Davard

Sorry for the loss and the violation of your home.

My question is, 5800 sq.ft. is considered an "average" sized house? In most parts of the US, even in the backwoods, 5800 sq.ft. is a mansion. I would bet there isn't 1 house in 1,000 that is that big in the U.S. You live in a nice community.

Bruce95fmla

theives choose unprotected families and homes more than protected, a house and everything in it is an investment, you MUST protect that investment when everyone is gone. I advice you and your family to look into an alarm ... All of the houses that my family owns have alarms on them ...
sorry to hear this happened..
bruce

Maxx Mazda

I live in a "rural" area so to speak, where lots are divided into about 2 acre parcels. (I think that's like 4 city lots?) Anyway, my house size is moe or less average... It's the second biggest on my Cul-De-Sac, with the smallest being like 4500, and the biggest (get this) a whopping 7500 sq ft! The couple that owns that swingin pad are quite nice, and are both doctors. On their kid's last birthday, the got one of those blow up "bounce house" things, and had it [ut up in their LIVINGROOM!!! You could see it from outside! The damn thing was like 25ft tall, and it fit with plenty of room to spare in their livingroom as it was cold outside...

Now THAT'S a house!

Back on topic, the dust has settled, and the insurance company instructed us to begin re-purchasing the things we had taken, and just sending them the bill - I never liked half those DVD's anyway!

90210brandon

Hey Nick, I guess that they didn't get your computer eh?

Maxx Mazda

Nope, left my comp and PS2 even... Nothing that belonged to me was taken, so I got off good. I post at school though as well if you wondering about the message times...

hihoslva

I have to agree. 5800 sq ft is quite a large house in most areas of the US, even if it is average for your area.

Hmmm......5800 sq ft on 2 acres? Around here, the house would go for probably just about a million, or a little more. And the taxes on 2 acres would probably be about $30,000 per year, significantly more for waterfront or canal.

Consider yourself blessed - not to have been robbed, of course, but to be able to live well.

Glad things are at least starting to get back to normal for you and your family. Ya' rich bastard....JUST KIDDING BRO!!!

~HH

Bruce95fmla

that's true, our house in newburgh is about 1.3 acres or so .. or the land is ,,, I could only imagine the tax on a house that is 2 acres,.. when I buy my house which I am saving for it will be a 3 family and I am renting out the other 2 families and I will live in the third apartment,,, that will be where most of my money will come from
Bruce

Maxx Mazda

The property tax isn't too much, as we live about 2 mins outside the city in a "municipality" or some ****... We get mad clean water through our own treatment plant, but we have to have septic tanks for sewage...

Because we don't pay the city for our taxes, etc. they're actually comparitively cheap...

UCSBgeek

I thought there wasn't crime in Canada

...

I don't want to sound but here is a big *
Have one on me

*sorry that was the closest I could find to a hug

Maxx Mazda

That was so ...

LOL!

hihoslva

Yup! I just signed the contracts on our house TODAY! YAY!

The house we are buying has the perfect layout for making an apartment, and that will be the first order of business once we move in. I will take the security deposit money I get back from the apartment we live in now (almost $2000), and build a small kitchen in the area above the garage. It will then be a 1-bedroom apartment, full bath, kitchen/living room combo. It'll be reasonably sized - the bedroom will be quite big - suitable apartment for a single or couple.

I figure I can get anywhere between $1000-$1300/month for it (all utilities included). Damn - it's gonna be sweet to OWN my home, yet still pay about the same as I do in this one-bedroom we rent now . Will leave plenty of $$ left over for re-vamping the rest of the house, as well as making babies.

~HH

NegatiZE

Sorry to hear about the robbery, Nick. Just remember most personal objects can be replaced, while lives cannot. Good thing you or a member of your family wasn't caught in the middle of it all.

Maxx Mazda

I suppose, although we could have also ripped **** up! Thanks for the sympathies!

pr5owner

that is fuct up.. do you think it was someone you know?

Maxx Mazda

Probably, they knew exactly what they were looking for.