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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2024 10:43:40 GMT -5
Good news, my lease situation is fixed. Bad news I have to remember to pay rent next week while I’m traveling, since it’s going to take a few days to fix this all in the online portal. But if that’s the only “bad news” for me in this situation, I’ll take it. I feel so bad for the lady I spoke with today. She was thanking ME bc I was so calm and nice, she said most folks yell at her for this type of thing. I get that it’s stressful, but it was MY mistake that I didn’t re-sign in time. I figure yelling at her was definitely not the way to get what I wanted! Do you have an online portal where you pay? We do and I pay half of the rent every 2 weeks when I get paid. Last week I paid the last half of May since my next paycheck is 5/3 which is too late. The money sits on my account as a credit and they sweep it on the 1st and collect rent. It also helps break up a large expense. I do the same on my car through bank transfers. My car payment is $475 I think. I pay $250 every 2 weeks. That way I'll pay it off sooner too. I don't put extra payments on my rent since it's not actual debt I'm paying off, I just break up the payment.
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Post by flamingo on Apr 27, 2024 10:49:52 GMT -5
andi9899, yep we pay in an online portal. But bc it’s calculated all wrong right now (based off the month to month price, not the 12 month lease price), I can’t do anything until at least Monday. It’ll be ok, I’ve added calendar reminders so I won’t forget.
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Post by giramomma on Apr 27, 2024 11:23:43 GMT -5
I've unknit roughly 200 stitches today. I lead such an exciting life.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 27, 2024 11:31:13 GMT -5
Yes,very careful buying a modular, we have considered it too. BUT you either have to buy land or put it in a park. A park is expensive and can raise rates every year, they have already on the one we bought and expect it again. A new outfit bought the park a few years ago and the rents are still the lowest in the area. I told hubs we need to get things situated before they get so high we have to take a beating on selling it. Old as the ones are in this park, they are all cash only. But they and it are very well maintained, newer black top roads, lakeside with access, really nice. Fenced all around except the entrance but the way the roads wind around no one is unnoticed if they don't belong, so safe.
For the site, be sure the jurisdiction doesn't forbid them. Some say stick built houses only, so be careful what you buy. Then make sure the soil will meet a perk test, I would spend the money to do that before you buy. Will you have to drill a well? That can get expensive real quick. And electric, unless you are close to existing power lines you again could pay a small fortune to have a line run to your property. And watch zoning if they have it.
Yes, we have been through all this before, why we haven't bought raw land to do this. Flooding comes into account so check that out. And a foundation needs to be laid to sit the house on. Then either build decks or just have steps. Yes, now from what we hear they are now well built. Ours in Washington is so old the standards weren't set yet, but its not bad and its old. Hubs is surprised its as well built as it is.
He figures up there $300 to $400k for a modular that's because we will want nicer finishes and maybe $100,000 for a lot plus could be $100,000 for utilities. All we might get out of it is a bigger lot a bit further out.
Just remember they can be a very nice setup, but depending on the area you are in just as expensive as a house. You may be somewhere you can find land a lot less expensive though, but not where we are looking
Maybe you could get lucky and find a lot with all that already done, but remember everyone else hopes so too, so drives the price up.
You could ask the dealer for a checkoff list of all you need to do to prep for the home to be set. They likely have someone lined up for site work and the foundation or know people that do the rest.
Whoops I forget to add, be sure there is enough room on the lot for both a well and septic, there are minimums of space required so one won't contaminate the other. Cannot rely on seller unless they have the paperwork to show this has been determined. Check with county health departments I believe. The ideal is having city water available then it won't matter.
Just stuff from experience. And we ended up not doing it many years ago as to expensive. Mom gave us a lot and we built a house ourselves on it that had city water and city sewer, so that worked out.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 27, 2024 11:34:38 GMT -5
I am just going to buy a flat griddle to use on the grill. There is no point dragging 2 of these things around, will get a good quality stainless one I think, will read on that. It can be stored under the grill when no being used, plenty of room.
I need my nap, I'm pooped out from just fixing breakfast and a load of laundry. No, last night just didn't get to bed early enough and didn't sleep as well as the night before.
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Post by soupandstew on Apr 27, 2024 12:57:23 GMT -5
After breakfast I worked on weeding, planting and trimming for about an hour and now my body parts are talking to me and they aren't saying nice things. I did find the fountain of youth when I stirred up a fire ant bed and they swarmed up my arm. I'm pretty sure neighbors 2 blocks over heard me cussing
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Post by alabamagal on Apr 27, 2024 13:04:51 GMT -5
Go through their car insurance. Homeowners claims count way more than auto claims unless they're weather related. Plus you don't have to pay your deductible. Great advice! You're helpful like that. And in so many other ways. 😊 We had a car hit our house. All damages completely paid by auto insurance of driver.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 27, 2024 13:19:47 GMT -5
well, I think I'm finally getting the luggage out of my dining room today. last load of clothes just went in the washer, and I'm about to upend the roller case. the first of four hockey games today has just started, and that's going to be background noise the rest of the day. I may go sit outside to watch some of it, idk. I should really get moving and be more productive. I got sucked into some Investigation Discovery episodes earlier.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 27, 2024 13:44:11 GMT -5
I'm feeling very torn on all this basement waterproofing. I finally have a sump after 24 years without one, but my basement is trashed and some things are going to be difficult to fix. I can deal with that, but what I'm really not liking is the discharge line setup outside. It is most certainly going to freeze up in the winter looking at how it's working now and there is no easy way I can bypass it how it is now. Not something that is going to be an issue for awhile, but just a new stressor on my plate when I'm already feeling overwhelmed.
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Post by soupandstew on Apr 27, 2024 14:11:01 GMT -5
Pretty sure I'm going to burn in the afterlife. Sitting in a committee meeting and someone actually said, "you should listen to me, I'm a member of the DAR." I texted my buddy across the room and asked if that meant Dumb As Rocks and she had to fake a coughing spell for cover. Seriously, who says stupid stuff like that?
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 27, 2024 14:33:14 GMT -5
Pretty sure I'm going to burn in the afterlife. Sitting in a committee meeting and someone actually said, "you should listen to me, I'm a member of the DAR." I texted my buddy across the room and asked if that meant Dumb As Rocks and she had to fake a coughing spell for cover. Seriously, who says stupid stuff like that? people that think that qualifies them for anything simply because of who their ancestors are. sadly there's a lot of idiots like this out there.
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Post by bookkeeper on Apr 27, 2024 14:44:09 GMT -5
I'm feeling very torn on all this basement waterproofing. I finally have a sump after 24 years without one, but my basement is trashed and some things are going to be difficult to fix. I can deal with that, but what I'm really not liking is the discharge line setup outside. It is most certainly going to freeze up in the winter looking at how it's working now and there is no easy way I can bypass it how it is now. Not something that is going to be an issue for awhile, but just a new stressor on my plate when I'm already feeling overwhelmed. We had a very wet year with Mom's basement going into winter one year. We built a frame for the sump pump discharge hose to rest in at a pretty good angle so that the water could not pool inside the hose and freeze. The other option we thought of was a pvc pipe with a heat tape connected to the discharge. Mostly you just have to set up the discharge so the water pumps out the hose and drains completely leaving no water in the hose to freeze.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 27, 2024 14:46:59 GMT -5
I'm feeling very torn on all this basement waterproofing. I finally have a sump after 24 years without one, but my basement is trashed and some things are going to be difficult to fix. I can deal with that, but what I'm really not liking is the discharge line setup outside. It is most certainly going to freeze up in the winter looking at how it's working now and there is no easy way I can bypass it how it is now. Not something that is going to be an issue for awhile, but just a new stressor on my plate when I'm already feeling overwhelmed. We had a very wet year with Mom's basement going into winter one year. We built a frame for the sump pump discharge hose to rest in at a pretty good angle so that the water could not pool inside the hose and freeze. The other option we thought of was a pvc pipe with a heat tape connected to the discharge. Mostly you just have to set up the discharge so the water pumps out the hose and drains completely leaving no water in the hose to freeze. this. I had a short pipe from my sump in the last house, and then after the basement flooded in the big ice storm in 2017 and I lost power (thereby making the sump useless...)......when the power came back on and the sump was working overtime, it ended up creating a pond right next to the house where the pipe ended. mooch ended up extending the PVC pipe to the low point in the corner of the yard, under the fence. **make sure when/if you do extend your pipe, that you check the slopes to make sure it all drains out.
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Post by cooper88 on Apr 27, 2024 15:08:21 GMT -5
I have always wished my house had a basement, but now maybe I don't really want a basement. I guess I just thought you got a lot more space without doing anything ever. I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 27, 2024 15:12:00 GMT -5
We had a very wet year with Mom's basement going into winter one year. We built a frame for the sump pump discharge hose to rest in at a pretty good angle so that the water could not pool inside the hose and freeze. The other option we thought of was a pvc pipe with a heat tape connected to the discharge. Mostly you just have to set up the discharge so the water pumps out the hose and drains completely leaving no water in the hose to freeze. this. I had a short pipe from my sump in the last house, and then after the basement flooded in the big ice storm in 2017 and I lost power (thereby making the sump useless...)......when the power came back on and the sump was working overtime, it ended up creating a pond right next to the house where the pipe ended. mooch ended up extending the PVC pipe to the low point in the corner of the yard, under the fence. **make sure when/if you do extend your pipe, that you check the slopes to make sure it all drains out. It isn't short, it goes about 25 feet away from the house, but at the end of the pvc pipe (which is buried) there's a vertical cylinder that the pipe feeds into with a grate on top and the water comes out of that (they call it a "bubbler"). Well, that thing is always full of water and until I dug a little trench the grate was under standing water too. That part is going to freeze FOR SURE. It's basically like having a coffee can sized container of water just below the surface.
I'm not sure I'm explaining this well. I should go take pictures.
Bubbler
the "coffee can" uncovered.
They have these ice guards coming off the house so if the lines are frozen the water just spill out through the openings instead, but it then just dumps right by the foundation (and that part of the house doesn't have french drain to get rid of it). If I could just take them off and run lines above the ground if (when) the lines freeze it would be fine, but the darn things are glued on.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 27, 2024 15:14:57 GMT -5
I have always wished my house had a basement, but now maybe I don't really want a basement. I guess I just thought you got a lot more space without doing anything ever. I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. My house is just too far in the ground for having no grade and hard clay soil. We never had problems with water in the houses I grew up in without any pumps keeping them dry.
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Post by toomuchreality on Apr 27, 2024 15:42:57 GMT -5
I have always wished my house had a basement, but now maybe I don't really want a basement. I guess I just thought you got a lot more space without doing anything ever. I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. My house is just too far in the ground for having no grade and hard clay soil. We never had problems with water in the houses I grew up in without any pumps keeping them dry. @cooper This made me laugh. Growing up, our basement had a sup pump, that ran a lot. I never thought about where it drained to. Our house had one of the few basements in the neighborhood. I never gave it much thought. I guess that's why.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 27, 2024 15:46:20 GMT -5
this. I had a short pipe from my sump in the last house, and then after the basement flooded in the big ice storm in 2017 and I lost power (thereby making the sump useless...)......when the power came back on and the sump was working overtime, it ended up creating a pond right next to the house where the pipe ended. mooch ended up extending the PVC pipe to the low point in the corner of the yard, under the fence. **make sure when/if you do extend your pipe, that you check the slopes to make sure it all drains out. It isn't short, it goes about 25 feet away from the house, but at the end of the pvc pipe (which is buried) there's a vertical cylinder that the pipe feeds into with a grate on top and the water comes out of that (they call it a "bubbler"). Well, that thing is always full of water and until I dug a little trench the grate was under standing water too. That part is going to freeze FOR SURE. It's basically like having a coffee can sized container of water just below the surface.
I'm not sure I'm explaining this well. I should go take pictures.
I've never seen that residentially around here, but have seen it in new sites I've been involved with commissioning. I followed your explanation 🙂 I guess my question is, does the water have enough room to expand when it freezes, in the pathway that's there? if it freezes, you can chip it to make room for more if need be. but if it's gonna expand with no room and crack the hardware that's there, that will be a bigger mess.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Apr 27, 2024 16:07:17 GMT -5
I did not get started as early as I’d planned to this morning, and I am overwhelmed. I have done a couple loads of laundry, but I already had a mountain of clothes that needed to be put away, and now I have several mountains to deal with. I have done my hair, my feet and my eyebrows. Now I just need to deal with all the laundry, figure out what clothes I’m taking, and pack. Which is still a lot and I don’t wanna. The material on my big suitcase is torn on the top, it’s still functional, but ugly. Mister has a suitcase the same size, but I’m going to try to just use my smaller one. I tend to be completely ridiculous IRT overpacking, to the point that I’ve had to pay extra at the airport before because my suitcase was so heavy. Using the smaller suitcase should help me be more sensible. Idk if I’ll even get any sleep tonight, since my flight leaves at 5:30 in the morning. This is what I get for procrastinating.
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Post by resolution on Apr 27, 2024 16:11:21 GMT -5
I have always wished my house had a basement, but now maybe I don't really want a basement. I guess I just thought you got a lot more space without doing anything ever. I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. For most houses, you just have to have to do a lot of work one time to get it working right, and then it is free space without a lot of work. Our last house we had to hire a contractor to dig a french drain and put in a sump pump, and then it took care of itself and everything stayed dry. The current house, someone else had that done before we bought it, so we just keep a dehumidifier running and it drains into the sump pump and gets pumped away.
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Post by resolution on Apr 27, 2024 16:16:38 GMT -5
The material on my big suitcase is torn on the top, it’s still functional, but ugly. Mister has a suitcase the same size, but I’m going to try to just use my smaller one. I tend to be completely ridiculous IRT overpacking, to the point that I’ve had to pay extra at the airport before because my suitcase was so heavy. Using the smaller suitcase should help me be more sensible. Idk if I’ll even get any sleep tonight, since my flight leaves at 5:30 in the morning. This is what I get for procrastinating. When you replace the torn one, there are ultra light suitcases in the market now that leave a lot more of the weight allowance for your clothes. The one I got is It brand, and it just weighs a few pounds, which makes it a lot easier to pack. I expect there are plenty of other brands that are just as light these days.
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Post by soupandstew on Apr 27, 2024 16:40:20 GMT -5
I am just going to buy a flat griddle to use on the grill. There is no point dragging 2 of these things around, will get a good quality stainless one I think, will read on that. It can be stored under the grill when no being used, plenty of room. I need my nap, I'm pooped out from just fixing breakfast and a load of laundry. No, last night just didn't get to bed early enough and didn't sleep as well as the night before. Weber has some nice flat griddles that might fit your grill. I would love a new grill but it's hard to justify spending $1,500 at this point in our lives since it works just fine but looks a little rough. Hindsight is always 20-20 but we really haven't used the rotisserie feature like we thought we would.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2024 16:40:27 GMT -5
Pretty sure I'm going to burn in the afterlife. Sitting in a committee meeting and someone actually said, "you should listen to me, I'm a member of the DAR." I texted my buddy across the room and asked if that meant Dumb As Rocks and she had to fake a coughing spell for cover. Seriously, who says stupid stuff like that? Please forgive my ignorance, but what does that mean?
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2024 16:41:55 GMT -5
I have always wished my house had a basement, but now maybe I don't really want a basement. I guess I just thought you got a lot more space without doing anything ever. I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. You also get a storn shelter. It's essential for us Midwest people.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Apr 27, 2024 16:45:07 GMT -5
Pretty sure I'm going to burn in the afterlife. Sitting in a committee meeting and someone actually said, "you should listen to me, I'm a member of the DAR." I texted my buddy across the room and asked if that meant Dumb As Rocks and she had to fake a coughing spell for cover. Seriously, who says stupid stuff like that? Please forgive my ignorance, but what does that mean? Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Apr 27, 2024 16:46:07 GMT -5
Pretty sure I'm going to burn in the afterlife. Sitting in a committee meeting and someone actually said, "you should listen to me, I'm a member of the DAR." I texted my buddy across the room and asked if that meant Dumb As Rocks and she had to fake a coughing spell for cover. Seriously, who says stupid stuff like that?
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 27, 2024 16:50:40 GMT -5
My kid lives under a rock. She asked if it was raining pretty bad here. I said not until later. I then said "at least we're not in Nebraska." She had no idea what I was talking about. She was born and raised in KS. It's storm season! People who don't even live here know about it.
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Post by bookkeeper on Apr 27, 2024 16:54:45 GMT -5
this. I had a short pipe from my sump in the last house, and then after the basement flooded in the big ice storm in 2017 and I lost power (thereby making the sump useless...)......when the power came back on and the sump was working overtime, it ended up creating a pond right next to the house where the pipe ended. mooch ended up extending the PVC pipe to the low point in the corner of the yard, under the fence. **make sure when/if you do extend your pipe, that you check the slopes to make sure it all drains out. It isn't short, it goes about 25 feet away from the house, but at the end of the pvc pipe (which is buried) there's a vertical cylinder that the pipe feeds into with a grate on top and the water comes out of that (they call it a "bubbler"). Well, that thing is always full of water and until I dug a little trench the grate was under standing water too. That part is going to freeze FOR SURE. It's basically like having a coffee can sized container of water just below the surface.
I'm not sure I'm explaining this well. I should go take pictures.
Bubbler
the "coffee can" uncovered.
They have these ice guards coming off the house so if the lines are frozen the water just spill out through the openings instead, but it then just dumps right by the foundation (and that part of the house doesn't have french drain to get rid of it). If I could just take them off and run lines above the ground if (when) the lines freeze it would be fine, but the darn things are glued on.
The theory is that when the ground is frozen, you won't have any water coming into the sump until thaw. I would have the contractor give you an option to hook up an above ground discharge so that you can be ready for the day that your current outlet is frozen. I live in SD and I have a similar outdoor outlet for the down spout off my garage roof. It freezes up in the winter time. It shouldn't be very difficult to design a backup system where you would be able to switch the discharge water from the summer system you have pictured to an emergency spring thaw, get it away from the house system that would run on top of the ground. A few hundred feet of discharge hose and a hole in the side of the house with a cap should not be crazy expensive. Hang in there with the home improvements. We are just finishing up new windows and some basement refresh. It will end sometime, right?
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Post by soupandstew on Apr 27, 2024 16:56:12 GMT -5
Pretty sure I'm going to burn in the afterlife. Sitting in a committee meeting and someone actually said, "you should listen to me, I'm a member of the DAR." I texted my buddy across the room and asked if that meant Dumb As Rocks and she had to fake a coughing spell for cover. Seriously, who says stupid stuff like that? Please forgive my ignorance, but what does that mean? Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization of people who can trace their ancestry to people present during the American Revolution against Britain. Which means absolutely zero in terms of why I should listen to this person about our modern-day American community. But has a lot to do with her desire for selective enforcement favoring people of European origin! And don't even get me started on what the "American" colonists did to the indigenous persons already living here.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 27, 2024 17:04:58 GMT -5
The theory is that when the ground is frozen, you won't have any water coming into the sump until thaw. My worst water problems are when the ground is still frozen and the snow is melting or we get rain on top of frozen ground and it doesn't soak in but backs up to the house, so likely the discharge lines would be frozen too. I've only gotten water in the basement twice in 25 years during outside of that, and once was a 100 year flood event.
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