Homebuying Questions

[Habbaku]

Wasn't aware you'd passed, Oex. RIP.

[Oexmelin]

Sorry, notary speech in this civil code jurisdiction

[DGuller]

Whew, you're alive! 

[Grey Fox]

When's the move, Oex?

[merithyn]

Finally took possession of my own new house today.

Congrats!

Where did you end up? What town?

[Barrister]

Hey Meri - your new hometown has been getting some news / social media coverage.

Apparently an artist was hired to paint this weird soviet union meets Cookie Monster mural on the side of a building in Peoria.  A few days after he was finished the building owner calls him up in a fury wondering why the hell he painted this mural on his building without permission.  The mystery now is... who paid the artist in the first place?



https://www.cracked.com/article_29158_communist-cookie-monster-mural-mystery-sparks-ire-in-illinois.html

[merithyn]

I finally have a "clear to close" on my house! Lots of starts and stops due to the intricacies of FHA loans and the holidays.

Close on Monday, January 4, after which I will arrange to have a plumber and electrician come check things out. (Yes, I could have done this before, and yes, I know I could end up with a really big bill, but I got the house for cheap, and I didn't want anything to come up that the FHA loan would preclude a purchase for.) I've already hired (and paid) a contractor to strip the wallpaper and patch the walls so that I can paint. Move in date is tentatively set for January 16th.

[merithyn]

Hey Meri - your new hometown has been getting some news / social media coverage.

Apparently an artist was hired to paint this weird soviet union meets Cookie Monster mural on the side of a building in Peoria.  A few days after he was finished the building owner calls him up in a fury wondering why the hell he painted this mural on his building without permission.  The mystery now is... who paid the artist in the first place?



https://www.cracked.com/article_29158_communist-cookie-monster-mural-mystery-sparks-ire-in-illinois.html

This has been kind of funny to watch play out. A friend of mine's son was involved in painting the original artwork, so he's considered "part of the problem". I giggled. Anyway, the owner painted over the mural with white paint, which then promptly washed away over the next week or so due to the continuous rain we had.

Still no word on who the guy was that hired the artist, but the original drawing by him is now up for sale, I believe.

[Tonitrus]

For about the same price as a house in Monterey, I could get a cottage+winery about an hour's drive to the east on 58 acres.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/39995-Carmel-Valley-Rd-Greenfield-CA-93927/2093405720_zpid/

I could be: retired Captain Picard.

[PDH]

Live in Los Banos!  Pretty cheap there...

[Valmy]

An hour long commute? Well hell that isn't much longer than the average Los Angeles resident drives to work every day.

[PDH]

That distance up the Carmel Valley Road might be a tetch longer than an hour...

[Tonitrus]

Doesn't Los Banos translate to "the bathrooms"?

[Valmy]

Doesn't Los Banos translate to "the bathrooms"?

It means "the baths". Probably means there are some springs or lakes or something there.

[Tonitrus]

Live in Los Banos!  Pretty cheap there...

I've also driven over that mountain pass above Hollister a few times back when I was there before...as a daily commute, no thanks.