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#26 2008-08-21 6:03 pm
Re: What do you know about condos?
bratboy wrote:
We are battling with ants in our (second floor!) apartment right now. I don't know that I've ever had a place in Texas that didn't have ants at some point, no matter how clean. One of them somehow got in my clothes and bit me yesterday morning while I was getting dressed.
Using ant granules works well.
Sugar mixed with boric acid and a little water and then poured on their anthills also works well.
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#27 2008-08-21 6:06 pm
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Re: What do you know about condos?
I've owned a few condos, and lived in one.
The easy part's settling on the particular place and location; the real task is evaluating the condo corporation's history and getting people's thoughts on the operation of the condo board; usually two distict entities not always on the same side of an issue. Seek out board members or attend a board meeting before buying, if possible.
Condo corporations can usually be researched without too much difficulty.
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#28 2008-08-21 9:57 pm
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Re: What do you know about condos?
matt wrote:
bratboy wrote:
We are battling with ants in our (second floor!) apartment right now. I don't know that I've ever had a place in Texas that didn't have ants at some point, no matter how clean. One of them somehow got in my clothes and bit me yesterday morning while I was getting dressed.
Using ant granules works well.
Sugar mixed with boric acid and a little water and then poured on their anthills also works well.
They don't build anthills on the 2nd floor (at least not anywhere accessible)!
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#29 2008-08-22 12:45 am
Re: What do you know about condos?
Kendall wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Man, smurf condos. They're just apartments you have to buy.
My townhouse condo is like a house that happens to be REALLY close to two others and someone else does all the work on the outside. 1500 sq. ft. 2 huge bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Rocks for me! I'm not interested in shoveling snow or cutting grass...
And you can't play your music loud, and if your neighbors do, it keeps you up all night, and you get to hear other people having sex at all hours...smurf. If I'm going to sink several hundred thousand dollars into something, it's going to be no smaller than 3,000 sq. feet and have a goddamned yard, which will be cut by a service. I'm not going to buy a small portion of a building.
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#30 2008-08-22 1:12 am
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Re: What do you know about condos?
I've sunk $38K into a house on 1.25 acres of land.
There's no sewer connection and the house is a 100 year old white elephant, but hell, I can rock out all I want any time I want (as long as I don't keep the GF awake - - she's got to go...)
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#32 2008-08-22 7:59 am
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Re: What do you know about condos?
bratboy wrote:
Daddyo wrote:
My daughter has her condo on the market, 6th st. a few blocks east of 35.
East side, eh? Is that area "up-and-coming" or not quite yet?
Up and coming. The east side is not what it used to be. She is within walking distance of downtown, the old stuff is coming down and the new stuff is going up. Drive down there sometime.
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#33 2008-08-22 8:17 am
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Re: What do you know about condos?
It would be nice to live that close as I work downtown.
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#34 2008-08-22 10:38 am
Re: What do you know about condos?
By the way, anyone that needs (or knows someone that needs) a solution to roaches, my daughter found this. For some reason i can't view the video. Neither could a pc friend of mine, but my daughters pc played it at work.
I'm going to try this even tho the guy is coming out on Tuesday.
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3630244
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#35 2008-08-22 1:38 pm
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Re: What do you know about condos?
Donkey Butter wrote:
it's not enough to have your place spayed, you need to get the entire building interior and exterior spayed depending on anatomy, or they will be back.
our dirty neighbors brought roaches into the building and it wasn't until the entire building was spayed that we got rid of them. thankfully those neighbors have moved on.
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#36 2008-08-24 7:37 pm
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Re: What do you know about condos?
I lived in an apartment, but never a condo. I can't imagine buying property and have a bunch of bureaucratic jack-holes telling me what color I can paint my bedroom, or if I can or cannot place a hanging plant on my balcony.
A few years ago, my wife and I bought an old farmhouse and twenty acres. We're surrounded by Amish and Mennonites, who could care less what I do, or if my grass neatly trimmed. Hell, I can even do this without complaints!
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#37 2008-08-24 10:43 pm
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Re: What do you know about condos?
Daniel wrote:
Kendall wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Man, smurf condos. They're just apartments you have to buy.
My townhouse condo is like a house that happens to be REALLY close to two others and someone else does all the work on the outside. 1500 sq. ft. 2 huge bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Rocks for me! I'm not interested in shoveling snow or cutting grass...
And you can't play your music loud, and if your neighbors do, it keeps you up all night, and you get to hear other people having sex at all hours...smurf. If I'm going to sink several hundred thousand dollars into something, it's going to be no smaller than 3,000 sq. feet and have a goddamned yard, which will be cut by a service. I'm not going to buy a small portion of a building.
Condos must be very different in the U.S. than they are here. The walls between our units are about a foot and a half thick with several layers of sound proof board and sound insulation and all kinds of stuff. Several thousand dollars? Try 99 for me here.
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#38 2008-08-25 12:19 am
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Re: What do you know about condos?
It's going to vary from structure to structure, obviously.
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#39 2008-08-27 10:27 am
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Re: What do you know about condos?
Kendall wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Kendall wrote:
My townhouse condo is like a house that happens to be REALLY close to two others and someone else does all the work on the outside. 1500 sq. ft. 2 huge bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Rocks for me! I'm not interested in shoveling snow or cutting grass...And you can't play your music loud, and if your neighbors do, it keeps you up all night, and you get to hear other people having sex at all hours...smurf. If I'm going to sink several hundred thousand dollars into something, it's going to be no smaller than 3,000 sq. feet and have a goddamned yard, which will be cut by a service. I'm not going to buy a small portion of a building.
Condos must be very different in the U.S. than they are here. The walls between our units are about a foot and a half thick with several layers of sound proof board and sound insulation and all kinds of stuff. Several thousand dollars? Try 99 for me here.
You forget how cheap Americans are. If they can throw up buildings and sell them for 150K a piece, they will, and most Americans are stupid enough to buy them!
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