All Forum Posts by: Lee L.

I was wondering if there was a source people used to make bulk purchases for things that either get used up or wear out? I am not close enough to restock myself, so I am looking at having things delivered and then have the cleaning staff replenish as necessary.

Sounds like my exact situation. We are still working on the interior and haven't done anything serious to the yard, but I think about it constantly. Ours is 2 acre though.

I am definitely going to go all out on the front yard. That is the curb appeal and the front yard is relatively small. The back yard realistically would need to be cleared and graded, but we have a brook that runs through and cuts the yard in half so I figure we have to clear and grade the half that is closest to the house but the area that is beyond the brook can stay wild and woody. There has to be some usable yard area to be appealing. 

I had an 85 year old woman try to physically assualt me when I showed up to put stakes in the driveway to keep her moving truck from running over the septic tank and line, which was a legitimate concern because they had driven over it when moving her in. I just kept backing up until she got tired of coming at me with her hands raised. She was always exploiting her age for her benefit, because that ***** knew that she could hit me and likely nothing would happen to her but if I hit her guaranteed trouble for me. 

She was a piece of work, nut case from start to finish. So no, I was totally unprepared for the hate. She was my first and last long term lease, and I use that loosely because I had her out a little over a year later because she was absolutely not worth the aggravation. My life is too short for that crap. I am going to turn the house into a vacation rental, if someone is pill at least they are gone in a week.

Thanks, I never thought of it that way, but it is true that mice are a fact of life out here, and also true having lived in the city that there are worse things than a dead field mouse.

It depends on what kind of loud it is, what hours it is happening, and to some extent how well the building buffers for noise.

If there is noise from children you can't evict for that. The law recognizes that kids make noise and there isn't much to be done about that. If there isn't much to insulate the noise from one apartment to the other than it may genuinely be a case that the tenant isn't playing overly loud music. I have been in places where I was able to hear the next door neighbor having a normal volume conversation through the wall. If that is the case I would think about getting some insulation blown in.

Then there is the time. If the music is happening during the day and evening, and not going past say 9 pm, that seems pretty normal. 

Also, the leaving tenant could just be hypersensitive. Some people think they are entitled to silence. Good luck to them.

I wouldn't necessarily penalize a good tenant without exploring all of the options.

Lots of good feedback here. Not sure what you spent on the remodel and what the cost is for you to keep holding the property, but my opinion is that holding it and spending money every month to do so is not a good idea. I am thinking that you are avoiding doing a big price drop because that would likely eliminate your profit margin completely.

As someone who has made a financial mis step or 2, it is better to cut your losses than to hold and hope. 

I am currently preparing our vacation home in Vermont near Mount Snow to accept vacation rentals. The thing about a house in a heavily wooded area is that there is a never ending stream of mice looking to get in. I know how we handle this issue in our own house, but that requires us to occasionally dispose of a dead mouse, something a vacationer is not going to want to do. 

We don't live close enough to set traps and dispose of mice ourselves, is there some legitimate way to permanently deter mice from entering other than a team of cats? 

If you want to find an agent who is willing to run around for you and make a bunch of low ball offers go to the closest big box real estate brokerage and find out who the newest agent is. Any agent with experience isn't going to want to waste time with low balls for the same reason we don't work with buyers who aren't financially qualified ahead of time, because there is a huge chance we will spend hours and hours of our time and end up walking away with literally nothing to show for it. We have to be smart about how we spend our time, most lay persons don't understand that.

My first experience as a new real estate agent was with a woman who wanted low ball every offer. The first place she lost to a higher offer that wasn't fha like hers was, and it was a shame because it was her absolute favorite property and she wanted it bad. Second place I talked her out of making any offer because she wanted to make an offer so low it wasn't going to cover the outstanding mortgage. Third place we made a reasonable offer which was accepted, but then she started asking for a ton of concessions so that deal fell apart because the owner felt like he had given enough. In between each offer I spent hours showing this lady house after house. After the third offer fell through we parted ways. All said and done, I spent about 30 hours with this woman, and had only a lesson learned to show for it.

This is why I don't work with buyers usually.

 People here have a misunderstanding about offers being required to be presented.

If I am the agent for the owner of the home, and I get an offer from a party wishing to purchase the house, I am obligated by law to present this offer to my client who is the owner of the home.

I am under no obligation however, to spend my precious time writing up offers on behalf of a client who is looking to buy a house if I don't feel that the offer is worthy. That would make me a slave to the clients wishes against my better judgment.

I think it is quite possible that it would dehumidify a larger area but for the walls, but ofcourse who knows for sure.

I have no idea on the install price because we got the house when an aunt died and she had it done way back right after hurricane Irene flooded the whole basement, but there wasn't a choice on pro install because a hole had to be cut into the foundation as there was no window, I have a feeling if a venting spot existed it would be a pretty easy diy project.