Mitsubishi hyper heat was blowing hot air the entire time. About as efficient as a regular electric resistive space heater at those temps though.

I have a 3 year old furnace (forced hot air) and live in Northern Coos, in a pocket that is well known for high winds and heavy snow fall. My house is 50 years old and I was sitting around in shorts on Friday night. It was -16 when I got home Friday evening and -22 (plus the wind) when I started my pickup for work on Saturday morning. I've lived in that house for 13 years and never have had a problem keeping it above 65.

I think that depends on agency and the Broker you work with. Some want you to have it, some don't. Many agents fear it will scare the customer away. Plenty of the full-time professionals I have spoken with use them for Clients. With a designated agency, one of the first forms given to the client should be a Brokerage Relationship Disclosure Form that also lays out the different relationships and responsibilities between you and your agency/agent. You as the purchaser/buyer decide that relationship. I do agree OP is misguided here but understand buyer's remorse. It sucks. Zillow is not the end all be all. Prices are up right now year over year in many zip codes for NH. The market is also unpredictable. Just like any other industry, you have good agent and bad agents/ agencies. I would just enjoy the house and focus on life, not Zillow.

Hi! I live in Walpole - it's a beautiful village that is a gem compared to the area surrounding it. it's full of old, expensive houses, and there has been very little turnover in properties here as almost everyone who lives here has wanted to stay here. We were only able to buy after waiting over a year for something to come up - and that was only after going and finding an off-market property to buy ourselves.

so 1.) Zillow estimates for this area are useless as there has been so little market activity, it's impossible to compare and 2.) because there are always people who want to move into Walpole and not decent housing to buy, there was horrible pressure to inflate prices. We definitely overpaid to lock down our house, but in the end we have a house here, and that was the end goal.

this town has so much to commend it vs. the surrounding towns - poorer towns, higher tax burdens, less infrastructure, etc. It's a fantastic place so hopefully OP can enjoy the fact they moved to a wonderful town.

Also OP: you live abutting the Hooper Forest and the reservoir, you have some amazing town-owned recreation land next to your property! you came to a good place. feel free to DM me if you want to chat more about walpole :)

Yes, and thawing my lawn, where I had to move a project car to keep the driveway clear for snow blowing (which I haven’t even had to start yet).

The damn thing is going to sink and it’s gonna be an even bigger mess than I’d planned.

Treating a house like an investment vehicle instead of a place to live is a large part of why our housing market is so unaffordable.

Zillow is also not good at estimating these kinds of listings. It's good for cookie-cutter suburbs.

I'm sorry you can't compare Walpole to Acworth. those are two different things altogether!

Why bother messing around with Claremont tax rates and paperwork/zoning? You've got Goshen, Unity or Croydon that would be far easier and cheaper tax burden wise.

You can't compare price per acre on lots so different

Or someone didn't do enough research, or put too much weight behind zillows inflated rating. Zillow is a commercial website designed to get people to list their house.

You should be very vocal about your rights here. The zoning is part of your property, it belongs to you and protects you. The variance they are seeking may reduce your property value or cause you distress.

I have an LG mini split system as my only source of heat. Outdoor temps went down to -18 with wind chill of -39 here and I had no problems at all. This is the second winter with these and last year also went down to -15 at least once and it was fine. These units are rated to -13F. When it gets down below zero they work harder but they still provide full heat. I turned them up to 74 on Friday and by Saturday morning I noticed the bigger unit, that had a much bigger area to heat, only kept it up to around 70, but that’s more than enough. I assume the larger indoor unit shut off occasionally as the outside unit probably couldn’t produce enough heat to keep sending hot air in and the inside unit shut off to avoid pumping in cold air, but I don’t know anything about them really and that’s only a theory. In any case, 70 degrees indoors when the wind chill was -39 outdoors isn’t bad at all I’d say.

For the first time in weeks I used my treadmill instead of running outside on Saturday. This morning I woke up and ran and it felt positively warm out.

Alrighty. I got curious about this poster, something didn't set right with me.

We've got ourselves a troll. A dive into the post history gives us exactly the same complaint only over on the GA board. That post is 20 days old. The rest of their post history? More of the same whinging.

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We have a Mitsubishi hyper heat as our only real heat source. It was working hard Friday evening but our house was still warm. Sometime Friday night it stopped running. The unit is rated down to -25C/-13F and it got colder than that. It ended coming back on Sunday when temps got up to 0C/32F.

We've had the unit for 6 years and are still happy with it. Since our house is very well insulated (HERS score in the 20s), even with no heat for a day and a half, we ran a small ventless propane heater in the basement and a couple space heaters in the rest of the house which kept everything around 13C/55F.

If the house were not as well insulated, I'd be more hesitant to have the heat pump as our only heat source.

We're not sure what caused the shutdown (some internal protection switch or something froze). A tech was able to make it out on Saturday but couldn't find any issue. I'm fairly certain we've had a cold night like that before, but IIRC we ended up turning off the heat overnight so it didn't need to struggle and let the house drop 10 degrees or so. In the morning the heat started right up when we turned it on.

I have always listed homes I was selling (as an owner) for 10% less than what I thought the market value was. I ALWAYS had multiple bidders who ending up bidding up the price. People love a perceived bargain.

Real estate will always perform over time. This is only concerning if you intended to make short term gains. In this market you can expect values to decrease but they will turn back around. So whether you wanted to or not you're into it for a longer term investment unless you plan on losing money. It's just the way real estate works and not your agents fault. Although it is possible that they were expecting it and lied to you so you wouldn't get scared and back out.

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I lived there for 9 years, couldn't figure out coffee milk either.

Hahaha

Yeah I went for a bike ride

Nothing. It’s not their fault. Hold the line because the market fluctuates

Was this an investment property you purchased or a primary residence?

If it was purely for investment that market is very hot and I could see the argument that an ETF would be a better route but you need a place to stay and by purchasing a home you are locking in your "rent" price long term. Also real estate isn't like stock. You don't get a ticker update every 15 minutes with an approximate market price.

I'm not eating shitty food to support the locals. I'll eat the good pizza, and support the locals that work there.

Did Zillow send a qualified appraiser with local knowledge to appraise the value of the house, or did they simply use some sort of algorithm?

Zillow's estimates are just estimates. Not appraisals.