Does "as is" condition really mean "tear down"
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Comments (8)My idea of scalping is as low as any given mower will go while still able to move across the turf. This depends on the smoothness of the turf, the type of turf, how thick it is, whether it is dead or not, etc. When I scalped my toasted RUed KBG yard, the only thing keeping the mower from moving was the level of the lawn, so I was on the second to lowest setting. This left close to nothing on top of the thatch layer. When I came to the areas that I had missed with Roundup the first time and were still green/living/thick, I had a real problem at this level. Mower bogged down big time. All depends on the conditions of the turf and what the mower is trying to roll over and trying to knock down. The long germination time of the new KBG was the reason I went ahead and killed the existing lawn. I didn't want to go to all this effort just to have the old KBG fight off the new elite seed....See MoreWhat does 'days to harvest' really mean?
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Comments (4)Well, yes and no. It's a steal in terms of comps - this being a vacation area, homes are very expensive. However, property taxes are also high, so we'd have to get it for next to nothing if we were going to tear it down. We haven't agreed on a price yet - we just got the estimate for the work on that wall - so I'm sort of trying to decide whether it's worth making a rock-bottom offer that would basically be for the land alone. The sellers really DO NOT want to be bothered doing any work on the house, but I think it's going to be very difficult for them to sell with this foundation wall issue hanging over them....See MoreNeighboring a tear down.
Comments (19)There was a meeting with the board of the neighborhood association, preliminary to a vote of the board to make recommendations to the zoning board. The variances on the other property include encroachment of current setback by 8" on one portion of the addition. The addition is angled and that 8" is necessary. The other variance is for %age of open space. The yard will meet square footage open requirements but not %age of the entire lot. (However his neighbors violate these as well, but are grandfathered) He is not trying to barrel through the process: he has been through several architectural plans, had engineering reports, soil percolation and drainage studies, etc. The reason he wanted to demolish the second house was that it could solve the setback issues and %age of open space. He was trying to meet requirements, the house came on the market, he was able to buy it (outright, I am assuming), and it solved his problems. I think he approached it as problem solving. There would be an impact on the character of the street, but I also don't think he would do anything that was not well-considered. But, if he does not get the variances, house #2 comes down...he has the permit in hand. The street neighbors either support, of have made statements of "non-opposition" to the variances, and the neighbors on the walk support the variances unanimously so that he does not demolish house #2. However the Zoning Board can ignore the neighborly support and the recommendation of the Neighborhood Association Board and refuse the variances....See Moremtnrdredux_gw
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