I'm IN!!!

DrPizza

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Finally! Closed on Friday. Closing costs were a few thousand more than expected, but I'm finally in the new house. Old house is already rented and occupied by my tenants.

3 bedroom, LR, DR, kitchen, office, 1 bath, Florida room, large 2 car attached garage,
nice sized barn, 16 acres w/ slate bottomed stream... 44K

Heating system needs work, so we put in a nice coal stove (like a pellet stove - looks like a wood stove, glass front, etc.). I always forget how heavy a cast iron stove is. The house was 13 degrees when we arrived yesterday. I left the coal stove going on high last night - it was over 100 degrees in the dining room this morning. Niiiiiice :) (and, it cost less to heat that house for 1 day from colder than ice to 100 than it costs to heat my old house with natural gas for a day at 65 degrees)

Water on Tuesday, then we move in. (hopefully the water goes smoothly - getting the well tested, etc.) I've gotta install a water softener for it probably.
 

DrPizza

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Pics are coming soon... gotta figure out a way to upload the pics. I'm at the in-laws house til we complete the move. I won't have phone (or more importantly internet access) until the 11th. At the moment, I'm at school, doing school work, grad work - I have no way of going from camera to computer here. :(
 

KLin

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44k is sick. My parents have 1.33 acres outside a small town called Selma, CA and their house/property is probably worth about 250-300k.
 

DrPizza

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Originally posted by: Armitage
What the heck is a "florida room"?

A room off the main house that is wall to wall windows. We're going to use it as a family room - the room the dogs will be allowed into (doggy door to the garage, then doggy door from garage to outside)
 

RaDragon

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Originally posted by: Toasthead
Im sorry, 44k? forty four THOUSAND...for a house?!?!? where do you live?

OMG. Can we start an ATOT community there? Are there still properties left in the area? :D
 

Jzero

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Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Armitage
What the heck is a "florida room"?

A room off the main house that is wall to wall windows. We're going to use it as a family room - the room the dogs will be allowed into (doggy door to the garage, then doggy door from garage to outside)

I have a friend from Tampa who is always amused at the term. When I told him my house has a florida room, he commented that the trend of people in FL building "pennsylvania rooms" just hasn't caught on.
 

Anubis

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FVCKING A PEOPLE

read his profile, it says OLEAN NY - thats WAY upstate, south of buffalo between corning and teh western boarder of NY, its actually not far from where my parents live, their house all 4800 sq ft of it cost 200K
 

Yossarian

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about time! I'm so sick of hearing about your troubles in buying a house! I'm kidding I'm kidding, congrats! :D Goddam 44K for all that is cheap as hell.
 

mcvickj

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Congrats. Sounds like you got an awesome deal on the house. Time for some pics. :)