73Coupe
Senior Member
Hopefully a "McMansion" doesn't go up next to you....
Electric Car Fire at my Neighbors
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57fury440
Senior Member
Another electric car? Wow.
71Polara383
Kid with ballcap
Married to the ideology.
They sold the place. I heard a closing date of July 9th.
And apparently, that's what happened.
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
if the house is rite next door to you. when they start to tear it down watch for the rats. that is the problem i had when they tore my neighbors house down after it was destroyed by a fire in February and was finally torn down in October.
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
they probably got good $$$$$$$$$$$$
Following up on this insanity..... It's been just a couple days short of a year since the fire.
The neighbors sold the house to a local builder/real estate agent. Nice enough guy, he's an Ukrainian immigrant that's been in the country quite a while and lives in the next town.
He decided to rebuild what's there.... He had his crew up there over the summer cleaning out as they left everything behind... Everything.... Lot's of dumpster trips from what I saw. Put on a new roof and new garage. Cleaned up the yard etc. He had his father, who seems like a nice guy doing a lot of the work with a crew of 2 guys. The father barely speaks English and his crew doesn't speak it at all. All Ukrainians.
I was working one day in the garage with the doors open(as usual) and the father came over to borrow a phillips screwdriver. He knew all the words except "phillips" so he was making hand gestures and I knew what he wanted right away. I got a good chuckle out of that one.
They had their work cutout for them as the holes in the roof that the fireman cut were never covered and the snow from last year (and we had about 10' last season), then the rain and probably animals. The place had started to stink too.
All was going well... and then around the first part of October, everything stopped for a couple weeks, then started again, but only one guy working part time... Then he seems to be gone. I've seen nothing going on for weeks now. There's still some junk on the front lawn that I'm getting tired of looking at and the dumpster has taken up residence in the driveway.
I have no idea what's going on.... The new owner had figured on the place being done and rented by October/November.
I'm thinking he's either run out of money, or his crew has gone home to the Ukraine. I'm betting on the money running out.
The old neighbor stopped by and the conversation didn't go well.... I asked why he didn't call and he said the guy had offered more, so I told him I would have beaten that price had he called. He got quite pissed off at me for some unknown reason, but whatever... His older partner is on death's door (I think he has AIDS), I did find that out. He also let it slip how much the settlement was.... I think he got at least $100k less than he should have.
I feel like it was pretty disrespectful for him not to have called... But he's a dumbass as he lost out there too.
So... I have no new neighbor, which is fine, but I don't like an empty house next door either. Stuff happens to empty places. This is a "low crime" area where lot's of people never even locked their doors. Things have changed a bit over the years though and it's still pretty tame, but the new owner did tell me that someone was in there between the time he closed and when they started building.
The neighbors sold the house to a local builder/real estate agent. Nice enough guy, he's an Ukrainian immigrant that's been in the country quite a while and lives in the next town.
He decided to rebuild what's there.... He had his crew up there over the summer cleaning out as they left everything behind... Everything.... Lot's of dumpster trips from what I saw. Put on a new roof and new garage. Cleaned up the yard etc. He had his father, who seems like a nice guy doing a lot of the work with a crew of 2 guys. The father barely speaks English and his crew doesn't speak it at all. All Ukrainians.
I was working one day in the garage with the doors open(as usual) and the father came over to borrow a phillips screwdriver. He knew all the words except "phillips" so he was making hand gestures and I knew what he wanted right away. I got a good chuckle out of that one.
They had their work cutout for them as the holes in the roof that the fireman cut were never covered and the snow from last year (and we had about 10' last season), then the rain and probably animals. The place had started to stink too.
All was going well... and then around the first part of October, everything stopped for a couple weeks, then started again, but only one guy working part time... Then he seems to be gone. I've seen nothing going on for weeks now. There's still some junk on the front lawn that I'm getting tired of looking at and the dumpster has taken up residence in the driveway.
I have no idea what's going on.... The new owner had figured on the place being done and rented by October/November.
I'm thinking he's either run out of money, or his crew has gone home to the Ukraine. I'm betting on the money running out.
No, not really. The buyer upped the price it was offered to me by $2000.
The old neighbor stopped by and the conversation didn't go well.... I asked why he didn't call and he said the guy had offered more, so I told him I would have beaten that price had he called. He got quite pissed off at me for some unknown reason, but whatever... His older partner is on death's door (I think he has AIDS), I did find that out. He also let it slip how much the settlement was.... I think he got at least $100k less than he should have.
I feel like it was pretty disrespectful for him not to have called... But he's a dumbass as he lost out there too.
So... I have no new neighbor, which is fine, but I don't like an empty house next door either. Stuff happens to empty places. This is a "low crime" area where lot's of people never even locked their doors. Things have changed a bit over the years though and it's still pretty tame, but the new owner did tell me that someone was in there between the time he closed and when they started building.
Yep, caught a huge rat in the basement after they started working. We also were suddenly besieged by "stink bugs" around the time they were opening the walls.
73Coupe
Senior Member
Maybe you can make an offer to the Ukrainians now; they might be desperate to sell if your hunch is correct. It might still be salvageable but if they place was open to the elements, you never know if they covered up decay unless there's still a smell that you can't get out......
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
be lucky you just got 1. i killed 12 in the house garage. never did see any in the house tho. must have been the bagged bird seed that kept them in the garage.
3175375
Old Man with a Hat
We have a pest service that comes once a month. Several tin cat traps and poison boxes outside.
The technician usually finds one or two mice or voles in the traps near the shop roll up doors. We haven’t had any rodents in the house for over a year or two.
No rats and we have fields on all sides…
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
the mold in there was probably terrible.
I was only interested in the property. I figured on tearing the house down.
Judging from the amount of sheet rock that I saw go in, they probably gutted the place to the studs. I don't know if that would enough to completely to get rid of the mold... and then I don't know if the work was done correctly. It may have been, but I don't know.
Another scenario is if they are waiting on final "occupancy" inspection. I had talked to the codes officer before the house was sold and I believe the place was considered "condemned" at that time. I'm not sure if the local codes guy is capable of doing that inspection himself or not. I think not. They may need to bring a pro in to do that..... and that might take time.
Rustyrodknocker
Senior Member
I can't speak for all Ukrainians of course, but in my experience with them, and there are many out here, as well as Russians.
They are very successful in their endeavors.
Much more so than Americans are.
Their Scruples are different having come from a very oppressed culture, but their grit and stick together, propel them to wealth with the opportunities that exist here.
I was often enamored and disgruntled about a work friend I had 25 years ago. He was 20 years older than me, but we were in American the workforce the same amount of time. I was finally getting to economic stability and he was building and off ramp to his retirement.
I was a little wounded when I asked him how he could stick to like he did.
He answered " if you have to work more than 25 years with the opportunity that exists here that is all on you".
Any mouth breather can survive because of the conditions here. They survived despite the conditions there.
Keep us updated.
The Ukrainians I've encountered do have a good work ethic and I really have nothing to complain about with these guys. They worked six days a week, kept the noise to a minimum early in the morning and didn't cause me any grief. My only issue is he bought the house as rental property, rather than flipping it, but he says he's "fussy" about who he rents to. It's not "section 8" housing and rent is pretty high in the area, so we'll see.
Rustyrodknocker
Senior Member
They keep it all in the community...
Like most non Americans. No Assimilation.
Renters could be a good thing. Most responsible renters take care of the properties so they don't have to pay the deposit and damages at the end of the stay.
73Coupe
Senior Member
How much could it rent for out of curiosity? It's a two or three bedroom?
Agreed. A house behind me was rented for decades and I never had any problems. Then it sold and a dickhead from San Diego moved in and started a huge remodel, fought with all the neighbors, called the City and the cops on everybody, etc. The grand finale was a court case with the neighbor next to him and the judge hit him with a restraining order and he wasn't allowed on a third of his own property along that side. So he moved.
I've seen a lot of irresponsible renters. Another problem is a lot of landlords won't return deposits, finding some excuse or another.
From what I've seen, people renting homes around here are usually people that can't get financed to buy a house.
Rent is probably going to be ~$3k plus utilities based on the few others in the area. 3 bedroom.
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