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| Topic Started: Jun 20 2009, 02:39 PM (376 Views) | |
| New Harumf | Jun 20 2009, 02:39 PM Post #1 |
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We are again home owners. Having finally sold our place back in the Chicago area, we have purchased a very nice townhome here. It is officially in Ypsilanti (how's that for a name :lol: ), and it has 3 bedrooms, a full basement, eventually to be finished, a fire place, granite countertops, 2 car garage, and is wonderful! Now, to give you an idea of how bad things are in Detroit: We went to close at a title company right on the Detroit/Farmington Hills border. As we walked into the building there we vultures, real vulturesth walking around. Not buzzing overhead, but actually walking the grounds. Vultures in Detroit. The last chain grocery store in Detroit closed its doors last week. There are ow officially zero full service grocery stores in Detroit proper. Only 7-11's, and small ma & pop type places this bullet proof windows seperating the clerk and products from the customer. I will no longer go into Detroit now that the auto workers are all layed off! Most of the city looks like an empty wasteland. Where is Robocop?? |
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| Ulgania | Jun 20 2009, 02:43 PM Post #2 |
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Huh, seems like you still managed to upgrade I take it? If Detroit were to manage to become a Beirut, pre-civil war, then something good would come of the city. Until then Robocop is the only viable solution... |
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| Paradise | Jun 20 2009, 02:44 PM Post #3 |
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How much did you pay for it? |
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| NRE | Jun 20 2009, 03:55 PM Post #4 |
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A description but no picture...I demand a photo! :P Oh and did you have to move a lot of stuff...I dislike moving stuff :furious: |
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| East Anarx | Jun 21 2009, 12:04 PM Post #5 |
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Congrats fellow homeowner. |
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| Paradise | Jun 21 2009, 04:04 PM Post #6 |
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You're already a homeowner Esternarx? |
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| NRE | Jun 21 2009, 04:10 PM Post #7 |
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:lol: Check "The Plan" topic in this forum, he's gotten himself a cozy camper ^^ |
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| Paradise | Jun 21 2009, 04:15 PM Post #8 |
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But the point in being a homeowner is to own a part of the land... |
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| New Harumf | Jun 21 2009, 06:12 PM Post #9 |
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OK, Pictures: The back of the house Posted Image The front of the house Posted Image Difference from old house Old New Cost: Got a price $80,000 less than I wanted; Cost $20,000 less than my old house Central Air Conditioning: No; Yes Fireplace: No; Yes Bedrooms: 2; 3+ (can add one in the basement) Age: Built in 1938; Built Yesterday (New construction) Baths: 1 1/2; 3+ (can add one in the basement) Kitchen: Old; Granite counters, all Stainless Steel Appliences Basement: Half basebent with crawl space; full basement ready to be finished Master Bath: Nothing fancy; Jacuzzi tub, and shower Closets: Not many; Walk in closet in the master bath So, yeah, I traded up, big time! |
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| Quaon | Jun 21 2009, 06:33 PM Post #10 |
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Congrats, NH! |
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| Rhadamanthus | Jun 21 2009, 06:43 PM Post #11 |
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congrats! |
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| Menhad | Jun 21 2009, 07:32 PM Post #12 |
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Yeah now is the time to buy if you can. |
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| Paradise | Jun 21 2009, 08:07 PM Post #13 |
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Not in Quebec City. There has been no recession here. The current unemployment rate is about 3% (second lowest in all Canada). Here an apartment with 3½ rooms cost CAN$150,000. A small house cost CAN$250,000. A house similar to NH's cost about CAN$350,000. |
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| Quaon | Jun 21 2009, 09:01 PM Post #14 |
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What's Canada's policy on immigration? :lol: Actually, I've been wondering this for a while. While I don't have biological relations with him, the man my grandmother married about my biological grandfather died was a Canadian citizen. If I were to hypothetically desire to acquire Canadian citizenship, would that be of any use to me? |
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| NRE | Jun 21 2009, 09:40 PM Post #15 |
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Congrats NH, that's a really nice home. I've always love brick homes, mostly because its harder for a hurricane to blow apart :lol: It might just be the do it yourselfer in me but I highly suggest extending the deck and dropping a hot tub :lol: :love: Of course I guess that depends on the size of the backyard. This its a beautiful home, congrats!!! That said since we're crunching numbers you could easily get a home like that (minus the basement of course) for under 300K, and the yard would be close to half an arc. Of course then all the good-for-nothing yankee's came along and housing shot through the roof. :furious: My parents paid a little over 300K for our house in 1993 or 1994 and about a year or two ago could easily sell it for 500K! Of course now prices are getting back to what they were in 93-94, more reasonable and more southerly :lol: |
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| Draxis | Jun 21 2009, 10:21 PM Post #16 |
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On your hypothetical situation no. They recently tightened it up so only if your father/mother (iirc) was born in Canada then you could be a canuck too. Of course there is the route I am planning on taking and that is the live there three years and then apply. Ah, immigration... |
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| New Harumf | Jun 22 2009, 09:47 AM Post #17 |
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Here is the floorplan, first and second floors. Basement is full, and under everything except the garage, so, imagine the morailroad I will have down there!! Posted Image |
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| Paradise | Jun 22 2009, 11:42 AM Post #18 |
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There is no point in coming to Quebec City if you don't speak French. The city is 99% French... You can probably live in English in Montreal, but Montreal has been hit hard by recession. |
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| Paradise | Jun 22 2009, 11:44 AM Post #19 |
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Very nice NH. I envy you, seriously :P |
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| New Harumf | Jun 22 2009, 12:03 PM Post #20 |
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Eh, you'll get yours, I am sure! |
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| Paradise | Jun 22 2009, 03:53 PM Post #21 |
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Is it common to have two toilets so close to each other? |
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| New Harumf | Jun 22 2009, 05:00 PM Post #22 |
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They may seem close, but one is just off the living room (for guests) and the other you have to go through the master bedroom to get to, it is the private bath for the master bedroom. |
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| Paradise | Jun 23 2009, 04:01 PM Post #23 |
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Oh, I see. A private bathroom heh? That's uncommon. ;) |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Jun 25 2009, 07:16 AM Post #24 |
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Never can tell when Paradise is being sarcastic. Most houses owned by the British middle class will have an en-suit for the master bedroom. Granted, my mother's house (where I live) doesn't. But my dad's bedroom, my sister's bedroom and the guest room at my dad's all have en-suit bathrooms. |
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| New Harumf | Jun 25 2009, 08:10 AM Post #25 |
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Of course, I remember in 1964 when we had an exchange student from Scotland living in our house, and he took a bath every day because, as he pointed out, there were more bathtubs in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in N.Y. then all of Scotland, but that was then, plus, deodorant was not very common among the wool-wearing Scots either, so we actually encouraged those baths. Now, the real question is - do all hotel rooms in London now have private baths? |
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