Buddy of mine is moving from NM to OR.
Sold his house in 5 hours.
Got asking price. Said he was the most expensive house per Sq/Ft in the area.
[Link: realtor.com]

My other friend moved from NM to AZ.
House has been sitting on the market since Sept or Oct.
[Link: realtor.com]

Apparently houses that sell for 200-250k go like crazy (in like 10 to 1 ratio); once 300k and up, not so much. My buddy is selling his for 340k.


Crazy thing is that one house sold in 5Hr with $139/SqFt, while the other that can't sell is only $3/SqFt more at $142/SqFt.

Location is the other difference, but houses in both area have a median price to support each pricepoint.

Ran the pressure washer for too many hours today, but the beach house looks a lot better for having done so.

When are we invited over for a RC beach week??

4 days in and we got two offers. The second offer is full price and they offered to pay the closing costs. They said they really love the house.

Their offer was not for the RE Agent commissions, but other fees. Anyway, we went back to both offers asking for their last and best offers. The other one came up $14,000 to $8000 over asking price. So we sold the house in 4 days.

We have mixed feelings. We love our house, but it is small. Running the business out of it ends up taking over the house at times. If we have kids, it will be very tight. So we want more space.

Now, we are feeling really stressed and nervous as we have the house old, and nothing on the market in our range yet has been to our liking. Houses that are decent are being sold in days of coming on the market, just like ours did. Plenty of crappy houses, but they are still priced close to what the nice houses are. We are pretty picky, admittedly, but we want to move once and be our forever home. We don't want a main street, we want a neighborhood. We want spacing between our neighbors, preferably with mature trees in place We want some space, nothing less than 2500 sq ft hopefully. Ideally, 3 car garage or 2 car with a 1 car detached. That part is difficult. Gonna look at one tonight that has a very nice detached garage with a very nicely done office upstairs, but the house is 2000 sq ft. Will still look though.

Anyway, sorry to write as much as Ernie does here. Must be the nerves rambling on.

Well, the wine cooler IS full, the beer fridge IS stocked, and for those that don't, or won't imbibe, there are soft drinks as well.


Bring it!


P.S. Bring something to sleep on too. Unless a sofa or loveseat will suffice. There are only two bedrooms and one of them is all mine.

Don't settle.



Worse case, you can store a lot of stuff and rent on a short term.

Been there, done that. Yes it's a PIA.


Nice part of our buying the beach house? We sell the main house, we just need to sell all of the crap in it and head to the coast.

I edited another video... this underbed lift was installed a couple years ago, and I was able to shoot some video of it last week when I was onsite for a service call.

While I like the idea of those under the bed lifts, I can see problems...


1. The maid beats the hell out of the TV with the vacuum.

2. It's not high enough when all the way up, since my feet are so big...

I don't think either are real issues to be concerned with.  The TV itself sits up off the floor several inches so vacuum, mops etc. would just slide under it and bump into the lift which is build like a tank.

I think the bottom of the TV is 39"-40" off the floor and extension height is adjustable so it should work unless you have a REALLY tall bed and Sasquatch feet.

These aren't my favorite style of lift, but sometimes it's the only option.  The big thing to watch out for is center legs on the bedframe.  I think some Queen beds have these and all King and California King bedframes will have center supports.

This installation was unique for two reasons:

First the bed is two independent adjustable bed bases that are motorized so the head and feet raise and also has a massage function and motorized lumbar support.  I had to work with a fabricator to weld up a custom frame that was strong enough to support everything without the center legs, but still didn't interfere with operation of the TV lift or the adjustable bed.

Second, the TV lift is a custom unit that has an extra extension that was required so the TV could extend out past the chaise lounge that's at the foot of the bed.  Activated Designs was able to figure this out by adding an additional actuator and slider.

The last piece of the puzzle is the footboard extended all the way to the floor so it had to be removed and modified and reupholstered so there was a place for the TV to move out.  Everything took lots of planning, but the final installation was accomplished all in one day.

Here's some photos of the adjustable bed bases and the last link is a video of the lift during installation if you're interested to see how it works.




Video that shows TV lift operation during installation:

Most king sized bed frames have legs in the center because of the split box springs. Do those not get in the way of an under bed lift?

I took some time to destress and played around with some pictures. One of my favorites is an old firetruck I took a pic of while back at a job and greyed out the background, making the color of the truck really pop. Decided to do that with a pic of my car:

Here is the old firetruck pic I did several years back:

That came out really nice. Custom projects like that are the type of thing I really love doing.

Hopefully you didn't get stuck having to move the bed at all. Holy crap are those some heavy monsters. I got the queen version of that same bed last week, it took four of us to move it.
Already trying to figure out if I can integrate the damn thing.

I had lots of help moving the beds.  We had to lift both bases and the custom frame into place at one time and place it over the top of the TV lift.  I think each bed base was over 200lbs so it was around 450-500lbs that had to be moved togehter.  The memory foam mattress was another 200lbs so total weight on the frame could be over 1000lb with two adults in bed.  Factor in what adults do in bed and the custom frame had to be really strong...