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28525. Ms. No - 3/5/2015 11:20:16 PM Condolences, i3b3. We know all our lives that this grief is coming someday, but that doesn't diminish it in the least. Be well. 28526. lemwalker - 3/16/2015 7:16:20 PM am alive and well. Have found library has 'puters to use. Been a year since gave up being on line. It is after all a fee country, ( R was a misprint), and my pocket ain't that deep. Glad to see the old names, though I have never seen the faces. Bottom line; am not living high on the hog but am out of the mud. Be back again someday. Lem 28527. arkymalarky - 3/16/2015 7:20:55 PM LEM!!! 28528. iiibbb - 3/16/2015 9:43:42 PM buying a house... made a bid... they took it.
Trying to decide whether to let the $1000 earnest money go and make a bid on a farmhouse that needs an addition and remodel for us to fit, but has 1.5 acres in the city.
First house... ready to go except for some minor remodels; lots of neighbors with kids, best for the geriatric cat, good room sizes, lots of storage..... postage stamp lawn (0.3 ac) and not a ton of privacy.
Farm house... 1.5 acres with a house with access to hiking and $70,000 less. Old house with old house issues. Livable, but we don't fit and it needs a comprehensive remodel and addition to work for us. 1 neighbor who is nice. Privacy in spades. It would be great.
X-factor.... how long are we going to be here? If my job goes away in 3 or 4 years and we have to leave would all the work we put into a dream house be for naught? The first home is probably easier to turn over and they took our bid which is $5 per sq foot under comps. If things become secure here... there will be other "dreams" that pop up I think. 28529. arkymalarky - 3/16/2015 10:29:41 PM my input on this would not be dependable. I would always go for the rural house.
I did fall in love with a fixer upper years ago, before we finally decided to build our house where we wanted to live, and my principal said it would nickel and dime me to death. I know he was right, and though it was an excellent price, it would have been a money pit. But I cried over that house. 28530. judithathome - 3/16/2015 10:32:11 PM I'd advise taking the "not" farmhouse...simply because of the resale.
Face it, you will never get the re-model money back. Period...unless you plan to stay there the rest of your life.
You should go with the one that is in the best school district. 28531. iiibbb - 3/16/2015 10:41:35 PM I think the farmhouse could be a huge win or a huge poop.
Same school district. We're choosing based on the elementary school (which has great services - which our slightly attention challenged older child could benefit from).
The 1.5 ac house isn't really rural, it's a big lot that feels rural. If we didn't have kids I think it would be a no-brainer for the old "farm" house.
My wife is concerned we're being too conventional. I think the benefits outweigh the cost of being a little conventional. 28532. judithathome - 3/16/2015 10:56:06 PM Not to sound jaded but I think "privacy" in a neighborhood is highly over-rated...trust me, no one CARES about getting to know you (the editorial American) and chances are you'll never have to deal w/your neighbors AT ALL...I saw my neighbor in the front yard this week and her twins are walking around like regular little persons...last time I talked to her, she had just HAD them. 28533. iiibbb - 3/16/2015 11:31:03 PM Perhaps seclusion and quiet are better words 28534. arkymalarky - 3/17/2015 12:43:33 AM A lot of it depends on personality. To me, personal comfort is the most important thing. When I'm older convenience will probably trump it, but not now. When Mose was little we considered moving to town for a number of reasons, and looked at several houses, but built out here, and we enjoyed the life we made out here with her. There were inconveniences, and still are. In a large lot in town, with the much lower price tag and no inconvenience of rural living, it would depend on what you needed to do to it and what was the best living environment for your kids. In a way a smaller city or town is worse for lack of privacy, and when you have kids it's worse. Lots of pressure to interact and participate in whatever the moms have their kids doing. I got a rep of being unsocial, which is okay, because I am. Luckily everyone judged Mose on her own merits as she got older, but when she was younger it got really annoying all the stuff people expected us to do. 28535. iiibbb - 3/18/2015 7:44:02 PM We have a contract on the house with no lot...
...just makes sense. 28536. judithathome - 3/18/2015 8:27:56 PM Sounds like a plan! 28537. iiibbb - 3/18/2015 8:57:21 PM I feel pretty good about it. P is starting to feel pretty good about it.
The worry would be if she felt like I made her give these opportunities up, but she's already seeing how much easier the payments are going to be to make. 28538. arkymalarky - 3/18/2015 8:58:27 PM Congrats! 28539. judithathome - 3/18/2015 8:59:18 PM Well, the payments are gonna be there for awhile so it's best to be comfortable with them... 28540. wabbit - 3/21/2015 4:36:57 PM Congrats iiibbb!
Here in MA, we're celebrating Spring with more snow. 2" so far and it's still snowing.
The good news is that the snow is melting slowly. 28541. judithathome - 3/23/2015 12:20:34 AM Saves on watering the grass! 28542. wabbit - 3/25/2015 12:39:41 AM SQF score 88!!
Anyone who works in the food industry will know what a big deal this is. I work for a candy company that has been in business for almost 150 years. When we needed to become SQF certified, I was volunteered to be the HACCP Coordinator and the SQF Practitioner. I am also the Packaging Design Department, Product Photographer, IT Department, Shipping/Receiving Department asst. manager, NAFTA consultant, and a few other things. Many hats. I don't know where to begin when people ask me for my title, so I usually go with IT Manager just for simplicity.
I'm trying to drag a 19th century company into the 21st century and little by little, we're getting there. I was hoping for an 82 score and got an 88. That means no 6 month surveillance audit (86 and over to avoid that).
Weird, I know, but it's a very big deal for me. 28543. arkymalarky - 3/25/2015 12:55:08 AM Wow, congrats! 28544. wabbit - 3/25/2015 1:36:43 AM Thank you arky! It's an incredible amount of paperwork, all of which I've had to write from scratch. For example, I keep a log of how often the office trash bins are emptied. Yes, seriously, the office trash. I've written dozens of policies and log forms. I have 17 notebooks in my office alone and there are another dozen on the production floor. Then I chase people around for signatures, then I have to verify that any and all forms are filled out correctly, then I have to validate that the procedures I've written are valid and working. It's a full time job for someone who is trained to do it, and I learned on my own and have no more than four hours a week to get it done. I do a lot of weekend work. And I am very thankful for the people in the plant who help by doing their own paperwork and keeping their records up to date.
Then there is the 100-year-old factory building. Very cool building, but with all the old building problems. And then there is the old machinery - all still working just fine, but finicky to maintain and mostly from the 1950's or earlier. Some really fascinating machines, hypnotizing to watch, but all with personalities. Who knows what is going to happen when the 60-year-old mechanics retire, young folks don't know how to maintain these machines and don't seem to have any interest in learning. There aren't many candy companies still in the US, but we're hanging on as best we can.
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