sillypixie's Journal: Quick Update

I am working like a dog these days. All day every day. Trying to meet some very stiff deadlines, as well as keeping all my extracurricular geek activities going.

Are you surprised? (-:

As well, hubby and I have been working hard to fix up, stage, and sell our home. Who knew that would be so much hard work? I can't believe the boxes and boxes of books & knicknacks I packed up to make the place look less cluttered. Candles, finger puppets (I love finger puppets), photos, you name it.

But the painting, cleaning, and decluttering paid off - we sold our home within 7 hours of listing it. One less stress on the shoulders. Thank goodness.

Now - I have a question for you. We have a garage-top deck. We had to redo the deck a while back, and never got around to putting the railing back up. Due to the time of year, we couldn't fix that problem before we put the house up for sale, and besides, there was a possibility that it would be purchased by a developer and bulldozed anyways, so we decided to wait and see. Turns out that the new owner wants to rent the place out, but the lack of railing didn't come up as a result of the home inspection, and now the sale is firm.

Here is my question to you - if this new owner rents out the house like this (ie blatantly violating code) and the renters or their children fall off that deck and break their necks - am I or my husband liable?

My husband thinks I'm on crack for being concerned about this. And he is absolutley incredulous that I would consider fixing this when we have already made a deal (obviously I would talk to the new owner before I did anything).

Perhaps it is no big deal. But I hate the idea of leaving something unsafe behind us, especially when we have improved this house in so many ways!

Am I wrong to be concerned? I think there will be a major brouhaha if I insist on this thing getting fixed, but I really feel like it is something that we should do.

Ergh.

On a lighter note, I heard this comment about tie-dye and it made me laugh (from some kind of fashion show playing late last night):

"Why would you want to look like a rainbow threw up on you?"

Also, I heard the term "muffin tops" for the first time ever....

Pix

Update: Here's an interesting insight from Molly Holzschlag. I like Erica's reply the best:

yeah, live in orange county, ca for a while.
home to more strip malls
and girls with plastic parts
than you can shake a stick at.
there's a formula for the look.
and it's all the same.
the feigned, giggly happiness.
the identical clothing.
the identical hairstyle and highlights.
come for a visit.
i'll take you to the mall.
you'll laugh.
and you'll remember, with relief, just how awesome you are.

Heh, MuffinToppin'

[Allen Zadr]

I wrote a journal that included muffin tops a few months back. My conclusion is that, given a woman who is basically happy, (jolly?), and that I would otherwise have found attractive - I find that the raw "here I am" attitude of muffin-topping can enhance this. But if the woman is basically unattractive, or basically has an attitude, then muffin-topping just adds to the slob motif.

IANAL

[sulli]

I suggest talking to an attorney. Generally as long as the disclosures are all correct, the sellers don't have liability for future use of the place, but you should check to make sure.

Re:IANAL

[nizo]

I agree that I am not a lawyer too, but I can't possibly imagine how you guys would be liable; it isn't like plumbing in the wall that you stuck together with bubblegum and then didn't tell the buyer about (i.e. some weird hidden bogus thing you did). If he can see the deck and there isn't any stipulation in the sales papers, once the buyer owns the house it is 100% his problem (and liability). I am suprised that his home inspection (I assume he got one?) didn't list it as a problem. Then again, it is possi

Re:IANAL

[sillypixie]

I'm surprised that it didn't show up on the home inspection too. I fully expected an amendment to show up saying that the seller was to install a railing prior to possession date.

We meet with the lawyer next week. I will ask then.

Pix

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It's a good thing there's Google

[Tau Zero]

If it wasn't for Google, I would make a complete fool of myself having to ask what each new slang term means.

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[sillypixie]

I don't understand how girls can wear those ultra-low-rise jeans anyways. Maybe I'm just biased cause I live in Canada - but the *last* thing I want is skin hanging out, it's too damn chilly! Sure, you may look ok when you're standing up, but as soon as you sit down, you have to spend half the time pulling your shirt down...

I dunno. I guess I'm just not a fashionista, but doesn't convenience and common sense come into this at some point?

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[Tau Zero]

Fashion is more about advertising than comfort. If people dressed for comfort, they'd run around in shorts and tees when it was warm, and sweat pants over fleece long undies and Shaker-knit wool sweaters over nice, soft flannel shirts when it was cold.

If you want everyone to see how hot your nubile young bod is, you wear low-rise jeans and a halter top.

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[SlashChick]

I don't think convenience and common sense have intersected with fashion very often. Witness some of the "fashionable" shoes I've seen people wearing. Yikes!

BTW, thanks for the link to molly.com and the other Erica's post... pretty cool! :)

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[sillypixie]

At first glance I thought that the reply was from you -- but the URI was wrong.

I know so perfectly how she felt when she wrote those lyrics. It is tough to be a strong smart person with a vivacious personality, and see it fade in comparison to a tight ass coupled with a set of double-D boobs. Bottom line is, there's always someone prettier, and it is only going to get worse as time goes by. Such is the way the world works. Can't let it get you down, you just have to work to be happy with yourself, for

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[johndiii]

If, for some guy, you fade in comparison to a "tight ass coupled with a set of double-D boobs", then that's not the guy you want. Be who you are, and you will attract the guys who will be happy with you; be someone else, and you'll attract the guys who will only be happy with someone else.

And yes, be happy with yourself, for your own reasons. You can't get your happiness from someone else. It has to come from within.

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[sillypixie]

Silly boy, we aren't talking about the man we want. We're talking about all the rest of 'em...

*grin*

Pix

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[sielwolf]

The muffin top, though, isn't about fashion, it's about people not realizing a certain type of fashion doesn't work for their body type. Maybe it has to do with rationalization of clothing size but its just the trumph of fantasy by cold reality. Low rise jeans only really work if the girl has a perky butt and no stomach fat. If she doesn't have the first, the tight jeans will give her pancake ass. If she has any sort of a tummy, she's going to have a muffin top. Neither is a good look. It's kind of an

Re:It's a good thing there's Google

[sillypixie]

Yeah, fashion is a weird word anyways. Personally, I would say that most of the women I know do not really pursue fashion as a wholistic goal, but yet will let disjointed fashion trends dictate their purchasing decisions. Combine this blind pursuit of trends with a lack of body awareness, and you get nasty results. Teenagers are the worst.

Personally, I have no time or $$ (or inclination) to pursue true fashion. Half the stuff I see advertised as "fashionable" is butt-ugly anyways. All I really want is t

Same here

[GeckoFood]

been working hard to fix up, stage, and sell our home.

The realtor with whom we are working informed us this week that we should have our house on the market in 3 weeks or less. I have no clue how we will manage to do this...I have 4 rooms that need to have wallpaper stripped.

Re:Same here

[sillypixie]

I'm not sure what kind of wallpaper you are working with, but we had to do the same thing, and we found that the easiest thing to do was to use a spray bottle of water and thoroughly saturate the wallpaper. After that it just peeled right off, we didn't even need chemicals! I think the big question is whether the wallpaper was applied to a painted wall, or directly to the drywall.

At least where I am, the real-estate market is INSANE right now. There is huge demand and no supply - that's why we scrambled

it depends on your local laws...

[kesuki]

but they can attempt to 'seek damages' in the event that you sold them something unsafe or faulty and had prior knowledge of it, and they were harmed as a result of your refusal to disclose the hazard upfront.

of course you'd have to have the appropriate laws on the books covering that kind of thing, etc etc. I'm fairly sure that i'd heard somewhere that someone had sued someone for selling them an unsafe car (not the same thing i know) after a break failure had caused a car accident, and they found out la

IANAL

[Shadow Wrought]

But I have worked with them for the better part of 6 years now. AFAIK, in selling a home there are certain things which you are obligated to do (like have a home inspection). You did that and its documented. Once you sell it, the buyer assumes all risks and everything else that comes with it. Once he rents it then he has to make sure it is up to code, that's not your concern. Again, AFAIK, IANAL...