LPT: if you need to wake someone up inside a locked house, use screencast Partner locked the deadbolt. My deadbolt key wouldn’t work (new key). Locked outside with a baby. 45 minutes at midnight pounding on door with both baby and I yelling, multiple calls and texts, nothing. Then I remembered I can screencast to the tv. I screen casted screaming goats. Specifically, a YouTube video featuring 10 hours of screaming …

Mortgage question for Dad’s house My father is probably going into hospice this week. My brother and I are trying to make sure we have everything we need for his eventual departure. I live in the family home with my father and the home is in his name along with the mortgage. I am not on the bank account that delivers the mortgage payment. I am expecting that account to be frozen…

LPT: You can learn how to fix a lot of stuff in your house from YouTube Labor is especially expensive in the US. For many small to medium problems, you can teach yourself how to do it from YouTube. It will save you so much money. submitted by /u/pinpinbo

My favourite spot in the house submitted by /u/puzzler30

Faithless – Insomnia submitted by /u/solus-mort

The House Passed an Extension of a Surveillance Law Also, the U.S. made it more expensive to drill on public land. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty ImagesAfter three failed attempts and a heated floor debate, the House voted on Friday to reauthorize a controversial program that lets US intelligence agencies spy on foreign communications without a warrant. The bill ultimately passed 273–147. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance A…

Should I sell my house with a $4k mortgage? Ive owned my home for about 1.5 years now and this is my 2nd home. I bought this when I had a 6 figure salary job and my rental was making $4.5k a month as a grouphome. All of that fell out unexpectedly and now I currently make 76k a year, and have 3 roommates to alleviate the mortgage resulting in me paying about $1,500 a month + utilities. I …

Top U.S. House Lawmakers Meet on Stablecoin Bill Strategy: Punchbowl The U.S. congressional effort to establish regulations for stablecoins has become an increasing longshot for passage this year, but the lawmakers who’ve pushed legislation the farthest reportedly had a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about it, Punchbowl News reported.

Would you keep the house and rent or sell for the proceeds? My husband and I keep going back and forth on if we should keep our house to rent or sell it and throw the proceeds at the new house. I am curious what others would do in our situation. We bought a house 2 years ago and are currently under contract on a new house. Our current house has a mortgage payment of $1,960 a month and we could rent it f…

Popular songs by unknown authors such as House Of The Rising Sun Are there many examples of songs that were written by unknown authors? I know The House of The Rising Sun is one. It is an old song that was initially passed on and was eventually recorded in 1933 by Clarence Ashley. The Animals recorded their version in 1964. The words have changed over the years and the Ashley version is very different from th…

Baptist leaders urge House Speaker Mike Johnson to support Ukrainian Christians (RNS) — ‘We believe that God has put you in this position “for such a time as this,”’ Southern Baptist and Ukrainian Baptist officials wrote the speaker. The post Baptist leaders urge House Speaker Mike Johnson to support Ukrainian Christians appeared first on Religion News Service.

Love stopping by my parents house after work for dinner submitted by /u/micheleferlisi

Husband and I are separating. He is keeping the house. I’ll break this down very simply. My husband and I are on good terms. No kids. No lawyers. No mess. We are legally separating (so I can stay on his insurance until I can get my own, then we plan on divorcing). Our home was his family’s home. He is keeping it. I am okay with this. We are going to work on taking my name off the mortgage next mont…

Lessons In Cleaning House Quick tips that encourage your child to help with cleaning the house

Sell or Keep Grad School House Bought while in school, rented to friends to pay a 4% mortgage, never refinanced (school stress) but house we has almost doubled in value to ~$300k, local rent market says it goes for $1600-1800/month on the market. Now graduated with a real salary and living (renting a spare room for $800/month) in a city with about 2x cost of living from grad …

Is it stupid to buy a house at my income status? Long time renter and never owned, it’s always been a dream for me to own as it is putting money into an asset and I’d finally have the option to make it my own. My partner and I (not married) have started to seriously look but now I’m getting panicky that I’m jumping into a commitment that I can’t support. We’re looking at purchasing and this is…

Furniture layout for main level of house Looking at renting a house and the owner has it set up (from left to right), living room, dinning room, and then kitchen with a TV + couch and another breakfast table. So basically the rooms are couch, table, couch, table. Would it make sense to keep the living room as is, but put the TV and couch in the dining room and put the dinning room tabl…

Should I buy a nicer house? I have a real “first world problem” here. I live in San Diego. I bought my current house in 2021 for $580k after renting it for a while. Zillow now says its worth $742k. Mortgage rate is 2.75% and the monthy payment including tax and insurance is about $2600/mo. I was very conservative when I bought because my GF (now wife) was in school at the…

Sell house or rent house? We are moving from a LCOL to a MCOL (except housing there is crazy) roughly 8 hours away in the southeast USA. Help me make sense on whether or not I should sell or rent my house. I am concerned for holding two mortgages and capital gains tax if we rent. Demo/Background Wife and I make around $280k yearly + bonuses (up to $20k) Scenario 1 Curren…