The Old Folks Home

[Leave a LightOn]

I think if you bought a whole bunch of things from Amazon she might not notice the extra traps.

Like tell her: "Do NOT open any Amazon boxes between now and Christmas, please!" She'll be quietly pleased and excited each time a new trap arrives. (or Chanuka or Kwanza)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: found lifting straps me a bf carried a 4 x 8 sheet easier with straps him not
alone

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm with you Latestarter, I LOVE roasted turkey and candied sweet potatoes and that's about it. I'm a non -vegan - I'll even eat just turkey solo, I love it so much. Hot, or cold

 

[Beer can]

ROFLOL!  True, but I would have gotten my home on the correct closing date. 

Diva, one assumes these people are trained.  I'm not convinced.  What's so scary is that all these people do is handle money.  They don't sell the home, they don't insure the home, all they do is handle money.  It does help explain why the economy is not a lot better.  Oh, did I mention that it's through Wells Fargo?  It would seem after all the negative publicity, and scandals they've recently been through, that they would have tightened up their efficiency.  Efficiency, like Elvis, has left the building. 

We bought this house in '09? Went with the mortgage company the realty used to make it easier. When our lawyer was finishing things up before we went to closing and telling us what would go on/expect, he mentioned our mortgage company would sell it to another. I said isn't that what has caused so much trouble, yup he said, but it's normal...Huh, you'd think it'd stay with the company you started with. It was bought by Bank of America...another one who made headlines. ..Last yr we were switched to another.

 

[Beer can]

We just roasted the turkey that I got for Christmas from work monday. No sweet potatoes or cranberry sauce or stuffing...
Did have fresh taters and roasted butternut squash from our garden though.
Brought turkey soup to work today.
Think I'll suck down some cold one's and naw on whats left of the carcass tonight Lol! :-D

 

[pennyJo1960]

@Beer can We bought this in 2015 and yes it was sold almost before the ink was dry

 

[perchie.girl]

in 1989 bought a house from a Real Estate agent named Johnny Cash....

and yep he was a cousin... During the transaction the owner decided to back out because he figured out he had priced the house abut 20K under what it was worth. But my agent said "Back out and you will get sued.... " The owner wasnt using a realtor....

In 2003 sold that house without a real estate agent.... probably wont do that again.

Bought a house with the money. With a really good real estate agent... the house I have now. Survived a 45 day escrow

. It was worth it because I got the property for under what it was worth.... and paid cash for it.

So no more moves for me. Its lost money its gained money i dont care because its my last.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

we love our place anywhere else this is a 350 thousand dollar home
it was sitting on Fannie Mae books as a foreclosure we bought it for 124 it is a
2148 sq ft on 3/4 of an acre in Mossyrock a very small quiet town where the sheriff
boasts he can run the druggies out all day long.

 

[perchie.girl]

we love our place anywhere else this is a 350 thousand dollar home
it was sitting on Fannie Mae books as a foreclosure we bought it for 124 it is a
2148 sq ft on 3/4 of an acre in Mossyrock a very small quiet town where the sheriff
boasts he can run the druggies out all day long.

technically my house doesnt exist.... but I got eighteen acres with a well and electricity....

View from my outhouse door the horizon is Mexico south as the crow flies I am two miles from the border with BLM land in between,.

My dog Rosie RIP.... she loved the desert...



deb

 

[microchick]

When we sold our 2nd home, where we "stayed" when we still working and commuting 150 miles twice a week, the buyer had a rural development grant and loan.

Never again. We jumped through hoops until we couldn't jump anymore. When we gave in to part of their lists of demands, including replacing the septic system even though it was working (they admitted it was working fine) because it was over 20 years old, they tried to slip another list of demands under our radar. After we said in no uncertain terms that we were done with their demands, buy the property (they were getting a good deal) or we would give them their earnest money back and they could go away. They shut up at that point, but in the mean time they took the real estate agents for the cost of an exterminator since they had diddled around so long with moving the closing date that the mice had eaten through all the bait we left out for them once we closed the house up for the sale and oh my sweet lordie they saw a mouse turd when they did their final walk through.
Imagine that! A mouse in a house in the country.

These were city people who had no concept at all of rural life. I told DH that I was almost sorry we wouldn't be around the first time they had a raccoon climb up the side of the house or had to remove a snake from the garage.

I swear my Cherokee Great Grand ma's ancestors had the right idea. When the horse manure got too deep, they pulled up the teepee and moved. No fussing, no cussing and best of all no closing costs,