OMG Consolation - 12’ chunks of drywall!! Mud and tape tech apparently improved, too. I am using this handy dandy self-sticking mesh tape that one doesn’t need to mud like a madman.
I used the sticky mesh tape on my first house back in the 80’s, it’s not new.
12’ sheet rock is nice because it reduces the amount of seams, but it is unwieldy. It was impossible to get it in some rooms because of the size. Back then the local lumberyard (Somerville Lumber for anyone from eastern MA) had free delivery for anything, you could order one $6 piece of sheet rock and they’d bring it right to your door. So convenient… we spent so much money there.
Sadly, the big national chains put them out of business.
“I think one of the key issues is that buyers now have a ton of ‘home inspections’ before they buy a house. I don’t think home inspections occurred 20 to 30 years ago when we were all buying our first house. These home inspections point out all kinds of things that are ‘scary’ to young buyers. For example, there are 2 pages of ‘trip hazards’ if there is any crack or settling on any path or the driveway. In my case… ignorance was just fine.”
We definitely had a home inspection before purchasing our house. And despite being held together with duct tape - the bones of the house were fine - just 30 plus years old. Even with my latest bathroom remodel - when they opened up the walls I was told how well built my house was by the wood that was used (no knot holes at all in it.)
Personally, I think that young couples believe they need to have what it took their parents decades to get.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I mean at the end of our new kitchen hood vent. 
Mr. B finally found a way to vent that sucker outside. The siding guys were super helpful. @Consolation will be pleased to hear that the new Bunsen digs will have a real overhead hood over the island cooktop. 
With super cool LED lights.
Keeping my fingers crossed for the beehive house! I have no idea what the market is like for ramblers without a view in that area of SD, but I have a feeling CB’s magic can make it profitable.
The only saving grace about the bee hive house is that it comes with character… instead of a small grandma crackerbox that people are paying $1000/sq ft for, just so they can demo and rebuild a McMansion that captures views. All of the McMansions that my competitors built are just sitting on the market asking an average of $2.3 million. None of them have sold.
My target right now is to find something that can be fixed up and sold in the low ranges because there is a lot of pent up buyers looking for $900 - $1.3mil houses to get into the neighborhood and schools.
The beehive house has one of the top elementary schools. Once you get past elementary school in Pt Loma, everyone feeds to the same middle school and high school (and our high school is not good)
cb, when might you hear back from the nice agent?
The high school does have a good sailing team…
Yay, @BunsenBurner !
We bought our first house in 1991… We had a house inspection. It scared the crp out of us. The inspection stated that there might be a settling issue for the house based on the fact the driveway was settling… So we had the city inspectors come out to look at it before we bought it and they told us that the house was built on pylons that were driven 50 feet into the ground and that while the driveway may settle there was no way that house was moving…We owned that house for 11 years. It didn’t settle at all…
I think that sometimes the inspection company feels they have to find something or the buyer will feel that they haven’t done their job.
Here is a new (building) code word for you: dark sky-compliant. Coming to the city next to you! You can get busted for having outdoor light fixtures shining light in any direction other than downwards.
Minor settling is very common. So are cracks in concrete garage floors… If those buyers had seen the house we purchased, they would have ran away screaming. Pin piles are a wonderful thing. But they have to go all the way into the bedrock.
Flip #7
I am making an offer on the bee hive house this morning. My understanding is that the Fiduciary handling the trust will review the offer this evening. I’m not going to go into too many details until we get through the negotiations.
My contractor went with me yesterday to do a thorough inspection under the house, on top of the house, all the meters, wiring, plumbing, load bearing, etc.
Exciting, cb! Best of luck to you.
I’m glad you are dealing with a decent seller’s broker. The others sound quite slimy to me.
This sounds quite promising. Fingers crossed.
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Ten pages and still no property to rehab… oh… the wait is so hard…
CB, good luck!
@emilybee: I love your avatar!!