A Home for RevDisk

[MicroBalrog]

Are you going to bring your entrenching tool over and dig me one?

Pay me $1.76 million and I will.

[RevDisk]

Offer was accepted today. Assuming the mortgage goes through without a hitch with expected terms, I'll be a proud owner of $80+k of debt. Figure I can pay it off in 5 ish years. Can be more aggressive than that if warranted, but will play it by ear.  

About an acre and a half, wooded, hill side, 20-25 minutes from work, etc. It's in ok shape, not great, not falling apart. It does have a detached garage, which is awesome and includes a small apartment. I figure I'll move all of my hobby stuff into the garage and make the house look "normal" (ie cluttered with useless junk that is supposed to look pretty).

Theoretical plan is to pay the house off in 5 years. Then immediately or after a couple year delay, rip down the house and replace it with a cabin. Pay that off within a max of 5 years, or less.  So that I have a very nice house on 1.5 acre, fully paid off by the time I'm 40. I could squish that down, but that'd require living under more austere conditions, which I would prefer not to do. By austere, I mean, not installing metal/wood working equipment, reloading bench, etc.

It'll be weird to have a home. Never had one of those before. Just places I lived.

[Scout26]

We'll send Mrs. Monkeyleg to decorate....

[wmenorr67]

Congrats Rev and sounds like you have a sound plan.

[RevDisk]

We'll send Mrs. Monkeyleg to decorate....

If she was closer, I'd be very very tempted to give her a wad of cash and say "Have fun!"

A coworker's parents own a furniture store.  So it's there, or renting a box truck and hitting Ikea or Unclaimed Freight.

[Nick1911]

Congrats, rev. 

[AJ Dual]

If she was closer, I'd be very very tempted to give her a wad of cash and say "Have fun!"

A coworker's parents own a furniture store.  So it's there, or renting a box truck and hitting Ikea or Unclaimed Freight.

I say Ikea... Definitely Ikea.

[Jamisjockey]

I see the Rev pad having some modern, but not overly modern, furniture.  Sparsley but smartly decorated, and somewhere, there will be real swords on the wall.

[RevDisk]

I see the Rev pad having some modern, but not overly modern, furniture.  Sparsley but smartly decorated, and somewhere, there will be real swords on the wall.

You forgot the metric tons of books, I plan on turning one of the bedrooms into my library. But yes, that is pretty much it.

*eyes Jamis suspiciously*

May I ask how exactly you came to that accurate conclusion?

[Nick1911]

I see the Rev pad having some modern, but not overly modern, furniture.  Sparsley but smartly decorated, and somewhere, there will be real swords on the wall.

I imagine rev's furnishings to be an illusion of middle class normalcy.  Complete and perfectly functional and acceptable by anyone standards.  And generally devoid of meaning - the real value being that the physical property belongs to him exclusivity.  And the real action being skills perfected working on... whatever...  long evening in the garage.

[Jamisjockey]

You forgot the metric tons of books, I plan on turning one of the bedrooms into my library. But yes, that is pretty much it.

*eyes Jamis suspiciously*

May I ask how exactly you came to that accurate conclusion?

The slackjawed expression on my face is a front.

[Tallpine]

Room for a dungeon 

 

[wmenorr67]

He did say there was a maintenance pit in the garage.

[RevDisk]

I imagine rev's furnishings to be an illusion of middle class normalcy.  Complete and perfectly functional and acceptable by anyone standards.  And generally devoid of meaning - the real value being that the physical property belongs to him exclusivity.  And the real action being skills perfected working on... whatever...  long evening in the garage.

That is also accurate.

[BlueStarLizzard]

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You forgot the metric tons of books, I plan on turning one of the bedrooms into my library. But yes, that is pretty much it.

*eyes Jamis suspiciously*

May I ask how exactly you came to that accurate conclusion?

If you want the house to be a blank slate in terms of personality, you may want to do a secondary library in the garage....

or else, the book geeks will see through the front. 

[RocketMan]

Post some pics of your new abode, Rev.  I'm sure many would like to see it.  We promise not to work out any assault routes on or through the property.

[AJ Dual]

Post some pics of your new abode, Rev.  I'm sure many would like to see it.  We promise not to work out any assault routes on or through the property.

Like every window won't have a range marker card before the fresh roll of TP goes up in the bathroom... 

[MillCreek]

I call dibs on the inaugural fast-roping down to the house.  From of course the obligatory black helicopter. 

[Jamisjockey]

I call dibs on the inaugural fast-roping down to the house.  From of course the obligatory black helicopter. 

(They're dark dark green. Just sayin)

[Ben]

(They're dark dark green. Just sayin)

Please, can we stop spreading this "dark green" rumor? It's all a story being planted by that guy that worked for Sikorsky. I think he still gets kickbacks from them. The GSA catalog has the paint for these helos clearly listed as, "Paint, Rotary Aircraft Special. Extra Black for Black Ops".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_erPrRfrEU

[Tallpine]

Don't they have "invisible paint" 

That would work better with the silent rotors 

[BlueStarLizzard]

I call dibs on the inaugural fast-roping down to the house.  From of course the obligatory black helicopter. 

Rev, please, please, please take video of their specatular defeat.
 

[AmbulanceDriver]

Rev, please, please, please take video of their specatular defeat.
 

Or at least pictures of the craters they leave in the driveway.  Whether that be from a mistimed fast-rope or the mortars you used as party favors, either one works.

[Tallpine]

He did say there was a maintenance pit in the garage.

A place to keep Fistful ?   

[CNYCacher]

A place to keep Fistful ?   

It puts the bacon on its skin or else it gets the hose again!