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Your Wyze webcam might have let other owners peek into your house

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Your Wyze webcam might have let other owners peek into your house Image: WyzeSome Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren’t theirs, meaning that they were unintentionally able to see inside of other people’s houses. A Wyze customer support agent confirmed to The Verge that this was indeed happening. “Went to check on my cameras and they are al…

The Verge 233 2023-09-25

Keeping getting offers to buy a house I don’t own

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Keeping getting offers to buy a house I don’t own I own my house, which has an address like 68 River View Drive. I keep getting offers to buy a house that I supposedly own at an address like 68 River Lane. Obviously I anonymized it a bit, but it’s the general pattern. Both are in the same zip code, but the other house is about 15 minutes away from mine. The other house has a different owner and…

Reddit Personal Finance 195 2023-09-21

Is buying a house the smart choice?

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Is buying a house the smart choice? Hello, I am a 22M med student in Spain with 100K € due to an inheritance. I have been a follower of some financial subreddits for a while, in an attempt to be able to manage my money efficiently as a way to respect the effort that my relative made to earn it. The money is currently conservatively invested until I decide my financial strategy for…

Reddit Personal Finance 159 2023-09-17

Why do I keep getting unsolicited offers to buy my house?

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Why do I keep getting unsolicited offers to buy my house? Background: I live in one city but I work in another, far enough away that it made sense for me to rent a house in the city I work in. I eventually bought the house I was renting when my landlord was going through financial difficulties during COVID and they got behind on their mortgage payments on the rental house. This was in early 2021 so I w…

Reddit Personal Finance 163 2023-09-17

House Poor! To Sell or Not to Sell

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House Poor! To Sell or Not to Sell Hi good people of Reddit, I’m hoping you could weigh in on me and my spouse’s current situation. We are in our 30s and have made some major career changes/gone to grad school, so we are somewhat behind others our age and haven’t really had a cohesive financial plan. We have about 100k in equity in our current home and and pay around 3000 with mo…

Reddit Personal Finance 166 2023-09-14

Inheriting money from house and splitting with my sister who is on disability (supplemental social security)

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Inheriting money from house and splitting with my sister who is on disability (supplemental social security) So my uncle has sold my grandmas house, and seeing as my father has passed, my sister and I will split the one half of the sale of the house (so my uncle gets half, and my sister and I split one half). This amounts to a decent amount of money. The problem is, my sister is on disability, meaning she is not able to save this money without losing h…

Reddit Personal Finance 197 2023-09-14

LPT: If you have a vacuum with a stick attachment, use it to get wasps and other insects in your house.

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LPT: If you have a vacuum with a stick attachment, use it to get wasps and other insects in your house. I was at a friends house and a wasp was inside and her first instict was to go grab a can of raid. Sure it’ll work, but you’re spraying that crap on your walls and floor. A vacuum works just as well and lets you keep safe distance. Wasps and lots of other bugs are slow enough where you can get em pretty easily. submitted by /u/waxturkey …

Life Pro Tips 218 2023-09-12

List of expensive items in house to budget for?

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List of expensive items in house to budget for? I’m trying to make sure my home maintenance and repairs sinking fund is sufficient but don’t really know how to word my question so am having a hard time searching for an answer on Google. Basically I’m trying to identify expensive parts of a house and its expected useful life to ensure my sinking fund is sufficient. For example, a few items tha…

Reddit Personal Finance 180 2023-09-11

Just finished House of Cards

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Just finished House of Cards That was a disgraceful ending and final season. They just tarnished one of the best characters in TV history with one of the worst in Claire. I hate her so much. submitted by /u/Jonny559

Reddit Television 183 2023-09-10

Sell or Rent this house?

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Sell or Rent this house? Hello Reddit, I need some advice on this life stage my wife, myself and soon to be daughter (due in February) are in. We moved to El Paso, TX in July of 2022 and purchased a 4BDR, 2BR home in a very nice neighborhood for $340,000 at 5% interest. Our monthly payment with sky-high property taxes ends up being $2900 a month. The plan was to stay s…

Reddit Personal Finance 302 2023-09-09

Amicable divorce likely, how do I keep the house and rate?

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Amicable divorce likely, how do I keep the house and rate? Throwaway account, but long time reader and poster. With 17 years to go and a rate of 2.875, I love the mortgage payment and the house. We have only some credit card debt, never dipped into the homes equity, and her car has a year to go on it’s lease. Purchased this house knowing we could handle the mortgage with just my income, we each make 125…

Reddit Personal Finance 204 2023-09-07

Lennar new house 30k incentives with restrictions need advice

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Lennar new house 30k incentives with restrictions need advice Lennar new house providing 30k towards closing and point buy down(10k closing and 20k for interest buydown) I am a First time home buyer putting 20 percent down.(remaining loan is around 500k) Have 10k worth of upgrades, should i add 10k towards loan? They first said you can use incentives towards HOA (not a option anymore, forcing to buy point…

Reddit Personal Finance 159 2023-09-01