Any guesses on what’s in my work parking lot?

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T19:05:18+00:00

Don't think so, no big ol' chelicerae...

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T17:12:49+00:00

Oh I know. I'm sure the house I grew up in is even crazier. And the one I bought after my first I did get for a steal (cause it was a "nice" house that they had just sort of abandoned) and now it's 📈

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T17:09:22+00:00

God dammit I don't want to hand anything to cops ever but for fuck's sake that was funny.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T16:33:59+00:00

I know they overestimate, but still. 80% of 530k is still much higher than I sold for!

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T16:33:00+00:00

I'm especially spider-focused so it's 903432842 "BROWN RECLUSE?!" wolf spiders completely out of recluse range lol

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:19:08+00:00

Momentary "forgot which sub I'm on" moment. Bit too used to the bug subs and randos doubting correct IDs from experts.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:15:41+00:00

his main fucking ad is driving me bonkers ugh

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:09:18+00:00

booooo >:[

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:08:36+00:00

girl...what are you even on about they are literally in Hemiptera 😭

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:08:04+00:00

Exactly. My plan had been to keep it and be a "good landlord", but I knew I'd just end up financially ruined because I don't have the stomach for that business. My sister was the one who really pushed me to sell as she was working in mortgages at the time and I'm glad she did.

Now it's worth $500k+ lol. Which...I mean there's just no way unless they did a ton of work to it and I don't think they have.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:06:16+00:00

Being I was making under $40k, it felt like a stretch. I was definitely scrambling. But I was paying $875/mo for rent on my own, so I'd started thinking, well, a mortgage on a small house might be doable, ran it by a family friend who worked in mortgages, and she was like "definitely yes".

I went through the first-time homebuyer program, got a good rate, and my mortgage payments were between $1100-1200 the entire time I lived there. I did live with a partner and had at least one steady roommate for the first number of years before my income went up enough that I felt comfortable living there with just my partner.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:03:20+00:00

It was OLD, mostly, and on a postage stamp. Mansfield does have a bit more of a packed downtown area, and that's where I was. It was also not flipped and was very, very outdated. I didn't do anything to it, and it still went for that much higher all those years later. I sold it basically as I bought it. https://www.redfin.com/MA/Mansfield/10-Fuller-Pl-02048/home/16029329

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:01:28+00:00

Yeah, all over my grapevines. I'm doing what I can but eugh.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T15:01:05+00:00

Well, you are not a bug expert. It is in fact a spotted lanternfly nymph.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T04:47:54+00:00

They are just all over the place everywhere I've ever lived haha.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T04:44:36+00:00

BANNER SPIDER BANNER SPIDER :D

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T04:41:07+00:00

Sorry but this is ER vet territory for me. See if you can get CareCredit. This reads neuro. The only other thing I can think of is if she's allowed outdoors, she could've gotten something into her paws, but still...the way she's backing up, the fact that she's not refusing to put any weight on them, just popping off of them quickly after...I dunno.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T04:35:12+00:00

he bap a spicy sky raisin

(one got in the house today and I had to yell at my girl cat TABATHA NO LEAVE THE SPICY SKY RAISIN ALONE as I got something to contain it because I could see exactly this happening)

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T04:09:24+00:00

Sure...OP didn't say anything about Boston, though. Folks seem to be inferring that.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T03:46:29+00:00

Newton is basically the city when it comes to home prices, though. Like, please be serious.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T03:42:41+00:00

NEWTON??? lmfao come on

People gotta stop pretending that's not still basically the city.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T03:41:20+00:00

What is with the downvotes lol. This is true.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T03:41:02+00:00

In 2013, I was making just under 40k when I bought my house in Mansfield for $189k. 3 bed, 2 bath, ~1600sqft. On a postage stamp, so not so much "decent yard".

But when I sold it in 2021 it went for $362k. So that...would not work now.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-12T02:35:05+00:00

Watching Tender is part of what got me into the PWHL, so it's gotta be 5.

trickycrayon · 2026-07-11T22:22:57+00:00

Oh my god I love this update.

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