here’s one long national nightmare over
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Better change the locks. Keys are easy to duplicate, even from a picture.
Comment by HDDavid — April 20, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
^HDD beat me,
but I’d do it because a whole bunch’a people have already had a key to the place. Who knows how many copies there are.
After you change the locks, leave the old key where burglars expect to find the spare.
(What? No, that’s not cruel cruel. They’re bad guys!)
Still,
congratulations, Missy! You’ve earned it.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 20, 2012 @ 4:26 pm
Mazel Tov…
Comment by The Ugly American — April 20, 2012 @ 4:55 pm
Ahhh How I remember that new house excitement!!! (and fear)
Comment by geezerette — April 20, 2012 @ 5:02 pm
^ I’m already crapping myself :)
Comment by SondraK, Queen of my domain — April 20, 2012 @ 5:23 pm
Sure is pretty.
Mazel tov indeed
Comment by rickn8or — April 20, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
Beware teh occputoads.
Do you have the stealth enamel for the outside?
Seriously, congratulations, you crazy kids.
Comment by mech — April 20, 2012 @ 5:44 pm
Hooray!
Comment by Thomas M. — April 20, 2012 @ 5:54 pm
Wooots! grats, and I would change the locks too.
Comment by SherryM — April 20, 2012 @ 6:25 pm
^ Locks are #1 on teh list…gotta get up there and make sure we buy the right brands.
The house really has never been lived in…just pals of the seller once in awhile…
I have so much to do!!!!!!!! but the relief of 4 months of sheer limbo and JUST being official at about 3 pm today….whew to say the least!
Comment by SondraK, Queen of my domain — April 20, 2012 @ 6:42 pm
That is wonderful!
Comment by Melissa In Texas — April 20, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
Congrats!!!
About locks: although I can’t presently recommend a suitable brand/make/model, as I’m sure you know, all are not created equal.
One time I got a new place and replaced the lock with one that was advertised as “more difficult to pick.”
Then, once, and only once, I managed to lock myself out. It wasn’t even the deadbolt part. All I did was push the knob button.
The locksmith arrived to open it up on a flat, not time-based, rate. I had warned him it was advertised as more difficult than the norm, and he said: “Oh, they can say that, but they’re really all pretty much the same. No real difference.”
So I sat down nearby and played my harmonica while this nasty little neighbor dog howled and yammered every time I hit a high note. They were all high notes.
Well over an hour later this professional finally got it open.
I though: “Yep, definitely all the same.”
Comment by Ironic in Denver — April 20, 2012 @ 7:08 pm
By the way, I *strongly* recommend reinforcing the area the deadbolt engages. It doesn’t matter about difficulty in picking if a couple of good kicks or a sledgehammer will just pop the bolt right through the frame.
Comment by Ironic in Denver — April 20, 2012 @ 7:10 pm
SO very true IiD.
It never hurts to reinforce the frame!
Comment by Melissa In Texas — April 20, 2012 @ 7:11 pm
One of the doors was installed backwards…stg…
The inspector noted rusty hinges but it was JR…looking at the report photos that realized it was inside out.
I TOLD you the house was crazy!! It’s PERFECT…like me! :)
Comment by SondraK, Queen of my domain — April 20, 2012 @ 7:32 pm
FWIW…nothing of notable value will be in there until next week end…when we come with the “outside” stuff like old pickets and bbq….etc…and new locks…
Comment by SondraK, Queen of my domain — April 20, 2012 @ 7:34 pm
I don’t know why, but that remark has me wondering, completely off topic, what it would be like for Sondra to star in a remake of Sister Act (with some script changes, of course).
Comment by Ironic in Denver — April 20, 2012 @ 7:36 pm
Big Congrats to you & JR! What an endeavor youz guyz have been throo!
Is there a ‘porch’ on your new howss??
Comment by Lance — April 20, 2012 @ 8:30 pm
^ a “wrap-around” one. There’s room for EVERYBODY!!!!!!
Comment by SondraK, Queen of my domain — April 20, 2012 @ 8:38 pm
…the house is almost 3000 square feet. Minus the open space to the upstairs. There’s SO MUCH ROOM! I’m even going to have a room with just a mirror, some mats and a kickboxing bag.
OMG!!!!!! It’s finally MINEMINEMINEMINEMINE……….
Comment by SondraK, Queen of my domain — April 20, 2012 @ 8:39 pm
Major space-envy!
Comment by Ironic in Denver — April 20, 2012 @ 8:53 pm
I’d suggest a .50 BMG in your arsenal.
Comment by JoeBandMember® — April 20, 2012 @ 8:57 pm
There’s nothing like the excitment of finally having your own home fer sure Sondra. My heart is pounding with you and JR. Wait till it really shapes up from here and Im looking forward to the new gardening!
Comment by LLoyd — April 20, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
After the locks, and before the furniture,
do a detailed search for hidey holes, false bottoms/backs, dummy conduits, loose insulation bats, movable panels, etc.
You do not want to get nailed for somebody else’s stash.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 20, 2012 @ 9:20 pm
Congrats, Sondra. Nothing like your own house.
Comment by Alan outback bacon czar — April 20, 2012 @ 9:22 pm
For your yard, perhaps a couple of coon traps. (I mean raccoon, of course. God forbid I should be thought a racist.)
Doug (24): I sat there openmouthed, looking at you post for a moment. I am so naive. It never occurred to me (before). [making notes to myself about far more than just this]
Comment by Ironic in Denver — April 20, 2012 @ 10:42 pm
DOES IT HAVE A PORCH?
:)
Comment by Spin — April 20, 2012 @ 11:06 pm
Doug, a friend of mine rented a house a few years back….
up in the crawl space, he found a long , narrow lump of dust.
Under the dust was a rifle case.
Inside the case was a Ruger M77 rifle, in cal. .25-06, with a 3-9 x Redfield scope. it was lightly freckled with rust, but otherwise in perfect shape! Judging by the dust accumulation, it had been up there for YEARS. The previous tenet has only lived there for 3 years , and probably never knew a thing about it!
Comment by Lucius Severus Pertinax — April 21, 2012 @ 12:35 am
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc — April 21, 2012 @ 6:21 am
MY preference is NO locks. Just a sturdy chair inside the door w a sawed off double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun w reloaded shotgun shells filled with rock salt attached————–and the triggers wired to the door knob! But….that`s just me…………. [However, for reputation`s sake, make sure there ain`t no *community welcome wagon lady*----]
Comment by Colonel Jerry USMC — April 21, 2012 @ 7:25 am
By the way, Missy,
when I first saw this post, the window had the pic cut off as below, so I initially thought it was gonna be about sunbathin’.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 21, 2012 @ 8:42 am
LOL!
So did I…
it looked like a thong at first!
Comment by Melissa In Texas — April 21, 2012 @ 8:51 am
^ Oh, my!
“Melissa” and “thong” in the same paragraph.
[pours ice-cold lemonade over head]
(What? Yeah, good thing I’m in the iHammock.)
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — April 21, 2012 @ 12:00 pm
Excellent!
If I weren’t about 2000 miles away I’d help you move
Comment by Firehand — April 21, 2012 @ 2:50 pm
Col.J, whadda ’bout all the udder doors & windows??
An’ ‘spoz you frogotz to disconnect the trigger string
before you return home after an evening of ‘celebratin’??
What I heard decades ago is that was done in an unoccupied farm
building, like a chicken coop. It blasted the bad guy, then his
family sued the owner. Apparently in that state, yah godda be
holdin’ da gun to kill sumbuddy legally!
Comment by Lance — April 21, 2012 @ 3:18 pm
Claire, Pink Pig Barbarian (29), I reelee like your
celebratory cheer for Head Missy’s closing on her new ‘Castle’!
Now for the loud sounds of the next phase of the project.
Will it be “Grunt, Grunt, Gasp” of the moving of her ‘museum’??
I also want to know if her new ‘castle’ has a reel basement or a
crawl space? At least all those animals & rodents had a place to hide!
Comment by Lance — April 21, 2012 @ 3:32 pm
Man! If I wasn’t helping the kids move in a couple of weeks. . .
Comment by MCPO — April 21, 2012 @ 3:51 pm
Another thing to think of when you change your locks is for the new locks to be “bump key” resistant.
Most house locks can be opened within a few seconds by using a bump key without leaving any trace of being picked.
Comment by geezerettesbrother — April 22, 2012 @ 4:08 am