The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[Apoc]

Its still out of whack by double.  But if the bonuses are flowing and the people want to pay for it, then the contractors stay busy and keep pricing themselves higher until they run out of work to do I guess.

Below are all sales in the last six months for 2 bed/2 bath/1500 sqft minimum places in our hood. Getting in for "cheap" and then paying a bunch of contractors is a way of life. I just don't think our house is worth dumping that much into. Or, at least, I don't want to deal with it. Like I said, better to upgrade via purchase. There are just too many people redoing older houses because that's what people do. In most cases, they're still getting all that money back so they're all like shrugemoji.gif. Note some of these are likely 6,000 sqft houses with Sound views.

The first painter was here just a bit ago. He suggested wire brush and a power wash, then a repaint. The whitewashed brick look requires sandblasting and then subsequent mortar repair, which can be significant. They can also do the carpentry work, so they're gonna quote me a bunch of line items... including refinishing our 84 year old front door. He suggested the cleaning and painting would be $7-$10k, depending on number of colors. That's cheaper than I expected, frankly. We never talked about anything but white, but maybe it's time to seriously considering changing the color. Whatever it is, gutters and fascia would all likely stay white - for that classic PNW feel!

Given this price, we might be able to sneak closer to $30k... but shit always seems to add up. Oh, and don't forget our 10.1% sales tax! You know shit is fucked when you think $7k-$10k seems reasonable.