Speaking of houses ...
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I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.“I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.”—Gloria Steinem to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wiser Than Me
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Which house gets the piano?
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.@CHAS said in Speaking of houses ...:
I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.Yeah, I get that. Making friends is often difficult for me, but we'll have a built in network in Nevada as we work to meet people once we're ensconced in Santa Fe.
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I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.@CHAS said in Speaking of houses ...:
I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.Yeah, I’d prefer to get out of winter for a few weeks but I’ve traveled extensively for business and understand not quite knowing which life is the real one. I’d just as soon rent in different locations than to go the same place repeatedly.
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@wtg said in Speaking of houses ...:
Which house gets the piano?
We're looking for a space in Nevada. The layout of the Santa Fe home, despite its size, isn't really conducive to a large object in the living room. I posted a picture of that space at the old place.
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@CHAS said in Speaking of houses ...:
I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.Yeah, I’d prefer to get out of winter for a few weeks but I’ve traveled extensively for business and understand not quite knowing which life is the real one. I’d just as soon rent in different locations than to go the same place repeatedly.
@Mik said in Speaking of houses ...:
@CHAS said in Speaking of houses ...:
I like it.
I am tired of living in one place in the winter, another in summer. It has made me lose touch with people in Colorado and have only made a few acquaintaces in Arizona.Yeah, I’d prefer to get out of winter for a few weeks but I’ve traveled extensively for business and understand not quite knowing which life is the real one. I’d just as soon rent in different locations than to go the same place repeatedly.
Yeah, but that other space has family!
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We're looking for something in the 2500 sq. foot range, plus or minus. We do not need a very large place with lots of bedrooms. 3BR is just right (to have some guests over).
@Piano-Dad said in Speaking of houses ...:
We're looking for something in the 2500 sq. foot range, plus or minus.
Oh wow, that house looks much bigger than the posted 2700-ish sq feet. Ae the photos deceptive?
You're going to go see it right? You'll have to let us know what you think.
When we were house hunting, Mr. SK got very cranky about one house in particular that was shot in such a way as to appear massive, yet when we got there, it was horrible and cramped.
It's an almost impossible balance to achieve: photos look too good, and people are disappointed in the real thing. Photos look too bad, and people don't even go to see it.
The house we ended up buying looked much better in person than in the listing photos. We almost didn't go to look at it because I didn't like how it looked in the photos, not at all. We only went because it seemed to check all the boxes, and my brilliant mother really pushed me to go, so I thought, ok fine, we'll just go, but I was certain I wouldn't like it. Now we live there, and I love it more than any other place I've ever lived.
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Photographers are great at making spaces seem deceptively large to the viewer.
Take this picture: Classic use of extreme wide angle lens. Makes the space look gigantic.
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Ahh now that you mention it, I can see how this photo is at an odd angle. I didn't notice because I wasn't really looking closely the way I would if we were hunting.
When we put our house on the market, the real estate agent had someone do one of those 3D walk through videos (or whatever they're called). I asked if they were going to take photos as well, and she said "no, we'll just grab some stills from the video." I remember being suspicious of that, and asked her to show me the photos before she listed them. Sure enough, there were some that I thought were very deceptive -- IOW they made the space look a lot bigger than it was. So I had her re-do a few because it just felt dishonest (they didn't have to re-shoot, she just had to redo the process of getting the screengrabs/stills). She didn't see the problem, but agreed when I pushed. The final selection felt honest to me, which I thought was important.
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Here is one we're planning to look at when we're in Vegas after Christmas. If it's still on the market in three weeks.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1950-Colvin-Run-Dr-Henderson-NV-89052/63330835_zpid/?mmlb=g,1
My son and daughter-in-law like to joke that we don't go house shopping, we go house buying. It's an exaggeration, of course, but it's based on our experience in buying in Santa Fe. We told the real estate agent when we started in 2017 that we were not buying, just shopping to get a sense of what was in the area. She showed us five very different options so she could begin to understand our preferences over location, style, and amenities. We came back a second year, saying the same thing. Not planning to buy for a while .... and bought a place a month or so later. We're telling the agent the same story this time....
My wife is retiring in a few days. I'm giving W&M one more year (only teaching the first term, just doing research and service the second term). At that point we may sell our home in the Burg and replace it with one in Las Vegas near the family out there. Then we would go back and forth between Santa Fe (Summer) and Las Vegas (winter).
@Piano-Dad said in Speaking of houses ...:
My wife is retiring in a few days.
Congratulations to Dr Piano*Mom (I just made up that name).
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Again, Hah! I might, if I played enough to justify it.
But probably not. I'm thinking that prepping the Santa Fe place for a piano would be a real pain. In any case, Piano*Son may wind up with the piano at some point in the not too distant future.
Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.
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@Piano-Dad - Digital for Santa Fe? Still gives you something to play, but less maintenance and fewer worries that an airbnb renter will damage it....I know, I know....I'm a piano barbarian....
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Again, Hah! I might, if I played enough to justify it.
But probably not. I'm thinking that prepping the Santa Fe place for a piano would be a real pain. In any case, Piano*Son may wind up with the piano at some point in the not too distant future.
@Piano-Dad said in Speaking of houses ...:
Piano*Son may wind up with the piano at some point in the not too distant future.
Does he still play regularly?
Remind me what kind of piano you have?
