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Hey SIX, how's the reno going?

More importantly, how are things with the folks? I don't understand this move that they're making, it DOES seem pretty implusive and maybe not the greatest decision ever. I hope things turn out alright for both of them ... especially your mom, since it sounds like she might be isolated from any family support she would enjoy in IN. If I were in your shoes I'd be hurt. But it seems to me that you realize that you can't control their decisions, and it sounds like you're aware enuf not to make her possible isolation worse by lashing out and freezing them out so I think you're doing everything you can. If it makes any difference, I feel for you. You have my virtual sympathy.

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Hey SIX, how's the reno going?

More importantly, how are things with the folks? I don't understand this move that they're making, it DOES seem pretty implusive and maybe not the greatest decision ever. I hope things turn out alright for both of them ... especially your mom, since it sounds like she might be isolated from any family support she would enjoy in IN. If I were in your shoes I'd be hurt. But it seems to me that you realize that you can't control their decisions, and it sounds like you're aware enuf not to make her possible isolation worse by lashing out and freezing them out so I think you're doing everything you can. If it makes any difference, I feel for you. You have my virtual sympathy. SIGNY


The situation on both fronts isn't good, which is largely why I haven't posted anything about either of them. :(

The job has turned out to be more than I would be able to do myself. I have to make a choice now of getting professional help involved, or tearing down the porch. There was decades of structural damage beneath the walls and floor. I've been able to get under there and see that it stops 5 to 7 feet before the house, so I'm not really concerned that the only thing holding up the walls are the sheetrock in the home proper, but the terrible job these weekend warriors did on this addition back in the days where you didn't need to pull permits for such work is appalling. It's amazing to me that from the street you still can't see any evidence that something is amiss.

They really did a good job hiding the shoddy work too. I went for years not knowing what lied beneath and it wasn't until the floor started crumbling beneath it that I even had a clue.

I've been stressing heavily about this, but I'm formulating a plan right now. I've been thinking more and more about moving down by my brother to take some of the burden off my old man and to give him the peace of knowing that he's got family close by when he's no longer with us. This is way too much house for one person. There are houses within walking distance of my brother that are really nice 2 bed/1bath places with lawns that would take 15 minutes to mow instead of nearly 2 hours. They're reasonably priced, and if I could get double what I paid for my current place by putting $30-$40k into this place, I could still make money on it aside from living rent free for the last 8 years. Doubling what I bought it for isn't unreasonable either. It would still put the asking price around $13k less than what the previous owners had paid in 2006.

I love it down by where he lives. There isn't much surrounding the area, but the town does have a population over 15,000 people and it's not too far from Peoria. Plenty to do, and they've got great internet down there too.

I'm trying to look at the positives here. This porch scenario might be the catalyst to start the next chapter of my life. I've felt this house has been an albatross around my neck for years, and now it's finally coming to a head. -SIX

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Hooray!!! BRENDA! One big step forward!!

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Take a breath, Brenda.

This is a happy day. Moving sucks big time. Everything's going to be fine.

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I agree with SIX - moving is a pain!! I hope you're settling in comfortably BRENDA.



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Hey SIX, how's the reno going?

More importantly, how are things with the folks? I don't understand this move that they're making, it DOES seem pretty implusive and maybe not the greatest decision ever. I hope things turn out alright for both of them ... especially your mom, since it sounds like she might be isolated from any family support she would enjoy in IN. If I were in your shoes I'd be hurt. But it seems to me that you realize that you can't control their decisions, and it sounds like you're aware enuf not to make her possible isolation worse by lashing out and freezing them out so I think you're doing everything you can. If it makes any difference, I feel for you. You have my virtual sympathy. SIGNY


The situation on both fronts isn't good, which is largely why I haven't posted anything about either of them. :(

The job has turned out to be more than I would be able to do myself. I have to make a choice now of getting professional help involved, or tearing down the porch. There was decades of structural damage beneath the walls and floor. I've been able to get under there and see that it stops 5 to 7 feet before the house, so I'm not really concerned that the only thing holding up the walls are the sheetrock in the home proper, but the terrible job these weekend warriors did on this addition back in the days where you didn't need to pull permits for such work is appalling. It's amazing to me that from the street you still can't see any evidence that something is amiss.

They really did a good job hiding the shoddy work too. I went for years not knowing what lied beneath and it wasn't until the floor started crumbling beneath it that I even had a clue.

I've been stressing heavily about this, but I'm formulating a plan right now. I've been thinking more and more about moving down by my brother to take some of the burden off my old man and to give him the peace of knowing that he's got family close by when he's no longer with us. This is way too much house for one person. There are houses within walking distance of my brother that are really nice 2 bed/1bath places with lawns that would take 15 minutes to mow instead of nearly 2 hours. They're reasonably priced, and if I could get double what I paid for my current place by putting $30-$40k into this place, I could still make money on it aside from living rent free for the last 8 years. Doubling what I bought it for isn't unreasonable either. It would still put the asking price around $13k less than what the previous owners had paid in 2006.

I love it down by where he lives. There isn't much surrounding the area, but the town does have a population over 15,000 people and it's not too far from Peoria. Plenty to do, and they've got great internet down there too.

I'm trying to look at the positives here. This porch scenario might be the catalyst to start the next chapter of my life. I've felt this house has been an albatross around my neck for years, and now it's finally coming to a head. -SIX

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I can't really offer any pearls of wisdom, but I do have a few opinions.

In another thread, you posted about "painting yourself into a corner". Let me point out that a house is a refuge, and investment, AND an anchor. In your case, your house was what kept you from being HOMELESS. I KNOW homeless people and, trust me, you don't want to be one. Don't ever think that having a home was ever a mistake; Consider your other options at the time: rent? homelessness? Have no regrets: It was absolutely the right thing for you at the time.

It may even be the right thing for you into the future ... it's the magnitude of repairs combined with familial desertion that's throwing you for a loop. You won't be able to cure the desertion by your mom and FIL. No matter where you move .., unless you move to FL ... you will still be far away from them. And IF you move, you will no longer need their help. That's one of those "sideways" events that affects you emotionally but should have no bearing on whether you stay or move, because whether you stay or move doesn't change THAT situation.

When faced with a "disasterous" situation, most people have two reactions: run,or fight. Your house is associated with many negative experiences, and not too many positive. From an emotional standpoint, you may want to run. Sometimes, that's the best choice. Sometimes not. If ... once this problem is solved ... you project your house to be a CONTINUING serious drain on your time and effort and finances with no redeeming features to your life, moving may be the best.

But think ... Can you find an equivalent or better job, if you move? Would your new house have resources ... land that you can garden and space to repair your cars, for example, if the shit hits the fan? Would a (realistic) sale price* of your current home make financial sense if applied to a new home?

*From an investment standpoint, I only have experience with the LA market. We're in the same conundrum. Now that we're retired, we don't HAVE to live here. And LA area offers serious disadvantages ... earthquakes, drought, traffic, crowding, crime, homelessness, and general vulnerability if the SHTF.

However, the real estate market IMHO has peaked. We've sold into THREE down markets, and I think we're heading into another one. For THIS area, house prices can decline by 30-50% in a down market, so you have to not over-invest. Don't put more $$ into a house than you think you can recover, even in a down market. Fixing up your house doesn't mean that you get to ask more money, just that you get to sell it faster. And drop your price right away, or you will be trailing the market down and you'll sell your house six months later, at the price you were reluctant to take six months before. It makes the most sense to sell into a down market when buying UP. It doesn't make sense t seel ito a down market when buying down.

So given that you may not recover the cost of home plus repairs/improvements, and that in a serious down market you will probably not find a job in your new location either ... timing may be of the essence. THAT however, is location-dependent.

Western NY never really experienced a real estate boom, so it never experienced a real estate bust either in 2008. Real estate prices there are just SOOOOO much more stable than RE prices here. If your town is like that, and the town you want to move to is like that, then timing not so critical. But if prices have been jumping like jumping beans then you really need to watch the market you may not have more than 6 months to sell and still make a profit.

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Adding a 2nd bathroom can add a pile of value. Sounds like your basement has room. Shower, toilet, sink from discount or Restore can be very cheap, or even just toilet, sink, cabinets. Or even convert one of your closets, or under stair areas.
Leave the heat issue to next owners - let them make the decision they want instead of being stuck with your decision. They might want a certain type of heat, and/or A/C, High Efficiency, Solar Panels, etc. They might get Tax Incentives or allow the Government to buy them a new system.

Same with any remodel - whatever you choose won't be liked or appreciated by somebody, narrowing your market.

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Just keep in mind that if the economy slows down, or we suffer a giant crash, landscaping jobs will be the first to go as people try to save money. Also, don't ASSUME that you can get a job with your step-cousin, you better ASK. And you better be sure of the answer you get, and that it isn't wobbly.

However, if a job is assured and your daily expenses would be about the same here or there, then job or no job would have the same impact here or there. in other words, jobless at your new place would be the same as jobless at your current place, and all you would need to do is be able to pay taxes to stay "homed".

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Look at Zillow.com or redfin.com, or trulia.com or other alternate sites
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/100215/5-best-alternativ
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for "comps" (comparable sq footage/ number of beds/baths/ lot size) to get an idea what the prices are, if you haven't already. I don't look at asking prices, instead, I look at "recently sold". Just be aware that some sites (like zillow) dont't update as frequently as they should so some homes that come on the market may not show up for few weeks, also some homes sold or taken off the market. Also look at properties sold due to repossession: they really drag the price down.

The market is already sinking in "hot" areas (SF, Hamptons, Portland, Seattle etc) so ...

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I agree about yard sales. I've had or helped with a couple of really successful ones (sold all our worldly possessions before moving cross country) but mostly they have been disappointing and not worth the effort. My most successful yard sale at had a bucket of machbooks, and when people tried to jerk me down from $0.25 for a $10 item I'd say "Pay the asking price and grab some matches" and it woked. The other successful one I helped run for ome friends, they just tok their stuff to an empty gas station lot at the corner pf two busy streets and sold nearly everything. So maybe there's something in there. call if "moving sale" and people will know there will be large items and you ight get better traffic.

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The gap is only around 1/8" It didn't really separate lengthwise all that much and it's just lower where the pipe goes out to the street than it is from the house. It looks clean, so I assume it was joined somehow, but I didn't find any remnants of whatever joined it while I was down there. I would probably have to cut part of the pipe to make it bigger to get a collar on there. Any idea how I could cut an iron pipe in a two foot deep, constantly wet and muddy hole?

I filled the hole back in yesterday after I miserably failed trying to rig up something temporary to join them. I figure that since there is still grade and a good deal of water still manages to make it out regardless, I didn't want that exposed to prying eyes while I'm having all these other problems that I'm going to have to get the city involved.

It's easy enough to dig back up. The clean out is my marker.... assuming that the mud doesn't get washed away immediately and I'm left with another hole in a week.

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There's just about zero play in the street pipe. It's packed down good. There are heavy decorative stone units that divide the lawn from the dirt on the side of the house for landscaping. I'm sure that weight isn't helping matters there.

I might be able to remove more dirt when I finally decide to do something about it, but whatever I do is likely to draw a lot of attention. My house is really far from the curb from your average house, but it's not going to look like I'm just doing gardening when my arms are disappearing down to my shoulder along the side of the house.

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There's just about zero play in the street pipe. It's packed down good. There are heavy decorative stone units that divide the lawn from the dirt on the side of the house for landscaping. I'm sure that weight isn't helping matters there.

I might be able to remove more dirt when I finally decide to do something about it, but whatever I do is likely to draw a lot of attention. My house is really far from the curb from your average house, but it's not going to look like I'm just doing gardening when my arms are disappearing down to my shoulder along the side of the house.

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Your wheelbarrow or yard wagon full of gardening tools should hide you. Grab one for cheap at a yard sale.

Maybe those stone untis did the damage. After getting the pipe action done, on each side of the pipe, place and stack a few layers of brick. Put 6-12" or more of topsoil back on top. This should allow the brick to support the weight of the surface stones instead of the pipe.

If you haven't moved the stone unit directly above the pipe yet, then do the pipe stuff first, mark clearly where the pipe is (maybe eyeball a spot on the sidewalk and chqlkmark it), and then a week or 2 later go to the stone and move it to shore up bricks under it, or just leave it alone. If you didn't install those stones, then it took this long to create the problem, and will take that long for the problem to repeat.

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The ant stuff from Home Depot always worked fine for me, it seemed. Almost forgot that I had those issues, until you posted this. I also head about some trick, to put a line of something across their trail, which they then can't find how to cross. Maybe it was salt, or lime, or talc powder, lemon juice, can't recall.

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Have you looked into mud-jacking? It hydraulically raises concrete slabs or other pavement or structures.
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I don't get why you haven't done gutters. I called around, checked prices, had a guy bring his crew at his convenience, put seamless gutters on both sides of my house, 4 levels of roof eaves, connected them all, sloped them all, with downspouts, for about $350 cash. While I watched. I didn't really even need it on one side, which was lined with the driveway the whole way, but still worth the little cost.
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The ant stuff from Home Depot always worked fine for me, it seemed. Almost forgot that I had those issues, until you posted this. I also head about some trick, to put a line of something across their trail, which they then can't find how to cross. Maybe it was salt, or lime, or talc powder, lemon juice, can't recall.

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I've been using Amdro Ant Block, mainly. It's a marvelous product. Putting it down around the perimeter of my house kept them out almost immediately. Above the concrete slab where I had seen no less than 4 constant lines of ants coming to and from the house in front, the very next day the activity was halted completely and thousands of ants lie dead around the stuff.

Just last week, I also added a few gallons of the spray killer for the perimeter of houses to the mix. As far as I know now, there is no ant activity in the house or even the porch. Since the porch is exposed almost entirely now, I don't see any evidence of live ants there.

That's not the problem though. They're EVERYWHERE. My idiot neighbor told me years ago when I first noticed evidence of problems that he couldn't afford to pay the Orkin man who wanted thousands of dollars to put several subterranian treatments all around his house. He said his entire back yard was like a sponge to walk on. This year, I've noticed that the entire path around those winding stone pavers in front of my house is spongy and has risen. Over the last two years they've destroyed the paver patio on the back (again, something I thought was ugly as hell and always wanted to tear up and replace with other pavers or just gravel or river rock anyhow, but nothing I'm going to sink money into until I know the ants are gone).

While mowing last week I also noticed spots easily 100 ft from the house that seem infested too. These are in spots where there used to be trees that were cut down prior to my moving in.

Activity on the pavers seems to be down so far this spring with the vast amounts of poison and the early start I've gotten, but then again, as you know, it's still dipping down to some quite seasonably cold temps at night this far north and that may have more to do with it than the poison.

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I haven't. This week while I'm working I'm going to spend a few hours every day making my house spotlessly clean. I plan on calling the city the first week I'm off and hoping that some of the guys I worked with when I first bought the house are still in the building department. I'm hoping they can give me some insight and some good advice/news. I really don't know what my options are at all at this point, and since I generally expect the worst in all things, I may be making this all much worse in my mind than it actually is. I haven't been able to get my friend or his dad to check this place out yet and give me any ideas. I can't exactly be mad about that since except for 2 phone calls in the last 4-5 years I shut all of my old friends out of my life while I was drinking and haven't tried repairing those relationships to this day. He's got his own rental property that his tennants let fall to shit that he and his old man have been trying to get back up to code before a deadline the city gave him next month. I offered to help him next week when I'm off work, but with what I'm dealing with I doubt I'll be able to get them to at least scope it out before I get the city involved.

Jacking everything up might actually be a solution, if I'm allowed to have my own crew and I can get my friend and his dad to help out after it's jacked up. However I doubt I'd be willing to put the money into paying a crew to do it for me rather than just tear it down. The frame and roof of the structure is still stable. If we could get a new slab under the shed and do some work on the existing porch walls and frame work with it all jacked up to make everything level, that might actually be cheaper than tearing it all down and filling the hole. It certainly would be less work. I have to get the city involved now either way, which was something I was hoping to avoid from the start, so I might find out I have more options than I'm currently considering.

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I don't either man. I'm cheap? I'm an idiot? I'm an asshole? All of the above?

Do you mean $350 in labor, or for the materials too?

I priced it out at a local place that would make the gutters on the spot to whatever specs I wanted. I don't have the measurements on me right now, or the exact prices, but all of the aluminum and fasteners came out to around $800-$850 if memory serves. That includes for the garage and the porch/shed. Whatever the exact price was, it was 50% cheaper having quality continuous gutters made on the spot than it would have been to buy cheap shit from menards that I'd have to join every 12 feet or so.

Like I said before, it's a really big house for a single guy. Most of the house I could have done with just the help of my brother who is too heavy to get up on an extendable ladder. The back of the home though, given the tri-level design, is about 15ft off the ground and I'd need another friend who was much more agile to put up with me... and to be fair, until I started my diet and this job and got back in shape, I wouldn't have been able to do it myself either.

In retrospect, the gutters are just one on a list of things I would have done different. I just ignored my problems, hoping they'd go away on their own, and they've lead to a host of much more expensive problems. I call my neighbor "the idiot", but at least he has the excuse of barely even scraping by while raising his daughter in their decaying property. Since day one I've always had enough money in the bank to at least put gutters on my house.





Oh... something occurred to me today in a moment of clarity in between near-panic bouts here...

The clean-out for the bad pipe leading away from the house is large PVC, and is about 3 feet from the foundation of the house. It's hard to tell what's down there at that point of the system, but it's definitely not iron. So whatever pipe that I'm looking at that is 1/8" lower than the pipe coming out of the house, whether it sheared off from the pressure or lost whatever was connecting it, is a short piece that's no more than a few feet long.

That would explain why I could I could move it up slightly by hand better than thinking I'm Thor raising his hammer. When it comes time for me to tackle this issue, it might not be so bad. I might have to dig up a trench of roughly 3 feet to remove that pipe and then I can just find a solution to join roughly 3 feet between the pipe coming out of the home and whatever is at the clean-out. Given that I can see a steady stream of water draining through the clean-out even though the water fills up around the foundation first every time the pump goes off, and I don't see any back-flow when it's done, I know the grade is still good (or good enough), and if I can just join the two properly and make sure that the land doesn't sink anymore by getting the gutters and getting rid of the ants at least in that area I should be okay.

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That gutter price was for the whole deal, including whatever taxes might have been applied (I did work a discount for no receipt, cash). My house is only 40 ft long, including porch, so that is 80ft, with 4 different levels, including everything to connect them to each other, and downspouts. I did call everybody in the book, and I think had quotes around $1500. My eaves are about 15 ft up as well. Crew was about 3-4 other guys with the boss. I wanted to get them to do my other house, but my schedule didn't work out.

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Gotta be careful with moving boxes around here and unpacking. Succeeded in irritating both branches of my sciatic nerve over last weekend. Woke up Tuesday morning with pain in my right leg but the left was worse. Pain from my left ankle to my hip.

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Gotta be careful with moving boxes around here and unpacking. Succeeded in irritating both branches of my sciatic nerve over last weekend. Woke up Tuesday morning with pain in my right leg but the left was worse. Pain from my left ankle to my hip.

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Why would you be in any hurry now? Take your time, relax. Enjoy the new place.

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I read your previous post, I'm so happy that you have space for your things and natural light; I feel that much of your winter blues came from lack of light. BRENDA, I'm so happy for you! I hope that you'll like the new place a whole lot!

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It is good. I know that A LOT of my winter blues came from lack of light. I already like it SIG. I'm still adjusting a little but I think most of my twitchiness has gone.

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"Later Peeps"?

Somebody seems rather chipper these days.

Good on you, Brenda. Glad you could finally get that miserable cave and miserable landlady out of your life for good. Your place sounds a lot like my brother's. If it's anything like his, and you're on the side that his is, you may need to have the A/C on more than you'd care to during the summer, but the reverse good news is that you won't need to use as much heat during the winter. The one little oddity of his place that I don't have an explanation for.

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Gotta be careful with moving boxes around here and unpacking. Succeeded in irritating both branches of my sciatic nerve over last weekend. Woke up Tuesday morning with pain in my right leg but the left was worse. Pain from my left ankle to my hip.

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It's not really being in a hurry JSF but I was stagnant for so long that I now am able to do things. I am working on slowing down now that I have things a little bit more organized.

I am at the back of the building on the 10th floor. So, yeah I can see. There is an elevator that I use. No way am I tromping up and down 10 flights of stairs. There is a laundry room and right now heat is no problem with all the natural light I get in here. So, I know it will be fine come winter.

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Do you have a view? Stairs? Laundry room? Heat?

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It's not really being in a hurry JSF but I was stagnant for so long that I now am able to do things. I am working on slowing down now that I have things a little bit more organized.

I am at the back of the building on the 10th floor. So, yeah I can see. There is an elevator that I use. No way am I tromping up and down 10 flights of stairs. There is a laundry room and right now heat is no problem with all the natural light I get in here. So, I know it will be fine come winter.

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From the basement to the 10th floor - that's moving up in the world. Sounds like No nasty sidewalks to deal with, and no snow or ice for your first 5 minutes out your door, and none to do laundry.

Don't take this the wrong way, but maybe try taking one flight of stairs at least, on a regular basis. They should be in good repair in your skyscraper, and this will help you keep in shape, limbered, and not fall into a habit many do and skip the stairs entirely. First flight on the way up, last flight the way down. Getting the blood circulating should keep your mood improved as well.

Your balcony should get a decent breeze at 110 feet above the road. Next you'll be getting all tanned from snoozing there. Which direction is it facing? How far is visibility?

Hope it all works well.

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"Later Peeps"?

Somebody seems rather chipper these days.

Good on you, Brenda. Glad you could finally get that miserable cave and miserable landlady out of your life for good. Your place sounds a lot like my brother's. If it's anything like his, and you're on the side that his is, you may need to have the A/C on more than you'd care to during the summer, but the reverse good news is that you won't need to use as much heat during the winter. The one little oddity of his place that I don't have an explanation for.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Yup, been a long time since I have felt this happy in the place I am living. Oh, I'm sure I will have to turn on a fan this summer. But that's okay. I have a balcony that once I get a small chair I sit out on and watch the world go by.

The reason I won't is because as I stated I am on the 10th floor and we all know that heat rises.

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Gotta be careful with moving boxes around here and unpacking. Succeeded in irritating both branches of my sciatic nerve over last weekend. Woke up Tuesday morning with pain in my right leg but the left was worse. Pain from my left ankle to my hip.

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Why would you be in any hurry now? Take your time, relax. Enjoy the new place.

Do you have a view? Stairs? Laundry room? Heat?

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It's not really being in a hurry JSF but I was stagnant for so long that I now am able to do things. I am working on slowing down now that I have things a little bit more organized.

I am at the back of the building on the 10th floor. So, yeah I can see. There is an elevator that I use. No way am I tromping up and down 10 flights of stairs. There is a laundry room and right now heat is no problem with all the natural light I get in here. So, I know it will be fine come winter.

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From the basement to the 10th floor - that's moving up in the world. Sounds like No nasty sidewalks to deal with, and no snow or ice for your first 5 minutes out your door, and none to do laundry.

Don't take this the wrong way, but maybe try taking one flight of stairs at least, on a regular basis. They should be in good repair in your skyscraper, and this will help you keep in shape, limbered, and not fall into a habit many do and skip the stairs entirely. First flight on the way up, last flight the way down. Getting the blood circulating should keep your mood improved as well.

Your balcony should get a decent breeze at 110 feet above the road. Next you'll be getting all tanned from snoozing there. Which direction is it facing? How far is visibility?

Hope it all works well.

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You are right the sidewalks will be fine around where I am. If we get snow this winter I will need my cane for getting to work as those sidewalks will be bad.

You might have a point about some of the stairs. I'll have a think on it.

I'm sure it will. I am facing East as I get sun all day now that it is Spring and as long as it isn't raining. Since I am now in apartment building which is in the main shopping district, I can see all the other apartments and shops. Though from my balcony I should be able to see the Fraser river.

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