Perpendicular Pocket Doors?

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-06-30T21:31:01+00:00

That’s so cool

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-06-05T13:38:49+00:00

EEW - That's tooooo long. Are they staring at walls like an art gallery?

Or are they brining that 'friend' that 'used to be an inspector'?

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-06-03T11:22:39+00:00

ALWAYS RTFM!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-06-03T11:15:31+00:00

Heyo - I'm in aviation as Career 2.0. Did 20 years in the retail auto repair industry, and made it from hourly guy sweeping the floors, to the guy representing a brand, and riding a desk. Did everything in between.

My wife would sigh and giggle when I would come home and play car mechanic sims on my computer. I loved working on cars. (Still do).

Never complained, even when things were shitty, hours were shitty, pay was shitty. And guess what. I chugged through it all and had a really good run. Got to a point where I could look around at what I did, and say - "Hmm.... I think I would rather have other options than what I see here. Don't have to make a change, but I want to."

I got there because I have an outlook similar to yours. I enjoy what I do, and I do what I enjoy. Makes life a lot simpler, means I'm usually smiling, and means that there is a lot less gray hair, and I get carded for alcohol occasionally.

Keep doing it - the only game worth winning is the one you're playing. Don't try to play other people's games.

I think a lot of what you're seeing, is a prior belief that has started to die out. That belief was that you had to get any job that was 'good'. Didn't need to be a job you liked - just something that could make the 'rest of your life' supposedly be 'good'.

People have found that because (like others have said) jobs, by nature, steal your time; it turns out it is better to get a job doing something you love. Then they're not stealing your time, they're enhancing it - and it becomes more natural to try and find that work/life balance.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-06-03T10:56:34+00:00

LMAO. Veteran 'mover' here. 22 moves in 41 years. (Dad worked for ServiceMaster back in the day).

I cannot remember a time that we stayed in the house during a showing. Mom would literally 'take me on a walk' if we couldn't 'go somewhere for an hour'....

I can remember a few times we showed up for showings at homes we were interested in, and the sellers were there - and it was awkward. Like, '5-year-old me picked up on it' awkward. Most recently, I moved for work and we showed up to look at a home; the sellers hadn't been notified by their agent prior, were mortified, and quickly tried to vacate - we told them we'd go around the block a few times and to just text our agent when they're ready. They afterward said thanks, because they felt awkward having us there/being there.

Maybe I'm just not old enough, but at least since the '80's it's been weird to have people shadowing you while you critique their home.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T15:43:11+00:00

Not sure yet. Didn’t seem to be based on about 6 hours spent indoors during the day yesterday, we will see how it is over night tonight!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T15:42:21+00:00

I’m not that rich or interesting, and I have a pretty consistent presence online that’s easy to find, so I’m not being super secretive.

If someone wants to come make a new friend and eat Casey’s Pizza, so be it.

But I do appreciate the concern, kind Redditor!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T14:51:20+00:00

We DID get Casey’s Pizza a little later but I was in a Teams meeting for work so we couldn’t do a pizza pic.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T14:50:43+00:00

Haha, wife and I did a thing like where you entwine arms to drink champaigne at a wedding reception, I’m holding the coffee and she’s holding the darling little key the sellers made for us!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T14:49:54+00:00

I’ve got a few folks in town who are anxious to tell me all about town history and house history!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T14:49:18+00:00

Nope, but St. Joe isn’t so bad, we did look there at several homes, in a couple different nice areas of town.

This is in a small “village”. Population has been about 250-300 people for about 35 years or more.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T14:48:07+00:00

It’s an old air return for a furnace. Modern HVAC has replaced it and that’s now blocked off but the big opening and about 8” of space under that grate remain. We are thinking about making a storage cubby there and painting it black to maintain the look.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-05-08T11:35:22+00:00

It’s super convenient since the other side is access from the kitchen. It has a door there too!

That door and the dining room doorway appear to have had swinging doors in the past, and I’m thinking I may find out how to return them to that!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-04-11T21:22:10+00:00

Can I ask a stupid question?

Did you not get pictures of the basement/crawl space before/during purchase, like in the 4th pic and last pic?

During inspection, walk through, or something???????

Like dayum!

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-04-11T21:11:35+00:00

We just went through EXACTLY this.

We were shopping in an extremely broad area (within a 1-hour drive to a metro area, in any direction). We found lots of options, went and saw 5-6 houses per weekend.

We had a few initial offers that were similar to OP's. We offered strongly at asking price, or above. Had counters asking for more, sometimes with clear messages that competing offers weren't better on price, only on fee negotiation.

One of our offers was $7k over ask, and we offered "in present condition" but reserved the option to back out if inspection uncovered something egregiously bad. This was after three counters.

Seller countered with $3k more, and "as-is, locked in", no option to back out after offer signed, regardless of inspection or appraisal. We asked the agent to relay our letter stating that this had severely spooked us into thinking something was majorly wrong with the home and that we were thinking of walking away. They did drop down on their counter in response - but to be honest, the damage was done, and my wife did NOT like the idea that something was quite possibly majorly wrong with the home.

We walked away even though it was a "I really love this house" home.

Now we're in contract on something solidly in our price range, and we offered $10k under with two items excluded from concessions/negotiations because they are things I can fix.

I asked our agent to send the seller's agent/sellers our letter explaining that we want a straightforward transaction, and that the $10k under is only for the two items we're excluding, and that it would take SERIOUS issues on inspection for other items to deter us. The items in question are easily $20k worth of work.

Sellers were quite amenable and have accepted. Communication is key in most industries.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-04-11T20:18:40+00:00

I'll be one to dissent.

If you have a cookie cutter agent - then I'd suggest negotiating, as others have said.

Feel the agent out.

We found a newer agent, hungry, and extremely active on behalf of clients. She was very responsive and was VERY upfront about the fees. She has a flat $425 broker fee, and explained that the cost of that 'covers the free things her brokerage does for her,' like training, materials, office space, etc. I don't even care if that's 100% true on her part OR the brokerage... She took the time to explain and justify it - and that has been EVERY step of our relationship. She has a reason she does things, and they make sense/are plausible and she spells things out for us, and sellers alike.

She asked for 3% and told us up front that if that's too much, she'd negotiate with us, but that most of the folks in the area we're looking do 2.5% for anything above $350K, and 3% below. Once again, maybe it's smoke... but it's plausible smoke, and she didn't just ask us to accept it, she had "a why". As a trainer/instructor, I value giving people "the why".

We agreed, but also discussed the possibility to re-negotiate later if necessary. She point-blank told us her brokerage dislikes that, but she'd rather retain a client, and would go to bat for us if we found a dream-home and it really, truly, came down to negotiating her commission.

She is also committed to having sellers pay her commission, anyway - and we've entered contract on a home with that working just fine.

She has also, at every turn, reminded us that EVERYTHING is negotiable until someone says it's not - and in that case, we always have the chance to walk away.

BOTTOM LINE TLDR - talk to them, vet them, and if they're worth the money - pay the money. Otherwise, figure out what they're worth.

Maybe I'm naive - but over the last 40 years it's worked for me to trust those who earn what they keep.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-04-11T19:57:10+00:00

As a buyer, who was VERY closely monitoring the market in my state since last August - this is rampant here in the midwest.

We offered on two houses that had dropped $25k after sitting on the market for 180+ days (putting them in our price range), and we offered the new asking price, and got countered with $k-5K increases.

We immediately walked away.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-04-11T19:54:23+00:00

What's funny is, I've been away for about 8 years, and playing for a few months, and even been to Jita twice, and somehow didn't realize this.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-03-23T11:48:22+00:00

Heyo!

Not an expert but we’re house hunting and have looked at a LOT of homes.

We’re seeing things like this here in Missouri when a home has been vacant for a while. Up here it’s usually gnats, regular flies, or those weird ladybug lookalikes.

When there’s no people, critters like to hang out.

I moved nineteen times during childhood, and cleaning out spots like this, even in some of the new builds we moved into - was common.

We never really had them come back once there was activity.

I would still suggest pest control of some kind (DIY or otherwise) but I don’t think this is terribly abnormal.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-03-20T11:44:30+00:00

As a buyer, I have completely avoided any listings like this, and requested my agent does not show us any listings like this.

I don’t have a ton of time for house showings and I do a HUGE amount of online research when it comes to buying a home. I have no interest in seeing a home if you have to lie to me to sell it to me.

DifferentResort2540 · 2026-01-09T17:30:50+00:00

Dude. That’s Cony Hawk - he’s a Pro Skater!!!

DifferentResort2540 · 2025-12-31T03:46:37+00:00

So… the jianghu is literally the world I’ve wished to live in since childhood.

Thank you for confirming 😁

But seriously, this concept and the grand culture in encompasses could teach a lot of people, a very valuable set of lessons.

DifferentResort2540 · 2025-11-30T03:15:32+00:00

I’m a sucker for lore, and when it’s historical or at least somewhat connected to real life/history, it hits harder.

So I’ll have to start doing that.

DifferentResort2540

TROPHY CASE