TiTRD
Red Skull Member
I'm going to come camp in your barn and make dumps in your toilets.
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Bought a house from 1810 (and some other stuff)
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95stepside
Dumbskull
This thread needs a LOT more pictures
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[486]
ugh, that guy again?
I read the title and immediately started screaming "burn it the fuck down, don't even try to save it, jesus fuck just get it over with"
After actually reading, I think you got a much better deal than my 40
stick a beam in the sagging barn quick, once they start going they go quick, and past a certain point it's way scary to be inside them to jack it back up
After actually reading, I think you got a much better deal than my 40
stick a beam in the sagging barn quick, once they start going they go quick, and past a certain point it's way scary to be inside them to jack it back up
shortbus4x4
Junk collector
I'm sure you talking to him about your plans for the place helped them in the decision to accept your offer. After all the time and work he put into the place I'm sure he wanted someone to get it that would love and use the place like he did.
2big bronco
Og irate
When I sold my last place my real estate mentioned that it was really important to a lot of people when choosing a buyer and found it funny that I didn't care at all what happened once I got the money.:rolleyes:
I thought this was that "other thread" where the guy was tearing down walls and shit.... NOPE
That is a smokin' deal.. maybe a deal of a life time. So weird and yet cool that so much was left behind/came with the purchase.
That is a smokin' deal.. maybe a deal of a life time. So weird and yet cool that so much was left behind/came with the purchase.
Adding anything to a historic registry makes it a total cluster fuck if you want to change anything. So if you want to have to ask permission to do any work on your own property from a bunch of whiney history buff's, by all means register it.
Muckin_Slusher
****
The house I'm in now I bought in 2010. Momma was pregnant at the time with our first child. I'd never met the owners of my house until we viewed it (listed privately). The owners wanted a nice young family to move in. They knew I wanted a garage, and this place didn't have one.
We made an offer, and they countered with an offer of $20,000 LESS than our offer. They said they wanted us to live in their home, and the $20,000 was so I could build a garage.
I'll say it again, you didn't read that wrong. The sellers accepted 20 grand less than my offer.
budget76
Thread Killer
very cool on them
must say something about you guys too though, they're not going to do that for an asshole couple
Wow. That never happens.
Not nearly 20k on this one, but the dude did to several things that left me a little speechless (on top of leaving all the stuff with the house.) Once we agreed on a price for the whole package, I came up with a split on what I wanted to pay for each house and then the personal property. There's some real value to the stuff that came with it and if we rolled in to the real estate contract, 1) the bank and appraisers would have a problem with it and 2) I'd be paying tax on that value for as long as I own the place. We agreed on the split and I wrote up a quick agreement to purchase that was tied to the sale/closing on the houses. He made a quick inventory of all the big items so I could include that with the contract. On that list I noticed a trailer and an HF rolling gantry crane. I figured the trailer was the old ratty one I saw out in the pole barn, but I never saw the gantry and I definitely would have noticed that. I figured maybe it was new and still in the box hidden away somewhere. A week or so later we both suggested that we meet up and walk the property so he could show me some the quirks and little secrets I'd want to know about it. When we went in to the shop, there's a 20' tandem axle utility trailer and a gantry sitting on it....and some other parts for the chevy. He said he brought them to the new house but realized they really wouldn't fit/work there - "I know I could have sold them down there, but they really go with the house".
And then at closing, he tells me they have a little housewarming present for me. He shows me a letter from the propane company (I'm taking over the lease on the tanks) where they would have pumped out the remaining gas and credited him $790. He told them not to worry about it and left it for me.
Pretty much the deal of a lifetime.
Yep. '48 (or maybe '47) sedan. Got a vin tag and should have all the paperwork needed to title it. He never transferred the title from the PO, but had everything needed to do it. It's old enough that it shouldn't be too crazy. Not sure what I'm going to do with it. I have no desire to take on a project like that right now and I'm probably going to want the shop space before I ever have time to work on it.
I'm still working out what exactly I'm going to do with the place. If I go the venue route, almost everything will be sold off. I'll keep a few select antiques as accents. I'm going to look in to getting a booth at a consignment shop. There are a lot of high dollar pieces that would be a bitch to sell on FB and I don't want to deal with shipping if I sell on ebay.
For example: I counted 8 or 9 coffee grinders like this. I don't need 9 coffee grinders. One or two would be good for decoration....but not 9.
I don't know shit about sheep. It has curly horns?
I have my good camera with me today. I'm hauling another load of shit up there now and I'll snap some pics of them while I'm there.
Also came with the dirt track car in the back corner. No motor, but I axle is there and I think the trans laying there is for it too. I was PM'ing YJ4Rox about it a few weeks ago...I need to send him some more details now that I can get a closer look at it. The PO gave me a copy of the ad from when he bought it....it's a '91 model...that's about all I know right now!
shortbus4x4
Junk collector
I know a lot of guys in WY have velcro gloves to help them hang onto their favorite sheep.
Weasel
Red Skull Member
geez that it a crazy cool place. Nice score, the layout is amazing.
Aggie06
I ain't the one to blame.
Yep. '48 (or maybe '47) sedan. Got a vin tag and should have all the paperwork needed to title it. He never transferred the title from the PO, but had everything needed to do it. It's old enough that it shouldn't be too crazy. Not sure what I'm going to do with it. I have no desire to take on a project like that right now and I'm probably going to want the shop space before I ever have time to work on it.
I'm still working out what exactly I'm going to do with the place. If I go the venue route, almost everything will be sold off. I'll keep a few select antiques as accents. I'm going to look in to getting a booth at a consignment shop. There are a lot of high dollar pieces that would be a bitch to sell on FB and I don't want to deal with shipping if I sell on ebay.
For example: I counted 8 or 9 coffee grinders like this. I don't need 9 coffee grinders. One or two would be good for decoration....but not 9.
I don't know shit about sheep. It has curly horns?
I have my good camera with me today. I'm hauling another load of shit up there now and I'll snap some pics of them while I'm there.
For sure take a pic.
subybaja
E. Spengler
This is the real-estate equivalent of "So there we were, snowed in at the lodge with the Swedish Bikini Team- so we had an orgy."
Congratulations. Bastard.
Congratulations. Bastard.
[486]
ugh, that guy again?
well, time to start the tear-out and find all the garbage framing, cloth insulated wire and squirrel nests
flipoff2
flipoff2
SurfnSnow
Moderator
This has been in the works for a looong fucking time, but I finally managed to close today!
I posted a bit about this place when I first looked at it, ran in to slightly elevated radon levels, and later when I was having trouble finding a bank to finance it. I first looked at it in early August and made an offer around mi-August. My original closing date was supposed to be Sept. 18. It only took 3 months longer to get here. :rolleyes:
So the story goes, I was randomly checking Zillow to see if anything with a shop had been listed recently. This property popped up. It was way out of my (comfortable) price range but I tend to look at those types of listings just to drool. Reading the listing, I found it was not only a house with a shop, but it was actually two houses on separate parcels and a shop....and 15 acres. About 25 minutes from my old house. I called me realtor and told him to check it out and see how overpriced he thought it was. He talked to the listing agent and found out they never had it appraised and just kind of guessed at the number. I still didn't think they'd come down to where I wanted to be, but he offered to open it up for me to check it out. The first thing we noticed as we started walking around were notes saying "everything here is included with the sale" - all the furniture and piles of antiques in the main house - the tractor, mowers, lawn equipment, and tools in the shop - and all the furniture and stuff in the 2nd house. It started to look a little less overpriced than I originally thought. My realtor was out of town the next few days and the seller's agent offered to open it up if I wanted to take another look. I jumped on that, mostly because I wanted to fish for the whole story on the deal. Not only did I meet the agent, but the owner was also there....pretty rare to talk to either of them as a buyer. After talking to my realtor again, I told him to float a number by them that I assumed was slightly low ball - $100k less than asking price. I expected them to come back at least $50k higher. Nope - an hour later I get a call "they'll take it, but they won't come down any more for inspection or appraisal". WTF?
So blah....it took almost 2 months to get the appraisal. Several appraiser flaked and then the one that finally did show up kept missing deadline after deadline to turn the report in. I started calling the appraisal company myself and got to the point of screaming at them because they were likely going to cost me the house and everything I'd spent to date. I even filed a complaint with the state appraisal board. I don't know if any of that helped, but I did finally get the report 2 days later. Then a few days after that I get the news from the bank that the underwriters won't approve it because it's "too unique". I was nearly convinced I was going to have to walk away until I stumbled across two different portfolio lenders. Both were willing to use the appraisal that I already had and both had it and the property pre-approved by the underwriters. I went with the one that had better rates and an overall better plan to get me where I need to be. He got it done in 4 weeks.
And here I am today. Just signed my life away. I didn't sell my old house yet so now I get to scramble to get a bunch of shit moved out so I can get it listed and pay off the extra mortgage I took on the new place!
So here's the main house. The foundation/walls were built in 1810 as a mule barn for the 1800+ acre farm that used to be there. It was converted to the house in 1989. The most recent PO bought it in '08 and built the shop, 2nd house and did a bunch of other improvements.
Front shot. The house is a "berm home" - partially built in to the hill so the rear actually at ground level at the 2nd floor. That also makes it super efficient for heating/cooling.
Entrance/sun room:
Main living area (some of this furniture needs to go!)
Opposite direction:
Master bedroom - the stairs lead to a loft and door to ground level at the back of the house.
Master bath. This room is the weirdest as the back wall is where the original ramp the that they walked the mules down. Kind of weird, unusable space....currently storage.
Replacing the vanity and counters/sinks will be one of my first projects.
Looking down from the loft:
There are two other bedrooms. Nothing super special about them and I don't have good pics.
More to come....
Awesome! Congrats on the house
GM Guy
rollin' along...
Congrats! Quite the awesome place. More pics of the coffee grinders.
NOT. You will become a tourist stop, you'll have a shit ton of rules to follow. Your building won't be "yours" anymore except to pay for upkeep.
Alex.
NOT. You will become a tourist stop, you'll have a shit ton of rules to follow. Your building won't be "yours" anymore except to pay for upkeep.
Alex.
trampas
Don't Re Member
Projectjunkie
Whatever
This is a killer idea
I was sitting here trying to decide how to sell stuff...
arse_sidewards
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Congrats. Let me know if you need help filling it up with machine tools.
I used to do construction in a place where a house has to date to the early 1800s to be "old". So much hackery happens over the years.
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I used to do construction in a place where a house has to date to the early 1800s to be "old". So much hackery happens over the years.
I know a lot of guys in WY have velcro gloves to help them hang onto their favorite sheep.
You're thinking of Montana.
Bahhh means no!
And all the other mounts while I'm at it...
Found a giant box of horns in the shop
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Chzbrgr
Bucket Driver
WTF is this thing??
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Bull Mahi (dolphin fish)
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Bull Mahi (dolphin fish)
This is slightly weird, cool and interesting all at the same time.
You can see the ceiling over the main living/dining area in some of the pics - painted kind of sky blue with little stars...and clouds off to the side.
And this is the bay over the kitchen:
And then you turn the lights off and find the little hidden switch that turns on a few black lights....
It's really hard to capture it with the camera and the pics don't really do it justice. It's a little weird....but cool.
You can see the ceiling over the main living/dining area in some of the pics - painted kind of sky blue with little stars...and clouds off to the side.
And this is the bay over the kitchen:
And then you turn the lights off and find the little hidden switch that turns on a few black lights....
It's really hard to capture it with the camera and the pics don't really do it justice. It's a little weird....but cool.
It looks retarded. I'm gonna name it ev13wt.
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[486]
ugh, that guy again?
dig the blacklight stuff