A very, very, very fine house...

[gabosaurus]

My sister, my mom and myself got a chance to check out our new house on Monday. We had to do a final inspection and go over a checklist they give homeowners of new houses.
On Tuesday, I got to sign bundles of papers. I also met with a interior design specialist (who previously taught with my mom) who will help us with placement.

On Friday, we will be moving all our furniture and such in. My husband bought an entire house of furniture from a former co-worker who moved to London. We have been keeping it in storage since January.
My brother-in-law will be bringing over a crew of large Mexican guys and a couple of their trucks. My sister is going to translate for me.
It will be cheap labor. We are paying them in beer and Mexican food.
Greencards will not be checked. :lmao:

[diuretic]

Is it going to have, "two cats in the yard"? :D

[hjmick]

What? No pictures? How are we supposed to know where to send the INS?

[manu1959]

Is it going to have, "two cats in the yard"? :D

life used to be so hard.........

[diuretic]

And the house must have a "cosy room" (watch out for the comfy couch though! :laugh2:)

[Pale Rider]

Well... no need for the illegals to case your place, they'll already know where it is and what's in it.

[gabosaurus]

We have a cat, but he doesn't go outside. Probably too lazy.
We actually will have a Comfy Chair. My husband loved this garish overstuffed easy chair he saw when we had dinner with one of his clients. So he has already bought one. I think it is hideous. Our cat will love it, though.
I have already made my fill of "fetch the soft cushions!" remarks. :lmao:

We will carry on the family tradition of having one of those swinging benches on the front porch. My great-grandparents had one in their house in Germany. So did my grandparents in Dallas. My dad and his brother both have one. My cousin David has one, as does my sister and her husband. Good for catching the breeze. :)

It's a nice three bedroom, two bath home. We are converting the oversized master bedroom into a study/guest room. That leaves one bedroom for us and one for our future daughter.
I love the sizable front and back yards.

Market price: $1.3 million. Our pre-development price is slightly less than half that. :)

[Pale Rider]

Market price: $1.3 million. Our pre-development price is slightly less than half that. :)

What's a 'pre-development price'?

[gabosaurus]

Pre-development pricing is apparently the new rage in home building and selling. They sell you a home that hasn't been built yet.
The builder basically sells you a lot. You choose the kind of house you want from certain models. You put down a sizable deposit and they give you a break on the price, generally about 50 percent or so. They have to have the home ready to occupy for a certain date, or they have to pay you a penalty.
Our house had to be ready by April 1. They finished it about two weeks early. :)

[Sitarro]

You ought to enjoy the property tax you'll pay on the projected value of the home........ thank the politicians, mostly all Democrat, that destroyed California. Then again, I just read that home values in California have dropped 25%.

[Dilloduck]

You ought to enjoy the property tax you'll pay on the projected value of the home........ thank the politicians, mostly all Democrat, that destroyed California. Then again, I just read that home values in California have dropped 25%.

You're missing Gabby's point--her hubby is filthy rich and they don't care what things cost.

[gabosaurus]

The property tax comes with the territory. It's the price of living in a nice home, in a nice area of Southern California.
Don't really care much about the value, since we don't plan to sell it.


You're missing Gabby's point--her hubby is filthy rich and they don't care what things cost.

My husband is merely rich. His clients are filthy rich. :laugh2:
And yes, we do enjoy nice things. I wanted a nice house within a couple of miles from the beach. Such things do not come cheap.

You shouldn't be opposed. It's the general Republican way of life.

[glockmail]

Typical liberal, bragging about how much money she never earned but controls with her twat, and hiring illegal immigrants to do the heavy lifting for her. :pee:

[hjmick]

And here we have Gaby, one of my favorite liberals, living high on the money and hard work of her Republican husband. Yet behind his back, operating covertly through a series of political message boards, she secretly attempts to undo all those things that make their wealth possible by supporting Barack Obama and liberal policies...

;) :D

[Pale Rider]

Pre-development pricing is apparently the new rage in home building and selling. They sell you a home that hasn't been built yet.
The builder basically sells you a lot. You choose the kind of house you want from certain models. You put down a sizable deposit and they give you a break on the price, generally about 50 percent or so. They have to have the home ready to occupy for a certain date, or they have to pay you a penalty.
Our house had to be ready by April 1. They finished it about two weeks early. :)

Interesting... haven't heard of that.... so what would a three bedroom, bath and half house with a full basement, two car garage with office finished and heated, and a 30' X 40' pool shed sitting on two and half acres of partially wooded, level land go for around there?

[manu1959]

Interesting... haven't heard of that.... so what would a three bedroom, bath and half house with a full basement, two car garage with office finished and heated, and a 30' X 40' pool shed sitting on two and half acres of partially wooded, level land go for around there?

2 mill.....minimum

also california law was recently (5 years ago or so) changed to allow selling of homes before they were built......

[Pale Rider]

2 mill.....minimum

also california law was recently (5 years ago or so) changed to allow selling of homes before they were built......

Well, if I put an offer on that property I described, it'll be $90K... :D

[manu1959]

Well, if I put an offer on that property I described, it'll be $90K... :D

all true........my problem is i don't like winter and i can't live that far from the coast.....

[diuretic]

Typical liberal, bragging about how much money she never earned but controls with her twat, and hiring illegal immigrants to do the heavy lifting for her. :pee:

What a grubby remark.

[Pale Rider]

all true........my problem is i don't like winter and i can't live that far from the coast.....

Yeah I grew up there, and I'm not fond of winter myself. Get cabin fever bad. A snowmobile may ease winter some, but when it really starts to get to me, I plan to pack up the RV and head down south to visit my Air Force bud in Georgia for a couple months.

And what the ocean is to you, the forest is to me. Gotta have some woods to trapes though.

[Pale Rider]

What a grubby remark.

No doubt... he should have said "illegal aliens,".... :laugh2:

[gabosaurus]

Typical liberal, bragging about how much money she never earned but controls with her twat, and hiring illegal immigrants to do the heavy lifting for her.

It's called "being married." Everything owned or earned by either of us is OURS. Every decision we make (including where to live) is made mutually.
Marriage is a wonderful. Find a girl stupid enough and perhaps you can try it some time.


Yet behind his back, operating covertly through a series of political message boards, she secretly attempts to undo all those things that make their wealth possible by supporting Barack Obama and liberal policies...

This is my only message board. And I am sure Jim would love it if DP had the power to dictate national policy. He could share hella advertising rates!
My husband said he would likely vote for Obama. Because the continuation of the Iraq war (which McCain supports) is ruining the economy.


so what would a three bedroom, bath and half house with a full basement, two car garage with office finished and heated, and a 30' X 40' pool shed sitting on two and half acres of partially wooded, level land go for around there?

There are not many lots here large enough to support that kind of home. Perhaps in a different area. In someplace like Santa Monica or Malibu, perhaps about $8 million or so.

[JohnDoe]

Pale, you can get a half an acre lot for $100 grand in the neighborhood I lived in, in massachusetts, full acre for about $200-250 grand, they were harder to come by...

so 2 acres, you are probably talking a half a million in a nice area of central Mass....

Here where I live in Maine, you can get 2 acres of land for about $25-35k in a nicer neighborhood, and a 20 acre lot for real cheap...probably less than $100 grand, maybe less than $60 grand and you would likely have a river/brook flowing through it with fish for that price and also be about 3-7 miles from the ocean or a bay.
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But you'd be lucky to find a job that paid more than $15 -$20 bucks an hour where we live now, and that would be a part time position...most around here work 3 jobs...all part time... my Real estate broker, was also in construction, and also worked for a sign company covering the new england region... and he also painted the inside of my house for a fee.... we used to tease him that he was a Jack of all Trades.... only a Steve, of all trades cuz that was his name!!!! He said you had to be, if you wanted to live way up here....that he could have moved farther south and been near a city like boston and had only one job, making the big bucks, and all that stuff...but he would not have had the peaceful, quality of life, that he has here...that he feels more at home being closer to nature...people that live up here, want to be here imo.....or they would get the hell out of these winters! Spring summer and Fall are sooo nice that it does make up for the winter imo.

And my husband and I are at a stage in our lives, that nature and slowness, and smelling the roses is what we need too! I'm so tired of the Fast Lane, I can't begin to tell ya! Just plum burnt out on it!!!! I'm in to God's beauty now, the birds and deer and rabbits and fish and squirrels and skunks and ferrel Maine Coon cats and flowers and rose bushes and tomatoes and corn and lettuces, and NO TRAFFIC now!

lol gosh, i am such an old fogey for being as young as i am for this kind of crap...but i love it! :)

jd

[Yurt]

It's called "being married." Everything owned or earned by either of us is OURS. Every decision we make (including where to live) is made mutually.
Marriage is a wonderful. Find a girl stupid enough and perhaps you can try it some time.


This is my only message board. And I am sure Jim would love it if DP had the power to dictate national policy. He could share hella advertising rates!
My husband said he would likely vote for Obama. Because the continuation of the Iraq war (which McCain supports) is ruining the economy.



There are not many lots here large enough to support that kind of home. Perhaps in a different area. In someplace like Santa Monica or Malibu, perhaps about $8 million or so.

:lol:

if you say so........

[Pale Rider]

Pale, you can get a half an acre lot for $100 grand in the neighborhood I lived in, in massachusetts, full acre for about $200-250 grand, they were harder to come by...

so 2 acres, you are probably talking a half a million in a nice area of central Mass....

Here where I live in Maine, you can get 2 acres of land for about $25-35k in a nicer neighborhood, and a 20 acre lot for real cheap...probably less than $100 grand, maybe less than $60 grand and you would likely have a river/brook flowing through it with fish for that price and also be about 3-7 miles from the ocean or a bay.
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But you'd be lucky to find a job that paid more than $15 -$20 bucks an hour where we live now, and that would be a part time position...most around here work 3 jobs...all part time... my Real estate broker, was also in construction, and also worked for a sign company covering the new england region... and he also painted the inside of my house for a fee.... we used to tease him that he was a Jack of all Trades.... only a Steve, of all trades cuz that was his name!!!! He said you had to be, if you wanted to live way up here....that he could have moved farther south and been near a city like boston and had only one job, making the big bucks, and all that stuff...but he would not have had the peaceful, quality of life, that he has here...that he feels more at home being closer to nature...people that live up here, want to be here imo.....or they would get the hell out of these winters! Spring summer and Fall are sooo nice that it does make up for the winter imo.

And my husband and I are at a stage in our lives, that nature and slowness, and smelling the roses is what we need too! I'm so tired of the Fast Lane, I can't begin to tell ya! Just plum burnt out on it!!!! I'm in to God's beauty now, the birds and deer and rabbits and fish and squirrels and skunks and ferrel Maine Coon cats and flowers and rose bushes and tomatoes and corn and lettuces, and NO TRAFFIC now!

lol gosh, i am such an old fogey for being as young as i am for this kind of crap...but i love it! :)

jd

I don't need a job jd, I'm retired, and have an excellent permanent income.

Where I'm moving to in Wisconsin is also out in the sticks. The specific area is all forest and a stones throw from the Wisconsin River. I'll have every kind of criter wandering through my yard there is, but better yet, when I have a big party and bon fire, I won't have to worry about pissing off any neighbors. There won't be any. I'm looking at one place that has two and half acres, and another with five and an old barn that's still in nice shape. Both for $100K or under, and I can't wait. I'm reay to get the hell out of Nevada. I've been here for going on eight years between Las Vegas and Reno, and I'm sick of it. T'hell with these all nighter, party town, cities. I grew up a country boy, and I want to go back to being a country boy. That's where I belong.

[jackass]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzldLJcorbo

[Dilloduck]

Amen !! :clap:

[JohnDoe]

I don't need a job jd, I'm retired, and have an excellent permanent income.

Where I'm moving to in Wisconsin is also out in the sticks. The specific area is all forest and a stones throw from the Wisconsin River. I'll have every kind of criter wandering through my yard there is, but better yet, when I have a big party and bon fire, I won't have to worry about pissing off any neighbors. There won't be any. I'm looking at one place that has two and half acres, and another with five and an old barn that's still in nice shape. Both for $100K or under, and I can't wait. I'm reay to get the hell out of Nevada. I've been here for going on eight years between Las Vegas and Reno, and I'm sick of it. T'hell with these all nighter, party town, cities. I grew up a country boy, and I want to go back to being a country boy. That's where I belong.

I wish you the very best Pale! I hope you find your dream, and have the biggest ass bonfire that you desire!

jd

[JohnDoe]

Oh and Gabby!!!

I wish you and your hubby the very best also!!!!

It is exciting to own a new house and make it in to a new home!

Congrats Big time too! Especially at your young age, probably the best long term investment you can make at this point....even with the TEMPORARY real estate crisis going on!

jd

[glockmail]

What a grubby remark. Scored me lots of rep points though. :lol:

[glockmail]

.... Find a girl stupid enough and perhaps you can try it some time. .....

That explains your marriage, obviously. :laugh2:

[diuretic]

Scored me lots of rep points though. :lol:

It doesn't change the nature of the remark. Personal and grubby. Are you simply glowing with self-actualisation now that you've achieved lots of rep points for a personal insult?

On edit - make that two personal insults. I would think if those remarks were made about you and your marriage you'd be fulminating with fury. You are very grubby.

[Said1]

And here we have Gaby, one of my favorite liberals, living high on the money and hard work of her Republican husband. Yet behind his back, operating covertly through a series of political message boards, she secretly attempts to undo all those things that make their wealth possible by supporting Barack Obama and liberal policies...

;) :D

Naw. Just trying to undo all that bad karma. Hyporcracy has it's price. :laugh2:

[glockmail]

It doesn't change the nature of the remark. Personal and grubby. Are you simply glowing with self-actualisation now that you've achieved lots of rep points for a personal insult?

On edit - make that two personal insults. I would think if those remarks were made about you and your marriage you'd be fulminating with fury. You are very grubby.

It wouldn't be an insult to me because it wouldn't be true. Gabby obviously gives equal value to her marriage. Hubby's gout the dough, and she's got the pussy.

[diuretic]

It wouldn't be an insult to me because it wouldn't be true. Gabby obviously gives equal value to her marriage. Hubby's gout the dough, and she's got the pussy.

Oh I see, that's how you see marriage. Why didn't you say so in the first place?

[jackass]

Typical liberal, bragging about how much money she never earned but controls with her twat, and hiring illegal immigrants to do the heavy lifting for her. :pee:

I have to agree with Diuretic. Totally uncalled for.

[gabosaurus]

Hubby's gout the dough, and she's got the pussy.

And you have got ... neither? :laugh2:

The move in went exceptionally well. As a result, it's about 8:30 p.m. and I am totally fatigued. My brother in law and my husband are presently breaking in our new bed and sofa bed. We have two full garbage bags full of beer cans and plastic eating utensils.

At one point yesterday afternoon/evening, we had about a dozen large Mexican guys running in and out of our house. I'm glad we don't have any neighbors yet.
We still need a TV and a few other items, so I am sending the boys down to San Diego. As soon as I find out where Martin lives. :lmao:

[Pale Rider]

And you have got ... neither? :laugh2:

The move in went exceptionally well. As a result, it's about 8:30 p.m. and I am totally fatigued. My brother in law and my husband are presently breaking in our new bed and sofa bed. We have two full garbage bags full of beer cans and plastic eating utensils.
You'd have had THREE if I was there... :laugh:


At one point yesterday afternoon/evening, we had about a dozen large Mexican guys running in and out of our house. I'm glad we don't have any neighbors yet.
We still need a TV and a few other items, so I am sending the boys down to San Diego. As soon as I find out where Martin lives. :lmao:
Get an LCD. Best picture for the money.

[hjmick]

My brother in law and my husband are presently breaking in our new bed and sofa bed.

I hope to hell your definition of "breaking in our new bed and sofa bed" is different than the definition my wife and I have for the same phrase.

[Yurt]

I hope to hell your definition of "breaking in our new bed and sofa bed" is different than definition my wife and I have for the same phrase.

:lol: was thinking the exact same thing...hey gabs, you're only 10 younger than me....

[gabosaurus]

We got an LCD. 36-inch I believe it is. The "comfy chair" must really be comfortable. My husband fell asleep in it last night.
Our cat is currently auditioning pieces of our new living room to see which one he will take over. The couch is in the early lead.

[actsnoblemartin]

Is it going to have, "two cats in the yard"?

:D

and did life used to be so hard?

:lol:

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[glockmail]

I have to agree with Diuretic. Totally uncalled for.
How judgemental.

[jackass]

How judgemental.

Really? Hmmm....thats interesting considering your post.

[glockmail]

Really? Hmmm....thats interesting considering your post. How so? :pee:

[jackass]

You call me judgemental because I think you post was uncalled for. The post that you judge Gabby bragging about money she contold with her " twat". Very elegant post by the way.

[glockmail]

Thanks. How does that not make you judgemental?

[jackass]

Thanks. How does that not make you judgemental?


When did I ever say that it wasnt judgemental??

[glockmail]

When did I ever say that it wasnt judgemental??
Now that we've cleared that up....

[jackass]

Now that we've cleared that up....

Really? Hmm....that interesting considering your post.

[glockmail]

And your point, exactly?

[jackass]

And your point, exactly?

Seeing how long I can string you along actually....

[glockmail]

Seeing how long I can string you along actually....
You must be using hemp.