Mine installed a pegboard in the pantry. It’s incredibly useful for hanging up pots and pans.
Mine hired a bad realtor who listed the house poorly. It means we didn’t compete with cash offers and could actually buy the house.
I wish there was a website listing bad or lazy realtors.
My friend got his townhouse that way. It was a pretty decent place, and nobody was interested because there were, like, 2 almost-identical exterior shots, maybe one of the kitchen? and 5 from the master bedroom. None from the living room or anything like that
Mine had a single grainy outside shot, worse than Google Street view at the time and called it a contractors special. They essentially put all the red flags they could in the listing, for what was a very manageable purchase (yes we did the flooring before we moved in, and fixed some walls, but we were looking at full guts before, just to get anything.)
That’s how we got our first place. The sellers still got 2x what they’d paid for it seven or eight years before. But the price was relatively low, so we could afford it.
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My apartment used to be owned by a landlord cop who moved to Florida. So I appreciate that he reduced the population of landlord cops in my area by 1
A COP AND LANDLORD?
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Bruh, that’s terrifying. Imagine how much surveilance they put in the house, knowing the cops be weird af and want to spy on people all the time.
NYC’s mayor is literally one. Turns out landlords and cops both enjoy abusing people to their benefit
You would think… An ex of mine had a cop for landlord for a while. He neglected to change the keys after the previous really sketchy tenants. Guess who got burglarized. And yet they never found the culprits, not recovered the items.
The owner prior to the last planted fruit trees in the 70s. I love having fresh fruit to eat/share.
The previous owner switched the central AC to split units. Definitely saves on electricity being able to cool/heat individual rooms vs the entire house.
Nothing.
And that’s why we were able to afford it.
Same. The redneck stuff would be more concerning if I didn’t know how to fix redneck stuff.
Soundproofing in the wall shared with next door unit. Like, really good soundproofing. I can’t recall hearing anything from them ever.
Bad landlord move: IDK WTF they were thinking with the shower. There are SO MANY little nooks and crannies that are narrower than a pencil. I spray so much crap in there trying to prevent mold. I hate it. Landlord is lucky I’m a diligent tenant, most would let his bathroom rot, it takes so much work to keep it clean. When I build a house the shower will be SO SMOOTH and I’m going to lay it out so I can just plug in a power washer and spray it down.
Fill them with clear silicone caulk.
…can’t think of a single thing.
Fuck you, Larry.
They installed some sort of sound isolating suspended/floating (?) ceiling in my apartment. I absolutely love it. In my neighbors apartment I could constantly hear people above, but in mine it’s almost always silent.
I have a terrible problem in my apartment with noise through the ceiling. I am curious what this is that you have installed as I havent seen any good options such as this. Can you take a picture of this or something? I would love to explore options to get rid of the noise.
As a kid we moved into a house in the middle of winter, the previous owner had left the fire ready to go, including matches and a couple days worth of wood.
Man, so many things.
They fully remodeled it in 2016, and by virtue of being stupid rich, left it fully furnished and equipped. To them it was just a line on their balance sheet that they wanted liquidated. To me, it was an extra $10,000 I didn’t have to spend on furniture and appliances.
Screwed up every single bit of electrical wiring. I’ve learned so much replacing it all.
Patched CAT6 cable to nearly every room in the house. WIFI is good these days but still cant compete with good ol ethernet.
In my last house, the previous owners left a folder with information about various known quirks, which came in handy. They also left manuals for things like the stove and fireplace, as well as contact info for contractors they had used over the years. It ended up being a sort of owner’s manual for the house that we really appreciated. We did the same when we moved out.
My current house… There’s an under-cabinet CD player/radio in the kitchen that I almost never use, and the previous owners left the soundtrack to the Trolls movie in it, so I guess there’s that?
BECAUSE SINGING KILLED MY GRANDMA OKAY
Literally trolled.
Put the sump pump pit next to drain, so if the pump stops, the water just flows into the drain. Illegal, but who’s looking?
Bars on the windows and a nice big hedgerow out front. Extra security, and occasional package deliveries are obscured from the street to deter porch pirates.
Kitchen faucet is hands free if you put batteries in a thing under the sink. I don’t think the last people used it because it didn’t have batteries when we moved in. Works great though, turning a faucet on and off without touching it is really convenient when your hands are dirty.
