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I’ve looked at 38 homes this summer. My partner and I don’t have FAANG salaries. We’re trying to stay under 800k with some budget for repairs. We found a home that checks all the boxes, and we’re about ready to submit an offer. It’s a 1962 SFH and I asked the fire department to check records, they found it was pumped, rinsed & capped/plugged (which were the requirements for decommissioning in place in 2004), is still be in the ground, and was NOT filled with any inert materials. My dad is telling me to walk away or get a soil test. My realtor is telling me it’s fine. The internet says to expect nothing or 500k in future liabilities for environmental agencies… what are your thoughts? TLDR - pre 1970 seattle homes overwhelmingly have in ground oil tanks, of those decommissioned ~70% are capped rinsed and buried . Is a home with a decommissioned in ground tank a deal breaker to you? Why or why not

Anyone else experiencing outages? We’re by Meadowdale. Comcast said restore by 12pm, T-Mobile says it will restore within 12 hours! What are the odds both would go down at once, thank god for our work phone being on a different carrier!

Anyone on I5 north from Kent-Tukwila see the approximately 15-20 police cars speeding down the HOV lane? And does anyone know what they were chasing?

This should probably be posted in r/NoStupidQuestions but in Lakewood we have a problem with drivers blowing through crosswalks endangering pedestrians. What if instead of having a wheelchair ramp down to the crosswalk on both sides we raise up the crosswalk to a speed table. Drivers have to stop anyway so it will not be an inconvenience but will stop drivers from blowing through the stop sign.

I'm working on my cardio fitness and I'm curious about using the track at Nino Cantu for walking/running - is it open to the public? When? Are there bathrooms available? Any other rules/norms I should know about?

We'll see if they've actually upgraded TSA enough to no longer need security appointments. I don't have high hopes. TSA was probably upset they were missing out on a lot of TSA PreCheck sales.

My annual Mother’s Day gift to my aged parents, is a monthly pizza delivered by Pagliacci. They love it, but that’s a lot of pizza across a month for them, because it becomes three meals. I order it through the app, it arrives. Everything is perfect. This has been a winning gift for them. And very convenient. They live on First Hill, are there other restaurants that also provide delivery? I’m not really interested in the delivery services; delivery reliability is a critical element for success! Thanks in advance! 🫶🏻

Howdy! I just moved into a place with a pretty decently sized eastern facing balcony in cap hill. I have pretty successfully thriving indoor plants and I’d love to start planning for some outdoor attempts next spring/summer. What’s good to grow on an eastern facing balcony? I get laser beamed by the sun in the morning during summer and have pretty good indirect bright and partial shade areas the rest of the day. Some kind of food or herbs would rule, I’m always down for flowers and trellising things. Just some green o it there would be nice. No hanging baskets, unfortunately, but I have room for a coupe sizable raised beds. Just keep in mind I’m completely new to caring for outdoor plants so don’t start me out on hard mode. I realize food growing takes work and attention and I’m more than willing to put it in.

I may be moving to Tacoma next month due to my partners job. I am an artist and I use a laser CNC, right now I have a workspace set up in my house but having the same size place will be very expensive. Is there anywhere you can rent a small artist space in Tacoma that allows things that are semi loud (exhaust fans)? Some kind of garage/office anything?

I have two dresses that i want to shorten but no sewing machine. Can anyone help me with the hemming? I dont wanna go to alterations because tbh the cost of alterations would be more expensive than the dresses. I cant really throw away the dresses because i paid for them and i wanna wear them just not at its current length.