Buying indian owned house
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Originally Posted by kadeshpa,Dec 17 2006, 08:34 PM
NO not taking it personal, if anyone is inferior, it is the tool that makes a blatantly idiotic statement such as "You will NEVER get the smell out of the house completely. It has to be one of the strongest food odors in the world".
I could care less, but I would recommend walking away from a house that was previously owned by someone with a fixation on curry. I sure as hell did on several occasions when I was looking for a house several months back.
Quit telling people to shut up over the internet. It's juvenile and gay. You could no less get me to shut up than you could stop eating curry.
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QUIAKAG is a food racist! You should take sensitivity classes until you are more respectful of food..
I've cooked in my house lots of times. I've also cooked some indian dishes. My house only smelled the next two days after having cooked Indian dishes. kadeshpa, that doesn't mean I want to run out and punch the next indian person I see in the face.
I've cooked in my house lots of times. I've also cooked some indian dishes. My house only smelled the next two days after having cooked Indian dishes. kadeshpa, that doesn't mean I want to run out and punch the next indian person I see in the face.
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From: Oh kwa tan zen wan
Originally Posted by Wildncrazy,Dec 17 2006, 11:55 PM
Kadeshpa you are VERY WRONG.
You might be accustomed to the smell and not smell it like the person who is considering purchasing the house, but smells, and there are a myriad of them are one of the toughest things to change/get rid of in a house.
I am speaking from anecdotal evidence and personal evidence. I have sold RE since 1974 and have seen literally hundreds if not thousands of homes with odor problems and have tried to assist many of the subsequent owners with their unhappy phone calls later. You can dull the odor, you can cover up the odor or you can get used to the odor but you can't remove it.
When it gets humid the odors return. As others have said, if it is a smokin deal then maybe you want to go to all the trouble to try to remove as much as you can, but if it isn't then WHY? There are thousands of houses out there that don't have the issue so just buy one of them.
You might be accustomed to the smell and not smell it like the person who is considering purchasing the house, but smells, and there are a myriad of them are one of the toughest things to change/get rid of in a house.
I am speaking from anecdotal evidence and personal evidence. I have sold RE since 1974 and have seen literally hundreds if not thousands of homes with odor problems and have tried to assist many of the subsequent owners with their unhappy phone calls later. You can dull the odor, you can cover up the odor or you can get used to the odor but you can't remove it.
When it gets humid the odors return. As others have said, if it is a smokin deal then maybe you want to go to all the trouble to try to remove as much as you can, but if it isn't then WHY? There are thousands of houses out there that don't have the issue so just buy one of them.
Another one.
Ugh...I'm bowing out of this idiotic thread. Just too many ill "informed" posters to even bother. The level of stupidity (read QUIKAG) here is just amazing.
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From: E LA
Originally Posted by kumainu,Dec 17 2006, 03:14 PM
Some of other Asian, such as Chinese and Vietnamese, homes are similar, from years of cooking fish sauce...
how come no one has mentioned kimchi?
my gf's clothes reeks after just staying at her parents for 2 days. i mean, i love a good kimchi jigae but... the stank... at least many well-to-do korean families are buying these kick ass LG/Samsung kimchi freezers..
i don't know what's worse, indian curry or korean kimchi.. i also think, even as a foodie, cooked chitlin' smells foul ditto to blood sausage ditto to durian. doesn't mean i won't buy a house previously owned by a black person/Brit or SE Asians...
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ugggggggghhh! kim-chi is the foulest smelling thing in the world! that, or bagoong (fermented shrimp) and patis (fish sauce!)... all of which we consume on a regular basis in our household. haha... i think it makes a difference on the size of the house/apartment. my parent's old house was a lot smaller and the smell of food was a lot stronger there. but now with the new house it's a lot bigger/open and you only notice the smell if we've cooked recently. i dunno about indian food though. my uncle is from east india and one time he fed our shih tzu curry chicken... LOL, the poor lil pup had the curry shits for days. it was FOUL!!!
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Originally Posted by C_Unit,Dec 18 2006, 10:00 AM
my uncle is from east india and one time he fed our shih tzu curry chicken... LOL, the poor lil pup had the curry shits for days. it was FOUL!!!
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Originally Posted by C_Unit,Dec 18 2006, 06:00 PM
my uncle is from east india and one time he fed our shih tzu curry chicken... LOL, the poor lil pup had the curry shits for days. it was FOUL!!!
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It all boils down to this. You'll spend money and waste time getting rid of strong odors. I'll never by a smokers house either. I helped move an entry door on the rear of a house owned by a previous chain smoker that a friend bought. The house was only 12 years old and when we tore the wall down to cut the new doorway, the insulation in the wall smelled like smoke.