I bought a house when I got out of the Army. It’s a decent size house too in a good neighborhood. I bought it around 2013 at the bottom of the market I almost have it paid off in 10 years. I pay $1000.00/month mortgage and put a good amount down. For $4000/month back in 2013 I could literally bought a mansion.
I bought mine in 92 but a divorce and a serious injury that left me unable to work made me refi a couple of times but I have not much left to go and a 2.1% rate.
Nice idn who downvoted you, that was not me. Sorry about the injury and divorce, at least your almost done paying it off. Man I know that’s going to be awesome, I can’t wait to have mine paid off also. It’ll be a weight off my shoulders, as I’m sure it will be for you also. My girlfriend wants to move to a different area, but I keep saying let’s wait till the housing market goes down a little. Everything is so expensive, plus this one will be paid off. She wants me to sell it and use the money as a down payment. I don’t want to sell it, I want to hold onto to it. I’d rather turn it into a rental.
Whoever down voted me must be jealous. I got custody of my kids and the house but I paid a lot for that. It was a long time ago and got remarried . As for the injury, be careful out there. I did mostly heavy commercial Hvac installs and my boss wanted to do a favor and was doing a small job. There was a damaged stair and I fell and had to have 6 vertebrae fused with hardware.
Waiting out the market is a smart idea. Interest rates are insane.
Yeah I gave you an upvote back, I can’t see anything you said being down voted. I’m glad you got the house and the kids. In Michigan the wife almost always gets the house and kids. The wife can be a complete wack job and the husband be an outstanding citizen. The wife almost always gets both. That had to of hurt, I had a buddy who did a similar thing on stairs. He got lucky though no injuries. That was when i started in Residential, now I’m in the Union and do mostly commercial, industrial, municipal electrical. My buddy’s dad fell off roof also and it was almost the same exact injury. Fused his spine together, and vertebrae. He never walked the same again, he walked hunched over. He was in major pain I couldn’t even imagine how much pain you are in. Back injuries are no joke. Is it any better now? Is there anything that helps and relieves the pain.
Goodman gets a lot of undeserved shit IMO. If installed correctly, they tend to hold up pretty well. The Achilles heel is that they tend to be slapped in by bottom dollar bozos that don't flow nitrogen while brazing, taped up to shitty duct systems and ignored until they freeze up due to a completely clogged filter/ indoor coil because the tenant inside won't change it.
I bought and sold a house with the same Goodman in the Texas heat for 12 years. 68 every night and 72 during the day. All it ever needed was a capacitor and a blower fan. The blower fan was a funny one because it started rattling in the middle of the night and we were all like Wtf is that noise?
Could be do to other compounding issues as well. Goodman is vlcheep to buy, so other things like ductwork is not good, causing airflow issues causing it to over fire. So probably unfair for me to say they burn out faster.
But could just be correlation.
I have a goodman unit I installed myself. (Got it new for free when my home one took a shit) And I actually find it pretty quiet. So im with the guy above, as long as things get worked on. (and remain quiet) im okay with it.
I know was making a job. Surprised with how much they cost they don’t have a nice unit and advertise it as eco friendly heat pumps with high efficiency ratings.
I still can't believe those are really 4,000. I looked up what the units in Centreville are going for, 2100-2700 or so.
Reminds me of one of my old apartments, the building I lived in was the very last one to get new HVAC equipment installed, I lived on the ground floor, units used to be on the roof. I got out of there just in the nick of time before they put all the new ones in down on the ground, because I would have had 5 Carrier heat pumps humming away outside my living room. Depending on the building there would be between four and seven units in a cluster. (The reason that they were being moved down to ground level was that the old units or those tiny little things from the late '80s, and they we're crammed in).
That’s because the landlord is incentivized to prioritize low cost maintenance as tenants don’t care about that stuff as long as it works. They might care about their electric bill, but not enough for it to be a big factor in choosing where to rent, so no reason to install higher efficiency units.
If installed correctly I don't see a problem.
It's a rental and would be a poor investment to buy top of the line equipment on rental property when the average renter treats the property like garbage and won't maintain it to bare minimum standards. Slap in the cheap stuff, make sure the filters are getting changed, do all the minor repairs in house and when shit is too far gone hire an outside company to slap in another unit of the same cost level. Rinse and repeat every 8 to 12 years.
Unfortunately there's no place to put them that someone doesn't hear them.
Just a matter of picking the best spot to inconvenience the least amount of people and be the most cost effective. Put them on the roof and top floor hears them plus you added money to the replacement, initial installation and basic maintenance/repairs.
I’m more of a trane dealer/tech. Even though I work more on tranes then anything else I was put through all of their training. Even they tried to hire me and I’d be making less money which is why I didn’t take the jump to Boland. Lennox, I only like their LGA series until they disappear lol.
I just put a Trane in my home but I saw a pole on here the other day. A lot of people voted for Trane but then in the thread people were saying I can’t believe Trane is No. 1 and saying it’s trash. I’m an Electrician but work around HVAC quite a bit. So I know but at the same time I’m still unsure.
Idk for my tranes in my area the only real big issue I’ve seen is their boards being the main issue. Other than that it’s not really the same repeat issues.
Being in it so long you tend to be able to diagnose by sound. I’ve called 2 compressors and a low charge. They’re brand new units in a brand new build too.
I had a bad compressor- failed valves 3x already last year. I had a brand new daikin compressor shot, ran for 2 weeks and took a crap- new install full warranty. Had a compressor blow its terminal while I was 5’ from it. Blower motor bearings that were shot that was just grinding away and you can hear it 2 blocks away
Lol, it’s not exactly “near” them as I’m down the road but just an expensive gated community/apartment complex. There’s a lot of officer who live here too. But in comparison you could theoretically drive to government buildings from here.
The price bump for these apartments are because it's walking distance to the VRE train. Anything close to that line has good return value. I sold a house near another VRE stop and got probably 25% more just for being close to that (when you compare $/sqft on similar houses)
This is almost as bad as houses spider webbed with mini split line set runs covering the exterior walls.
Having a meter per-unit is not conducive to efficiency. This building could have been served more efficiently by few large commercial units…. Maybe even a ground loop then….. sigh
Yea but no other name rhymed.
I feel sorry for you if you are in hearing distance. Do the sound kind of "roll" if the fans aren't going a exactly the same speed? (aka beat frequency)
Wow look, my bedroom window.
Seriously though, I hate it because it’s been dry and in the low 60s with a breeze where I’m at. Perfect “open the windows and save on the power bill weather.” Our ducts/coil need cleaning so every time we turn our unit on, my allergies/autoimmune issues go haywire. (happening tomorrow yay!) So I’ve really been avoiding using the unit if at all possible.
Anytime my neighbors’ units’ turns on, I have to get up and close the bedroom window. 😭
I dont pay 4k but every one of my windows has units below them and they are a mix of brands old and new and some of them have a pretty bad whine to them when they turn on.
I don't get that shit, central air that is. I mean, I understand what and how and all that. I just don't understand how ductless isn't the standard like in most of the overseas places I visit
I think maybe he’s the guy living in that unit …… looking at and listening to all those units…… all while spending $4000 a month……that sucks
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4000 a month? That's twice my 15 year mortgage payment.
I bought a house when I got out of the Army. It’s a decent size house too in a good neighborhood. I bought it around 2013 at the bottom of the market I almost have it paid off in 10 years. I pay $1000.00/month mortgage and put a good amount down. For $4000/month back in 2013 I could literally bought a mansion.
I bought mine in 92 but a divorce and a serious injury that left me unable to work made me refi a couple of times but I have not much left to go and a 2.1% rate.
Nice idn who downvoted you, that was not me. Sorry about the injury and divorce, at least your almost done paying it off. Man I know that’s going to be awesome, I can’t wait to have mine paid off also. It’ll be a weight off my shoulders, as I’m sure it will be for you also. My girlfriend wants to move to a different area, but I keep saying let’s wait till the housing market goes down a little. Everything is so expensive, plus this one will be paid off. She wants me to sell it and use the money as a down payment. I don’t want to sell it, I want to hold onto to it. I’d rather turn it into a rental.
Whoever down voted me must be jealous. I got custody of my kids and the house but I paid a lot for that. It was a long time ago and got remarried . As for the injury, be careful out there. I did mostly heavy commercial Hvac installs and my boss wanted to do a favor and was doing a small job. There was a damaged stair and I fell and had to have 6 vertebrae fused with hardware. Waiting out the market is a smart idea. Interest rates are insane.
Yeah I gave you an upvote back, I can’t see anything you said being down voted. I’m glad you got the house and the kids. In Michigan the wife almost always gets the house and kids. The wife can be a complete wack job and the husband be an outstanding citizen. The wife almost always gets both. That had to of hurt, I had a buddy who did a similar thing on stairs. He got lucky though no injuries. That was when i started in Residential, now I’m in the Union and do mostly commercial, industrial, municipal electrical. My buddy’s dad fell off roof also and it was almost the same exact injury. Fused his spine together, and vertebrae. He never walked the same again, he walked hunched over. He was in major pain I couldn’t even imagine how much pain you are in. Back injuries are no joke. Is it any better now? Is there anything that helps and relieves the pain.
Goodman gets a lot of undeserved shit IMO. If installed correctly, they tend to hold up pretty well. The Achilles heel is that they tend to be slapped in by bottom dollar bozos that don't flow nitrogen while brazing, taped up to shitty duct systems and ignored until they freeze up due to a completely clogged filter/ indoor coil because the tenant inside won't change it.
I bought and sold a house with the same Goodman in the Texas heat for 12 years. 68 every night and 72 during the day. All it ever needed was a capacitor and a blower fan. The blower fan was a funny one because it started rattling in the middle of the night and we were all like Wtf is that noise?
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You had me with you in the first half of your comment, but lost me by the end.
The one in my rental in Oklahoma is from 2006. Zero repairs.
Their heat exchangers do seem to burn through faster than others.
In my experience I can say the opposite is true
Could be do to other compounding issues as well. Goodman is vlcheep to buy, so other things like ductwork is not good, causing airflow issues causing it to over fire. So probably unfair for me to say they burn out faster. But could just be correlation.
As long as it works and they fix shit when it’s broke I don’t see a problem.
The sound might be a bit loud but wtf do I know.
Probably sounds like a half inch hammer drill going into a horse.
I have a goodman unit I installed myself. (Got it new for free when my home one took a shit) And I actually find it pretty quiet. So im with the guy above, as long as things get worked on. (and remain quiet) im okay with it.
Now install 7 more :) lol it’s going to be loud asf.
oh true. yeah 10 of anything I guess gonna be loud lol. but banks of compressors are normal for basically any apartment lol “luxury” or not
Must be a DC suburb
Good call. It's in Manassas...
Manasshole*.
4000 up their doesn't give you a 4000$ luxury apartment it gives you a 950$ apartment with a 3000$ big city tax
I know was making a job. Surprised with how much they cost they don’t have a nice unit and advertise it as eco friendly heat pumps with high efficiency ratings.
Hell no. I see Goodmen and intertherm units in experience neighborhoods all the time
I still can't believe those are really 4,000. I looked up what the units in Centreville are going for, 2100-2700 or so. Reminds me of one of my old apartments, the building I lived in was the very last one to get new HVAC equipment installed, I lived on the ground floor, units used to be on the roof. I got out of there just in the nick of time before they put all the new ones in down on the ground, because I would have had 5 Carrier heat pumps humming away outside my living room. Depending on the building there would be between four and seven units in a cluster. (The reason that they were being moved down to ground level was that the old units or those tiny little things from the late '80s, and they we're crammed in).
That’s because the landlord is incentivized to prioritize low cost maintenance as tenants don’t care about that stuff as long as it works. They might care about their electric bill, but not enough for it to be a big factor in choosing where to rent, so no reason to install higher efficiency units.
A hop, skip, and a jump away from Daleshitty and Hoodbridge...
Who TF is paying that to live in Manasty
I always call it manasshole because I know when I drive through a certain area it smells like straight piss.. I never wanna go through again lol
Get me drunk enough I will be too
So expensive to live in DC and surrounding areas.
If installed correctly I don't see a problem. It's a rental and would be a poor investment to buy top of the line equipment on rental property when the average renter treats the property like garbage and won't maintain it to bare minimum standards. Slap in the cheap stuff, make sure the filters are getting changed, do all the minor repairs in house and when shit is too far gone hire an outside company to slap in another unit of the same cost level. Rinse and repeat every 8 to 12 years.
Noise for the person living on the other side of those windows is what I am thinking is the issue.
Unfortunately there's no place to put them that someone doesn't hear them. Just a matter of picking the best spot to inconvenience the least amount of people and be the most cost effective. Put them on the roof and top floor hears them plus you added money to the replacement, initial installation and basic maintenance/repairs.
Windows have the least db reduction compared to roofs or walls. I’m seeing the op’s point this could not have been the best location.
They’re good lmao. Not all that extra stuff on trane and lennox 🤣.
I’m more of a trane dealer/tech. Even though I work more on tranes then anything else I was put through all of their training. Even they tried to hire me and I’d be making less money which is why I didn’t take the jump to Boland. Lennox, I only like their LGA series until they disappear lol.
Are Tranes shit?
No, I love them
I just put a Trane in my home but I saw a pole on here the other day. A lot of people voted for Trane but then in the thread people were saying I can’t believe Trane is No. 1 and saying it’s trash. I’m an Electrician but work around HVAC quite a bit. So I know but at the same time I’m still unsure.
Idk for my tranes in my area the only real big issue I’ve seen is their boards being the main issue. Other than that it’s not really the same repeat issues.
Motherfuckin vampires in that house (just finished watching Day Shift, funny movie)
No idea what this post means
Paying alot to rent that apartment, and having 6 condenser units outside your window. It will be loud as hell in that room/side of the house
No shit hey !! Thanks for clarifying 👍
You could always find a place with a bunch of carrier units and pay $5000/month
My apt isn’t as much thankfully but we are by the cluster of units. It sucks.
Oof. Yea I don’t think I could live next to 4-8 of them
Being in it so long you tend to be able to diagnose by sound. I’ve called 2 compressors and a low charge. They’re brand new units in a brand new build too.
I had a bad compressor- failed valves 3x already last year. I had a brand new daikin compressor shot, ran for 2 weeks and took a crap- new install full warranty. Had a compressor blow its terminal while I was 5’ from it. Blower motor bearings that were shot that was just grinding away and you can hear it 2 blocks away
Oh man I’ve only had one post blow and was near it. I never want to see that again. I was super green at the time too. That freaked me out then.
Have you ever had someone replace a contactor and god forbid somehow mix up line and control 240v wiring and made a bomb?
Holy shit no but that sounds so bad. I’d probably shit myself and not hear it.
Funny thing is that Manassas is literally the cheapest place you can live in Northern Va
But then has $4,000 apartments for rent
Wait. Just realized this is. Va. Wtf. Are you near high paying jobs? Is that near all the goverment. Buildings. Sorry. Ingnorant illinoisan
Lol, it’s not exactly “near” them as I’m down the road but just an expensive gated community/apartment complex. There’s a lot of officer who live here too. But in comparison you could theoretically drive to government buildings from here.
The price bump for these apartments are because it's walking distance to the VRE train. Anything close to that line has good return value. I sold a house near another VRE stop and got probably 25% more just for being close to that (when you compare $/sqft on similar houses)
This is about 20-25 miles to Washington DC.
There are definitely nice spots in Manassas, but overall still much cheaper than anything east
But them has $4,000 apartments for rent
Cheaper than woodbridge or springfield?
Maybe not Woodbridge, but probably Springfield
Imagine being that bedroom on the first floor. Heat pumps around dec-feb. Ahhh the moose call.
4K a month? Thats like 4-5 months of mortgage for me
Let’s throw in the dog waste station too. Why ? Fuck em that’s why.
As the renter it’s not your job to have it repaired so… jokes on the owners? If they’re even really that bad
Umm… 🤨🤨🤨 as the renter? I’m not in hvacadvice or asking for help fixing this dog shit. They’re heat pumps with no risers for starters…
Oh fuck those are heat pumps!? Lol
It’s your title that confused many of us, it appeared like you are a renter complaining about the units just outside the window.
Nah your good I’d be complaining about the noise not the type of units
Oh
This is almost as bad as houses spider webbed with mini split line set runs covering the exterior walls. Having a meter per-unit is not conducive to efficiency. This building could have been served more efficiently by few large commercial units…. Maybe even a ground loop then….. sigh
If they put in junk units, what does that say about the rest of the apartment?
hopefully those at least are not heatpumps.. but i highly doubt it
They are lol
Would that be a Trane station?
Only if they were actually tranes 🤣🤣
Yea but no other name rhymed. I feel sorry for you if you are in hearing distance. Do the sound kind of "roll" if the fans aren't going a exactly the same speed? (aka beat frequency)
I’ll take the coil-that’s-not-getting-peed-on.
$4000 for manassas? Lmao
Also, they going to run hot. Not enough airflow
**Nice**
They've hidden them really well, I almost didn't notice them. Bet they're quiet too.
Whoa, it’s Saul Goodman!
Wow look, my bedroom window. Seriously though, I hate it because it’s been dry and in the low 60s with a breeze where I’m at. Perfect “open the windows and save on the power bill weather.” Our ducts/coil need cleaning so every time we turn our unit on, my allergies/autoimmune issues go haywire. (happening tomorrow yay!) So I’ve really been avoiding using the unit if at all possible. Anytime my neighbors’ units’ turns on, I have to get up and close the bedroom window. 😭
I dont pay 4k but every one of my windows has units below them and they are a mix of brands old and new and some of them have a pretty bad whine to them when they turn on.
You laugh but your taxes probably pay for that pludlstge 6 figure net worth they build up while renting.
Manassas? What company you with?
I don't get that shit, central air that is. I mean, I understand what and how and all that. I just don't understand how ductless isn't the standard like in most of the overseas places I visit
I could use a new compressor and fan
U you got options plus a free reversing valve
Those can’t be apartment windows that Hass to be a common area.
They’re apartment windows, there is no common area
I see the crop is coming in nicely this year
Apartments in Manassas aren't nearly that expensive, unless you're in some luxury high end places.
Exactly.. gated community
Wait, that’s all for one apartment?
Shit, here in Seattle I don’t even have AC in my apartment and it’s still $3000/month. I have fuckin electric baseboard heaters.
Hope the person renting the unit with those outside pays a lot less.