The "post pictures of your house" thread

[aychamo_aycono]

That's a sweet BBQ setup. It'd be badass grilling out there with some good friends and having some beers. Damn that's nice.

Originally Posted by Naerik

not to downplay anything

but saving for years for:

1. mame machine...3grand tops?
2. remodling bathroom....10 grand?
3. outdoor fireplace.....1grand?
4. jacoozie half broken....2 grand?
5. house in vegas area....250 grand?

but you probably have a 30 year mortgage....so lets say 10% downpayment of 25k

41 grand....life savings


lame :/

Why would you laugh at anyone who has 41k saved up? That's a fuckload more than a lot of us. I have zero dollars saved in the bank, in fact I'm somewhere around $150-200,000 in debt.

[dFiend]

You should post an outside picture of the actual house... or did I miss that somewhere?

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by Dr. Funkenstein

Having the guts, foresight, and savvy to buy a house without a down payment (presuming you're taking over a decent loan) at 22 making $15/hour is worth props.

I'm 30 and haven't been able to. Then again, I'm trying to stay in San Diego and the market has been outpacing my earning potential since I left college. Now that the bubble has burst and I'm seeing decent properties in decent areas within my ability to pay for, my life savings (which was pulled out of the Arizona housing market late last year) will be put to good use.

No, heh, I was making $15 an hour at 22. I'm 28 now got Windows Admin job I've always wanted. With the IT industry, more so than a lot of fields, experience usually carries more weight than education and certs. Our main network guy doesn't have any college or Cisco certs under his belt, but he has 15 years of doing it, so he got the job. I know more than one guy rocking a CCNA or even CCNP cert that has literally never physically touched a Cisco product.

[Salshun]

I didn't have my digital camera on me, only my Iphone, which honestly is worse than a Hello Kitty Fisher Price camera in most aspects. The lighting has to be pretty much perfect; too bright or too dark and the images just suck. I took a few of the outside and they look like a nuke was going off, just completely bled out.

The BBQ uses these:



The homeowner tells me once I eat something cooked with them it will ruin BBQ for me. Also, being electric, it's the only BBQ I've ever seen with a temperature control, like an oven.

[aychamo_aycono]

That is, until you eat BBQ from Louisiana

[Tarrant220]

Originally Posted by Salshun

You know, that's a damn fine question, hah. Something I probably want to ask the homeowner before he leaves town.

ROFL that's awesome, try not to burn down the neighborhood haha

Grats on doing and getting something you can be proud of and good luck not falling to the slumping mortgage crisis. (no sarcasm there, honestly, good luck to you on it, wish ya the best)

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by Tarrant220

ROFL that's awesome, try not to burn down the neighborhood haha

Grats on doing and getting something you can be proud of and good luck not falling to the slumping mortgage crisis. (no sarcasm there, honestly, good luck to you on it, wish ya the best)

Heh, yeah I just got off the phone with the guy and says he uses the pit all the time and that when he got it installed, he was worried too, and sat in a lawn chair with a beer and garden hose "just in case". Also, moving has been a bitch. I agreed to help the homeowner with some shit, but I should have asked him what the shit was. He was rebuilding a an '85 Ford Bronco and had the chassis, the entire cab part of it, just the metal frame, that that needed to be moved. 6 guys, 900lb hunk of sharp ass metal, with no gloves. We had to set it on the drive train, and the guy holding near the front dragged it and just ripped a ton of electronics and brake lines right out, destroyed about $400 worth of shit.

And yeah, the Vegas housing market is a fucking JOKE right now. 5 years ago all you saw was people driving through neighborhoods looking at house because they were going for like half their original price. Now if you make that same drive every 3rd house is in foreclosure. It's actually quite sad because the mortgage companies are getting people hooked into these deals where you get mad introductory deals that the majority of people can afford but after about 6 months the deal is over and the mortgage payments just balloons like a motherfucker.

However, because of all this, the apartment market is on FIRE because it's all people can afford, and even apartment prices are starting to increase. Another really bad effect this is having is our animal shelters being crammed to capacity because people get these houses, tell themselves they now have a place for dogs, go out and grab 2 Siberian Huskies or something, then have to get rid of them to live in the apartment after their homes foreclose. A lot of people are just abandoning these beautiful, purebred dogs they dropped $2,000 on in the middle of the street, it's fucked up. They don't even have time to try to sell the dogs before they have to move into their apartments so they're dropping them in the desert.

[Laven]

When it stops raining ill post up some pics, its nothing special for now, just a 1 floor 3 bedroom 1 bath house for 2 people. Moving has been the main thing keeping me here and not getting a nice 2 floor house in a new development area.

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by Laven

When it stops raining ill post up some pics, its nothing special for now, just a 1 floor 3 bedroom 1 bath house for 2 people. Moving has been the main thing keeping me here and not getting a nice 2 floor house in a new development area.

Size never impressed me about a house; it's what you do with it. I've been in 1 bedroom apartments that were more comfortable and enjoyable than 6 bedroom houses. I laugh at people that have houses they can't afford to heat. My girls parents house is like a museum. Its super cold and you can't touch anything. They've lived there for 5 years and her parents have never used the master tub in their bathroom. I mean honestly WTF?

[Dr. Funkenstein]

I couldn't stand IT. Getting my CS degree and various certs was fun. Doing it on a day to day basis as a job was torture. Go figure.

Probably because I'm the type that's only going to be happy owning my own business. As such, I've spent the last 4 years putting every dollar into building one. Now, I love my job but have no personal cash flow. That'll change soon enough, but my current bling level is very very low.

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by Dr. Funkenstein

I couldn't stand IT. Getting my CS degree and various certs was fun. Doing it on a day to day basis as a job was torture. Go figure.

Probably because I'm the type that's only going to be happy owning my own business. As such, I've spent the last 4 years putting every dollar into building one. Now, I love my job but have no personal cash flow. That'll change soon enough, but my current bling level is very very low.

It seems that the further I go with my IT career, the less I have to know. When I was 18 doing internships, I was doing unix tape backups (tape monkey bitch job), doing installs for any number of apps, driving out the DOE test site in nevada to fix problems ranging from hardware swaps, installs, removing viruses, etc. I was fixing software for Vax VMS, Unix, Sun, Windows systems, the works.

Then I did the 2 or 3 $15 an hour tech jobs working the phones and people could call in with literally a hundred different problems. A job you really had to do for 6 months before you had heard it all and knew the fix.

But now, I'm a "Senior Windows System Architect" and I really don't have to know as much. Creating/modifying batch jobs, basic account management (my password doesn't work and I got locked out! I swear it's not because I entered my password with the caps lock key on!), some hardware work (last night I replaced 2 PCI fiber cards in some Intel rack mount servers), and special projects. That's it. And yes, I will say that the work is more complicated/involved than my earlier jobs, just seems like less work. Maybe it's the "work smarter, not harder" thing. Honestly, I love my job, because they don't give me busy work. I work, at night, from home unless something goes wrong at the data center but when I have worked during the day at the office, my boss knows what I have to do for that day, my projects, and if I get them done, he doesn't give me busy work. I can spend the rest of the day browsing the net with him next to me.

I honestly do love my job and being told I beat 900 other applicants for it was a good feeling. I got the call that they were interested and when they told me my pay rate, I honestly wouldn't let myself get excited. It was too good to be true, and something would happen. When I finally did sign the offer letter; easily one of the best days of my life, especially at the time because of the job I had. I was working at a Tech Manager for a CCTV company, a startup, where the owner sold me on it when I did the interview. I really believed in the product and convinced myself that the company was going to blow up and I'd be fucking models on piles of stock options. The product, a DVR with remote monitoring and notification tools, was NEVER tested or seen in action by my boss, and it didn't work. In the end, my last days there, I was doing blind telemarketing calls trying to find customers. Also, let me tell you it's a real motivation killer when you're boss is telling you to lie to customers why their product doesn't work and you know that their is no fix, that nothing can be done to the hardware to ever make about 85% of it's features work, at all.

[tikkus]

Originally Posted by Blumpster

You don't have to try and keep that shit alive with the water restriction bullshit either.

You should still take better care of your lawn. CLEAN THAT SHIT UP.

[aychamo_aycono]

Originally Posted by Dr. Funkenstein

I couldn't stand IT. Getting my CS degree and various certs was fun. Doing it on a day to day basis as a job was torture. Go figure.

So true. I worked as a programmer (in Delphi [turbo pascal for windows], LOL) for this company writing medical office billing software. I absolutely hated it. The pay was complete shit and half my job was spent on tech support. I hated doing that kind of work for someone else. Sounds like you have a great job though Salshun.

[newerakb]

Bought my first house a month ago with my fiance, no down payment, sellers covered closing costs. Good stuff. Four years old, 2100 square feet with the basement.

Previous owners left behind their projector, screen, and surround setup. Obligatory pics:

[Salshun]

Nice cabinets, newerakb. I really want to get a decent bookshelf going. One of the walls in the game room is all black shelving but my roommate already claimed it as her shot glass collection and stereo wall.