# We're buying a huge freakin' house! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971 "2011-04-28T00:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/21 "2011-04-28T14:42:27Z")
Now you guys are even closer to me! I live in Fairmont. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/22 "2011-04-28T14:44:27Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > Beautiful woodwork. Looks like a great house to play hide and seek. Yeah, I figure **mudgirl** will spend the first two weeks there just exploring all the ‘nooks and crannies’! > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I think you should turn it in to one of those theme hotels. Like, the Elvis room, the Jungle room, the Hello Kitty room. When you don’t have customers, you and hubby get to sleep in a different room every night 😛 Oh good Lord, I’d _never_ be able to stumble to the bathroom half-asleep in the middle of the night if we switched rooms every night! 😛 > [@CandidGamera](#): > > Now you guys are even closer to me! I live in Fairmont. A hop, skip and a jump! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/23 "2011-04-28T14:53:22Z")
Geez, that _is_ one motivated seller. Cool lookin’ place, **norinew**. We’ve never regretted having a place with plenty of room to stretch. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/24 "2011-04-28T14:57:56Z")
Wow. Congratulations! Dopers stay free, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/25 "2011-04-28T15:34:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Wow. Congratulations! > > Dopers stay free, right? 🙂 Well, not necessarily in the _guest rooms_ per se, but I’m sure I’d find _somewhere_ to stash you! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/26 "2011-04-28T16:48:28Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > For those who are interested, here’s the link to the listing for the house: > [http://morgantown.craigslist.org/reo/2299679366.html](http://morgantown.craigslist.org/reo/2299679366.html) > > There is a great pic of the main stairway in there, showing off some of that killer woodwork! Wow, what a deal! Now I know where to retire to!! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/27 "2011-04-28T17:38:20Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Wow, what a deal! Now I know where to retire to!! We’ll leave the light on for ya! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/28 "2011-04-28T18:37:49Z")
I couldn’t buy a walk-in closet for that money where I live. Great buy! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/29 "2011-04-28T20:51:26Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Wow, what a deal! Now I know where to retire to!! Ditto! That much money wouldn’t buy a 2 bedroom condo in our zip code. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/30 "2011-04-28T21:57:40Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > I couldn’t buy a walk-in closet for that money where I live. Great buy! > [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Ditto! That much money wouldn’t buy a 2 bedroom condo in our zip code. Well, the down side is that the employment situation is very tight around here (I mean moreso than in most other places, even), so hubby has to work out of town. But frankly, there’s no way we could afford, on what we make, to live in the kind of home we’d like to live in, in a neighborhood we’d feel safe letting the kid run. At least not without _way_ overextending ourselves, which we don’t like to do. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/31 "2011-04-28T23:44:23Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Wow. Congratulations! > > Dopers stay free, right? 🙂 I was hoping to see the third floor become The Dopartment. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/32 "2011-04-29T00:44:34Z")
That’s awesome! Sounds like you’ll make good use of the space. It’s funny, it doesn’t look all that big in the picture. I mean, it looks big, but not 9000 sf big. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/33 "2011-04-29T01:49:24Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Ditto! That much money wouldn’t buy a 2 bedroom condo in our zip code. It wouldn’t buy a tiny studio in mine! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/34 "2011-04-29T02:24:43Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I was hoping to see the third floor become The Dopartment. Well, now there’s an idea! Anyone who wants in, start sending me $5.00/mo. and I’ll need 60 days advance notice of your arrival and departure dates! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/35 "2011-04-29T19:11:38Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > It wouldn’t buy a tiny studio in mine! It wouldn’t buy anything at all where I live! That’s like 80k in UK sterling - nothing at all in London for that, unlikely there’s anything in the south of England at all (maybe a burnt out shack on 600sq ft of land). Congratulations, Norinew! It definitely sounds like there’s room for a dog, or a pack of them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/36 "2011-04-29T19:18:39Z")
There is no way that thing isn’t haunted as hell (not that there is anything wrong with that). However, if you husband starts repeating how all work and no play is making him a dull boy or your kid starts saying nonsense words, just get out early because if you don’t, oh man, you are screwed. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/37 "2011-04-29T20:28:40Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > There is no way that thing isn’t haunted as hell (not that there is anything wrong with that). However, if you husband starts repeating how all work and no play is making him a dull boy or your kid starts saying nonsense words, just get out early because if you don’t, oh man, you are screwed. Redrum! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/38 "2011-04-29T20:50:11Z")
Oh, I’m definitely coming over now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/39 "2011-04-29T20:57:33Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Here’s the thing: the house used to be an assisted living facility for senior citizens. How do you plan to get rid of that “old people smell”?? 😃 But seriously, congratulations! Best of luck. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971/40 "2011-04-29T21:25:37Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Oh, I’m definitely coming over now. 🙂 OK, but I guess maybe you’d better bring a Magical Negro with you. 😛 > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > How do you plan to get rid of that “old people smell”?? 😃 Well, I have two options here; one: lots of Febreze. Two: put a litter box on every floor, and let the kitty smell overpower it! 😛 > [@](#): > > But seriously, congratulations! Best of luck. Thanks. I’m in contact with the town now, trying to find out what kind of inspections, etc. I need to rent places out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-buying-a-huge-freakin-house/579971.md?page=3)