It's 16x40, nothing to sneeze at... I will definitely be running a good bit of that machinery and very much looking forward to having a proper miter setup for longer cuts.
Also a bit of difference between:
- Paying someone $2k to dig a shallow trench and pull some wire especially when that person can't be bothered to pop a panel or even look at a receptacle to see what it's rated for. If you're that lazy giving an estimate that takes little to no effort I can only imagine what their work is like. Just didn't sit well with me, wasn't really an issue with the amount. Had he even pretended to give a shit I probably wouldn't have even thought of doing it myself but he planted that seed deep for sure.
- Paying for tons of concrete to be delivered and having it leveled/graded. A good chunk of that cost is materials if I'm not mistaken. $5000 for 620sqft of concrete flooring seems average from what I could find.
Since we're getting into the weeds here: I just made ~$30k on the sell of my old house after being there 2 years. I planned on sitting on at least half of it. That leaves ~$15k to do anything major I want to the new place to make it more of a forever home. As you can see I am quickly blowing through that part but the house doesn't need much outside of the re-pipe and fixing a few hackjobs like the pool subpanel.
My "second job" is consulting I do for $60/hr doing work I love but don't get to do much (UI design/Frontend) on an application I feel is making the world a better place by modernizing mental health assessments for veterans. Mental health as a whole has really been lagging behind for far too long. It's really hit and miss hour-wise but super casual. I work when I want to, some weeks I put in nothing, others I put in a good 20-30 hours. It's been busy lately so that kind adds to the "fuck you" money I don't normally have.
Didn't really share all that to have my lifestyle and financial decisions picked apart. Don't get me wrong it doesn't bother me, I just don't really care. We can go round and round trying to find reason in it but I know most of what I do doesn't make sense to the average person. Mostly sharing for people like Taylor who dream of home ownership but can't really imagine what the shittier sides of it are from their position. You can sit here and say "renting is freedom" but until someone really breaks down what it's like to amass so much shit you fill a 26' truck and still don't have room for everything because you dropped an anchor somewhere, I highly doubt it really sinks in. Moving used to be one pickup truck and one day, now not even a weekend is enough time even with help. I'm not even sure how I got to this point.
I work with my hands to escape from the my desk job. When that gets old I throw myself down a mountain at speeds that will for sure put me in the hospital one day. I work entirely harder than I have to and get genuinely restless without the occasional near death experience. But I'm also learning when to throw in the towel at times, although I clearly still need to work on that. Somehow this balance seems to give me that "meaning in life" feeling.
So yeah long story short:
- pay for movers AND packers once you've really settled into a place, especially with a spouse and kid, or heaven help you. Moving gets exponentially more difficult once you stop renting.
- home ownership is quite painful at times, gold or iron, you're going to pay the price. It's easy to blow off some spark-chaser's apprentice but things can go so, so bad and become much harder than you imagined. (as you've seen)
Also a bit of difference between:
- Paying someone $2k to dig a shallow trench and pull some wire especially when that person can't be bothered to pop a panel or even look at a receptacle to see what it's rated for. If you're that lazy giving an estimate that takes little to no effort I can only imagine what their work is like. Just didn't sit well with me, wasn't really an issue with the amount. Had he even pretended to give a shit I probably wouldn't have even thought of doing it myself but he planted that seed deep for sure.
- Paying for tons of concrete to be delivered and having it leveled/graded. A good chunk of that cost is materials if I'm not mistaken. $5000 for 620sqft of concrete flooring seems average from what I could find.
(11-12-2020, 03:51 PM)Tyler.M Wrote: wait your working two jobs right now and just casually spent 5 grand on a hot tub and want to spend another 5 grand on a basement you don't need? If my bank account had nuts, it would wince at how hard yours is getting kicked right now.
Since we're getting into the weeds here: I just made ~$30k on the sell of my old house after being there 2 years. I planned on sitting on at least half of it. That leaves ~$15k to do anything major I want to the new place to make it more of a forever home. As you can see I am quickly blowing through that part but the house doesn't need much outside of the re-pipe and fixing a few hackjobs like the pool subpanel.
My "second job" is consulting I do for $60/hr doing work I love but don't get to do much (UI design/Frontend) on an application I feel is making the world a better place by modernizing mental health assessments for veterans. Mental health as a whole has really been lagging behind for far too long. It's really hit and miss hour-wise but super casual. I work when I want to, some weeks I put in nothing, others I put in a good 20-30 hours. It's been busy lately so that kind adds to the "fuck you" money I don't normally have.
Didn't really share all that to have my lifestyle and financial decisions picked apart. Don't get me wrong it doesn't bother me, I just don't really care. We can go round and round trying to find reason in it but I know most of what I do doesn't make sense to the average person. Mostly sharing for people like Taylor who dream of home ownership but can't really imagine what the shittier sides of it are from their position. You can sit here and say "renting is freedom" but until someone really breaks down what it's like to amass so much shit you fill a 26' truck and still don't have room for everything because you dropped an anchor somewhere, I highly doubt it really sinks in. Moving used to be one pickup truck and one day, now not even a weekend is enough time even with help. I'm not even sure how I got to this point.
I work with my hands to escape from the my desk job. When that gets old I throw myself down a mountain at speeds that will for sure put me in the hospital one day. I work entirely harder than I have to and get genuinely restless without the occasional near death experience. But I'm also learning when to throw in the towel at times, although I clearly still need to work on that. Somehow this balance seems to give me that "meaning in life" feeling.
So yeah long story short:
- pay for movers AND packers once you've really settled into a place, especially with a spouse and kid, or heaven help you. Moving gets exponentially more difficult once you stop renting.
- home ownership is quite painful at times, gold or iron, you're going to pay the price. It's easy to blow off some spark-chaser's apprentice but things can go so, so bad and become much harder than you imagined. (as you've seen)
