Buying a house!

[AChimp]

I'm going to be buying a house. BYOB. >:

[executioneer]

how does byob relate to buying a house, are you gonna bring your own bricks

[AChimp]

It's a recession. :(

[executioneer]

oh dear :( are they providing the mortar at least

[Tadao]

I'm assuming you got your green card to live in America! Yay for you!

[AChimp]

No. I'm actually buying my aunt's house because she's old and has to go to and old people apartment.

[MetalMilitia]

What would you do if you found a secret Nazi bondage room while renovating?

These are the types of questions you need to as yourself when buying things from relatives.

[Tadao]

I hope it is in good shape with working appliances. Congratulations!

[whoreable]

good luck with the house thing. Its awesome to have your own garage and backyard and not share walls with neighbors.

i got my first house a couple years back. Luckily the real estate prices are so low in Texas I havent lost too much(if any, i got a pretty good deal!) on the value even with this recession bullshit.

too bad it didnt make me a responsible adult

[Evil Robot]

http://www.missilebases.com/new/images/picsl.jpg

[Zhukov]

Does it smell of old person?

[AChimp]

It kinda smells like old people, but I think I can air that out pretty easily.

It's a pretty sweet house. Three bedroom, approx 1300 sq ft. The basement is only partly finished, though, but the upstairs is really nice. It has a big yard, too.

There are two doors in the basement where the door is covered in wood panelling to match the walls, so all you see are two doorknobs sticking out. I will turn those into dead body storage. :O

[Zhukov]

I take it you got it for welllllll below market value, right?

[Zomboid]

YOU'RE BUYING A HOUSE DURING THIS RECESSION?

YOU IGNORANT FUCK!

[Dixie]

Hope it goes well Chimparoo!

[AChimp]

Housing prices are pretty stable in Winnipeg. The price will be around 200K, which is a bit under the average price for a house this size.

[Mockery]

I can get a house in LA for around 200k..... in Compton. :x

[AChimp]

That's because there are like a billion people and only a dozen houses which are already filled with Mexicans. :(

My aunt and I signed all the papers, so now it's up to the lawyers and bank to do the other things. :O

[whoreable]

just to make yall feel bad my 4 year old 2000sq ft house cost me about half that!

[Fathom Zero]

I've seen houses go for $6,000 in Mastic, New York.

Edit: http://www.homes.com/Content/ListingDetail.cfm?City=MASTIC&State=NY&Radius=0&FirstRec=64&OrderBy=price%3AD&Bedrooms=&FullBaths=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&PriceRange=&AmenitiesList=&PropType=%20&TotalRecs=67&MinSqFt=&MaxSqFt=&LotSize=&MinYear=&MaxYear=&PropIdList=3_80039094,3_80039386,3_80039502,3_7665 3809&PropId=76653809&NHC=1&searchorig=main

Long url, but $1300. If you have to wonder why it is that low... you're just thick.

[Evil Robot]

I think that $1300 is a mistake, this is supposed to be a rental listing and the monthly rent got put in as the asking price. Even for long island thats ridiculous.

[executioneer]

haha there's waterfront property in north cove, washington that would probably sell for $1300, but that's because the shoreline erodes about 65 feet a year there so "waterfront" means "probably underwater next week"

[Evil Robot]

In second life, water parcels can be quite valuble for thier extra prims.

[Fathom Zero]

Houses in Mastic do go for that much. It's regarded as the single worst neighborhood in Long Island and probably all of New York state.

[Evil Robot]

After reading this I began looking at pictures on real estate sites and other shit I see what you mean. Mastic doesn't seem that bad though, if you get a house next to Fire Island park or on the water. The summers there are probably really nice if you don't have kids to put into their shitty schools.

[Fathom Zero]

If you seriously wanted to live in one of those houses, you'd probably be stabbed by a 90-pound homeless man when going to work, not that there's any work in the surrounding area.

False story seen as another hit to Mastic's image (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-limast0306,0,5937641,print.story)

BY PATRICK WHITTLE AND CHRISTINE ARMARIO

patrick.whittle@newsday.com
christine.armario@newsday.com

8:25 PM EST, March 5, 2008

Parents, students and civic leaders in the Mastic area said a 17-year-old's fabricated story that she was sexually attacked on her way to William Floyd High School is another black eye for their community -- and it happened just as the area is making strides to clean up its image, they said.

Police said this week that the student, who they did not name, completely made up the story to avoid taking a test for which she was not prepared. The revelation came less than two months after two local school girls really were victimized, according to police.

The incident adds to the negative perception of one of Suffolk County's blue-collar communities, said Debbie Crosby of Shirley, whose daughter attends William Floyd High School.

"The last thing we needed was another thing," she said. "Everyone looks at Mastic-Shirley like it's this horrible place and it's really not."

Yesterday, a day after the police revelations, civic leaders gathered outside William Floyd High School to announce plans to construct a public parking lot on a piece of vacant land across the street from the school. The land has been a hot spot for students cutting class and a refuge for homeless people and criminal activity, officials said.
The county transferred the land to Brookhaven Town for $1, town officials said.

A private developer plans to build a Dunkin' Donuts on an adjacent parcel, which was the site of one of the earlier alleged sexual assaults. The project is part of the town's revitalization plan for the Neighborhood Road and Mastic Road commercial corridors. The parking lot will serve the Dunkin' Donuts and nearby businesses.

Brookhaven Supervisor Brian X. Foley said the plan to develop the two properties is an example of the community "taking back, block by block, areas that for years have languished."

Bob DeBona, president of the Mastic Beach Property Owner's Association, welcomed the two redevelopment projects but said the fabricated sexual assault is more negative news that Mastic doesn't need.

"When I turn on the news, if I don't see Mastic Beach, I've had a good day," DeBona said.

"It was bad for us," Crosby said about the false report. "We took a hit and we take a lot of hits but they've got to pick on somebody."

But other residents, such as Delia McKernan, president of the Smith Point Beach Property Owners Association, said the fabrication was an isolated incident that should not reflect poorly on the community.

"I think we need a little more intervention for the young," she said. "What makes a teenager want to get caught up in that kind of negative attention?"

Attempts to reach William Floyd district officials failed.

Suffolk Det. Lt. Michael Diffley said police canvassed the neighborhood, spoke with homeowners and businesses and reviewed previous police reports in the area after they received the girl's statement. Following several re-interviews, inconsistencies in her story began to emerge, and it came out she'd been trying to skip a test, police said.

Police decided not to charge her and instead refer her to counseling.

http://wcbstv.com/local/racial.slurs.mastic.2.862493.html

40 cars damaged overnight as Obama gets elected. Go rednecks!

[glowbelly]

my house is 1700 square feet, sits across from a municipal golf course and has an elevator. i got it for $89,900. :D

[Dimnos]

1700 square feet, 3 bed room, 2 bath, 2 car garage, all new interior, all new appliances $120k. Thats what I got into a year ago.

[glowbelly]

mine has all that too PLUS AN ELEVATOR.

[Tadao]

Are you planning for my visit?

[Dimnos]

Yea... I got no elevator :tear

[glowbelly]

lol@tad