"It's not about the resale value. It's about enjoying living."

Even though this guy makes his living from flipping houses, he GETS it. When I was planning some renovations here and there at the house, all I heard from some people is how it's going to add or detract from the resale value and nothing about the renovations themselves. I don't live in this house as a steward waiting for the next owner, I live in this house because it's my farkin' house.

I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: And coming soon to HGTV: "MC Uses His Hammer", as the former 90s rap star gives interior decorating advice to inner-city homes and helps them fix up the place using, what else? Hammer and nails, the "old-school" way, as he would say.

His signature touch is using the fabric from his parachute pants and creating awe-inspiring drape designs.

downstairs: (By the way, judging by the fact that paint color on the walls is a big factor in house purchases... ugh.)

Yuck...the last thing you should consider is current paint color. Paint is cheap and normal rooms shouldn't take more than a few hours to paint.

downstairs: Comic Book Guy: "It's not about the resale value. It's about enjoying living."

Even though this guy makes his living from flipping houses, he GETS it. When I was planning some renovations here and there at the house, all I heard from some people is how it's going to add or detract from the resale value and nothing about the renovations themselves. I don't live in this house as a steward waiting for the next owner, I live in this house because it's my farkin' house.

So much this. The value of your house is vastly out of your control. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm not going to debate a study that shows X dollars into a kitchen brings X dollars more in re-sale.

(By the way, judging by the fact that paint color on the walls is a big factor in house purchases... ugh.)

Any renovations I've done are because they up the usability of the house for me and/or my wife. The end. We have hundreds of books overflowing cheap bookshelves. That's the only reason I'm building built-in bookshelves up to our 13' ceilings. If the next owner digs them, good on them.

This my god this, I heard from so many people "Don't turn your formal Dining room into a home office you will kill the home value" WTF how many people in this day and age use a formal dining room? I'd rather have a spare bedroom and a home office than a Dining room that looks pretty and is never used and no spare bedroom.

His show was interesting, he was funny, his crew was funny, but they knew their shiat, and yeah, he focused on fixing up the screw ups of previous owners.

My favorite was the master bath. Previous owners just pulled out the tub and gold plated faucet heads and left it like that with godawful wallpaper. He turned that mansion into something that Master P wouldn't buy, which I liked.

remodeling your house>Having a roni

Best In The World: "Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. " - Charles W. Pickering

I don't got hate fo anybody and I bet if I met Ice I'd have love 4 him but I think he hurt tha rap game with tha fraud he perpetraitored on hip hop. When u look over the history of rap there's a huge margin between Ice and Eminem. Em reps tha game and he ain't even the best white rapper. Em started to get cheesy around 8Mile but Ice has been a joke as long as I've been breathin. If you want2C a wacked out movie watch Cool As Ice. That picture is offensive. All white rappers aren't like Ice.

What dude...I'm gonna have to read that like 10 times to sort out FTW you said!

Tom_Slick: WTF how many people in this day and age use a formal dining room?

My parents certainly do- they have the big house that all of the kids, their fiancees, wives, and other hangers-on show up to stay/dine/spend time at over the holidays. It would make absolutely no sense to convert a room with built in china cabinetry, a chandelier, and two swinging-door entrance/exits to the kitchen into a home office, when there's a room purpose built for that upstairs, a spare bedroom that could be much more easily converted, and hell, if you felt like it, you could put chairs and a desk inside the wine cellar (cedar racks make that room smell great) and work in there, if you didn't mind being in the basement.

When you're looking at 5 bed/3.5 bath houses built in the 1920s, you don't walk into the foyer and think "MAN! This open space would be GREAT for my indoor greenhouse!" If all you can think about when looking at a house is "repurposing" the rooms/space, you aren't looking at the right house.

/sounds like a 1%er
//is not

Best In The World: "Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. " - Charles W. Pickering

I don't got hate fo anybody and I bet if I met Ice I'd have love 4 him but I think he hurt tha rap game with tha fraud he perpetraitored on hip hop. When u look over the history of rap there's a huge margin between Ice and Eminem. Em reps tha game and he ain't even the best white rapper. Em started to get cheesy around 8Mile but Ice has been a joke as long as I've been breathin. If you want2C a wacked out movie watch Cool As Ice. That picture is offensive. All white rappers aren't like Ice.

holy crap.

i think.... i think i actually mostly agree with this.
i think.

Mikey1969: Comic Book Guy: "It's not about the resale value. It's about enjoying living."

Even though this guy makes his living from flipping houses, he GETS it. When I was planning some renovations here and there at the house, all I heard from some people is how it's going to add or detract from the resale value and nothing about the renovations themselves. I don't live in this house as a steward waiting for the next owner, I live in this house because it's my farkin' house.

My foster sister was flipping houses before I even knew there was a term for it, in the late 80's. She moved into her house, and fixed it up the way SHE would like it with her boyfriend, then they sold it and got another. It was the same thing, she saw it as a home, and when it was finished, she moved on, but aside from the obvious times where you make choices based on whether or not it will tank a house's value, for the most part it was about her building the home she wanted.

I can agree with this philosophy, although I would never personally get into flipping, I'm too lazy, don't have a ton of money, and absolutely LOATHE moving, so once I'm in a place, I usually only move if it's at gunpoint. Once we get our own home, we're going to be in it until it's paid off, then we buy something smaller and die in it... :-) I still get the reason that some people do it...

Fist-bump from a fellow SLC Tribber Mikey.

downstairs: ihatedumbpeople: Yuck...the last thing you should consider is current paint color. Paint is cheap and normal rooms shouldn't take more than a few hours to paint.

Yeah, just watch any of the 100 home selling/buying shows.

I'd say at least 75% of them have a problem with the color in a room.

Lame.

The house I bought was painted in all pastels. Looked like a freaking dollhouse. But I know how to paint walls. Its pretty damn easy.

Yeah, especially if you're just painting "spare" rooms to get the white/ugly color off the wall. You can hit Lowes or Home Depot, get a gallon or two of pre-mixed paint the purchaser returned because they didn't like the 'shade/tint' of for like 50% off a regular price...a lot of the ones I've seen are neutrals (tans, cream, etc) that work well in those instances.

heck, same with fixtures, etc. never pass up a good place because of paint, fixtures, cabinets, etc. That's silly.

Yo yo yo holmes dogs fo shizzle like leg em down slack em jack knowwhatimsayin and sheee, dang bro drag that greasy fish through the garden and on the drink side run the java for real represent or I bust a cap in yo ass.

Translation:

Derp.

Never watched his show, but that's only because I don't really watch much TV anymore (on my TV anyway). Now that I know about it I very well might.

Say what you will about the guy, but he's done a remarkable job of changing from a braindead plagarizing douche to a remarkably balanced and responsible individual. The one season of The Surreal Life I ever watched with any regularity was the season featuring Vanilla Ice, specifically BECAUSE of Vanilla Ice. The way he interacted with Tammy Faye, the manner in which he was turning his life around... it was really refreshing to watch someone who seemed destined for the "one radio hit followed by dismal obscurity and drowning in their own vomit somewhere" path realize what was happening and do something to stop it. Not only that, he became a pretty decent guy in the process.

FriarReb98: SevenizGud: Yo yo yo holmes dogs fo shizzle like leg em down slack em jack knowwhatimsayin and sheee, dang bro drag that greasy fish through the garden and on the drink side run the java for real represent or I bust a cap in yo ass.

Translation:

Derp.

He's someone's alt, I'm absolutely convinced. He's been trolling for two or three days straight now.

The funny thing is that he'd be amusing if you didn't see so many twatter, facebook, youtube, etc posts with the same style of horrible spelling, poor grammar and wanna be thuggish persona. I'm sure he's trying to be satirical and all, but it's actually kinda depressing.

Best In The World: Whose trolling who? What, RU an Ice fan? If so, no offense. I got love for you, bro. If I say something and ur whole posse get's dissed u gots 2 realize that it's just my opinion but if you asked the streets for their thoughts on Ice ur gonna find the same response that I put here. U really think that Ice changed tha game 4 tha better? How so? Ice closed doors, he didn't open them.

I for once welcome this new Meow Said The Dog alt.

Best In The World: Whose trolling who? What, RU an Ice fan? If so, no offense. I got love for you, bro. If I say something and ur whole posse get's dissed u gots 2 realize that it's just my opinion but if you asked the streets for their thoughts on Ice ur gonna find the same response that I put here. U really think that Ice changed tha game 4 tha better? How so? Ice closed doors, he didn't open them.

Correct usage of a contraction! Didn't use "they're"! Best In The World=FRAUD!

Sounds like the guy is under pressure.

downstairs: ihatedumbpeople: Yuck...the last thing you should consider is current paint color. Paint is cheap and normal rooms shouldn't take more than a few hours to paint.

Yeah, just watch any of the 100 home selling/buying shows.

I'd say at least 75% of them have a problem with the color in a room.

Lame.

The house I bought was painted in all pastels. Looked like a freaking dollhouse. But I know how to paint walls. Its pretty damn easy.

My wife is addicted to those shows. I think the producers purposely pick the dumbest people as subjects.

An inordinate amount of yuppie 20 something first time homeowners who want to buy a house in the trendiest neighborhood without any clue that the average house costs in that neighborhood is about six times their absolute maximum of their budget.

velvet_fog: Sounds like the guy is under pressure.

+11 interwebs.

The article fails to mention that he's also a private eye, a crooked cop, a secret agent and a celebrity pharmacist

/that guy is Dangeresque

rukusrazor: Best In The World: Whose trolling who? What, RU an Ice fan? If so, no offense. I got love for you, bro. If I say something and ur whole posse get's dissed u gots 2 realize that it's just my opinion but if you asked the streets for their thoughts on Ice ur gonna find the same response that I put here. U really think that Ice changed tha game 4 tha better? How so? Ice closed doors, he didn't open them.

I for once welcome this new Meow Said The Dog alt.

I'm betting Lowell. The style to when he goes trolling is similar. If it is you Lowell, that's a nice touch with the quote, but your ratio of words spelled correctly vs incorrectly is still too far off to be believable.

I miss StopArrestingMe's gimmick.

He's an elk, a Mason, a communist. He's the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason...ah, here it is. The Stonecutters.

Mikey1969: Morpheses: Fist-bump from a fellow SLC Tribber Mikey.

Right back atcha... I guess my name sticks out 'just enough'... :-)

It does, but mine is a bit more obscure on the Trib. I'll bet you could guess...

Anyone who is a self-described Juggalo is automatically an asshole in my book. Not even banging Debbie Gibson could save his image.

Say what you want about Vanilla Ice.


/That's it.
//Say what you want.

Comic Book Guy: "It's not about the resale value. It's about enjoying living."

Even though this guy makes his living from flipping houses, he GETS it. When I was planning some renovations here and there at the house, all I heard from some people is how it's going to add or detract from the resale value and nothing about the renovations themselves. I don't live in this house as a steward waiting for the next owner, I live in this house because it's my farkin' house.

Except when you're flipping houses, then it's only about what the renovations do to resale.

Tom_Slick: downstairs: Comic Book Guy: "It's not about the resale value. It's about enjoying living."

Even though this guy makes his living from flipping houses, he GETS it. When I was planning some renovations here and there at the house, all I heard from some people is how it's going to add or detract from the resale value and nothing about the renovations themselves. I don't live in this house as a steward waiting for the next owner, I live in this house because it's my farkin' house.

So much this. The value of your house is vastly out of your control. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm not going to debate a study that shows X dollars into a kitchen brings X dollars more in re-sale.

(By the way, judging by the fact that paint color on the walls is a big factor in house purchases... ugh.)

Any renovations I've done are because they up the usability of the house for me and/or my wife. The end. We have hundreds of books overflowing cheap bookshelves. That's the only reason I'm building built-in bookshelves up to our 13' ceilings. If the next owner digs them, good on them.

This my god this, I heard from so many people "Don't turn your formal Dining room into a home office you will kill the home value" WTF how many people in this day and age use a formal dining room? I'd rather have a spare bedroom and a home office than a Dining room that looks pretty and is never used and no spare bedroom.

Depends on what you're goals are. If you plan in living in the house for the next 20-30 years, then do whatever you like. If you plan on moving out in 5-7 years, then you do need to think about resale (or accept that your house won't as fast and for less money).

This thread is disturbingly light on pictures of Debbie Gibson.

velvet_fog

Sounds like the guy is under pressure.

no no no, he's not under pressure, he is under something very similar to pressure, but it's not pressure. See, it's different.

I'm just glad he has a job.

animal900: Except when you're flipping houses, then it's only about what the renovations do to resale.

You have to have houses "renovated" by house-flippers inspected closely - cosmetic fixes designed solely to boost the sale price of a house have an annoying habit of biting you in the ass two or three years down the road. Y'know, when the stucco they put up to hide the mold flakes off, or the pretty pressboard cabinets start to swell & split from moisture, or the "brand new" appliances crap out because they were bought at auction & buffed up, or the sexy track lighting installed on the cheap starts a friggin' house fire, and so on, and so on.

If you like a house, check its pedigree - you'd be surprised how many of the same folks racing to Carfax to check the VIN of a used car wouldn't do the same damned thing for a house on which they're about to spend quite a bit more.

FriarReb98: SevenizGud: Yo yo yo holmes dogs fo shizzle like leg em down slack em jack knowwhatimsayin and sheee, dang bro drag that greasy fish through the garden and on the drink side run the java for real represent or I bust a cap in yo ass.

Translation:

Derp.

He's someone's alt, I'm absolutely convinced. He's been trolling for two or three days straight now.

THIS.