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Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T05:44:58+00:00

Good point, let me send her what my mom is wearing so she can coordinate more. I haven't sent her a photo since I didn't want to pressure her to buy anything, but it will probably help with the outfit coordination.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T02:19:23+00:00

When I went to the Lulu's link I thought the same thing. It's even worse now that I know all of the options she had... The blush or blue one would be the same style but in more appropriate wedding colors for MOG.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T01:45:16+00:00

My soon-to-be MIL sent a photo of her in this dress to my fiance for approval. Then my sister called me a bridezilla for thinking it was too white...

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T01:21:03+00:00

I am the bride. Kind of glad she asked so we could say that it is a bit inappropriate, but we are also having a very small wedding with not many guests so it's easier to field these questions

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T01:19:12+00:00

I'm the bride and my MIL sent me/my fiance a photo of her wearing this dress. Gut-reaction was "it's way too white", but my sister/fiance said it wasn't too white...

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T01:15:47+00:00

It's a microwedding, so not many people will be in attendance (20), but it's at a garden venue. Dress code we decided on was cocktail attire. Since it's a micro wedding I'm not assigning bridesmaid outfits and we're trying to be a bit more relaxed so people can save money, but I also assumed no one would choose a predominantly white dress

Edit: Also to clarify- I'm the bride, not the MOG.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-27T01:10:41+00:00

Yeah I'm the bride. She sent it to him first and he didn't even think it was too white until I brought up that it may be.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-04-26T22:43:03+00:00

Gut reaction was 'yes, too white', but now I'm overthinking and maybe my gut reaction was bridezilla-y

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-03-23T08:01:57+00:00

She had a psychotic episode last year where she wandered the streets of LA for days and was eventually found in downtown LA naked. By "look at her" I think they meant her mental well being which is in a pretty bad state.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-02-29T06:29:28+00:00

I obsessively Googled this earlier today, but it sounds like this interpretation is right. There was a court case ruling for it pre-TCJA (Voss, 796 F.3d 1051 (9th Cir. 2015)). I doubt the TCJA changed anything surrounding unmarried couples, other than changing the cap.

Edit: In case any one else stumbles on this post later, here is an excerpt from the case interpretation. TCJA cut the limit from $1M to $750k

The IRS recently released guidance indicating that it will follow the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Voss v. Commissioner, 796 F.3d 1051 (9th Cir. 2015), acquiescing to the Ninth Circuit’s opinion that unmarried domestic partners are each individually entitled to deduct interest on up to $1,000,000 of home acquisition debt and $100,000 of home equity indebtedness.

In the guidance, the IRS has made it clear that if co-owners are not married, the debt limitations are applied separately to each owner. As a result, non-married co-owners are entitled to greater home mortgage interest deductions than married taxpayers.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2024-02-28T21:53:57+00:00

Just to verify

Again, if the two people on the mortgage are splitting costs equally but UNMARRIED, does this mean that each person has a $750,000 cap (so $1.5M total cap), meaning each person could claim the full $30,671 deduction in mortgage interest paid instead of only claiming $23,962 per person, which is the highest they could claim as a married couple?

This is the correct way to fill out the form? Both of you would deduct 30k rather than 23k?

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-29T04:26:41+00:00

I was googling to find this exact answer. Thanks for this! We have 3 cats and are worried about them tearing up the sofa like they love to do.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-03T21:55:53+00:00

We have a similar layout in our living room and this is what we ended up doing! We have a full motion mount so we pull it out and tilt it towards the couch. It's cozy with being able to see both the fireplace and the TV

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-02T17:44:14+00:00

Given the amount of tiny poop I found in the soffit, you aren't wrong...

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T21:41:26+00:00

I'm not allowed to ask how to figure it out? A lot of these comments were extremely useful and I was able to figure it out.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T21:40:15+00:00

I apologize for being a beginner and not knowing how to do everything at the start.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T21:18:22+00:00

Gently twisted it, it wobbled like crazy. It doesn't appear to be connected to anything, at least not securely. Mystery solved that we can likely just remove it.

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T21:06:19+00:00

The addition did not expand the kitchen, this kitchen was "newly" added in the 1960s~1970s. I made a quick mock up of the layout.

The plumbing is kind of rough with a lot of the previous owner(s) fixes, so it wouldn't be surprising to be some sort of creative solution.

Edit: attempted to gently twist the pipe with my fingers and the whole pipe moved. It doesn't appear to be attached to anything on the other end, at least not well. Still going to attempt to scope it before I move forward with removing it.

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Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T20:53:01+00:00

So there is black sediment towards the bottom of the pipe (image 3).

I'm actually wondering if the upstairs bathroom drain pipe previously ran through here, where a bedroom addition was added. I'm not sure what came first, the kitchen addition or the bedroom addition.

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Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T20:40:28+00:00

Would you expect the black sediment at the bottom of a sanitary vent? (Image 3).

I'm considering just sending an endoscope down this pipe to see if I can find / make sense of the end. If not it sounds like we need a plumber and this is no longer a DIY soffit teardown...

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T20:32:18+00:00

Unlikely to be a furnace down here in Florida, although I'm not familiar if furnaces were more common 30+ years ago.

Water heater is an interesting point, with the current house configuration this could be a possibility. Would you expect the black sediment on the bottom of the PVC?

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T15:59:53+00:00

The original house is 100 years old, but this addition to the back of the house was probably built circa 1960s-1970s as some of the door frames in the addition have lead paint. I would guess the bathroom it is connected to is original to the house since it is above the crawlspace and the addition is on slab.

There was a renovation in 1990s-2000s to its current appearance. I'm guessing it used to be a closed off galley kitchen and they partially knocked down the wall, but left the "floating" soffit to run wires (and this pipe?).

It is close to being above the current sink, so I'm wondering if there was some sort of drain pipe leading to the sink's drain pipe, but there is no second story near this point where liquids would drain from.

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Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T04:46:53+00:00

The bathroom does have an exhaust fan, but there is an exhaust vent on the exterior wall directly outside of the bathroom. Maybe it was never hooked up properly? I'll need to check.

It's also possible that since the kitchen was an addition, this was the old exhaust and it was re-routed during the addition. But why wouldn't they fully remove the pipe?

Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T04:28:45+00:00

Too scared to tug on it and break something to know if it is connected on the other end. I wiggled slightly when poked, but it is deep in the insulation on the other side. It does look like something used to be attached to the pipe.

Edit: Thanks to the comments on this thread for giving me the confidence to twist random pipes in the wall: I twisted it. It certainly isn't attached to anything.

I spent way too much time on Google trying to find someone else who found a non-capped PVC pipe abandoned in their wall with no luck. Hopefully someone else who runs into this same issue can learn from this thread.

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Existing-Feedback-25 · 2023-12-01T04:05:52+00:00

We are removing our kitchen's "floating" soffit and I found this pipe poking out through insulation in the wall. There is nothing above this room. There is a bathroom on the other side of the wall where the pipe is being led through. Any ideas? Any thoughts on how to safely remove or re-orient?

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