All I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house...*shudders*
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It's really not that bad except the paint job every 10-20 years which costs as much as a new car, but back in the day they had oil paint which didn't peel like latex does. Still, imo, worth it to live in an historic, unique, drag queen of a home.
As someone with an old wooden house, it's actually not bad. They're built so damn well that they just.. stay there.
The expensive part is if you need to do any renovations. Updating electrical, plumbing, and HVAC sucks.
Shutters
We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many "ghosts" were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.
It's like all those stories from the 1800s of clocks stopping the moment a person died. Turns out of a lot of the clocks back then would stop running if you turned them sideways, which a lot of doctors did at night to be able to read the time of death.
And 'juvenile delinquency' stopped after they took lead out of gasoline.
It's amazing how much the violent crime rate went down with the removal of leaded gas.
You didn't see anything!
The lights have always been this way.
I honestly don't understand the houses going up in my neighborhood - it's getting gentrified and what is being built is so ugly. Who is buying these ugly ass houses for 1.5 MILLION dollars? If that was my budget I'd build something beautiful with a big porch like this picture, but all the "luxury" homes are boxes with big garages in front. I look at them on Zillow and they aren't even pretty on the inside.
And they all look alike in some developments. One cheap house after another, all exactly alike. Crap materials, horrible construction. Seriously, who wants to live in that kind of neighborhood?
New builds really bug me too. They're so pricey and big, yet the developers keep putting them on postage stamp lots. Like, who wants to spend that much money on a freestanding house while being so crammed together that you might as well be sharing walls?
1.5 didn't get you much of you are spending 1 on the land alone.
If we go by the logic in some media where the ghosts are bound to the house/property, they probably don't want to be stuck somewhere that will eventually just dissolve in the rain.
Turn out haunting a house also cost some ghost buck and inflation makes haunting unaffordable.
OoOoOoOoO.... I can't leave... Do you know what type of interest loan I have? OoOoOo
ai gen or ai upscale, either way gtfo