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A while ago, many moons, shit almost two years I mentioned the lady and I were looking at houses though I must admit that was just a tad bit optimistic. This weekend though, in what is becoming an increasingly alarming pattern of adult behavior, we scheduled a showing of a house that we had seen online.
Maybe Costco (I love Costco), then the farmers market, I dunno if we'll have time. Pretty nice little Saturday. This is my personal variation.
More than anything we did this to just get some experience looking through a house, and seeing what kind of pressure if any the Realtor would put on us. we're probably 6 months at least from looking for any kind of financing and in the event that we were that serious I would likely bring my Brother's Father in Law who is about five times as handy as the men in my family.
Now I've rented for just shy of ten years, and going from apartment to apartment or committing to a shitty apartment for a year is not the worst thing I can fathom. I've had poor water pressure, a kitchen where we needed an extension cord to plug in an oven, basements that leatherface would have been nervous to enter, but the end was always in sight. You can always tell a landlord where to stick it at the end of the lease.
What dawned on me while walking around this crappy house was that this experience was like buying a mattress but about 150 times more expensive depending on the mattress and house in question.
Well we've spent five minutes looking at this house, want to write the largest check we've written now or later hun?
The other thing that had been mentioned to me that I experienced first hand this weekend was the brilliance of photoshop and and Zillow listings. Were I sincerely interested and ready to buy, that may have made me upset, but what I learned instead is that what is most important is what isn't pictured.
* Shot with wide angle lens **Not in picture chalk outline of body/blood stains ***Actually Carpeted **** Barely the house you're looking at.
In the case of the house we were looking at initially, though we wound up looking at another one in the area that was much better kept up, it was Saint Paul quirky. For the rest of you, a lot of homes in Saint Paul MN were built between 1904 and 1930; think captains of industry, the roaring twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald, but then think 1.5 story bungalow style homes because we can afford none of those other homes.
Saint Paul Quirky describes a house that a hipster may describe should the neighborhood become chic as having "good bones," but until that time is a house that at one point and time had good wood work that had been painted, its hardwood floors covered with carpet that is older than me, and its kitchen re-done in the early nineties at some point and time. with these changes come other updates that make no sense.
Shittly updated bathrooms, or in the case of the house we looked at converting already limited storage space into bathrooms. I wish I were kidding, there was one right off of a breakfast area. "S'cuse me hun, this coffee got to me sooner than I thought, so if I could just get past you to the kitchen toilet..."
A man can dream.
For the time being its back to Zillow and local Realtors' sites to see what comes onto the market, or we may well just stay in the condo and keep saving for a while longer. The wife to be and I are all about waiting for the right house and hopefully getting that house before we get married, or at least that is what I would like. No need to pull the trigger too soon on these things. Until then, it is back to my Monday with dreams of kitchen toilets.
Thanks for the read TL.
 
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Hilarious as usual Tomas. Best of luck
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not a bad starter home... when u move up in the world and get a much larger kitchen you could probably afford 2 toilets in teh food prep area.
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Love these. Helps keep me connected to St. Paul.
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On March 08 2016 02:54 Titusmaster6 wrote:
Hilarious as usual Tomas. Best of luck
Ty suh.
On March 08 2016 04:23 Pandemona wrote:Lol that kitchen toilet xD casual shit whilst waiting for your pizza pocket hype!! Also yeah i think you are defeinelty doing it the right way here, you have to make sure this house is something you 100% like and want or you will regret it. The money you have to lay out and the time you take to pay it off  Looking forward to some picks of the house you choose though!! ps, make sure you have enough money saved for your stag do  VEEEGASSSS!!!
I got a separate account for that I've ben putting little acorns into.
On March 08 2016 05:42 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
not a bad starter home... when u move up in the world and get a much larger kitchen you could probably afford 2 toilets in teh food prep area.
Woah, woah, I'm not inviting Robin Leach over any time soon.
On March 08 2016 07:03 Cauld wrote:
Love these. Helps keep me connected to St. Paul.
Then you know exactly what I mean about St. Paul Quirky.
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Ugh, I feel you. Though not as serious I've been looking at moving out in the fall for an apartment. Finding a place that fits everyones *preferances* and financial needs is exhausting.
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On March 08 2016 07:40 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
Ugh, I feel you. Though not as serious I've been looking at moving out in the fall for an apartment. Finding a place that fits everyones *preferances* and financial needs is exhausting.
Wait until you're engaged and it goes from a roommate who strongly prefers that they be able to shit without their feet in the tub, to, "Oh I didn't like how the number of windows in the house wasn't a prime number." Not an actual example in my situation, but the list of likes and dislikes changes on a day to day basis.
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I like to eat, when I shit
when I shit I like to eat
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Tbh wide-angle shots are just depicting the reality, like any other shot. They're just doing it with a wide-angle d:
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On March 09 2016 02:05 OtherWorld wrote:
Tbh wide-angle shots are just depicting the reality, like any other shot. They're just doing it with a wide-angle d:
The reality of the blood stains in the corner?
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I just put an offer on a house where the current owner's husband died in the living room. The ghost is absolutely worth the several thousand dollar discount! Blood is temporary, money (at 6% annual interest) is forever.
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On March 09 2016 03:43 RoyGBiv_13 wrote:
I just put an offer on a house where the current owner's husband died in the living room. The ghost is absolutely worth the several thousand dollar discount! Blood is temporary, money (at 6% annual interest) is forever.
Congrats first off, and secondly did the agent or whomever sold the house tell you that voluntarily? I was under the assumption there were no legal requirements to inform a buyer of stuff like that.
My current apartment was built in 1880, I assume that someone has died there. Ghosts seem to get along pretty well with me.
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On March 08 2016 08:07 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2016 07:40 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
Ugh, I feel you. Though not as serious I've been looking at moving out in the fall for an apartment. Finding a place that fits everyones *preferances* and financial needs is exhausting. Wait until you're engaged and it goes from a roommate who strongly prefers that they be able to shit without their feet in the tub, to, "Oh I didn't like how the number of windows in the house wasn't a prime number." Not an actual example in my situation, but the list of likes and dislikes changes on a day to day basis.
I always assumed this was the case.
But the living room windows point South!!
>>Wait, what?
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On March 11 2016 11:43 Danglars wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2016 08:07 ThomasjServo wrote:On March 08 2016 07:40 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
Ugh, I feel you. Though not as serious I've been looking at moving out in the fall for an apartment. Finding a place that fits everyones *preferances* and financial needs is exhausting. Wait until you're engaged and it goes from a roommate who strongly prefers that they be able to shit without their feet in the tub, to, "Oh I didn't like how the number of windows in the house wasn't a prime number." Not an actual example in my situation, but the list of likes and dislikes changes on a day to day basis. I always assumed this was the case. But the living room windows point South!! >>Wait, what?
Oh once I started cohabitating with the lady, there were rules put down; when we started looking at properties to buy more and more kept coming out of the woodwork.
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