[audio-pals] Re: Update
- From: "Julie Dawson" <julie.magnolia@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 19:37:52 -0900
I used to live in New Mexico and the adobe houses are lovely and sturdy
structures.
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From: Thomas McMahan
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Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:03 PM
Subject: [audio-pals] Re: Update
There are a lot of them in New Mexico if you would like to move to that
neighborhood, all it would be a long commute to go visit your current friends
and family. But it’s an option.
On Mar 11, 2015, at 6:48 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe there is a house similar to an adobe over near where my parents
live.
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Well you could, but it wouldn’t be a frame as you know it in that area.
How about an adobe? Although I don’t think that’s going to work well in
Tennessee, but hey if you wanna try it *lol*.
On Mar 11, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Too bad the entire thing frame and all couldn’t be built out of brick
*LOL*.
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Okay well that gives you an advantage then, but Tennessee definitely
produces a lot of termites, fortunately though building with brick is much more
reasonable down there.
Yep take your time, because you could actually then find what you
actually want in the process.
On Mar 11, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am fairly sure it was vinyl siding, possibly some brick, but I think
it was mostly vinyl if not all vinyl. The other house is gone as of noon today.
We were given an opportunity to make an offer, but we decided it was not the
one right now. If for some reason the offer falls through that they had then we
may reconsider, but not interested in having to rush into the decision.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:20 PM
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Yep, I have a funny feeling about that house. Termites or carpenter
ants. What is the wood on the outside? Our’s is cedar shakes, because they do
repell termites to a degree. We’ve had two years when they swormed outside,
but so far didn’t take to being here.
You guys can buy the other place and do that kitchen in red, no problem
and apparently save money too.
On Mar 11, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, the second house did not have a basement, but it did have a 2
foot crawl space so enough room to get in there and work if need be. Talking
about the one with a low foundation, I told her that we are going to be the
ones living in the house and she is going to go on about her day selling
houses. So, when the floor joints rot out or we get a termite problem due to
water problems under the house then we are going to be the ones with a rotted
out floor and she is going to be just fine selling her houses. The conversation
that I had with her pretty much just laid it out. When we walked in with my
parents on the second showing the only remark she made was I would buy this
house … guess why she said… wait for it… are you ready… ok. She said she would
buy this house she was insisting on us buying because it had a red kitchen.
However, my dad said that at one time it had seal heat because above every
light switch there is a splot of paint. The areas where they needed to patch
the walls they threw some mud on the wall and painted it. Um. I think they
should have probably sanded down that before painting it. Then finally, for
some reason or another they put baseboard up all the way around the ceiling. My
dad is the one that pointed that out, he said for another $20 each piece they
could have put up the real stuff. So, all though the sunroom was nice, I need
more than a climate controlled sunroom to live in.
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Foundations are the most common problem you will find. Why, because
they are expensive to replace. Not only the foundation itself, but any damage
that occurs while lifting a house or setting it back down on new foundation.
The first house that was low, if the land around it is geared to
drain water away, then that is less of a problem for flooding. The solid mud
yards though are a clue that it may not be done so well in that regard. But
yes grass doesn’t grow well in shaded yards, thus rocks gravel and sand become
your friends.
Now as for the second house I will bring in another consideration, n
basement, and no attic, means either your piping and wiring are all surface, or
are going to be very difficult to work on should there be a problem. I know
about this because we live in a house with no basement. We do have attic, a
small one, and that is how they pass warring through to upstairs, but a lot of
stuff is surface mount in here. If you can deal with that, and know it’s that
way some things can be a lot easier to work on, but if the wiring is all in the
wall and you add to the house, it’s going to be interesting.
House with no basement can equal cold floors in winter time too,
might want to think about baseboard heaters in winter time, or at least some
cheap space heaters. Granted yor temperatures aren’t as cold as where I live,
but I also suspect you and Amanda go barefooted more than i do since we have
animals and I don’t like to ever step in surprises. Now Pat would go
barefooted 24 7 365 days of the year if I would let her.
She may have been pushing the first house simply because it’s a
higher price? The bigger the ticket the more she gets too. Gotta consider
that interest. But I also think that’s why so many deals fall through too.
We’ve paid for our home now, it was a 15 year loan, so non
conventional. We have a lot of little jobs to do on it, then once done maybe
we’ll seriously consider moving to a different place. Years ago Patti said she
would prefer a ranch style house. But the one that was affordable to us was
incredibly small and had serious foundation problems, and a friend of mine said
the furnaced needed to be replace yesterday. Well we replaced the one in here
too, but we did that because we wanted central air conditioning. This place
was more than 3000 cheaper and has a lot larger rooms and more rooms of course
since there’s an upstairs, so a lot more bang for the buck.
But yes some time down the line we may consider moving, there would
be advantages to a ranch style house. As long as there’s a way to pass wiring
along, whether basement attic or crawl space. That is what concerns me about
the second place you’re looking at
Keep looking if you have to, you can always do that. It’s a place
you’re going to be living in, you are going to have to be satisfied with it.
Our first place is a fixer upper, it still needs a good bit of fixing up too,
but I am planning on getting more of that done this year hopefully. We
definitely have a list of projects to do.
On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I put it at the bottom of the introduction to Neesie, but her
in the last week we have been inches away from placing an offer on two
different houses. The first one my dad kind of steered us away from it because
the foundation was almost on the ground this house sat so low to the ground.
Most houses have at least a 2 ft. clearance around here and this one my dad
could not have even gotten under the house on his stomach. So, that put the
vents that are under the house close to the ground as well, when it rains the
likelihood of it going into the vents is high and we do not want water under
the house. It seemed like a beautiful home though otherwise. The part I liked
most about it was the log cabin style sun room that was on the back of the
house. In addition to the low foundation it also had so many trees in the yard
that it prevented any grass from growing where the ground was clear in the
backyard. So, both times we went outside we brought mud back in with us. I
still to this day would love to have been able to in good conscience put an
offer on the house. However, the headaches that are likely to occur with this
home are not worth it. I know this will be a shocker to hear, but my real
estate agent and I exchanged words over this house *LOL*. She was being pretty
insistent on us buying this house, she said we are makinga mistake. She kept
saying we are making a mistake. I told her well then I guess we are making a
mistake. She said I have shown you all 20 houses and this one you all loved. I
felt like telling her that this is a clear example of why love at first sight
is not lasting *LOL*. However, I did not. What I did tell her since she wanted
to throw up the fact that she has shown us 20 houses was yes she has shown us
20 houses, but I cannot figure out why out of 20 houses she has shown us we
have only been excited about and ready to put an offer on 1. I told her out of
all the houses in Knoxville I cannot imagine that the house she is insisting
that we buy is the only one that we will like in Knoxville. The next time we
saw her she was more on the ball than she had been being. In fact always in the
pat she has said about any questions we have I will find out for you when I get
back to the office. However, last night she made calls and got answers for us
before we left. She was a lot more sociable last night as well. I think she
knows that she was very close to losing out on some money and even mor
concerned about the bad advertisement it could cause for her. I ended the phone
call with her by telling her that I understand that she is getting tired, but
she knows our criteria and we are going to continue looking. The house last
night was almost 20,000 less than the house that she was pushing on us. We
loved a lot about the house. However, Amanda and I did not feel like this one
was the one. One of the major things that concerned me was the fact there was
no attic and there was no basement. The layout was nice though. It had a huge
deck and French doors that opened up onto it from the master. It also had
French doors that opened up from the dining room onto the deck. However, there
was cracks all throughout the house and our real estate agent told me today
before we decided to place an offer on the house that she noticed a crack on
the foundation in a few different places. My dad said that could be remedied,
but I do not know how much of a headache that is going to be. So, foundational
problems kocked it out of the considerations. It wassitting on flat land right
across the street from the elementary school so that was really nice. If the
offer that has been placed on it falls through then we may go back and consider
it later once we have some time to think about it. So, that is where we are in
the house buying journey. It seems as though everyone wants a rancher because
we have had several that we have set up to go and look at only to have the
agent call us back and tell us that it has sold or pending sell.
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