Mine installed a pegboard in the pantry. It’s incredibly useful for hanging up pots and pans.
The owner prior to the last planted fruit trees in the 70s. I love having fresh fruit to eat/share.
The previous owner switched the central AC to split units. Definitely saves on electricity being able to cool/heat individual rooms vs the entire house.
My apartment used to be owned by a landlord cop who moved to Florida. So I appreciate that he reduced population of landlord cops in this city by 1
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You would think… An ex of mine had a cop for landlord for a while. He neglected to change the keys after the previous really sketchy tenants. Guess who got burglarized. And yet they never found the culprits, not recovered the items.
NYC’s mayor is literally one. Turns out landlords and cops both enjoy abusing people to their benefit
Mine hired a bad realtor who listed the house poorly. It means we didn’t compete with cash offers and could actually buy the house.
My friend got his townhouse that way. It was a pretty decent place, and nobody was interested because there were, like, 2 almost-identical exterior shots, maybe one of the kitchen? and 5 from the master bedroom. None from the living room or anything like that
Mine had a single grainy outside shot, worse than Google Street view at the time and called it a contractors special. They essentially put all the red flags they could in the listing, for what was a very manageable purchase (yes we did the flooring before we moved in, and fixed some walls, but we were looking at full guts before, just to get anything.)
That’s how we got our first place. The sellers still got 2x what they’d paid for it seven or eight years before. But the price was relatively low, so we could afford it.
I wish there was a website listing bad or lazy realtors.
They installed some sort of sound isolating suspended/floating (?) ceiling in my apartment. I absolutely love it. In my neighbors apartment I could constantly hear people above, but in mine it’s almost always silent.
Is it something like this?
I have a terrible problem in my apartment with noise through the ceiling. I am curious what this is that you have installed as I havent seen any good options such as this. Can you take a picture of this or something? I would love to explore options to get rid of the noise.
…can’t think of a single thing.
Fuck you, Larry.
Nothing.
And that’s why we were able to afford it.
Same. The redneck stuff would be more concerning if I didn’t know how to fix redneck stuff.
Soundproofing in the wall shared with next door unit. Like, really good soundproofing. I can’t recall hearing anything from them ever.
Bad landlord move: IDK WTF they were thinking with the shower. There are SO MANY little nooks and crannies that are narrower than a pencil. I spray so much crap in there trying to prevent mold. I hate it. Landlord is lucky I’m a diligent tenant, most would let his bathroom rot, it takes so much work to keep it clean. When I build a house the shower will be SO SMOOTH and I’m going to lay it out so I can just plug in a power washer and spray it down.
Fill them with clear silicone caulk.
Bars on the windows and a nice big hedgerow out front. Extra security, and occasional package deliveries are obscured from the street to deter porch pirates.
Put the sump pump pit next to drain, so if the pump stops, the water just flows into the drain. Illegal, but who’s looking?
Screwed up every single bit of electrical wiring. I’ve learned so much replacing it all.
Somebody installed a sump pump fairly recently. There’s plenty of evidence that the basement used to be partially finished, but it was probably all ripped out due to water damage. It’s dry now, thanks to the pump.
I just un-finished my basement to put in a full perimeter drain. Prior owners put in a partial drain and (re?) finished over everything. Took 5 years to get (visible) water down there but when it happened I wasn’t surprised. So much other stuff had been covered up that I just kind of assumed there were issues behind the paneling. And there were. More bucks to clean it up and finish the demo of a side room they had partitioned off. Then I found out that the chimney leaked when it rained sideways.
…it’s been an eventful and expensive year. 💀
That’s why I’m thankful somebody did it before I moved in! The chimney, on the other hand, didn’t have a cap, so it leaked when the rain fell vertically. The re-lining and new cap was pretty expensive, too.
Built shelves into the back wall of the garage. It’s been great for storage.
Installed a water softener, but more on that in a minute.
Also wrote with sharpie on the wall of the maintenance closet the dates of routine PMs for the furnace and water heater. Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that they weren’t particularly diligent about the water heater stuff. It just said “bleach” and dates, but they clearly weren’t flushing it properly. I found and removed probably like 15-20 pounds of scale and replaced the lower element that it killed. I have a theory that they installed the water softener well after living with hard water for a while, and by then there was already a bunch of scale in the water heater. Combine that with dosing bleach which is higher pH and not properly flushing it out and they welcomed crystallization of the dissolved solids that were already there. Then under deposit corrosion killed the lower element. I’m not sure why they felt the need to dose bleach though. That would only really attack organics, and the water is already treated before coming through. Idk, it’s my first home so maybe I’m the one who’s a clueless idiot here, so I shouldn’t judge too harshly here lol.
Maybe they were bleaching the well. Double check your well cap?
Excellent thought, but we’re on public sewer. That’s why I’m confused about why they would’ve been bleaching the water heater.
Man, so many things.
They fully remodeled it in 2016, and by virtue of being stupid rich, left it fully furnished and equipped. To them it was just a line on their balance sheet that they wanted liquidated. To me, it was an extra $10,000 I didn’t have to spend on furniture and appliances.
As a kid we moved into a house in the middle of winter, the previous owner had left the fire ready to go, including matches and a couple days worth of wood.
Fuck if I know. These people were idiots and did so many stupid things
I suffer with you. This is my first place so I didn’t have as good an eye of what to look out for. Now after having lived in this place for a while I realize the previous owner took a lot of shortcuts and did a really crappy “remodel” job.
I’m pretty sure my house got flipped by some DIY morons
Hello fellow sufferer. May your future surprises be boring.
