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Thread: "Remodeling/updating" a house is the biggest waste I ever heard of

post 1686714173 07-18-2023, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted By IlChosenOne⏩
It is completely driven by vanity and female emotions
While completely financed by cuck husbands
Lmao @ normies and their pathetic lives srs
I get chills when I hear a cucked husband talking about a honey-do list and him acting like a sniffling child that has no option but to appease the wife. You can instantly tell when you see a cucked man's house inside.
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Originally Posted By BigDeeps01⏩
Man the fraudcels are on a roll this week
lol 75% of this forum claims to make $10k /day, have a beautiful HBB 10/10 profoundly loyal wife, and retired to the yachts and country clubs by age 40.

Now they're also high end tradies who know how to do all kinds of work themselves/with very small crews, and are among the few who were truly able to captalize off of getting rich by flipping houses. So rich off of it, that they blew 99% of the results I've seen others try at it IRL right out of the water.

Miscers sure are a quietly talented bunch of dudes! This place is a complete circle jerk lmao
post 1686719683 07-18-2023, 04:23 AM
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Originally Posted By ALinkToThePast⏩
lol 75% of this forum claims to make $10k /day, have a beautiful HBB 10/10 profoundly loyal wife, and retired to the yachts and country clubs by age 40.

Now they're also high end tradies who know how to do all kinds of work themselves/with very small crews, and are among the few who were truly able to captalize off of getting rich by flipping houses. So rich off of it, that they blew 99% of the results I've seen others try at it IRL right out of the water.

Miscers sure are a quietly talented bunch of dudes! This place is a complete circle jerk lmao
Meanwhile there's only two posters that I actually believe are multiple property owners.
post 1686719783 07-18-2023, 04:28 AM
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Bought my house for 630k in 2018, remodeled it. Appraised at 1.5m a few months ago. Feels good.

before:


After:

https://i.imgur.com/yGJh3Q2.mp4
post 1686720653 07-18-2023, 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
No one cares what a rentard thinks ( or who he believes for that matter ).

Wow, it's like you read my mind when I talked about larpers appearing. Exhibit A, ladies and gentlemen.
post 1686720893 07-18-2023, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Just LOL @ the delusion.

Just about anyone who is not LARPing on the misc knows I'm not LARPing either.

It takes someone to actually know what they are talking about to know whether or not someone else knows what they are talking about.

This is why you think I LARP, because you just don't know. It's all cope on your end.

But at the end of the day...

No one cares what a rentard thinks.
Okay then, post proof you own property.
post 1686722403 07-18-2023, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
What part of "no one cares what a rentard thinks" do you not understand?
I understand that while you don't own any property, you just got owned in this thread.
post 1686722453 07-18-2023, 06:02 AM
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I did quite a lot of work on my house.... but i tend to agree... as logn as it works and is decent it's ok.

Glad I got a nice place to live, but I could live in a dump and still be fine.
post 1686723193 07-18-2023, 06:27 AM
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post 1686726183 07-18-2023, 07:25 AM
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Lol some people aren't poor like you OP. Some also enjoy home remodeling. Us blue collar types aren't afraid to get a little dirty and i can PROMISE you that if you make the right choices (I.E. ripping down chitty wood paneling, making an older home more of an open concept, adding modern ammenities) you will profit no matter if you sell it next year or in 10 years. No one wants chitty wood paneling from the 60s brah. House flippers do all the modern trends in a home they renovate, and they double or triple their money with a little paint and some cheap home depot cabinets/counters. Its not hard to turn a profit if you do the work yourself. They key is to know your market, speak with a good realtor, and know how much money you should sink into a place to maximize profit. Obviously don't put a 60k dollar kitchen in a house that will never sell for above 300k. That same investment in a house you buy for 750k might be worth 1 million because luxury buyers are different than working class/middle class buyers.
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post 1686726383 07-18-2023, 07:27 AM
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post 1686726563 07-18-2023, 07:30 AM
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Lold at OP - Huge negative bud. Threw bout 150K at my place on the water. Damn near worth a million now. Bought it 5 years back at 300K. Work done:

-blew away 3 load bearing walls, added a beam instead
-new kitchen
-3 new sets of french doors
-new flooring up stairs and downstairs
-2 new baths (of 3)
-2 new teak decks
-scraped all popcorn and went to flat ceilings
-insulation laid into downstairs ceiling (JFL that there was none there in the first place)
-new sea wall
-new dock & floating dock
-new 8K lb boat lift
-new boat, obv

JFL at OP.
post 1686726673 07-18-2023, 07:32 AM
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It’s cope srs, you won’t get the ROI for most houses when you sale. Just stop being a ******* and buy a new house at that point. The average kitchen remodel is like 40k. Lmao that’s cuck, just use that as a down payment
post 1686726763 07-18-2023, 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted By AWSbruh⏩
It’s cope srs, you won’t get the ROI for most houses when you sale. Just stop being a ******* and buy a new house at that point. The average kitchen remodel is like 40k. Lmao that’s cuck, just use that as a down payment
See above, looking at near quadruple ROI. One must pick the correct house though.
post 1686726863 07-18-2023, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted By ooph⏩
Bought my house for 630k in 2018, remodeled it. Appraised at 1.5m a few months ago. Feels good.

before:


After:

https://i.imgur.com/yGJh3Q2.mp4
fuuuuuuark
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post 1686726963 07-18-2023, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted By theory816⏩
fuuuuuuark
Das it mane
post 1686727083 07-18-2023, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted By FinBra⏩
See above, looking at near quadruple ROI. One must pick the correct house though.
The average person can’t justify spending 40k on a kitchen or bathroom upgrade and isn’t making money off one.
post 1686727143 07-18-2023, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted By AWSbruh⏩
The average person can’t justify spending 40k on a kitchen or bathroom upgrade and isn’t making money off one.
The average person didn't buy a house on the gulf before the pandemic. Again, timing and location matters bigly.

EDIT: my biggest fear is a hurricane taking the downstairs away, lol. We're so in the money equity wise, we've considered selling at 1MM~, and taking the 700K and buying a lake house.
post 1686727283 07-18-2023, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted By ooph⏩
Bought my house for 630k in 2018, remodeled it. Appraised at 1.5m a few months ago. Feels good.

before:


After:

https://i.imgur.com/yGJh3Q2.mp4
Lol I know houses that were going for 400-500k in my neighborhood in 2018 and now all of them are over 1 million. The kitchen upgrade is not the reason your home appraised for 1.5
post 1686727343 07-18-2023, 07:40 AM
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I worked in real estate before tech.

My house is 50 years old so of course we got rid of the dark wood and ugly green title from the 70s.

Plus we put in new windows, a new front door, pained the outside twice, remodeled the kitchen, and put in hardwood floors. This is over a 20 year period of time, though.

There's a lot more work that needs to be worked on inside.

Ask any Realtor and they will tell you the amount you put into remodeling is an investment of receiving even more money when you sell. So many people wait to remodel until they put the house on the market and don't get to enjoy it.
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post 1686728453 07-18-2023, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted By ymer⏩
Probably a perfect example for OPs first post.

The before is a perfectly good, functional, tasteful and in very good shape place. Then comes Mr Cuck and drops 200k for countertops, tiling and lights.
Lol yea its only worth the upgrade if you do the work yourself and dont pay out the wazoo for the upgrade.
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post 1686728613 07-18-2023, 08:05 AM
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The rentcels seem extra angry today.
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Originally Posted By Retoaded⏩
The rentcels seem extra angry today.
Cope is coming extra early now. They are feeling the pinch "cuz inflation".

Imagine the mental gymnastics needed to tell someone with plenty of cash that the pleasure they get through design isn't "worth it".

These are the guys who think someone in a nice neighborhood who puts in a pool out back is "showing off, it isn't necessary he could go to the community pool".

Cope at its best. The seething is arousing if I'm honest.

LOL
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It all started to take off when shows like Trading Spaces became popular.

Then you had every tard in town taking out a second mortgage to redo a bathroom that was fine to begin with
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Originally Posted By ooph⏩
Bought my house for 630k in 2018, remodeled it. Appraised at 1.5m a few months ago. Feels good.

before:


After:

https://i.imgur.com/yGJh3Q2.mp4
2 sink chad.
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Originally Posted By redliner9⏩
It all started to take off when shows like Trading Spaces became popular.

Then you had every tard in town taking out a second mortgage to redo a bathroom that was fine to begin with
I agree...HGTV ruined a lot of houses and sucked out the soul...especially for a lot of working/middle class older homes. I'll take the "original" house that's time period correct at a discount over the one some Joanna Gaines wannabe gave the HGTV treatment. A lot of those remodels done in the 2000-2010 now look hideous in older homes.

Now when it comes time to sell you simply run the numbers on what to do.
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Originally Posted By AWSbruh⏩
Lol I know houses that were going for 400-500k in my neighborhood in 2018 and now all of them are over 1 million. The kitchen upgrade is not the reason your home appraised for 1.5
Kitchen isn't the only reason, no. I remodeled the entire home, interior and exterior, landscape, etc. It's on a river, and there are no lots available on the river anymore and never will be (unless someone tears down a house to rebuild).
Originally Posted By grandmoloch⏩
2 sink chad.
Brother, I have 3 sinks.

post 1686732933 07-18-2023, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted By ooph⏩
Kitchen isn't the only reason, no. I remodeled the entire home, interior and exterior, landscape, etc. It's on a river, and there are no lots available on the river anymore and never will be (unless someone tears down a house to rebuild).



Brother, I have 3 sinks.
Damn, just missing the Papi Van Winkle bruh.

We did ours for the same reason: no more canal front property in Tampa being built. Its a natural buffer in recession due to lack of supply - that and I wanted to be able to turn switches on a lift and be boating, rather than marina or trailer it.

EDIT: What polisher did you use on that backslash? We have 2x4" marble as the backsplash - looks to be same size (white) and I can't get it to pop like that, lulz.
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That’s the problem with a lot of Americans.

They’ll live in outdated, old, ugly, smelly, pest infested places. But they’ll spend tons of money on their cars and toys.

The way I see some people live is downright embarrassing. A quick zilow search can show you living conditions.
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