Colorado B/S Thread

[eflores]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

hmmm. i think my cummins had a muffler once...none of those emissions things though lol

 

[SteveT]

Re: The Colorado BS thread

Who in Denver/Aurora sells Spicer u-joints? The Ram is going clickety clack.

 

[md21722]

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Your local Spicer dealer or Car Quest.

 

[SteveT]

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Drivetrain Industries FTW. Half of what Carquest or even Rock Auto wanted.

 

[Elguapo]

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This is my first week commuting to Denver. The office is in greenwood village and I don't think it will be very long before I move up to either castle rock or southern Denver.
Any affordable areas where I won't be stabbed that you can recommend? I am not buying in this inflated market. Renting a condo/apartment for now

 

[Kittrell]

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This is my first week commuting to Denver. The office is in greenwood village and I don't think it will be very long before I move up to either castle rock or southern Denver.
Any affordable areas where I won't be stabbed that you can recommend? I am not buying in this inflated market. Renting a condo/apartment for now

Not really, you are basically looking at renting from DTC down to Castle Rock, nice areas, expensive rent. I have lived in Castle Rock, Lone Tree, Parker, DTC, South Denver, never paid less than $1,000 for a one bedroom. I probably have high standards though. Even the older run down places I think are still going to be in the $800s a month for a one bedroom.

 

[in4aride]

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Pssshhhh. Let me know if you find anything. I'm on the north side paying out the booty for a moderately nice apartment. And I still can't stand the place. Been looking at property lots east of Denver hoping if some mide east stuff goes through and oil tanks even more I can swoop up a good deal.

But really once you pass monument you are pretty effed

 

[freerider15]

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It is nearly 1am, and I'm currently about to put my second coat of clear on the buggy panels.

Sleep...nah.

Going on my third week "off" work...never would have gotten as much done had I not gotten "lucky".

:laugh:

 

[time2getdirty]

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Starting at 10 pm Monday night till now, I have swapped a 14 bolt sf in place of my 10 bolt, moved 8.5 tons of rock to my back yard, and cleaned the house and garage. Time for sleep before work tomorrow... Err today.

 

[old_man]

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If you think it is bad down there, try NorCo. You simply can't find rentals. My daughter has been trying to find a small older house. She found a 750 sq ft 100 year old house for $150k. It came on the market at 9:00am and by noon it had 16 offers. She offered $165k and didn't get it.

 

[freerider15]

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If you think it is bad down there, try NorCo. You simply can't find rentals. My daughter has been trying to find a small older house. She found a 750 sq ft 100 year old house for $150k. It came on the market at 9:00am and by noon it had 16 offers. She offered $165k and didn't get it.

Was she looking in old town Fort Collins!?

GF and I are house shopping for our first.

Possibly putting in an offer today on a foreclosure in Johnstown. Not my ideal spot but we've been pretty well priced out of Fort Collins and much of Northern Colorado trying to find a house with 3 car garage and .3+ acres. Our budget is ~$315K. That would have bought us pretty much anything a couple years ago.

Now, we're feeling like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Two houses we've seen other than the one yesterday were sold within 24 hours of listing.

 

[old_man]

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No, she was looking in Loveland. You simply can't find anything under about $175 that isn't a tear down.

 

[old_man]

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We just bought a new house and are moving in this weekend. It is in Loveland. It was $407.5 for a 4 bedroom 3.5 bath 3 car.

 

[in4aride]

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Just wait to buy. My plans are panning out. Iran deal just went through. Give it end of year and oil will be 20-30/barrel. What's left of oil boom in norco will die off and all the inflation from high dollar oil folks will go away. Be a ton of foreclosures and houses trying to be sold off fast. :thumbup:

 

[freerider15]

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We just bought a new house and are moving in this weekend. It is in Loveland. It was $407.5 for a 4 bedroom 3.5 bath 3 car.

You probably have much higher end finishes than what we look at

Funnily enough, my GF's parents just moved down the street from your place.

Was helping them move a few weeks ago when I noticed a very familiar Jeep

We're putting in an offer of $305k on a 6 bed, 3.5 bath, 4500 sq. ft., .31 acres house in Johnstown.

Way more house than we need, and it's a foreclosure.

But, with some sweat equity we could end up being a good bit ahead.

Johnstown isn't my ideal area, but we're going with what we can get at this point.

 

[old_man]

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You probably have much higher end finishes than what we look at

Funnily enough, my GF's parents just moved down the street from your place.

Was helping them move a few weeks ago when I noticed a very familiar Jeep

We're putting in an offer of $305k on a 6 bed, 3.5 bath, 4500 sq. ft., .31 acres house in Johnstown.

Way more house than we need, and it's a foreclosure.

But, with some sweat equity we could end up being a good bit ahead.

Johnstown isn't my ideal area, but we're going with what we can get at this point.

Heck, if I had seen that several months ago when we committed to this house, I might have been interested. How big of a garage?

 

[freerider15]

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Heck, if I had seen that several months ago when we committed to this house, I might have been interested. How big of a garage?

3 car, slightly oversized.

It's got it's downsides though by far. House needs quite a bit of work.

- Front and backyard are essentially a weed jungle
- New carpet throughout
- Drywall and paint throughout
- Concrete work
- Several window wells need to be redone
- etc. etc. etc.

I highly doubt we'll get it due to the amount of interest it had.

But, it was worth at least throwing our hats in the ring.

 

[old_man]

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Good luck. If you need any tools, call me. I have just about everything you might need.

 

[collkid]

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This is my first week commuting to Denver. The office is in greenwood village and I don't think it will be very long before I move up to either castle rock or southern Denver.
Any affordable areas where I won't be stabbed that you can recommend? I am not buying in this inflated market. Renting a condo/apartment for now

Just went through this.

Finding a 1 bedroom under $900 is unheard of.

We got ours, with washer and dryer, for $877. Cherrywood in Parker. We love it. By far the cheapest option.


However, just talked to the office a few days ago, they told us we are the only ones that pay that low of a price here....


Might be worth a try...

 

[1-tonxj]

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Dencol did not carry TUBE only PIPE so I went with more 2x2 square for my new rear links...after buying the 2x2 .250 which is what they are made of now and at 36 inches have held up fine I was thinking the new links will be about 48 inches long with the wheelbase pushed out about 10 more inches ,and was thinking maybe 2x2 is not large enough diameter ? and should have went 2.5 ...anyone think 2x2 is to small for a 4ft long link under a 5,600lb XJ ?...Most likely I'm over thinking it and it should be fine ,but I'd like to make the links once VS wasting a stick of 2x2 .250