whodatnation
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I feel your frustration doobs. Try and think about something else for a while maybe, helps me in similar situations... And or find someone capable of doing their job.
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Dr.D81
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It sounds to me like they are steering you to someone building spec houses. If you can find a lot you like I would buy it get your contractor to build the house. Someone building speculative houses are doing it to mark it up before they sell. They will cheap out at every turn. Imo Getting him to build it with the bank and you would result in a better deal. Just my experience building and maintaining spec houses. Good luck.
hornedfrog2000
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bait n switch.
hornedfrog2000
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damn this heat wave needs to move its ass on out of here. Way too hot to be growing in this. I'm having trouble getting under low 90s right now.... Not good at all.
hornedfrog2000
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DST
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For me, hornedfrog heat is a climatisation thing. I grew up in Far East Asia for the first part of my life so extreme heat is manageable if I get use to it. But here anything over 26 celcius and it just gets uncomfortable and I am a crap sleeper so just end up tossing and turning. We can't do A/C because of my wifes eyes, they get fukked up dry as it is without aircon. She literally wouldn't be able to see shit the next day (she often sleeps with her eyes open). It's only occassionaly on holiday that I get to turn an A/C on...
Funnily enough, my grow room has been sitting steady at 28c so all good for the ladies.
Funnily enough, my grow room has been sitting steady at 28c so all good for the ladies.
hornedfrog2000
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Holy jesus I wish it was 79 degrees here.
budolskie
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fucking roasting man toking on the blue bongs, ordered sum air stone disks and a pump with 4 outlets to hook 4 little cloners up at once might go for the containers today sumtime if i can be arsed but been to check my babys in the flower room and put my dippy ellsy in there, i will get pics my 6 dogs tomorow im vegging these up all to go in together in few weeks
DoobieBrother
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Same temps as we'll be getting through the end of the weekend here, too.
As for the house, I'm hoping the broker just had his mind stuck on golfing during the meeting.
(he claims that's his addiction)
I'm not so much worried about the homebuilder.
His company specializes in highend custom homes, he's got an excellent reputation, and I've seen his finished homes elsewhere in town, and they are very nicely done.
I just get very frustrated when people take the time to stop what we're doing (the builder and myself) to have a meeting and one of the parties at the meeting doesn't bother paying attention to what is being discussed.
My main goal is to get my wife set up in a decent and affordable house in the event that I don't make it through my leukemia treatments (it's still 50/50).
So I've been expending all of what little energy I have to try and make it happen.
The sellers have this one homebuilder as their approved builder, so bringing in a different builder is a no-go.
I even called him (the broker) on that when he said they might not be able to do it all with our "small" budget, because the MLS listing and the huge subdivision sign going into the new neighborhood explicitly states: "We will build to suit, or bring in your own builder!".
I'm not giving up on this plot of land, or the homebuilder, until I'm sure it's not going to be possible to do it, but I've told the wife we need to keep looking and not rely on these people to make it happen.
It's all very frustrating, as we live in a city with strict urban growth boundaries due to being surrounded by larger & larger farmlands, which makes finding usable empty lots difficult and expensive ($500,000 per acre for bare land, undeveloped).
I'd rather we just bought the land & pay for the home build with 2 loans that we secure on our own, rather than have to get "approval" from the sellers to do it all under one loan.
If that were the case, we'd already be under way.
The sellers should have zero say in who builds the house. I'm not fond of a home being built on spec like this, though it will save us some hassle & money on closing costs.
All they have is the land and, like any place: money talks, bullshit walks.
We have the money for down payments, and we have an excellent credit rating (780+) to make it happen.
$55k for the larger plot of land is within our budget if the homebuilder can build the home for no more than $95k (which is more than enough to get it done).
Very frustrating, and disheartening to have a broker involved who's head isn't in the game.
I think we need to get our real estate agent directly involved to help us out as she is going to make money off this deal, so she needs to earn it, in my opinion, to help us communicate with the broker so there are no more mis-communications.
I, personally, have pretty well written this deal off.
Unless they get their asses wired to their heads and focus on the subject at hand.
We've been searching every day for over 5-months now for a home is the South end of town, with no luck (either too expensive for us, or too run down for the money being asked for homes in our price range, or geographically unfit for our long term needs).
I've been doing a one-man grid search of every neighborhood, driving around on my scooter looking for bare land for sale, and for homes that are for sale by owner (and not listed online through the MLS), and there is very little out there.
There are VERY few houses on the market this year in our price range, and almost all of them are in the north end of town where crime is higher and there is a large police presence because of it. I don't hate cops as individuals (until I know better), but I hate feeling like I'm under their thumb because of seeing them cruising all over as they arbitrarily enforce the laws.
In South Salem, seeing a cop is a rare thing.
People are nicer here in the south-side, abide by the law (as much as we all abide ), and are generally respectful of others.
Not so much in the North end of town.
And right now, I'm exhausted from my last bout of treatments, and am being forced to consider finding a supplier of herbs so I can sleep like a normal human, because it's going to be 3+ months before my little ones are harvested. Ran out on July 1st, which was my last day of chemo until my b-day at the end of September.
So a bit frazzled, to say the least.
Well, the wife has finally joined in to help get things on track, so that is a small & welcomed bit of help.
Now we just need to straighten out any errors caused by the broker not paying attention to find out if all this is actually going to happen.
With the stagnant home market, and even more stagnant new home build market, you'd think people would actually WANT some money coming in, but it seems to be the opposite.
As for the house, I'm hoping the broker just had his mind stuck on golfing during the meeting.
(he claims that's his addiction)
I'm not so much worried about the homebuilder.
His company specializes in highend custom homes, he's got an excellent reputation, and I've seen his finished homes elsewhere in town, and they are very nicely done.
I just get very frustrated when people take the time to stop what we're doing (the builder and myself) to have a meeting and one of the parties at the meeting doesn't bother paying attention to what is being discussed.
My main goal is to get my wife set up in a decent and affordable house in the event that I don't make it through my leukemia treatments (it's still 50/50).
So I've been expending all of what little energy I have to try and make it happen.
The sellers have this one homebuilder as their approved builder, so bringing in a different builder is a no-go.
I even called him (the broker) on that when he said they might not be able to do it all with our "small" budget, because the MLS listing and the huge subdivision sign going into the new neighborhood explicitly states: "We will build to suit, or bring in your own builder!".
I'm not giving up on this plot of land, or the homebuilder, until I'm sure it's not going to be possible to do it, but I've told the wife we need to keep looking and not rely on these people to make it happen.
It's all very frustrating, as we live in a city with strict urban growth boundaries due to being surrounded by larger & larger farmlands, which makes finding usable empty lots difficult and expensive ($500,000 per acre for bare land, undeveloped).
I'd rather we just bought the land & pay for the home build with 2 loans that we secure on our own, rather than have to get "approval" from the sellers to do it all under one loan.
If that were the case, we'd already be under way.
The sellers should have zero say in who builds the house. I'm not fond of a home being built on spec like this, though it will save us some hassle & money on closing costs.
All they have is the land and, like any place: money talks, bullshit walks.
We have the money for down payments, and we have an excellent credit rating (780+) to make it happen.
$55k for the larger plot of land is within our budget if the homebuilder can build the home for no more than $95k (which is more than enough to get it done).
Very frustrating, and disheartening to have a broker involved who's head isn't in the game.
I think we need to get our real estate agent directly involved to help us out as she is going to make money off this deal, so she needs to earn it, in my opinion, to help us communicate with the broker so there are no more mis-communications.
I, personally, have pretty well written this deal off.
Unless they get their asses wired to their heads and focus on the subject at hand.
We've been searching every day for over 5-months now for a home is the South end of town, with no luck (either too expensive for us, or too run down for the money being asked for homes in our price range, or geographically unfit for our long term needs).
I've been doing a one-man grid search of every neighborhood, driving around on my scooter looking for bare land for sale, and for homes that are for sale by owner (and not listed online through the MLS), and there is very little out there.
There are VERY few houses on the market this year in our price range, and almost all of them are in the north end of town where crime is higher and there is a large police presence because of it. I don't hate cops as individuals (until I know better), but I hate feeling like I'm under their thumb because of seeing them cruising all over as they arbitrarily enforce the laws.
In South Salem, seeing a cop is a rare thing.
People are nicer here in the south-side, abide by the law (as much as we all abide
), and are generally respectful of others.Not so much in the North end of town.
And right now, I'm exhausted from my last bout of treatments, and am being forced to consider finding a supplier of herbs so I can sleep like a normal human, because it's going to be 3+ months before my little ones are harvested. Ran out on July 1st, which was my last day of chemo until my b-day at the end of September.
So a bit frazzled, to say the least.
Well, the wife has finally joined in to help get things on track, so that is a small & welcomed bit of help.
Now we just need to straighten out any errors caused by the broker not paying attention to find out if all this is actually going to happen.
With the stagnant home market, and even more stagnant new home build market, you'd think people would actually WANT some money coming in, but it seems to be the opposite.
DoobieBrother
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This is me these days:
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DoobieBrother
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I'l bet your dogs were loving the water
I'd be out in it up to my neck until I looked like a California Raisin
Damn... now I want me a big ol' slice of pecan pie...
I'd be out in it up to my neck until I looked like a California Raisin
Damn... now I want me a big ol' slice of pecan pie...
DoobieBrother
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I've got a gallon of sherbet in the freezer: a half-gallon each of orange and lime.
The breakfast of champions!
The breakfast of champions!