12-13-2018, 07:28 PM
Good for you! I've been in a house for maybe 11 years now and you might start to see you have secret hobbies you never knew about. Mine were I apparently like to garden and landscape more than the normal person.
My parents have gotten older (70s) and I'm thinking of building a new one/moving that has an in-law suite.
Although they annoy me when I visit, I think I can survive if it's a separated suite basically (locked door, they have their own garage etc). how does your wife feel about it (edit it's her father, so apparently she's fine with it). I feel like I won't be able to get married if people think I'm "living with my parents". Privacy lost....
I also prefer ranch homes. I find I rarely go into my half finished basement and only upstairs to shower/sleep anyway. Put them all on the 1st floor.
My dog isn't allowed to use stairs anymore (spine deterioration although she's only 7) - she had back surgery, so that also leans towards single floor flat level housing, if possible.
My biggest mistake with my first house is only 0.25 acres. You need wide acreage, you really have no idea how shitty neighbors can be until you get "that one" like one side of mine. You name it. Called the cops on me at 2AM (thinking I illegally parallel parked my car on the street, about 1ft off the curb - it wasn't even my car). Seriously, who does that?
Their dog shits in my yard and they don't pick it up (I go out there with a shovel and throw it 20ft back into their lawn, lol).
Opens my backyard gate/fence, walks into my backyard and looks inside my back windows to see if I'm home.
Then the slightly less annoying things, constantly tries to talk to me (initiates 100 out of 100 conversations) even though I have my headphones on and I'm not looking at them.
Sitting on their deck 15 ft away, drinking beer the whole night, burping, and singing. Latter would be OK if they had a singing voice.
Also dumb people can accidentally be racist and you forgive them because they're just stupid.
My parents have gotten older (70s) and I'm thinking of building a new one/moving that has an in-law suite.
Although they annoy me when I visit, I think I can survive if it's a separated suite basically (locked door, they have their own garage etc). how does your wife feel about it (edit it's her father, so apparently she's fine with it). I feel like I won't be able to get married if people think I'm "living with my parents". Privacy lost....
I also prefer ranch homes. I find I rarely go into my half finished basement and only upstairs to shower/sleep anyway. Put them all on the 1st floor.
My dog isn't allowed to use stairs anymore (spine deterioration although she's only 7) - she had back surgery, so that also leans towards single floor flat level housing, if possible.
My biggest mistake with my first house is only 0.25 acres. You need wide acreage, you really have no idea how shitty neighbors can be until you get "that one" like one side of mine. You name it. Called the cops on me at 2AM (thinking I illegally parallel parked my car on the street, about 1ft off the curb - it wasn't even my car). Seriously, who does that?
Their dog shits in my yard and they don't pick it up (I go out there with a shovel and throw it 20ft back into their lawn, lol).
Opens my backyard gate/fence, walks into my backyard and looks inside my back windows to see if I'm home.
Then the slightly less annoying things, constantly tries to talk to me (initiates 100 out of 100 conversations) even though I have my headphones on and I'm not looking at them.
Sitting on their deck 15 ft away, drinking beer the whole night, burping, and singing. Latter would be OK if they had a singing voice.
Also dumb people can accidentally be racist and you forgive them because they're just stupid.
#FIRELOU
