The Castanet Gab-O-Rama

[Bsuds]

Hmm, the Bickering Room topic here was locked a few days ago, then mysteriously unlocked early this morning, now locked again.
Gremlins?

More likely ferri had a Brain fart.

[Patron]

Hmm, the Bickering Room topic here was locked a few days ago, then mysteriously unlocked early this morning, now locked again.
Gremlins?

no, a second thread was started and then they were merged and then locked again

and the bickering room was becoming a bashing room with posters using many usernames starting pot stirring topics then getting banned and coming back again starting all over. You can really notice now how calmer the board is without some posters spamming it to death

[normaM]

yeppers, and now some hardly post at all.
sigh, so the yacht club - been there as a guest a few times, asked and was told by a host it was around 1100 a yr cheapest membership. So thinking I should become social I just looked up the rates
$10,000 initial fee. But hey you can split it into 2 payments!
scratch that off my list

[Bsuds]

yeppers, and now some hardly post at all.
sigh, so the yacht club - been there as a guest a few times, asked and was told by a host it was around 1100 a yr cheapest membership. So thinking I should become social I just looked up the rates
$10,000 initial fee. But hey you can split it into 2 payments!
scratch that off my list

The high price keeps out the riff raff so that the hoity toity's can keep their noses held high.

Seems to work eh?

[normaM]

it was the " split the $10,000 into 2 payments made me giggle
Feel like joining just to ask ppl if they did that
No one seemed snobby when I was there - altho K Town is home to the finial bosses of bragging. I'm never impressed with your money unless you giving it to me!

[Babba_not_Gump]

Busy on here tonight, trying to keep up the the various gab sessions, distractions to the left, distractions to the right, then this comes on the tube.
Now where was I?

[Catsumi]

Haha, isn’t that kiddie porn, Babs?

[Babba_not_Gump]

We all have a little kid in us, busting to get out.

[oneh2obabe]

Youngest sent me a listing for a house they were going to look at. Told him don't be surprised when the rooms aren't as big as the listing states.

Unbelievable that a realtor wouldn't double check everything before posting. Gotta admit that's one frigging huge kitchen.

Main level
Kitchen 54 ft ,3 in x 37 ft ,1 in
Dining room 33 ft ,6 in x 40 ft ,5 in
Living room 57 ft ,3 in x 31 ft ,4 in

Second level
Bedroom 2 33 ft ,10 in x 33 ft ,6 in
Primary Bedroom 43 ft ,4 in x 33 ft ,6 in
Bedroom 3 30 ft ,10 in x 29 ft ,11 in
Bedroom 4 30 ft ,10 in x 29 ft ,11 in
Bathroom Measurements not available

Basement
Recreational, Games room 86 ft ,6 in x 53 ft ,6 in
Bedroom 5 42 ft ,10 in x 29 ft ,11 in
Bathroom Measurements not available

[normaM]

So the Realtor couldn't measure the bathrooms?

Yesterday I had new countertops installed Main and laundry room. Well worth the money I mutter as I try to justify it.
But they look great, no issues they coming back this morning to finish off a few things. Some of the best workers ever had in the house - not one speck - and the backsplash was a bugger of a dirty mess

[oneh2obabe]

^^^Saw that and figured wth - how can a realtor not find the bathrooms.

[Lady tehMa]

I've been browsing homes in Alberta, and a number of them don't measure the bathrooms (not available). I figure because they are too small and they don't want people to dismiss it out of hand.

OneH2Obabe, that seems to be a really large house! I actually measured our own rooms to compare and a lot of the newer homes seemed to be built smaller, at least those in the price range we're looking at.

[oneh2obabe]

I've been browsing homes in Alberta, and a number of them don't measure the bathrooms (not available). I figure because they are too small and they don't want people to dismiss it out of hand.

OneH2Obabe, that seems to be a really large house! I actually measured our own rooms to compare and a lot of the newer homes seemed to be built smaller, at least those in the price range we're looking at.

There's no way the rooms are the size the realtor listed. The lot size is 47 ft. x 111.16 ft. Picture attached is what the house looks like. But mom being mom, I found a few more for him to check out.

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[Lady tehMa]

You have a positive gift for finding things - I'm sure he'll be appreciative.

[Glacier]

I'm not sure what the fees would be, OT, but you can negotiate. When I bought my house (less than half that value), the realtor fee was set $6 grand (I can't remember if that was for each realtor or to be shared between them) no matter what it sold for. This was an odd way to do it, but that's how the seller set it up. Oh, and the selling realtor was on the Lower Mainland, which was also weird.

They often don't measure because the size of bathrooms because they can be subjective. Does that include the shower or not kind of thing.

Also, I just went and paid my taxes, and the tax authority says my main floor is 1080 sq ft. But I have no idea how they came up with that!? I measure my OUTSIDE walls, including the cantilevered parts of the living room, and even then my main floor is still only 950 sq. ft.!

But will I fight the assessment? No, because they say my basement is 500 sq. feet when it's also 950 (or whatever top is minus cantilevered parts). Of course, the furnace room is about 100 sq ft so maybe more like 800 sq. feet. of finished space. Part of the basement is below 8ft though because of the bulkhead, and someone told me any ceiling below 8 feet doesn't count in your square footage, so not sure. Does anyone know about that?

The Realtor listing for my house had completely different sizes from the BC Assessment numbers. Something like 1000 for the main floor and 1200 for the upstairs, and 750 for the basement.

I would guess that Realtors will only list numbers if they think it will improve the selling of the place. They will list enough info such that people who view will likely put an offer on, but not so much information that people won't bother looking at all.