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Originally Posted by Gruff

I finally found one, but it is going to cost me 200.00 extra a month than I was paying in August. :(
The good news is it has built in W/D and an extra bedroom. Ground floor and all one level.

Still it bugs the hell out of me that rental companies are gouging the public this year.
High cost of homes appears to be driving it.

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W/D? Wild or Demented? Wanton or Deranged? Oh wait, I misread the words before it. It has built in W/D!! Ah, Watercloset and Doors, right? It's good to have doors in Oregon, and bathrooms. That way you won't be trampled by moose on the way to the outhouse, and the buffalo don't roam through your living room. Very good features to have.

With housing prices soaring, I'm not surprised to see rents increasing, especially when you say that you have such high demand that the waiting lists are 20 people deep. It's not gouging, at that point, it's the invisible hand of the market giving you the finger like a deranged proctologist.

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If that model is ever discontinued...I guess I'll go to on-demand, which I might do anyways.

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That's what I wanted, but believe it or not Lowes didn't have it in stock. And I'm one that's faithful to one store, so I just stuck with the exact same model that I had before.

So did I, in the end, but the way the house was built, I either stick with that model or go on-demand...which is a nasty way to build a house. For the life of that house, the water heater will be electric and it will be tall and skinny.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

W/D?

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Sorry Clothes Washer and Dryer.

When I home owned I had and old Cape Code style two bedroom with a full basement.
The hot water heater sat in a clear area a few feet away from the wall.
It was a snap to replace with any model I desired. I only had to replace it once in 18 years.

Basements are cool. I've been in one once in Baton Rouge, of course it was only 5 ft. tall and super damp, but I though that it was so cool to have extra square footage under your house!

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Originally Posted by dday9

Basements are cool. I've been in one once in Baton Rouge, of course it was only 5 ft. tall and super damp, but I though that it was so cool to have extra square footage under your house!

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I'm surprised anyone in that area has anything resembling a basement considering they don't even put dead bodies underground down there.

In some places we can bury people, not 6 six feet but it's like a mini mausoleum that you can't walk in.

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Originally Posted by Gruff

When I home owned I had and old Cape Code style two bedroom with a full basement.

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A lot of houses out that way had full basements, especially after a big enough storm.

When I was growing up, we had a basement that we could drive into. From the looks of the house, the new owners may have finished the basement such that it is (dark and nearly windowless) living space, but it was just a basement while I was growing up. The hot and cold water tanks were both down there (we were on a well, so there was a cold water tank as well as hot), along with a root cellar, a few pumps (house water and irrigation water, both of which came from dug wells rather than drilled wells, and had pumps in the house rather than the well), assorted visiting animals, and lots of other stuff. Basements were good for that. "Lots of other stuff" tends to accumulate in basements. "Lots of other stuff" is now accumulating in my garage, but it lacks the same appeal. In my garage, there is lots of light and the air is hot and dry. A basement is always cool and dank. In a garage, you might find a dessicated something, but you'd always know what it once had been. In a basement, you'd find an amorphous lump and not be sure whether it had once been a frog, a squirrel, or just something that cat horfed up.

I finished making a LUA tutorial website just like the VB.Net one: http://luaprogramming.freeiz.com/index.html

I'd really like to get away from free hosting, because those pop-ups are soooooo annoying.

But I'm doing it as a hobby and for free, so I can't afford paid hosting I think. Let alone a domain name.

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Originally Posted by dday9

I finished making a LUA tutorial website just like the VB.Net one: http://luaprogramming.freeiz.com/index.html

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Oh come on. That one's easy:

1) Kill pig.

2) Roast pig.

3) Invite lots of friends.

4) Party like it's 1999!

I like a good boucherie, but I don't get it.

Look up Luau. It's probably a bit similar to whatever it was that you just mentioned. Getting a bunch of people together to eat a roast pig seems to be a tradition in many countries and has many different names, but it is all similar. Whenever I see any discussion of Lua, I think Luau.

I like the code tags on Quick Reply so much that I have frequently hit them when I ment to hit the quote tags, thereby causing code formatting on a quote...there is virtually no difference when that happens.

My basement is currently dungeon-like after the bank foreclosed then bungled the winterization causing massive plumbing issues that flooded it out and I had to gut everything. But on the plus side I paid relatively little for the place and have no mortgage so renovating the basement shouldn't be too much of a burden.

There are also some water leakage issues that will run me about $1200 to fix, but I budgeted $10,000 for repairs when I bought the place and the plumbing issues were cheap since I did all those repairs myself. New water heater cost me $700 but I got a nice big one and had to pay city hall $75 for the permit (!) to install it. So I'm still way ahead of the game...

In November I'm having a new 200 amp electrical box put in and wiring one end of the basement with a pair of 20 amp circuits for my PA system, bass guitar and harmonica amps, and any equipment brought over by other musicians with plenty of room and power to spare. Drywall (440 sound barrier), ceiling tiles, carpet, a 60-inch TV for movies, a bar at the other end of the room... You know, the usual stuff.

Yeah, basements are nice when they're actually habitable.

If I had a basement out here I would sleep in it during the summer when the temps get so bloody high.

Basement's rock but they're rare as hen's teeth in the UK. I'm actually looking at a place that has one divided into two rooms with a view to buying it but I'm just a few grand short on the deposit right now. It won't take me long to save up the difference but the house could go in the meantime. It's a race against time.

If I do get it then one rooms getting turned into a home gym and the other's getting a bigg ass TV, a bar and lots of oversized bean bags.

My dad who's a pretty bad alcoholic just built himself a bar and it's awesome! The bar itself is a beautiful dark wood and the pole that runs at the bottom is chromed, plus it's stacked with a ton of alcohol.