Comments on: Indoor Pool http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/ Huh? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:16:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jerry http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/#comment-4611 Jerry Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:12:56 +0000 http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/#comment-4611 Some houses have "bad bones." No amount of fixing can help bad layout of the land. No amount of fixing can help that a house may have been built with a basement lower than the surrounding land, or even sewer. Unless of course, you're willing to pick the entire thing up, and move a lot of dirt. Bone surgery is expensive. Our house has a driveway that can't be fixed. No amount of earth moving will fix it, because of the layout of the land my house sits on. The only thing than can help the driveway of my house is a moving van. Our house also has a basement (having a basement is the first problem right there!) that's made of limestone. Limestone walls that are too short. And that leak. Putting a new basement under my house just wouldn't be worth it. It's not worth it, despite the fact that we're got to rip a portion of it up this spring/summer to replace the sewer lines under it. The cost benefit analysis just doesn't work out. Enough houses don't get torn down for that same very reason. It just costs too much to raze a house and dispose of it, and is much more economical to unload the house on to someone else, and just move in to something else, or build something else. Home ownership: The American dream. Some houses have “bad bones.” No amount of fixing can help bad layout of the land. No amount of fixing can help that a house may have been built with a basement lower than the surrounding land, or even sewer.

Unless of course, you’re willing to pick the entire thing up, and move a lot of dirt. Bone surgery is expensive.

Our house has a driveway that can’t be fixed. No amount of earth moving will fix it, because of the layout of the land my house sits on. The only thing than can help the driveway of my house is a moving van.

Our house also has a basement (having a basement is the first problem right there!) that’s made of limestone. Limestone walls that are too short. And that leak. Putting a new basement under my house just wouldn’t be worth it. It’s not worth it, despite the fact that we’re got to rip a portion of it up this spring/summer to replace the sewer lines under it. The cost benefit analysis just doesn’t work out.

Enough houses don’t get torn down for that same very reason. It just costs too much to raze a house and dispose of it, and is much more economical to unload the house on to someone else, and just move in to something else, or build something else.

Home ownership: The American dream.

]]> By: Sean http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/#comment-4563 Sean Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:29:20 +0000 http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/#comment-4563 Dude.. we are seriously beginning to consider that... It's a nice little house - but damn! Dude.. we are seriously beginning to consider that… It’s a nice little house - but damn!

]]> By: Jerry http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/#comment-4562 Jerry Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:27:00 +0000 http://blog.bigzaphod.org/2008/03/03/indoor-pool/#comment-4562 Yeah, it's freaking crazy around here. As soon as the temperature stays above freezing for more than three or four days in a row, this is gonna be the sloppiest, wettest and muddiest spring ever. At this point, it feels like the winter is never going to end. It's supposed to snow twice more this week and be near 0 again... I'd say at this point, your best bet is to fix up the house, sell it and buy a newer one. Locally, the housing market is ok so you shouldn't have too much trouble selling it. Yeah, it’s freaking crazy around here. As soon as the temperature stays above freezing for more than three or four days in a row, this is gonna be the sloppiest, wettest and muddiest spring ever. At this point, it feels like the winter is never going to end. It’s supposed to snow twice more this week and be near 0 again…

I’d say at this point, your best bet is to fix up the house, sell it and buy a newer one. Locally, the housing market is ok so you shouldn’t have too much trouble selling it.

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