OneFineAcre
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My house is a dated ranch with vinyl siding 1700 sf
It's in east Wake county which is the Capital county of NC
5 acres
$200k
It's in east Wake county which is the Capital county of NC
5 acres
$200k
Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust
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babsbag
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Mine is a 1700 sq ft 2008 manufactured home on 5 acres in No. CA. 175,000.00
I paid 63,000 for the 8 acres I bought next door to us with nothing but a well. 2.5 acres are in a seasonal stream bed and not usable.
I paid 63,000 for the 8 acres I bought next door to us with nothing but a well. 2.5 acres are in a seasonal stream bed and not usable.
greybeard
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There is that /\ problem of course. The polygamy we often find ourselves in causes us a lot of anguish that interferes with our life's real goals..married to a flesh and blood spouse and married to our job as well.
On the one hand, we rationalize that the latter provides us with the means to provide for the former and ourselves and other family, and provides the means to get what we want out of life--whatever that goal is, but it also anchors us down and limits our options.
I can't offer any advise really, as I realize that not having that job would severely limit getting a loan, but I will say that far too often, I see people put off/delay/postpone making the jump to get their life's real goal, and one day wake up to find they have waited too late in life to do it, or after finally doing it, so wishing they had done it years earlier.
Hence my screen name GB... Seems any time I offer up anything I jinx you so I've give a final wish that you find what you're looking for or at the least something that you can "live with" and make into something better.
Baymule
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Waiting on the latest episode of "House Loan" soap opera.
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misfitmorgan
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Sorry I've been gone a few days.
@farmerjan They still want us out but so far have not served us eviction papers and still accepted my rent money so hopefully they will let us stay until we get a new place.
@Latestarter You do not jinx me, chemical bank just really sucks at their job apparently and couldnt find their own butt with two hands.
In other good news the title for the car showed up finally..yay!!
The check from the title company for our Ernest money also showed up....yay!!
Lastly we went and saw the house and made an offer on the house. We ended up offering 60K, there is a competing offer on the house from another buyer but the realtor said dont worry about it they are FHA and were asking for seller assist. We are still going 5% conventional with no seller assist. Ironically the house was under contract once already. I guess it failed FHA inspection and the buyer/seller didnt want to have things fixed.
I'm not to worried because FHA is picky picky and the house was build in 1945, we are aware there are going to be problems. Atm the house needs a door replaced and a door fixed.
Basement windows dug out and replaced atm the dirt is right against very old glass block "windows" and with all the rain it is obvious by the floor puddles that it is leaking into the basement. We are quite confident the water is from the windows because there is another portion of the basement with dirt floor and no windows and it is completely dry in there from what we could see. The cinder block walls are also un-painted and show no signs of causing any large amount of moisture. We will seal the walls for sure but the masonry looks fine. The replacement windows will be ingress/egress in case we ever want to put bedrooms in the basement for resale or anything. Enlarging the windows means we will need to remove one more lower row of blocks and dig down and install a window well.
The house does have all single pane windows but all windows have storm windows installed on them so that helps until we can replace them. as far as insulation goes the house seems to have really really good insulation. It stays cool in the house even on hot days and you can barely hear the road noise in the house which when outside you have to yell over.
For road noise we would put in a small burm and hedges or a fence or some sort of sound dampening. Road noise is only a problem in front of the house, as soon as your past the bac of the house and down the hill in the backyard you dont hear the noise anymore.
The only other immediate fix needed is a small holes were the garage addition and mudroom/breeze way meet will need some some tar. We would also be planning a metal roof install within the next 5yrs.
The really really odd thing. Someone put white vinyl siding on the house and then decided they didnt like the white so painted it that poo brown with the darker poo brown shutter.....those colors are going for sure. I will see if it is possible/feasible to strip the paint off or if we should just paint over it. Definitely not staying that color anyhow. The color doesnt look so bad in the pictures, in real life it is a really unattractive color.
@farmerjan They still want us out but so far have not served us eviction papers and still accepted my rent money so hopefully they will let us stay until we get a new place.
@Latestarter You do not jinx me, chemical bank just really sucks at their job apparently and couldnt find their own butt with two hands.
In other good news the title for the car showed up finally..yay!!
The check from the title company for our Ernest money also showed up....yay!!
Lastly we went and saw the house and made an offer on the house. We ended up offering 60K, there is a competing offer on the house from another buyer but the realtor said dont worry about it they are FHA and were asking for seller assist. We are still going 5% conventional with no seller assist. Ironically the house was under contract once already. I guess it failed FHA inspection and the buyer/seller didnt want to have things fixed.
I'm not to worried because FHA is picky picky and the house was build in 1945, we are aware there are going to be problems. Atm the house needs a door replaced and a door fixed.
Basement windows dug out and replaced atm the dirt is right against very old glass block "windows" and with all the rain it is obvious by the floor puddles that it is leaking into the basement. We are quite confident the water is from the windows because there is another portion of the basement with dirt floor and no windows and it is completely dry in there from what we could see. The cinder block walls are also un-painted and show no signs of causing any large amount of moisture. We will seal the walls for sure but the masonry looks fine. The replacement windows will be ingress/egress in case we ever want to put bedrooms in the basement for resale or anything. Enlarging the windows means we will need to remove one more lower row of blocks and dig down and install a window well.
The house does have all single pane windows but all windows have storm windows installed on them so that helps until we can replace them. as far as insulation goes the house seems to have really really good insulation. It stays cool in the house even on hot days and you can barely hear the road noise in the house which when outside you have to yell over.
For road noise we would put in a small burm and hedges or a fence or some sort of sound dampening. Road noise is only a problem in front of the house, as soon as your past the bac of the house and down the hill in the backyard you dont hear the noise anymore.
The only other immediate fix needed is a small holes were the garage addition and mudroom/breeze way meet will need some some tar. We would also be planning a metal roof install within the next 5yrs.
The really really odd thing. Someone put white vinyl siding on the house and then decided they didnt like the white so painted it that poo brown with the darker poo brown shutter.....those colors are going for sure. I will see if it is possible/feasible to strip the paint off or if we should just paint over it. Definitely not staying that color anyhow. The color doesnt look so bad in the pictures, in real life it is a really unattractive color.
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misfitmorgan
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I got busy at work in the middle of writing the post sorry @Baymule 
Bruce
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OK, stupid question. How big is the house, meaning footprint and does it happen to be a nice rectangle or square? Asking because IMO window wells are a request for trouble. Could you jack the house a foot or 2 and put in a pony wall? We did that at our prior house and like you plan, put in legal size egress windows.
Baymule
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I had to google egress windows. this web site also solves the window well trouble with the covered window well.
http://www.egresswindows.com/
http://www.egresswindows.com/
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misfitmorgan
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We would definitely be doing covered window wells.
Jacking the house would not be feasible. The first floor is the house itself is 1609sqft, plus the mud room and attached garage. There is also the secondary problem of the main house was a rectangle and they added on a family room in back and a back deck and also added onto the other end of the house to add a third bedroom.
From what i can tell so far it would be a short window well, the top 2-3 courses of brick are above grade in most places around the house. We are hoping to put the egress/ingress windows on the non-loads bearing walls so we dont require any extra header so the top 2-3 blocks being exposed means we may get away with just grading and no window wells. It is certainly not going to be a before winter project. The number of exposed blocks atm is a guess because when we go there i keep forgetting to look.
Jacking the house would not be feasible. The first floor is the house itself is 1609sqft, plus the mud room and attached garage. There is also the secondary problem of the main house was a rectangle and they added on a family room in back and a back deck and also added onto the other end of the house to add a third bedroom.
From what i can tell so far it would be a short window well, the top 2-3 courses of brick are above grade in most places around the house. We are hoping to put the egress/ingress windows on the non-loads bearing walls so we dont require any extra header so the top 2-3 blocks being exposed means we may get away with just grading and no window wells. It is certainly not going to be a before winter project. The number of exposed blocks atm is a guess because when we go there i keep forgetting to look.
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