The Home Ownership Thread

[sugarbutch]

Along this line, a friend of mine that is an award winning custom home builder, told me the industry always adds 25-30% premium if the client is an attorney. History shows this will be needed to cover them playing Trump on the project.

The "You're Probably An A55hole" fee

 

[SixOhNine]

Just as an additional point of reference- my wife and I are both lawyers and we custom built. It went smoothly, for the most part, and the only really significant problems were with the city and its unwillingness to connect the utilities. We maintained a good relationship with the builder almost the entire time, and I'm fairly certain he'd answer my calls even now, five years later.

 

[brokencycle]

Just as an additional point of reference- my wife and I are both lawyers and we custom built. It went smoothly, for the most part, and the only really significant problems were with the city and its unwillingness to connect the utilities. We maintained a good relationship with the builder almost the entire time, and I'm fairly certain he'd answer my calls even now, five years later.

Sounds like you got ripped off.

 

[SixOhNine]

Good point. I think we'll sue.

 

[beargonefishing]

Good point. I think we'll sue.

If you need a good lawyer I don't know any.

 

[Fueco]

The "You're Probably An A55hole" fee

The Styleforum Member fee.

 

[HRoi]

So is the premium 50-60% if both clients are lawyers?

 

[brokencycle]

So is the premium 50-60% if both clients are lawyers?

Trick questions. Lawyers can't do that kind of math.

 

[Piobaire]

Just as an additional point of reference- my wife and I are both lawyers and we custom built. It went smoothly, for the most part, and the only really significant problems were with the city and its unwillingness to connect the utilities. We maintained a good relationship with the builder almost the entire time, and I'm fairly certain he'd answer my calls even now, five years later.

Fair point. I'm sure that 90% ruin it for the rest of you folks.

 

[lefty]

Can confirm.

Me too.

lefty

 

[sugarbutch]

Me too.

lefty

Aw, man. I’m sorry.

 

[lefty]

Aw, man. I’m sorry.

Thanks. All good.

lefty

 

[otc]

My yard's not that big, I thought.

If there's no power tool rental available, I can just dethatch it by hand, I thought.

Can't take that long, I thought.

Soil temps are just about right to go overseed the thin spots...I'll be able to do that today, I thought.

...I thought wrong. Other parts of the yard aren't so bad, but this bit of side yard gets the best sunlight and water and grows much denser....it was just loaded with the stuff and was far too much work to manually rake out of there.

Wonder if I should start bagging my grass clippings. I don't think my electric mower does as good a job of actually mulching the clippings as a big gas mower and I think our local weather doesn't allow as much natural decomposition as in some other places of the country (plus maybe the effect of different grass varietals). I ran a power rake over it last year, so this is a truck load of NEW accumulation.

Thinking back to my parent's yard in MN, I don't think they ever once uttered the word "dethatch" and did minimal lawn care and the grass was fine. Not pristine lawn-nut or anything, but perfectly adequate for kids to run around and play on...

Eventually my neighbor's dandelion and clover field will take over...then it will green up fast and spread on its own.

 

[ellsbebc]

Never personally used one but the Sun Joe and Greenworks electric dethatcher machines receive positive reviews — even from lawn enthusiasts. Includes both dethatcher and scarifier cartridges but assume you would use dethatcher for your cool season turf. Either would probably be perfect for your size lawn.

Formerly, they would go on sale < $100 but those days might be long gone.

https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Joe-AJ805E-Dethatcher-Maintenance-Free/dp/B08WJQPHRG/ref=dp_prsubs_sccl_1/140-7311344-2145531?pd_rd_w=3M8ot&content-id=amzn1.sym.cb83e478-fab6-4eae-a77c-4c7ecca2778b&pf_rd_p=cb83e478-fab6-4eae-a77c-4c7ecca2778b&pf_rd_r=72W9CEV7AWMYN9TY2XCH&pd_rd_wg=NKQcb&pd_rd_r=5b63b78d-123f-45d2-a486-6cbc375b194d&pd_rd_i=B08WJQPHRG&psc=1

 

[otc]

Never personally used one but the Sun Joe and Greenworks electric dethatcher machines receive positive reviews — even from lawn enthusiasts. Includes both dethatcher and scarifier cartridges but assume you would use dethatcher for your cool season turf. Either would probably be perfect for your size lawn.

Formerly, they would go on sale < $100 but those days might be long gone.

https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Joe-AJ805E-Dethatcher-Maintenance-Free/dp/B08WJQPHRG/ref=dp_prsubs_sccl_1/140-7311344-2145531?pd_rd_w=3M8ot&content-id=amzn1.sym.cb83e478-fab6-4eae-a77c-4c7ecca2778b&pf_rd_p=cb83e478-fab6-4eae-a77c-4c7ecca2778b&pf_rd_r=72W9CEV7AWMYN9TY2XCH&pd_rd_wg=NKQcb&pd_rd_r=5b63b78d-123f-45d2-a486-6cbc375b194d&pd_rd_i=B08WJQPHRG&psc=1

Yeah I used the greenworks last year and it was too short for my height and killed my back. I would try the sun joe which should have a taller handle, but it was sold out everywhere.

The manual rake itself cost $50 so the machine is really a no brainier