Why isn't furniture selling?
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Comments (9)Thank you all for your ideas and thoughts. I agree, I have been letting it get too cold over the winter, definitely pushing it to its limits, and I should keep it warmer. Even if the cold isn't the problem, extra protection won't hurt. I think maybe I'll add more lights for more heat, maybe wrap them in a spiral on the ground, and wrap the trunk in burlap to hold the heat against the trunk. Last year, I just had 2 floodlights pointed at the ground along with covering the whole thing with a large plastic furniture bag. But on the coldest night last winter, I wasn't home to turn the floodlights on and I think that's what caused the defoliation. I think we got down to about zero degrees F. This winter I'll have to be a little less careless and a little more proactive....See MoreI owe more than the house is worth, and it isn't selling. :(
Comments (150)when we bought our house the broker, a LIFELONG friend of the family(her daughter and i were born on the same day in the same hospital just minutes apart), highly recommended that i go with an ARM to keep my payments low. she said research showed that most folks either refi or sell within 5 years anyway, so my rate should never change. i flat out refused this because i had seen my grandmother almost lose her house back inthe early 90's to an ARM adjustment. i don't think SHE was trying to con us, i think she fell for the industry wide hype of this is what is best for MOST people. i really think that is the problem, too many people wanted to buy big and an ARM was the only way to do it. they figured the house would continue to appreciate and they could either sell or refi before the ARM hit. in many cases they were just glad to get a home and did not even realize that they had an ARM. yes, a good bit of this was predatory lending. and yes, a larger portion was simply a furtherance of the American way of life, spend money you don't have cause you can pay it back cheap(at least at first)! i feel sorry for the people who were tricked into ARMs and for people who have had life changes that made a once affordable payment no longer possible. but i do not feel sorry for people who made the largest purchase of their life based on what they pay a month RIGHT NOW, and totally ignore what they WILL pay down the road. i almost wish that the law required all potential buyers to take AND PASS a financial planner course that specifically educated them on how things can and will change on a mortgage. BTW, i never have believed in buying a "starter" home. in my region of the country you rent a home for a few years and then buy your home you plan to live out your life in. this is what my wife and i did, we rented for 6-7 years adn then bought. before buying, we did a lot of research and found we could afford more than we thought. we were pre-qualed for over 250k, but bought a 145k house because it suited our current and future needs. that 145k got us ~2400 sq ft on 4 acres. we could have bought a house in town for half that and still been in a good neighborhood, but we wanted outside city limits....See MoreWHY ISN'T MY HOUSE SELLING
Comments (33)I just went back and had a look at the garage door. I absolutely disagree that it looks faded and blotchy but then I am a person who loves subtlety and things that blend, especially when it comes to garage doors and garages. So from the photo, I like the way it is. In fact, often I find that a garage dominates a house and this is something that I particularly dislike. A house is for people not for cars and when I feel that a car is somehow more important and the people are living with one, including its fumes, I look the other way. I do not feel that this garage dominates. And my gosh, what a clever idea to have a room above it and that facade. Really lovely....See MoreCache Pots. Isn't the fit of the inside pot important, and why?
Comments (18)If one is not using tap water, the issue is only whether or not the excess can evaporate &/or be absorbed quickly, whether or not the roots are elevated above it - a literal 'overwatering' potential could exist. When my plants are outside and getting rain water, I don't worry about a small amount of excess that will be gone within a day either, like Lena described, but it's from dripping after watering, not from watering w/o removing the inner pot, or occasionally doing a quick-sip watering if I'm pressed for time. Avoiding a mosquito breeding opportunity is my motivation for being so diligent about that. I don't leave cached pots where they can be rained on. I've found that I feel inconvenienced if I can't easily remove the inner pot from the outer one and things can get dicey, getting too dry while inside for winter from unintentionally underwatering to avoid overflow. (Yes, I've euphemized laziness.) Realizing what was holding me back, I've made efforts to be easily able to grab the inner pot to remove it for watering, getting the pairing right before committing to it. For some of mine, I couldn't get that part right until I put a brick in the bottom of the outer pot so the much smaller inner pot would be high enough to easily grab the edge. Some of the inner pots are much smaller than the outer one, but if the proportions are OK and foliage is hiding the gap, I like it. The kind of soil I use won't wick moisture up or sideways, so if it's not all thoroughly drenched over the entire surface, it would only be moist right where the water was poured (& ran straight down.) Going back to Lena's comment again, I agree that we all develop what works over time by trial & error. It's not possible for everyone to do the exact same things and get the same results because there are so many variables like temp, humidity, air movement, inside vs. outside, latitude, soil mixes, personal schedule demands, etc......See Moregryphonmc
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