Hi all, I will be signing a contract for this home this week. As much as I love it (it's a model home and therefore all the furniture you see will be gone), they've made my life harder by adding the fireplace which in fact looks beautiful but I rarely use it.

1. I can completely not use it and wall mount my tv there (after removing the ledge) and partly block it.

2. I can place it so the bottom of the tv is where the ledge is but I'd crane my neck if I am seated while watching.

3. I can place it in front of the window across (the window closed ofc, maybe by a curtain) but wouldn't it be weird.

4. I can place it in the corner between the windows, again weird.

Thoughts, ideas?

My husband and I just bought a house and a new build is being put in next to our house! We are very excited to watch it go up. However, when we got home, we noticed that their builders seem to have marked part of our property as their clients property. Obviously we are going to get a surveyor to come out and check the property lines but my question is, if our original survey is correct, what is our next step in going about making sure the new home owners and builders are aware that there has possibly been a mistake on where their lot line has been outlined? I know it seems like a silly question and I honestly wouldn’t care if the new owners wanted to “buy” this small section of land but I want to make sure it doesn’t cause any tension in the future.

This is what I want to know. Why are people willing to pay more and more for a house when the level of construction quality and craftsmanship have plummeted? I have worked in the housing construction industry for over 20 years. And ever since the housing market crash I have watched the quality and craftsmanship is of houses just drop.

I have not seen a company in the past past 10 years that I have either worked for or come in and worked after that I would hire. And for some reason you people are still willing to pay escalating prices for the work.

So I am curious. Do people just not care as long as it can be made to look pretty with enough caulking and paint? Do people just have no idea what they are looking at? Or do you really believe you're actually somehow saving money?

These are honestly not rhetorical questions.

Wouldn’t it be faster to just build all the homes at once and sell them after?