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Comments (2)Welcome to the forum! Glad to have you aboard. I checked the parts viewer on the model you described and I saw no commercial model. However all lawnboy two cycle engines are commercial grade meaning the have a steel lined combustion chamber instead of just aluminum. The steel liner adds years to the life of the engine. check out these links if you haven't already. Neal Here is a link that might be useful: parts viewer...See Morecorporate owned house, questions.
Comments (8)In my area, "Corporate owned" in the Multi-list info can mean either bank owned or relocation company managed. You will need to find out which. Buyer to pay both transfer taxes almost always goes with bank-owned/foreclosure property. Expect nothing in the way of repairs done from the foreclosure companies. They want clean, quick contracts from unrisky buyers. They do like the property to have a certain amount of exposure in the marketplace, so they will often kind of look to see what's coming in for a few weeks before moving on something. Having a thorough market analysis done by your Realtor is key here, as in any prospective purchase. Several of the agencies that specialize in marketing this type of property in our area strategically list at low prices, leave at least several weeks of time before responding to anything--and these properties can go well above asking price. In other cases, it seems like the lender (often out of the area and dependent on local advisory--maybe on target or not--will try to get a sense of buyer sentiment before taking a hard and fast position--but will cut losses reasonably quickly if nothing wonderful comes down the pike. Be very careful evaluating older foreclosure properties. They have often been abused and neglected for a while . . . the higher-priced non-forclosure property you've been resisting may actually be the better buy. As always, do your homework! Relo companies, on the other hand (and I speak as an agent of 24 years) can be very particular and conservative to work with. They are very liability conscious. Before they "purchase" the home, it gets inspected by the inspector of their choice, with certain things having to be corrected or addressed by the transferee before any monies pass to the transferee. They require highly-detailed two page reports every 14 days from the listing agent. They try to be market sensitive, and hence, usually neither "dump" their properties or hold out unrealistically-long for a particular price. Losses usually get eaten by the transferee's company in some way. They are motivated but realistic and not desparate sellers. There's a lot of extra paperwork involved with these guys, but something to just put up with....See MoreSaying hello as we start the process for our new build
Comments (8)Was this an architect or a draftsman? It does make a difference! Think LONG and hard about those exterior black windows. They are very trendy right now, but will someday date your house; white will never do that. I personally don't like them on houses that are channeling a farmhouse-look. A true farmhouse might have had dark green trim, but never black, The obsession with black has come from some very, very high end building/remodeling done using steel/bronze metal windows. They are absolutely stunning - very thin muntins (steel is strong!), and a bit of an "industrial" look. I very much wanted to replace an above-the-sink large bay window with steel windows and I could have...for $20,000. Not happening! I ended up painting the muntins INSIDE black (easy to do as they were old Pella snap-ins), but left the outside white like all my other windows. It was a good compromise and easily changed if I tire of it. But exterior muntins? The entire point of them being aluminum-clad is never having to paint them, a very large expense. Dark vinyl is said to fade (think how that great navy blue Izod shirt looks after a few washings - just never again quite the same), and that would make the house look awful. Look around you at true NE farmhouses and keep to a traditional look....See MoreSay hello to summmmmer.
Comments (73)I’ve only had oriental persimmons, I didn’t know there are Spanish cultivars! It’s so great to have a resident persimmon expert and enthusiast on the forum bob! Not many people know about persimmons (non-gardeners and younger generations). Back in undergrad I brought some persimmons back with me from home and showed it to my suitemates. They thought it looked like a tomato and said it tasted like a sweet potato. They were hella perplexed by its existence :’D ah it was great I got carried away with fig fever this season so I’ll need to grow them out before culling and making space for future persimmons. Thank you bob, you are so generous with us here. I want to do the same and share with others whenever I can once I’ve grown out my fruits and plants...See MoreRelated Professionals
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