You don't need a fence, you can just keep it in the closet.
People post sublet opportunities on the university marketplace sometimes. Studio apartment with a kitchenette the size of my ass: $2500+
so dispiriting.
One bit of good news though, there's a wood subfloor between the floor and the joists.
No idea what's going on here. Is that warped PVC pipe? Was the last guy to work on this just hoping the wax ring would fill any gaps or something?
but yeah looks like a cardboard tube doesn't it
Laid out the tile to give my wife an idea what it'll look like. For reference, my adjacent bathroom, which I probably will do eventually but not this month, has the same ugly yellowish linoleum I'm replacing here.
Time to bust out the multimeter and soldering iron!
My neighbor feeds them even though the city passively aggressively asks her not to because of the skunk and coyote problems.
I think they're wild now. We found a half eaten rabbit in our yard in the fall.
Did I say I didn't eat it?
But it's such a small bathroom, I'll have to trim pretty much every edge tile.
The problem in my paranoid mind is it's a flip, so the inspector said it's very hard to tell if anything is damaged because it's all new. New flooring, new paint, ect. I called for homeowners insurance, to get the ball rolling, and they told me in 2015 they had a claim for water damage, and I flipped the fuck out and called the inspector and asked if he has any idea what it was. He said none - and that he did moisture checks all over and the house is totally dry. That, combined with the fact we found a sump pump (which, prior to this experience, sump pump was code for "oh god my basement floods constantly" where I grew up), I was ready to just bail. I don't know why but it really freaked me out.
My realtor talked me down when I called and demanded the current owners (who have owned the house for 8 months, just flipping it) find out what this water damage claim was. They have no idea, obviously, and they've updated and renovated most of the house, and we've had rain and snow in 8 months and everything is fine. So it's a problem they took care of.
So we submitted our pretty reasonable list of fixes and now we wait. Appraisal is on Friday from the mortgage company guy, and if that comes through I think we're in the clear? I'm nervous about it because this neighborhood is all over the place in pricing, and our price is at the upper end of it, but I'm really trying to stay calm.
The best news was when I was looking at the inspection and I said "Now on the contract it says there's a garbage disposal and an ice machine in the house, but the inspector didn't see those things."
and my realtor said "Congrats, the sellers are apparently buying you a garbage disposal and an ice machine then."
Strong disagree.
Renting blows goats.
Sure, now we owe the bank ~$380k, but at least we're not paying off someone else's mortgage.
Going through the process of finding a house, making offers, doing inspections, getting a loan... That part blows ass.