Home ownership
Maybe I missed a thread similar to this, but that's ok. I have been in my home for 10 years now, and there are some thi
If by physical media, you mean printed, sure. We call that room the fiction annex to the main library.
Weird how they have the joints all lined up in the middle. I wonder if there was a wall there at one time.
yeah must have been a cupboard or something
do you know what type of wood the boards are looks like a softwood/pine to me but hard to tell , it looks like they was stained at some stage or a poly with a tint in it.
If it was me and i was going to sand them back id do a section see what type of wood they are and try and stagger the joints around that section (depending on cost) they dont look like T&G so should be pretty straight forward
I do most jobs myself and would def be what i would plan to do.
It's tongue and groove red oak, which is very common around here, and yeah, it was stained and covered with poly or some such that is breaking down.
Sander coming on Tuesday. I am not confident enough on keeping it flat.
Just went under contract to buy my first home!
I used to sell real estate, so I know the fun with inspections, due diligence, underwriting, and appraisals is only just beginning. Up to and including everything blowing up in my face.
But for today, I’m SUPER excited!
Congratulations... awesome stuff.
as long as you aren't doing 'arts and crafts' with your application or have unseasoned purchasing power, you should be golden.
did the purchase price fall in line with the comps?
Yeah I’m getting a pretty good deal.
All the comps are 10-30k above our contract price. And it’s in a gorgeous, desirable community, so I feel like resale value will be pretty strong.
It’s also a big community, with lots of single family detached homes in addition to the townhomes. The detached homes are going for like 100-150k more.
very nice... I am happy for you and your family.
👍
Way to go TJ
Curious how home owners insurance works on a town home. For example if you get a bad hail storm, who covers the cost of repairs?
I have absolutely no idea lol
The HOA is supposed to cover “exterior maintenance,” but I guess if it materially damaged the property, I could file a homeowner’s insurance claim.
Maybe one night if I can’t sleep, I’ll read through the HOA covenants
This piece of **** limb is wedged into the ground and there are just too many variables here to cut it and run. It could take a really weird fall and somehow hit the neighbors garage.
I think I might have to grapple it maybe with a chain hoist? To make sure it doesn't go anywhere.
generally... in a town home... the association is responsible for anything between the walls, and that includes the roofing, and exterior fascia.
better get up in that attic and see if there is a common crawl space between units... that is quite common for town homes that have attic space.
This piece of **** limb is wedged into the ground and there are just too many variables here to cut it and run. It could take a really weird fall and somehow hit the neighbors garage.I think I might have to grapple it maybe with a chain hoist? To make sure it doesn't go anywhere.
Yuk! That is very reminiscent of what I had to deal with a few weeks ago as chronicled in the following quotes. Your limb looks to be several feet longer than mine was. Can you tie a rope or chain to it a few feet above ground and pull it with a tractor/4-wheeler/etc toward the bottom right of the picture? That is essentially what we did. It made a little mess of the yard but not too bad. Whatever method you land on, I hope it ends as well as mine did!
In other limb news, today I found a dead limb had fallen and gotten hung up on Xfinity's cable between the utility pole and my house. With thunderstorms in the forecast I decided to try to get it down myself rather than calling Xfinity and being put on a waiting list. I figured at worst I'd pop the cable and have to call them for a visit anyway. After a small struggle armed with only a hoe while standing on a ladder, I brought the limb to its knees. It's now awaiting a visit from my new chainsaw and a visit to my old burning pile. Cable TV and internet seem to be working as well as ever.
There are few things more satisfying than burning a limb that has caused a problem. I can't wait for a cool day so I can get to these most recent SOBs!
I would have bet a chunk of change that my next battery powered yard implement would be an Ego push mower. I would have lost that bet.I noticed this morning that a huge limb had jarted itself in amongst the limbs of another tree near the side of my house and midway between two AC compressors. A branch off the biggest one was leaning on my roof and several other large pieces wer
My daughter is coming to visit Sunday and made me promise not to proceed farther until she got here to help. I think she just wanted to ensure I had transportation to the ER. I finally settled on a plan to tie a rope to the upper part of the limb and let her hold it to try to keep it off the AC compressor when it came down as I cut the lower part of the limb. Probably a YouTube
TJ just out her hurdling all of life's milestones
awesome stuff congrats
american houses are funny
"who covers you if u get heavy hail stones" lol thats mad to me
why not build em to last ?
We are in the house of sticks stage of our 3 little pigs story. A huff and a puff will in fact blow our house down but in the original they didn't have insurance.
generally... in a town home... the association is responsible for anything between the walls, and that includes the roofing, and exterior fascia.
better get up in that attic and see if there is a common crawl space between units... that is quite common for town homes that have attic space.
This is not my experience. The homes are divided top to bottom by firewalls. We owned it all. Association wasn't even responsible for the grass out front.
there are all types... no association will take care of your yard, but will take care of common areas.
In california, many town homes have a common attic, meaning that you can actually access your neighbors home by crawling thru the attic area.
as far as structure, it is nearly always the associations responsibility for plumbing, roofing and external care/paint... they take care of between the walls and exterior structure for conformity. at least that has been my experience of the couple unit I have owned... one had a common attic, the other did not.
Town home = common wall.
To me, that's a condo. Even though it looks like a row house.
When we owned a townhouse, we owned and were responsible for the structure and everything in it. The "common wall" was a fire wall that had a clear dividing partition between the units.
"no association will take care of your yard" My sister owns a single-family detached house where the HOA takes care of all the yard/landscaping except for the fenced-in back yard.
town home... common wall, no one above or below
Condo... common wall, units above and/or below
Single family... free standing
Duplex/triplex... multi-unit dwelling on single property, can be free standing or attached.
I mean, there are always non-conforming and variations, but in general terms... as stated in above posts.
is your 'sisters' TH fenced?
town home... common wall, no one above or below
Condo... common wall, units above and/or below
Single family... free standing
Duplex/triplex... multi-unit dwelling on single property, can be free standing or attached.
I mean, there are always non-conforming and variations, but in general terms... as stated in above posts.
is your 'sisters' TH fenced?
Where do you live? (I want to say CA but really don't know.) Every state has their own legal definition for what something is called - that may or may no align with ownership structure (but, in my experience, usually does). In Minnesota, one of my siblings bought a house that I would call a condo (she only owned the inside of the house, not the exterior or the land it was on) but by state law was a townhouse. Why? Condos have the entry door on the inside (think apartment building) and townhouses have the entry door on the outside. The legal definition had nothing to do with the ownership structure. But every other place I have been, the ownership structure matches the legal definition. The townhouse I owned was in Virginia. Legally it was described, in addition to townhouse, as "single family attached" and also "zero lot line" (the sides of the house were right on the lot line). I owned the land it was on, including the front, back , and one side (it was an end unit). The firewall went from the foundation to the peak of the roof. If condos are "common wall, units above and/or below", how do you explain co-op apartments. They'd be condos according to your description, but the ownership structure is very different.
It seems to my that either your definitions don't apply to ownership structure, or you live in a place that's "non-conforming".
I know it's not definitive, but here's what a search says for the differnce between a condo and a town house.
The primary difference between a condo and a townhouse lies in ownership. With a condo, you own the interior of your unit, while the building's exterior, land, and common areas are jointly owned with other unit owners. With a townhouse, you typically own the interior, exterior, and the land the unit sits on.
As for my sister mentioned above - as I said she has a "single-family detached house". Just a regular house. Only the back yard is fenced. The HOA does the lawn maintenance, including the shrubs and trees, for the other three sides (they wouldn't do the backyard even if it was not fenced, but they do everything else). I don't think that is common, but it is an "Active Senior Community".
Congrats TJ! Hopefully these 2 yahoos will get your situation all figured out for you before too long!
