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Looks great brandon!!! Really really nice dude!
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Putting an offer in on a house in Isanti tomorrow morning! Crossing fingers it goes through, 3br, 2ba, 3 car garage. :D
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Hope it goes through goodhart!
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There's a house literally across the street from my office that just went up...
It's out of my price range, but it's overpriced for the lot size and living space so I'm hoping it comes down and things happen at work between now and then. Fingers crossed but I'm guessing it won't happen... It's annoying because it's exactly what I want... Small living space (~1000sq ft), 4 stall heated garage wired for welding, not a huge yard, in walking distance from work. Stuff always pops up when it's not an ideal time. :( |
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But you has evo!!
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Well, just got the preliminary approval for my refinance! Woo! This makes me very happy. My house since I bought it in 2010 has appreciated quite a bit, almost 50k (pending appraisal obviously).
But long story short I should save 1-200/mo on my payments and get to pull out a big chunk for house projects that I have been planning! So I should be to update this thread with cool projects soon hopefully and maybe celebrate later this summer with a bbq. Things on my list to do: 1. Build deck! My dad and my GF's dad are both in construction so they are going to help me but going to build myself. 2. remove tree/stump blocking deck, really should be #1 or a subset I guess. 3. gutters, the house is from 2005 but was the model for the new development so didn't have some basic stuff, gutters included and deck, just a door to nowhere. 4. sprinkler system 5. landscaping - basic stuff for now, new rock all around the house, currently only have my front yard rocked but want to not have grass up to the side of the house anywhere and then retaining wall behind my garage as its super steep and its eroding now from rain and sucks to mow anyway. 6. new black dirt/sod. This is important on my list but no idea how much of all of this I can do with the ~10-15k I will hopefully get so might not get this far down the list. 7. Very outside chance, fence in backyard to keep deer out and for future dog. 8. probably will do next year myself, but pavers/patio and firepit out back after clearing some brush. I am getting excited, hopefully everything goes smooth. I just really want a deck so I can have peeps over and chill out there and grill and throw back some cocktails. I'll hopefully update again next when I buy deck materials and start that process. |
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^Sounds pretty badass! Good luck with the project
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That sounds like a huge amount of work, I have a list like that but my house isn't going anywhere so I'm in no rush.
You have to keep us updated it will be awesome to see the huge changes! |
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I bet you have been craving deck for a long time, you seem like the type of guy that would love to have a deck to take advantage of whenever he wants..... :)
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My house is never ending... on a acre with 100x450 lot back in the woods so always something to do.. right now I am redoing my deck and am waiting for new pool liner.
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We recently completed a laundry room/ mudroom update.
We started with linoleum flooring and a basic closet with bi-fold doors; the opening was standard door height of 7 feet. The first pic shows the basic starting point, though the doors and trim are already off. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...psbb3ae961.jpg I opened up the closet opening as wide and as tall as it would go, gaining another 2 feet of space above and about 6 to 8 inches wider. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps1fb603ce.jpg I ripped up the linoleum floor and put down 12x24 porcelain tiles, and went with a modern-looking trim using 1x4 Maple. We also changed paint from basic beige to light blue-gray. This pic is where the washer and dryer go. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...psd7d42a32.jpg And here is the end result (I did everything else but hired out the building of this unit; didn't want to mess this up). It's a fully custom built-in made of Maple; it has a 7-foot tall wardrobe on the right with two racks for for hanging coats, five full-depth cabinets (24 inches deep) on top, bench with shoe storage underneath, and then coat hooks on the wall behind the bench. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps85cef1c9.jpg |
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Looks great man!
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Nice, great update there, looks good.
Just got done with the appraisal on my house and all the info is to the underwriter now. I might be able to close my refinance this month but it will be tight. Unfortunately the appraisal came back like 8k lower than we expected but the appraiser used houses that were further away and the sales were 6-10 months old so we gave him a few more recent ones that show a much greater value and hopefully it can be bumped up. If we can't then that just means less cash out for home projects which isn't the end of the world. Hopefully the deck project starts in early June though, should be fun. Seeing the other projects in here makes me want to do more "house mods" vs car ones haha. |
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Looks good Brian!
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Welp, first house offer didn't go through. Ended up offering $ 4,000 more than asking price on our 3rd offer and got turned down because they wouldn't take a VA loan. Well, their loss! Be putting another offer in on a place in Cambridge today for roughly the same price. 4br, 1ba, 3 car garage, unfinished basement.
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Nice.
I just picked up a mower Tuesday night. |
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We picked up a battery powered craftsman mower this week. No more gas. Save it for the cars. :)
We are trying to do a few new things around the house to prep it for selling. Going to move into either the kids school district we are open enrolled in or grab 20+ acres out west on 55 a ways. Started on the storage room tonight. Repainting, making everything visually appealing. So if anyone is looking for something in the loop, on the NW side of the cites, set up nice for a car guy and family (nearly 1k sq ft 4 car garage, 4 bedroom, 2 bath) let me know. lol |
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20+ acres? god damn.
Drove by some of those lots yesterday afternoon, nice and peaceful out there. |
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mmm acreage.
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Offer accepted! Inspection is this coming week, then closing is on or before July 3rd. :D
4br, 1ba, 3 car garage, .3 acres (Better get that riding lawnmower eh Brown? :lol: ) Right now it's about 1,300 finished sq ft, when the basement is finished it will be just a hair over 2,100. First projects: Garage floor epoxy and deck stain. Doesn't need a whole lot really, the current owners bought it in 2012 with a VA loan, and the VA is real picky, so we know it can't have any major issues unless they popped up in the last 18 months. Here's some pics: Attachment 14428 Attachment 14429 Attachment 14430 Attachment 14432 Attachment 14433 Attachment 14434 Attachment 14436 Attachment 14437 Attachment 14438 Attachment 14439 |
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Very nice, where abouts?
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Cambridge.
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On the E side of 65? Looks like that neighborhood. Looks clean and I like the vaulted ceilings. Grats!
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Congrats I know you have been trying to buy for a while.
I'll been on craigslist looking for a rider for you, you will need it. It takes me 30-40 mins to do my 1/4 acre lot with mine! ;-) |
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Rider for sure, turns a chore into something enjoyable.
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Yea, east side behind Menard's. I already have a push mower though, I'll get out and get the exercise. :D I'm more concerned about other yard tools, and eventually a snow blower
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Exercise ftw! Congrats!
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Well, after months of dinking around, I finally got my refinance to go through. I have a rental property with my dad and it took a lot of paperwork to convince them to remove that from my debt/income ratio as they had to know I had nothing to do with it.
But after we got past that, I also had to have a second appraisal to confirm the first, (LAME). So I had to pay twice because my house appreciated so much since I bought it (more than 50k). But I was able to net 11k out of the deal, so now onto reinvesting in the house! i am having one of my dads sub contractors stop by soon, he is going to remove a semi dead tree in my back yard that will be in the way of my new deck that I am putting in. I am also going to have him quote a retaining wall for behind my garage too and maybe some various other landscaping items. Then my dad and I are going to design the deck and he will work it up in CAD or architect builder or whatever his program is called, can't remember. And then I will buy all the materials and get building soon hopefully. My dad and my gf's dad (also used to be in the construction business) are going to help me build the deck, so should be fun to get my hands dirty there. I have done framing and poured concrete in the past, so i am not totally green but I am not a pro by any means. The last thing on my list is gutters. So hopefully I have some pictures to post soon, I am excited to finally have a deck so I can grill out back :) |
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Been working on garage projects lately. In preparation for the epoxy coating, I had to make overhead shelving to store some of our stuff so the two main stalls could be completely empty. The shelf is 20' long, and 28" deep. I built it using 10' sections of electrical conduit struts, and 1/2" threaded rods between them. I used structural screws to tap into the ceiling beams, and the wall side rests on a 2x4 that is screwed into the wall studs. There are 10 grates total, each held onto the 2x4 with big staples, and on the front with a bunch of big zip ties. It actually ended up being very strong and stable, it holds several hundred pounds easily on each side, I was hanging from the lower bar and it didn't flex. Final step will be to paint the 2x4 to match the garage walls.
http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...rage_shelf.jpg Last week I started prepping my garage floor for epoxy coating. I used the Rustoleum Professional floor coating solvent based epoxy. I purchased three kits total, but only did 2 stalls for now, the third stall will be done at a later time. First I mixed all three gallons of base coat "Part B" in one big bucket so the color will match, then poured them back into the individual gallons. Tuesday I did a dawn scrubbing and couple rinses, Wednesday I did the degreasing stuff and a rinse, and then Thursday I did the acid etching and a couple rinses. Got all the water off, towel dried, and let it dry two full days. Spent about 9-10 hours in prep for the two stalls. Saturday afternoon was my first coat of epoxy. Went pretty well but I went too thin and ended up with extra paint so I just did some areas again trying to get it even. After 24 hours you could see it was pretty blotchy. Sunday I did the second layer of epoxy, and knowing that it would take even less paint since there were no more pores to fill, I went extra thick on the paint. Seemed to come out with a pretty nice shine, but you could see some faint lines between the areas that had some time between them, got a little too dry while I was putting the flakes down I think. Overall I was pretty happy at this point, but I noticed you could hardly see the flakes, the floor was glossy and reflective but the flakes were not, so they were like voids, you just saw black, not the actual color. Today I put on the clear coat, and went pretty thick again. Just took this picture and the clear has pretty much tried to the touch, so it should retain the same shine. All of the previous lines are now gone and you can see the color chips way better because there is a gloss coat over everything (Emily even commented that the color stands out a lot more now). I also added an anti-slip into the top coat, reminds me of little sugar or salt crystals. http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...rage_floor.jpg Now I just hope I did the prep well enough, and that it doesn't peel or bubble up. |
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Looks good. Be careful that shit is like ice when wet.
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Looks great!
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