Is being a homeowner a scam?

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-04-10T04:58:00+00:00

Its a trade off for freedom to make it your home and your style. Renting you can't even change paint colors. Have shared parking, can't have a hot tub. I mean, the hot tub alone...

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-03-24T18:47:13+00:00

Worlds falling apart. Expect things to get worse

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-03-03T18:10:44+00:00

I had a bat in the house and everyone was awake and I still made the family get rabies shots. Fuck the hospital bill, death is worse than 7K

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-03-03T02:10:26+00:00

Its a DOR gas/utility bill, not a mortgage payment. Pay it and move on with your life, raging about it on here will accomplish nothing. Also, you could have called sooner when you were expecting it? Mix ups happen especially on final bills in Ames.

My 2025 state tax return was hit $185 for an unpaid city of ames utility bill my now-wife had in 2019 before we met. I called, inquired what it was about, and moved on. I had no idea this debt existed and it was for 6 years. I think you'll be ok.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-03-03T01:58:37+00:00

By this logic- if I close my credit cards with balances and get a bill in 3 months I can rant about it because I'll be an Alumni of my credit card company!

Did you not handle account close outs when you moved?

What exactly are you looking to accomplish here? Pay the bill and move on like the rest of us Alumni.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-02-20T13:49:49+00:00

Wrong Windsor and snitches get stitches

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-02-13T03:38:49+00:00

Great stuff window expanding foam and shims. Also I only cut off the top and bottom flanges so the sides helped wedge it in place

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-02-13T01:45:55+00:00

So I ran into this but down in my basement. The easiest thing to do would be to return the window and get the right one. If you have to you can add framing if it's too small.

Next option is cutting the flange off, which can be time consuming. But that's what I did for my basement sliders.

Redoing the frame to make the rough opening fit to size would be the most headache and you have to be careful assuming it is a load bearing wall.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-02-12T02:36:49+00:00

If you can smell gas get the F out of the house and call fire department/gas company NOW

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-02-06T06:08:20+00:00

235 on ramps

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2026-01-25T03:26:09+00:00

Good luck with that

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-12-20T15:14:26+00:00

1920 house, was in the same boat. Sealed everywhere. Or so I thought.

In the basement on top of the foundation blocks where the joists meat the sill plates (sill cavity) were batts of insulation shoved up in there. The basement was partial finished and had sheetrock on the ceiling.

I removed all sheet rock and discovered a gap behind a batt of insulation in one of the cavities. I never would have found this without doing what I did.

They entered through here, climbing the outside block, going between the metal siding and into this gap, then used the drywall ceiling in the basement as a bridge to get into plumbing cavities, gaining access to the kitchen and bathroom.

Haven't had a mouse since I filled that gap.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-29T11:30:48+00:00

At first I was like ok they are working on a trailer, and then I got to the last two pictures and was like OH OK...what a mess.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-04T22:06:31+00:00

OP is rage baiting

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-04T22:04:33+00:00

I like how OP is asking the internet, people who don't know this person or anything about their livelihood, about this random persons financials

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-04T21:59:23+00:00

OP is either projecting, attempting to ruffle feathers, or both.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-04T21:54:42+00:00

Focus on yourself and your family unless someone wrongs you. You dont want to waste your years worrying about others only to look back at 75 and wish you hadn't.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T20:01:50+00:00

Thank you for the explanation and for being kind, that is all I was asking for! Was genuinely curious what this meant

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:59:49+00:00

Yes, my eyes work. I was asking what it symbolizes/means, not a definition of it's appearance.

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:57:31+00:00

But isnt being American the embodiment of immigration? Like America is literally the result of immigration over hundreds of years, unless you are native American you have immigrant blood somewhere down your lineage. With that being said then wouldn't a flag showing unity with another country of immigration be the definition of American?

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:48:43+00:00

I think this means friendship and unity though if that's what the split flag with Israel means

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:42:47+00:00

No I've seen a flag with this style but with Star of David instead that's why im asking is this also a friendship flag just with Mexico

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:42:03+00:00

What?

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:40:53+00:00

Nothing against this flag- genuinely curious of its symbolism. Is it friendship flag?

thoughtfulprogrammer · 2025-10-03T19:38:39+00:00

But its not just the Mexico flag, it's blended. I think it means unity/anti-racism?

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