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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - 9:50 am 
Thank you, Kar 
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 1:19 pm
I just talked to the real estate agent about that little blue house. It doesn't officially go on the market until Sept 1, and I am going to see the next day after that I think. The inside photos are supposed to go up Sept 1, and I hope it looks move in ready or I'm skipping it.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - 10:49 am
I have an appt to see the little blue house on Tuesday. I hope I am ready to let this place go after 32 years. I picture myself moving out and I start to cry. I have to tell myself "My utility bills would half!" and "My Taxes would be less than half!".
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Sugar
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - 6:20 pm
That would be an emotional experience. I seem to recall you having some fun and pretty results as you were decorating various rooms of your house. Perhaps that would be an enjoyable something to look forward to should you move.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - 9:37 pm
As I recall, the little blue house is all one floor, no steps as you get older. Good plan.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, September 02, 2025 - 5:45 am
After thinking hard on this, I've decided it's too big of a job for just me alone to move right now quickly. I have no one to help and not enough money to hire help. I'll have to clear the house slowly until spring, and then move. That feels a bit less stressful for me.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, September 02, 2025 - 12:19 pm
I drove past the little blue house today on the way home from the dentist. No wonder they weren't ready to show it today. They still have the big dumpster out front. It doesn't seem like anyone is living in it right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akevR3SzaEo
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Tuesday, September 02, 2025 - 8:17 pm
That's quite a backyard on that house.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 02, 2025 - 11:50 pm
Naja are there neighbour's teenagers who can help you with the heavy chores? I can't bend because of my bad back, so I pay a 17 year old boy in my building to help me out 2x a week.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 3:31 am
That is a major dumpster in the driveway. That’s right up there with the size used for major demolition and renovations.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 5:26 am
I am waiting to see the inside photos when they're posted. Maybe I'll get my excitement back and be motivated.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 5:36 am
Mame, I have a teenage girl I call sometimes. She helps with the yard. I bet she would help with this.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 1:47 pm
There's something I don't understand. Since your SS Benefits or Survivor Benefits are lowered if you make over a certain amount of money (while you're getting the benefits) then what happens if you sell your house? Especially if you buy one of lower value?
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 2:31 pm
Naja, selling your house doesn't impact your social security. That is an asset, not income. I did some work after I started taking social security and had to pay back 2 months distributions, I had planned for it.
But when I sold my house I just put the money into savings and started earning interest.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, September 03, 2025 - 2:38 pm
Thanks, Dipo! That is good to know
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, September 04, 2025 - 7:29 am
The only thing it would affect is your medicare, and you aren't there yet.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 7:45 am
This made me laugh.
After I find a house on a realty website, I always go look at it on google maps to see how it looked before they "dolled" it up. And then I spin around to see what the house across the street looks like that I'll have to see every day out my front windows. The house across the street on this one stunned me a little. LOL Here's the house on google maps, and you have to spin around like I did.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0852652..../
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 7:48 am
I love it! I wouldn't mind having to look at it every day.
It reminds me of Miami and how some of the neighborhoods with Carribean people would paint their houses. I always found it cheerful.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 7:50 am
The whole street with the trees, etc, just looks so peaceful and a relaxed feel to it.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 8:20 am
There are so many inexpensive homes in that area but it's the wrong side of town. Anything west of Noland road is considered the part of town going downhill because that's the side that borders Kansas City.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 11:52 am
In California with prop 13 still hanging in here, your property taxes go up but slowly, while home prices have shot up. So even if you downsize, the taxes on the new place might be higher than your taxes were on a longtime property.
Like I have been here 31 years and bought when housing prices had dropped. I hate to think what a small place would cost, if there was one around here.
I realize, situations differ radically from state to state, even city to city.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 12:05 pm
Maybe the dumpster means it will be move in ready inside??
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 12:20 pm
The ad itself says "move in ready" and last years taxes on it were $1,138.
While my taxes on this house last year were $3,210.
This year mine go down about $700 because they were illegally raised the last 2 years. But that's still way more than the little blue house.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Friday, September 05, 2025 - 12:23 pm
Yep.. different rules. Just one reason it is hard comparing cost of living state to state.
I hope the little blue house is great inside, or something better pops up.
You certainly have a lot of sweat equity and so many memories in your current home, so there is that, too.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, September 07, 2025 - 11:44 am
Well, they posted the pictures of the inside of that little house and I find the floor plan unlivable. There isn't even a place for a kitchen table unless you put it in the living room and the laundry hook up is in the bathroom! The appliances are dreadful. I think they chose the tiniest capacity washer and dryer as well. I need large capacity for rugs and comforters. The colors are dreadful and I thought that would be the living room through the windows in front next to the front door, but it's a bedroom! I can't stand the floor plan at all.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Sunday, September 07, 2025 - 1:39 pm
The floor plan is a common problem with small houses.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Sunday, September 07, 2025 - 1:56 pm
Do you have a link so we can see the pictures?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, September 07, 2025 - 2:28 pm
Sorry, I had mods take it down when I thought I might move there.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/823-S-Raymond-St-Independence-MO-64050/2310327_zpid/
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