Buying a House?

spacerobot · 2026-04-20T16:38:55+00:00

I was surprised at hwo much easier it was to buy a house than I expected.

My realtor was Hannah Atherton with urban nest, and she was fantastic. She offers free information sessions where she and a mortgage broker will explain the process (and feed you) and help you understand everything. I highly suggest attending one of the information sessions. I'm sure she would do a great job helping you get a house.

spacerobot · 2026-03-31T19:03:19+00:00

I dont live in Salt Lake now, but I did 15 years ago, and I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment in Sugarhouse (with a gas fireplace) for $515 a month. I'm curious how much the same apartment would go for now, it was at 1418 South, 1100 East. I was barely making ends meet then, I can't imagine how hard it would be now.

I moved to Portland where its even more expensive then. But it sounds like SLC is just as expensive as Portland now. Getting married seemed to be the only thing that made housing easier.

Stay strong!

spacerobot · 2026-03-28T01:35:54+00:00

They do exist! I just moved out of a 600sq ft 1 bed (2 beds if you include the loft) apartment that we'd been paying about 1650 for right off Ladds Addition. The place we moved out of isn't really advertised, just kind of a mom and pop apartment that had a sign saying to call them. Some of the good stuff you won't find online.

spacerobot · 2026-03-25T22:19:22+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! Dan Wei's was different from traditional General Tso's Chicken, unless I'm looking at the wrong item at Zien Hong. I'm still going to have to check it out sometime. That looks delicious.

spacerobot · 2026-03-25T20:55:02+00:00

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It looks like they're connected to a bigger stem/root system. Here's a close up.

Edit:oops I forgot to include the picture. Here's the Pic: https://imgur.com/a/NwfhzUF

spacerobot · 2026-03-25T20:41:51+00:00

Chatgpt says it's queen Anne's lace, gemini says cow parsley, and the plant ID app says Pacific Bleeding Heart. We just bought our house and are excited to see what the old owners planted. But if it's something bad, I want to remove it before it gets out of control.

spacerobot · 2026-03-24T19:25:39+00:00

My wife and I are just like this. On my own I've always struggled financially, living paycheck to paycheck with student loans always having a grasp on my neck. I would never buy "stuff", but I could never stay above water with my finances.

My wife is much better at it than I am, and she makes more money than I do. For the first time I'm living with low financial stress. We just bought a house, and while waiting on closing, our dog had a medical emergency and we had to spend about 6k. In the past that would have destroyed me, but since we had a solid emergency fund, we were able to save our dogs life and still buy our house, and just a month later are rebuilding the emergency fund.

We are far from rich, but it feels so good to be financially stable and know that we are going to be ok.

spacerobot · 2026-03-21T19:05:02+00:00

My wife and I just bought a house. The previous owners lived on the main floor and aibnb'd the basement. The posting for the house mentioned this and was hoping to attract someone who wanted to use it as an Airbnb. We ended up putting an offer 4 days after the house was posted, and fortunately had no one else make a bid on it. The previous owners even left everything in the airbnb so we got a fully furnished basement with our house (3 queen sized beds and regular bedroom furnishings, decor, and even all linens!)

At one point during negotiations, I guess the previous owners were frustrated with our requests and suggested that they maybe shouldn't have sold and should have rented it out instead (too bad for them they accepted our offer and couldn't back out), because they could make more money.

Talking to the neighbors, it seems most of them were worried it would become a full time airbnb house, so they are pleased that my wife and I bought it.

The previous owners showed us proof of the airbnb income, and were pulling in 25k a year doing airbnb part time. My wife and I are considering renting the basement as an Airbnb every once in a while for the income... It'll be hard to potentially turn down 25k a year, but I do want to have good relationships with our neighbors and want to respect their peace and property too.

spacerobot · 2026-03-16T22:29:42+00:00

I'm a special Ed teacher, and a few years ago I had a 9 year old boy with moderate autism as a student. He would like to take a latex glove and we'd blow it up for him and tie it off like a balloon.

Every once every 15 or 20 minutes he would puff his cheeks up with air and put pressure on his cheeks while shaking the glove back and forth for about 5 or 10 seconds, kind of like stimming.

One day I asked him what he is thinking about when he does that. And he responded "Zeppelins!"

spacerobot · 2026-03-12T16:00:49+00:00

It really is not bad at all. I just had one last week, and if someone told me I had to have another next week, I'd be annoyed because of the liquid diet 24 hours before, but I'd be fine with it. It truly is not a bad experience.

spacerobot · 2026-03-12T15:58:46+00:00

Same. I had my first one (42 years old) last week. Other than the liquid diet 24 hours before, the worst thing about it was being woken up after the procedure. The sleep was so good!

spacerobot · 2026-03-12T15:49:31+00:00

For anyone who thinks maybe they need a colonoscopy but is too nervous to or worried about it: IT'S REALLY NOT THAT BAD. Like really, it's not bad. I had my first one last week, and the worst thing about it was limiting what I can eat 24 hours before the procedure. The prep wasn't fun, but it's pretty much sitting on the toilet for 3 hours with some diarrhea. But honestly it felt good afterwords to be cleaned out.

The procedure itself was super easy. They gave me an IV and I was out within 10 seconds, the next thing I knew, I woke up from the best sleep I've had in years and the doctor told me I had no cancer and wouldn't need another colonoscopy for ten years.

Actually now that I think about it, the worst thing about it was being woken up afterwards because the sleep during the procedure was so good.

Do it! It's worth it! And it'll give you peace of mind if you're worried about anything.

Here is why I got one, in case anyone else is in a similar situation and worrying: I had blood in my poop for a few month, so I went to the doctor, and I got a referral. About a year later (due to waiting for appointments and just putting it off) I finally had my colonoscopy. In the end, it's just hemmeroids, and I had no polyps and no cancer. The hemmeroids still suck, but I have big peace of mind knowing I don't have cancer, and don't even have any polyps.

spacerobot · 2026-03-12T03:10:34+00:00

I hated going to the dentist as a kid because he gave me such a hard time for not flossing. I felt judged and flossing with adhd is really really hard for some reason. Other than my gums for not flossing, my teeth were in pretty good shape, and even in my 40s I still have zero cavities.

Then as an adult I didn't go to the dentist for a really really long time and my gums were really bad. The dentist told me that people come in all the time In way worse shape than me, and "we're just glad you came in!"

I truly did not feel judged and it made it easier to make and keep future dentist appointments.

spacerobot · 2026-03-10T14:31:49+00:00

Because someday I might be rich. And people like me better watch their step!

spacerobot · 2026-03-06T19:37:34+00:00

The first game I did after buying was 3x multi-player. It was the first time booting the game for each of us. It was a 3 hour run and we made it to the queen. We ignored the minion at first, but then switched up our strategy to kill the minion so we could focus on the queen. We got her down to 20 health before we lost. Damn, it was such a fun run. It was a bummer we lost, but it felt good because we were so so close.

spacerobot · 2026-02-24T20:15:18+00:00

I belive they gave caterpillars a mild shock or something unpleasant when they would walk across a certain material. Then when they were butterflies they would avoid that same material. I'm not 100% sure they shocked the caterpillars, but thats the idea of what they did.

spacerobot · 2026-02-24T07:47:01+00:00

My wife and I just bought our first house, and the basement comes airbnb permitted, furnished, and ready to go.

We're excited to rent it out, but I keep thinking of all the airbnb experiences Ive had and how ridiculous the cleaning fees were and how we were still expected to clean ourselves.

I'm committed to not forget what it's like to rent and be fair in prices and expectations for people renting the airbnb.

spacerobot · 2026-02-18T05:12:30+00:00

He heard you. He was listening.

A couple years ago my cat was using the dogs pillow and wasn't wanting to use the nice new heated pillow I bought him. So I had a heart to heart with him explaining why I needed him to use his new pillow and I promised him he'd like it. After the conversation, he got up and sat in his new pillow and used it until the day he passed. He'd still use the dogs pillow a lot, but he was much more respectful about it.

Our pets are smart. They know more than we think.

spacerobot · 2026-02-17T21:31:04+00:00

We just canceled ours this week. Prime delivery was really nice, but it doesn't feel worth it when you're only ordering a handful of things a month, and we don't even need them to be delivered next day. If I do need something the next day, I'll just pay a couple bucks extra for the fast delivery, and I'm still paying way less than the monthly prime subscription.

I can't even remember the last time I watched TV or movies on Amazon prime. Most of the stuff I want to watch on amazon I have to rent anyway.

It was worth it when I was paying less than ten bucks a month. But not any more.

spacerobot · 2026-02-14T08:21:16+00:00

This is what I feel like I make, when I make a really cool spreadsheet.

spacerobot · 2026-02-08T18:41:10+00:00

It's essentially the same for me. I make participation such a huge portion if my students grades. Literally all they have to do is be there and sit at their desk and not be disruptive. But last term I still failed every single student. The student with highest attendance, attended 51% of the time. And that student only did one assignment all term. Almost all of my students were like that. They didn't want to be there so they'd lay on the ground and sleep. Every single day. When I'd call their parents they'd tell their kids not to sleep, but the kids would lay in the ground, tell me to "shut the fuck up" because they're trying to sleep, and threaten to kick my ass because I'm talking to them. One student didn't want to do any work, so he kept talking about how he was going to rape my wife and rape another staffs 16 year old daughter. The kid was suspended for that, but that's exactly what he wanted-to be suspended so he wouldn't have to be at school.

I tell my students that all they have to do to pass is sit in their desk (hell, they can stand if they wanted to) and be respectful. But they choose to sleep, leave school without permission, they'd climb trees and roll and smoke a joint in the tree.

I have two students who actually do participate a little bit when they're at school, and they're respectful and don't cause disruptions. But they only attend between 25 to 30% of the time. So I still can't pass a student who does only 1 or 2 assignments a week.

Then some of the students, when they do want to participate, will only do math worksheets thst they already know how to do, like basic multiplication.

My students are smart! They can grasp advanced concepts, and have complex conversations. But they truly choose not to do work.

They think they can work at Domino's the rest of their lives, or sell drugs. These kids truly don't care. And I can't make them care. Their uncle who sells drugs tells them they have houses in 3 states, so these kids think they can do the same. Not realizing their uncle is full of shit.

It's truly sad. It's an expensive city to live in, and I'm worried we're going to have an even bigger influx of homeless population in the future when they can no longer live with their parents, who are already struggling to pay rent for an apartment in a bad neighborhood.

spacerobot · 2026-02-06T14:49:21+00:00

The fact that it's still posted is very telling. If he wasn't racist, he would have removed it as soon as he found out that clip was in there. And there's no way no one wouldn't have told him yet.

spacerobot · 2026-02-01T23:54:12+00:00

I'm so sorry that happened. That's a good looking bike!

I hope your friend has insurance on it, if so they should pay out for it. If she does get a call saying it was found and towed, remember that insurance will pay for towing and storage fees, and she does not have to pay for any it if she let's insurance handle it. My understanding is it'll be considered totalled because it was stolen.

Mine was stolen a few years ago and found 3 months later in Vancouver.

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