The Official Homeowners Thread

[Rawtid]

Cosign on the privacy concerns... (I took it back to SOHH days with the "cosign")

I don't want videos of my family uploaded to some cloud service...

no worries, I still use "shout out" from time to time.

I didn't even think of that, I was just talking in general. My friend and her dude have a Vivant (sp) system and he's always talking randomly through the cameras when we are gathering at her home. The same when you're ringing the doorbell and he's somewhere at work. Its not a good feeling to be in someone's house and feel "watched". I don't know, it's wildly uncomfortable. They also check on each other's whereabouts randomly, which I feel has to be as stressful and insecure as checking someone's phone. Unless it's my child, I don't value my belongings that much. If you steal them, go head.

 

[MMA]

I shouldn't make it about race, but the black contractor fell through. We walked through the house to get a list, he tells me to text him my email so he can email me the quotes. Wednesday morning he texts me:
Him: I haven't heard from you
Me: Dude you told me you were going to email me the quotes
Him: I sent the email two days ago.
Me: To what address because I've been checking for days. What's your email address?
Him: *provides email* I'll send it again when I get home

Still never received an email

Me: Did you send the email? You sure you know how to send one lol? I also sent an email to the address you gave me so you can use that too.
Him: hahah You're funny

I didn't hear from that mf again. Meanwhile, I called the white hick dude that always comes through and his son out there right now caulking windows and he scraping shyt. Pricing always fair and he communicates. I'm not saying fukk support of black businesses, but I'm not putting up with BS service JUST to say I supported a black business.

And white hick people just go find another white business to go to

 

[Rawtid]

And white hick people just go find another white business to go to

I’m going with a sure shot going forward. For new business, I’ll seek out a black person, but I’m not doing too much trial and error.

 

[Akae Beka]

Im about to go ahead with the pre approval process. Found a home in the best neighborhood in my area and a top 35 neighborhood in the country that recently dropped prices and it turned my interest up. Hopefully its still there after I get preapproved. Which leads me to my question

Has anyone ever purchased a home without a realtor? I know they get 3%. The homes I'm interested in are all around 400k or less. Was trying to see if I can cut off about 12k or 24k on the home price and use it to update some things like removal of carpeting and adding egress windows and other small fixtures if a house I like requires that

 

[GoFlipAPack]

Im about to go ahead with the pre approval process. Found a home in the best neighborhood in my area and a top 35 neighborhood in the country that recently dropped prices and it turned my interest up. Hopefully its still there after I get preapproved. Which leads me to my question

Has anyone ever purchased a home without a realtor? I know they get 3%. The homes I'm interested in are all around 400k or less. Was trying to see if I can cut off about 12k or 24k on the home price and use it to update some things like removal of carpeting and adding egress windows and other small fixtures if a house I like requires that

I think you can just get a real estate attorney on retainer instead of having the agent. I feel like real estate agents aren't needed.

 

[Yinny]

None. I pay enough for insurance to pay additional to prevent me utilizing it. I should care more, but I don’t and I take general precautions. I also feel cameras IN the house are such a lack of privacy. *knock on wood” hopefully nothing serious happens.

My cousin has a cam in her house and it irks the fukk out of me. Granted, she has a dad with dementia that she uses it to check on him in the living room but she never turns it off - when I had you-know-who over I positioned that cam so far out of sight LOL

 

[GoFlipAPack]

Dont clean your gutters or clean your AC unit brehs ....last person that owned my place was basically a slum lord.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Dont clean your gutters or clean your AC unit brehs ....last person that owned my place was basically a slum lord.

am doin this for the first time this year

 

[GoFlipAPack]

am doin this for the first time this year

The AC?

It was super easy breh. fukking HVAC dude was trying to charge me 250 for something that took me 10 minutes to do and it wasnt hard at all.

 

[newarkhiphop]

The AC?

It was super easy breh. fukking HVAC dude was trying to charge me 250 for something that took me 10 minutes to do and it wasnt hard at all.

Yup using a shopvac and this stuff

 

[Rawtid]

Dude came to fix my front steps. Bricks been cracking and chipping off left and right. Basically learned the previous owners were caulking the bricks instead of digging out the old mortar and replacing. He cleaned everything out and it looks much better. He gonna finish up tomorrow. Looking at about $400.

So much shyt needs to be done. I hope I can get it finished before the holidays.

 

[NeilCartwright]

About on avg how much should you set aside for closing costs? I’m looking at multi families, from 150k-300k.

Going to be using the VA loan, so I’m not planning on putting a down payment down

 

[GoFlipAPack]

About on avg how much should you set aside for closing costs? I’m looking at multi families, from 150k-300k.

Going to be using the VA loan, so I’m not planning on putting a down payment down

They say about 5 percent of the purchase price

 

[Petty Crocker]

Im about to get in on this tropical storm Imelda money. About to file a claim to get some work done aye

 

[MMA]

New York rent in 2019
Manhattan prices in 2019, how much for 900 sq ft??