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Ruling re: my lame town: is a POD a "dumpster" (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Otis
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
Fight it.
Das Boot
Footballguy
Das Boot
Footballguy
dparker713
Footballguy
Fail to see why other town's laws, especially in another state, would be at all dispositive.Here's a permit application for the beautiful city of Oakland. LINK
It's for a "DUMPSTER/TEMPORARY STORAGE PERMIT APPLICATION," and throughout they refer to it as a "container."
Tons of other examples where the two are called out as separate things.
My town should amend it's laws if that's what it wants.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Lock your neighbor in the POD and then 5-hole his wife.
dparker713
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Do you need a permit for a shed?
Johnny Rock
Footballguy
Sleep with HBFA because she's a HBFA.
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
Wait - did I miss the "Otis is moving thread"?
Otis
Footballguy
Every now and then -- and I know this sounds crazy, and I'm pretty thorough -- I undertake a major life event without starting a thread about it.*
*Pretty sure I've posted in other threads about it though.
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mr roboto
Footballguy
Pretty sure you've started at least on thread on it.
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
I recall a thread about trusting a RE agent. A rehash of a making an offer thread, & there might be one more.
Can't find them /search feature
cstu
Footballguy
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Curious why the move. Seemed like a great house.
Otis
Footballguy
Variety of reasons:
- Outgrowing this house
- This house is old and very creaky/warping
- This house needs lots of work, which work we concluded would be too extensive and too much of a PIA to live through given what we want
- This house is on a big hill, which is awesome for views and light, less awesome for toddlers
- The town we are looking at is a bunch closer to family and other conveniences (shopping, beaches, etc.)
- The schools here are decent, but the schools in the town we are considering are top notch
- I've had some promotions at my job which allow us to double our budget and get something a bunch bigger and a bunch newer
Inspection today went well enough. Buyers want to close ASAP. We'll need to find a rental to chill in until we find our next house. Full speed ahead.
Mods, please change the thread title to "Otis new house thread"
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Do you have the new place yet?
Have a dumpster delivered to the photographers house
Have a dumpster delivered to the photographers house
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Respond with this:
"I appreciate you asking me to pay this application fee, but I would rather not at this time. Thanks for your concern. Oh, and go #### yourself."
xulf
Footballguy
xulf
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Your latter point is one that has concerned me. The budget we are looking at is more than we ever though we would spend on a house. But all the online affordability calculators say we should be able to conservatively afford it. So we will go for it. It's a hefty mortgage and will require that I stay I my current salary bracket and job for the foreseeable future, but then again I likely wasn't leaving anytime soon anyway.
I would delay it until after closing. They can still put a lien on the property and hold up or collect at closing. Play the game and delay and hopefully you can slide through without paying. Odds are when the closing company contacts them they may try to add it on unless they talk to some clerk not familiar with the situation.
TLEF316
Footballguy
Does 200K worth of work on the house......determines that the house will need a lot of work.
Otis
Footballguy
Was probably about 150k. And yeah, a drop in the bucket compared to what it needed.
On the bright side, I'll make back that 150k, plus about 75k or so in profit
xulf
Footballguy
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gianmarco
Footballguy
mr roboto
Footballguy
Pretty sure it's 2+
Otis
Footballguy
More than what we paid on our current house, less than triple that amount.
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Otis
Footballguy
I will say that you guys would be stunned what little three moneybags gets you in my area.
One moneybag gets you a creaky old hundred year old barn with air conditioning on one side. At leas three moneybags gets you central air, some more space, and flat property. But there's no acres of land, no swimming pool, no obnoxiously nice kitchen, no massive circular driveway covered with Maseratis, etc.
One moneybag gets you a creaky old hundred year old barn with air conditioning on one side. At leas three moneybags gets you central air, some more space, and flat property. But there's no acres of land, no swimming pool, no obnoxiously nice kitchen, no massive circular driveway covered with Maseratis, etc.
xulf
Footballguy
Otis...sometimes you make me jealous, othertimes you make me appreciate what I have...usually the latter (no offense intended) Especially in this case. I'm sitting on 0.50 acre fenced in yard (no longer legal to do) in a great school system. 3000 sq ft, finished basement, play structure in the back, and it cost a fraction...maybe a tenth of what you are looking at.
NY just doesn't seem worth it.
NY just doesn't seem worth it.
TLEF316
Footballguy
People that aren't from the northeast have absolutely no concept of how absurdly expensive it is to buy here. My new boss is moving in from Minnesota and was stunned when he figured out just how little house he could afford (in comparison to their old place). Its beyond ridiculous. I could probably get a 4 BR in 85% of the country for the cost of my dinky 2 BR condo here in central Jersey..
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yeah... people I know from New York with comparable sized homes to mine pay more in property taxes than I do for my entire mortgage + escrow payment, including insurance.
mr roboto
Footballguy
I live in the burbs of Chicago. An older 4bd/3bath house in need of renovation on an acre lot in a good school district starts at 500k. If it's newer, renovated and done with high end finishes, it would be 700k+. That same house in the North Shore here (similar proximity to the city and cultural feel to Long Island) would be 2mil+.
Property taxes on above home are from 12k-25k per year.
We are moving to Minneapolis area next year, in part because of COL and a desire to get away from Illinois taxes, politics, traffic etc. The same house in the nicer outer suburbs as above wouldn't be that much less (maybe 20% less, from 350-500k) but property taxes would be about 2,500-3,500.
I've estimated that the savings on property taxes alone will average 10k. That's 250k over 25 years. I can send both kids to college on the savings from property taxes alone.
/endhijak
Property taxes on above home are from 12k-25k per year.
We are moving to Minneapolis area next year, in part because of COL and a desire to get away from Illinois taxes, politics, traffic etc. The same house in the nicer outer suburbs as above wouldn't be that much less (maybe 20% less, from 350-500k) but property taxes would be about 2,500-3,500.
I've estimated that the savings on property taxes alone will average 10k. That's 250k over 25 years. I can send both kids to college on the savings from property taxes alone.
/endhijak
xulf
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Brother, no offense taken. It's absurd. If I didn't have all our extended family here we would probably leave. Granted jobs here tend to pay a bunch more, but pound for pound not enough more to counter the pricing. It's silly. Just a reality I have accepted given that we are close with family and there is more value to us in that than in a bigger yard or nicer kitchen.
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Otis
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ragincajun
Footballguy
My grandparents sold their house on LI 3 bedrooms / 1.5 baths, maybe 2500sq ft for 500-600k.
When I was looking at Finance jobs in the city I thought apartment rentals were insane till I saw the price per sq ft on LI.
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Henry Ford
Footballguy
mr roboto
Footballguy
My in laws pay 15k on a 2500 sq ft home on a 1/3 acre lot here.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
300K house in Louisiana wouldn't be paying more than $2500-3000 in property taxes per year wherever you live in the state.
Most places it would be under $1500.
Most places it would be under $1500.
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Sand
Footballguy
Good grief. No wonder northerners are flocking south. Here a 300k house would be $1,250 or so in taxes.
mr roboto
Footballguy
It's just the Chicago area. The rest of the Midwest isn't anywhere near that bad.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yeah. I know a guy with a 500k house in the Chicago suburbs paying $12,000 a year in property taxes. Unbelievable.
