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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
One huge advantage of a small house is small utility bills.
My old bachelor pad house was just under 1,000 square feet, but it had a garage!
It has been over 30 years now but I never saw $100 electric bills. My wife wanted a Koi pond, and it has a large pump running 24x7/365 and a heater when the temps gets below 20 degrees for very long. She has a indoor fresh water tank with a large filter pump, and a second air pump, and a heater again 24/7/356 and our house is a whole lot bigger than 1,000 square feet. And I do sometimes run the AC in the garage, and in the winter I run the heater if I am out there working.
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Between how poorly insulated most older houses in the area are, aging AC systems, and the power company bumping rates, a lot of people in houses similar to mine were paying 250+ over the summer.
It’s a nice little house. Dead ends at the railroad tracks, but there’s about 30 feet of heavily wooded railroad right of way between the house and tracks. Because of how the tracks angle, the lot behind me isn’t buildable so it’s all trees. I just have the one neighbor. It’s an Airbnb, but the owner is usually selective about who gets to rent. She used to rent to film crews, but that tanked hard with the strike.
I rebuilt the deck out back as my first project. A few joist/beam repairs and replaced all of the decking with marine grade 2x6. It’s 16’x16’. Perfect size for me. I set up a 100” projector screen on one side and spend a ton of time out there.