Welp.. I put on offer on a house
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I put an offer down on a house today for $240k. We haven't seen anything nicer for under $300k. The pool and pool pump was redone in 2015, and the AC was replaced in 2014 along with a complete remodel of the kitchen, and etc. The roof is in bad shape so in the offer we asked a seller to put a new roof on.
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Oh and it's about 5 feet above sea level and on a hill compared to other houses in the neighborhood which are as low as 2 feet above sea level. It makes a big difference for flash flooding on the island.
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VERY COOL!! GOOD LUCK
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Wow, cool, can I come to your house for Rocket Launches?
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@IRJ said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
Oh and it's about 5 feet above sea level and on a hill compared to other houses in the neighborhood which are as low as 2 feet above sea level. It makes a big difference for flash flooding on the island.
It's OK you can always build a burm.
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Awesome, congrats and more importantly, good luck!
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@IRJ So, when's the housewarming party?
Seriously tho, looks like a great place!
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Good luck. That's only about an hour from my parents.
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@Dashrender said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
Wow, cool, can I come to your house for Rocket Launches?
I've been meaning to ask that ever since I learned where he lived.
Also, how is that considered a river?Anyway, good luck!
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Congrats!
Out of curiosity are you considering Solar Panels? I was thinking about what I'd do with my house if I owned one. I would think Solar Paneling would significantly increase the cost of re-doing the roof but I'm not entirely sure how often that happens and by what degree it would increase it.
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@wirestyle22 the panels and mounting would all come off when you need to re-roof.
The cost increase is often justified by the savings on the electric and sell-back.
The question I have, is it better for a person to outright buy a solar panel setup and get it installed, or to just lease a system and have them deal with maintenance etc.
How much is there in savings to be earned, and how long until you see a profit?
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@DustinB3403 said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
@wirestyle22 the panels and mounting would all come off when you need to re-roof.
The cost increase is often justified by the savings on the electric and sell-back.
The question I have, is it better for a person to outright buy a solar panel setup and get it installed, or to just lease a system and have them deal with maintenance etc.
How much is there in savings to be earned, and how long until you see a profit?
It might. We are only two people until we combine our genes. We don't really use a lot of power. I know that we would have a big surplus thought and the electric company would pay us actually.
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@DustinB3403 said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
@wirestyle22 the panels and mounting would all come off when you need to re-roof.
The cost increase is often justified by the savings on the electric and sell-back.
The question I have, is it better for a person to outright buy a solar panel setup and get it installed, or to just lease a system and have them deal with maintenance etc.
How much is there in savings to be earned, and how long until you see a profit?
Last articles that I read on the subject look at ~5 years before you recoup the investment and begin actual savings.
Panels are rated at 25 years now. So are architectural shingles for roofing. So it should be pretty solid.
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@DustinB3403 said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
@wirestyle22 the panels and mounting would all come off when you need to re-roof.
The cost increase is often justified by the savings on the electric and sell-back.
The question I have, is it better for a person to outright buy a solar panel setup and get it installed, or to just lease a system and have them deal with maintenance etc.
How much is there in savings to be earned, and how long until you see a profit?
It depends on where you live for how feasible solar panels are. The houses I've seen around here that are on alternate energy use a combination of wind and solar. Wind is readily available on the island as you might imagine.
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As far as the rocket launches, we have lived in Merritt Island for a few years now. I've had a few morning launches take me by surprise. They shake the whole house and if you aren't expecting it, it can scare the sh** out of you.
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@IRJ said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
As far as the rocket launches, we have lived in Merritt Island for a few years now. I've had a few morning launches take me by surprise. They shake the whole house and if you aren't expecting it, it can scare the sh** out of you.
I bet
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@JaredBusch said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
@DustinB3403 said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
@wirestyle22 the panels and mounting would all come off when you need to re-roof.
The cost increase is often justified by the savings on the electric and sell-back.
The question I have, is it better for a person to outright buy a solar panel setup and get it installed, or to just lease a system and have them deal with maintenance etc.
How much is there in savings to be earned, and how long until you see a profit?
Last articles that I read on the subject look at ~5 years before you recoup the investment and begin actual savings.
Panels are rated at 25 years now. So are architectural shingles for roofing. So it should be pretty solid.
Is this based on an outright purchase or leasing?
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@JaredBusch The Indian and Banana River certainly aren't rivers, although they are shaped like them and run north and south. They were misidentified as rivers in the late 1800s, but in the early 1900s they were renamed to the Indian River Lagoon and Banana River Lagoon since they are technically lagoons.
Sykes Creek which runs through the middle of Merritt Island is also saltwater and it's too big to be technically a creek.
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@wirestyle22 said in Welp.. I put on offer on a house:
Congrats!
Out of curiosity are you considering Solar Panels? I was thinking about what I'd do with my house if I owned one. I would think Solar Paneling would significantly increase the cost of re-doing the roof but I'm not entirely sure how often that happens and by what degree it would increase it.
The idea of solar power is great, current implementation sucks big time. Forget panels. Even the most efficient ones only reach 35% in a lab. So the entire house could be one big solar panel and still not provide enough power for a typical house. If you want enough solar power for a typical household, sterling solar generators are where I want to be looking. 3-5kw units shouldn't be any larger than an old style satellite dish, which is enough power for a house.
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Wow I didn't realize how close I used to live to you. I lived down in Vero Beach. I was up in Melbourne quite a bit.
