Whew!! We're finally closing on the house we've been trying to buy on Thursday!! I guess all of the recent hard work has been worth it. The surveyors came out today and came up with some odd property lines, though. It seems that one of our property lines is NOT at a 90deg angle. Strange. Actually, this means that there's less room on one side (unfortunately the side where the garage is) but more on the other. I guess I'll have to move the garage when I build a new one in a couple of years. All that's left is the insurance. We weren't supposed to close for another couple of weeks so we hadn't even gotten any quotes yet. Now we have to scramble. I can't wait. This is my 1st house (wifes 2nd) so I'm excited as heck!!! Finally, I can watch TV in my own home. There are alot of things I've wanted to do to the house that I couldn't for obvious reasons (we've rented here for a couple of years). Now I get to remodel the bathroom, add a fireplace, build a new garage, etc (whenever I get the cash--pretty tight right now!). Wait a minute...Now I have to remodel the bathroom, etc. Let's see. $10k for a new garage, $2500 for a new bathroom...Anyone want to work cheap?? I could do the work myself, but then when I turned on the shower, the garage door would open! Sorry to be long winded, but I just had to tell someone. (OK. 1000 someones!)
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Posts: 2683 From: Onalaska, WI, USA Registered: Dec 1999
I'm a General Contractor Monkey and I will frame the garage as long as you build it no less than 2 miles from my house in Utah and I get to use 2/3 of it.
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sully5 Member
Posts: 123 From: Lexington,KY,USA Registered: Feb 2000
congrats MM. Good luck with it. Loved it the day I closed on mine. Still trying to figure out just what the hell i did. fortunately mine already had a 2 car garage. unfortuneatly, i have already outgrown it, and all the stuff in it is not even mine!dad's boat and a bunch of his stuff from where he and mom split up last fall, my captain's motorcycle(that doesn't run),etc. Thank goodness the Fiero ain't real big. Enjoy it.
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Boodoggin Member
Posts: 93 From: Eagle, ID, USA Registered: Apr 2000
Monkeyman- Im happy for you, you earned it, now you can enjoy it. Right now im so excited just to be moving out of my parents house. Probly a similar feeling.
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lennyb4 Member
Posts: 428 From: parma, ohio USA Registered: Nov 1999
Good job monkey. Me and my wife just purchased our first home back in Oct. Theres so much to do i dont know where to start. But i agree it feels soooooo good being able to do what ever you want when ever you want with-out having a landlord to deal with..
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Raydar Member
Posts: 40685 From: Carrollton GA. Out in the... country. Registered: Oct 1999
Monkeyman! Way to go! And another advantage of home ownership is that Uncle Bill and Hillary will get a lot less of your income, due to interest deductions. Happy for ya!
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Monkeyman Member
Posts: 15809 From: N. Wilkesboro, NC, USA Registered: Nov 1999
Postponed until Friday. I can live with that. Now all I need is a winning lottery ticket. We're already making plans. I have some neat software for designing houses. I'm using that to design my new garage (next summer or later ) and to redesign the bathroom. Cool stuff. Privacy fence 1st for my mutt, though. 5 year old, full blooded German Shepherd. I hope he bothers the neighbors. They called the cops last week because the Monkeymobile doesn't run. They obviously have no taste when it comes to automobiles. The surveyors came out yesterday. I'll need to build my new garage on the other side of the house, but I'll have more room for it then! Hate to get long winded, but I'm excited!
Thanx for the space. (Sorry, FD!)
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Monkey got the cops called on him already! Around here, the neighbors usually they bring cookies over to introduce themselves, not the law. My little town has no zoning (hehehe) and as long as my place looks better than my neighbor's homestead (who is the mayor), I'm cool...LOL.
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Old Lar Member
Posts: 13797 From: Palm Bay, Florida Registered: Nov 1999
You got the costs of the improvements reversed, $10 K for the bathroom and $2.5 K for the garage. Unless you have an especially understanding woman, no garage will cost 4 times more than a bathroom in their mind.
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Posts: 15809 From: N. Wilkesboro, NC, USA Registered: Nov 1999
Old Lar--I have the figures correct. I have a very understanding wife. Closing at 3pm tomorrow. (They keep changing it. Must be a woman in charge. Putting on my nomex!) I plan on being asleep through most of it. (73 hours so far this week, a double tonight, 12 hours tomorrow and another 10 1/2 on Friday!) All that time at work for $5.50/hr. If they don't promote me to manager soon, I'll be tempted to get medieval on their a**!
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Posts: 4667 From: St. Cloud, MN Registered: Apr 99
Congratulations, Monkeyman! I hope everything went smoothly today. Even though it's the bank's, you still get to decorate it, remodel it, etc. (mow the lawn, shovel snow...). Are you going to name it, like you did the car? The Monkeycage or something?
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Monkeyman Member
Posts: 15809 From: N. Wilkesboro, NC, USA Registered: Nov 1999
Doc--I hadn't thought about naming it. Good idea! I'll have to talk to Monkeygal and see. Everything went fairly smoothly. No major tie ups. I won't have to worry about shoveling snow or cutting the grass after this winter. Here's my plan. I'll let the snow build up on the grass (may have to import a little extra snow for this to work) until it kills the grass. This way I won't have to cut the grass next summer. After the snow melts next spring I'll buy a pair of spiked golf shoes and "aerate" my now grassless (just dirt, I hope) yard. This way the snow that falls next year should just soak into the ground. Problem solved!
Actually, bb, that's what we have in mind. My wife wants lots of flowers (yuk) and some rock gardens (serious cool factor in my book!) around the front. We don't have much of a front yard, so that should take care of most of it. Actually, we don't have much of a side yard or back yard, either. We bought a small push mower last year and that will mow the yard in about 15 minutes. As a matter of fact, that's probably what I'll be doing tomorrow am when I get off of work!
Have been having one He!! of a time connecting to the Forum these days, easy everyone I know its this boat anchor I am typing on, but am looking into fixing that situation soon.
Monkeyman drop me a line, I need to order a set of tail-light stickers. You work too many hours that sucks. Does your new Mansion have a big GARAGE?? Or maybe enough realestate to build a Fiero Barn? I do not remember how old Monkeyboy is? Does he have any Hot-Wheels Fieros??? I have a used (very used) white one I would like to give him. Drop Me a line. Great score on the Monkey Mansion.
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May 2nd, 2000
bHooper Member
Posts: 4156 From: greensboro, nc Registered: May 99
Congrats, MM!! There is nothing like home ownership. I bought my 1st house 2 years ago , and have enjoyed every minute of it! Of course, it will need a paint job soon... guess its time to put it up for sale and move on
Enjoy!
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Posts: 15809 From: N. Wilkesboro, NC, USA Registered: Nov 1999
I used to work for a guy who only bought cheap, worn out cars. He never fixed anything. He wouldn't even replace the tires. If something wore out that he couldn't live with he just bought another beater and sold the old one. Kind of a waste of $$ if you ask me. He sold me a '78 TA for $500 (what he paid for it). All it needed was a couple headlights and 2 new tires. The body was in decent shape and the interior was like new. I put about $1000 in it, drove it for a couple of years, and sold it for $3000.