RE: DIY, Scope Creep, and Looking Forward

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ericvancewalton in Discovery-it • last year

I remember the days of those DIY projects! I think they're always at least 25% tougher than we think they're going to be. Thank God for YouTube though. We're looking for a new place to live now and something built after the mid-80's is a requirement because I just want everything to be standard sizes and mostly up to code.

I'm sorry to hear about the coin not being pure. They can be very tricky on social media about how they market the products. I've gotten burned a few times. It's still cool though.

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bozz last year

Our house was built in 83 or 86 and we still find stuff where we wonder what the heck they were thinking. Take that first photo for example, the water lines come in from the back wall, but the drain line goes out the side wall. I had to cut a notch out of the cabinet just to make it work. We had a medicine cabinet/mirror in the upstairs bathroom that they actually cut the studs to make it fit! Best of luck to you finding a new place to live! As long as it has a garage where you can install a charger right? :)

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ericvancewalton last year

Oh no! It's unbelievable what you find once you start opening the walls up. Our last house was built in 1923 and was actually pretty solid but my previous house was from 1940 and it was a hot mess. We discovered it was subsidized by 3M to provide housing for their workers and it was probably built way too fast.

Thanks! The search has been eye-opening to say the least. I just can't believe how expensive everything is here but we have to get out of the city. It's getting to the point where we can't even open the windows because it's so loud outside. You know me well! That Level 2 charger will be the first thing I install. Lol.

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bozz last year

My wife and I have been looking for something new for a while now. We eventually want to get into a single story home. I'd prefer a craftsman style, but if we have to go with a ranch or something like that I don't really mind. We just know eventually we won't be able to handle all the steps. Like you said though, prices are horrible everywhere. I'd like something with a bit of land, but anything that is decent is either way out of our price range or gets snapped up right away. It's just stagnant out there after that huge Covid boom.

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ericvancewalton last year

The craftsman style is my favorite. Our last house was one of the Sears craftsman kit homes. It’s really a timeless design. The market is the same way here but is beginning to cool
down, less bidding wars and (slightly) decreasing prices. We’re looking at a couple later today that we really like so hopefully one of these will be “the one”. Best of luck in your search!

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I hope one of them works out for you! When we bought our last house we looked for a solid year before we finally found the one. It wasn't what we were looking for, but the location was amazing. If we could just demolish and build again on our current lot, we probably would I think.

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