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I hope it was delicious and she ate until she was satisfied, enjoyed every bite and didn’t give a fuck what anyone thought about it.

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"The author does specify if you are drinking it during the day, skip the pinch of nutmeg, for obvious reasons." Yeah, I know I should skip that pinch nutmeg on my holiday eggnog at the family gat

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48 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

I just found the listing. All I can say is based on the photos... Janelle is kind of a slob if this is the best attempt of staging that can be done.

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She moved the exercise bike away from the fireplace.  But, it also looks like they're in the middle of a move - in addition to her being a slob.

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itsadryheat

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2 hours ago, smarty said:

Janelle's rental house was just put up for sale today.  

Interesting catch Smarty! Can't wait to find out where she's moving to . . . again. In with the king and queen perhaps? I heard they are into plural living, you know, the "lifestyle". Man these guys. Cannot imagine moving this much and the money they blow moving so much. Dopes.

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DakotaJustice

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There are other pics - I don't think we're allowed to give addresses here, but it came up easily when I googled Janelle Brown Flagstaff Az address. 

Back yard gone to weeds, screen door out of its track, a bed in what I assume is the in-law unit right up against the stove, bins and boxes everywhere. Not like they're packing up, more like they're living out of them.

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2 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

There are other pics - I don't think we're allowed to give addresses here, but it came up easily when I googled Janelle Brown Flagstaff Az address. 

Back yard gone to weeds, screen door out of its track, a bed in what I assume is the in-law unit right up against the stove, bins and boxes everywhere. Not like they're packing up, more like they're living out of them.

At first glance, I thought...Oh she's just being uncooperative with the realtor and not bothering to tidy up, as resentful tenants sometimes do when selling the property is inconvenient for them. 

I tried to give her the benefit of doubt when I saw the boxes in the living room and wondered they were from clearing out her mom's house and she just hasn't had time to disperse them yet.  Then I noticed the clutter and disarray throughout the rest of the house, notably the top of the dresser in the master bedroom and came to the conclusion that she just lives this way.

It seems to me that it's indicative of what goes on in Janelle's mind, on the surface she appears calm and steady but once the door is opened, the turmoil is revealed.

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CouchTater

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What a dump.  She really needs to raise her standards for herself and her children.  And raise the cleanliness bar, too!

*I'm not saying the house is terrible, but at this stage in her life ("career woman," "tv star," a husband and 3 sisterwives with waaaay better living conditions), she should expect more for herself and her children.  It's kind of sad, really.

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xwordfanatik

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35 minutes ago, CouchTater said:

What a dump.  She really needs to raise her standards for herself and her children.  And raise the cleanliness bar, too!

*I'm not saying the house is terrible, but at this stage in her life ("career woman," "tv star," a husband and 3 sisterwives with waaaay better living conditions), she should expect more for herself and her children.  It'd kind of sad, really.

Janelle always stands up for Kootie, even when he's an arrogant prick.  She stays his buddy that way, and it IS sad that she demands nothing from him for herself and her kids.

Sucks to be her.

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DakotaJustice

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33 minutes ago, Quilty1 said:

She has one of those potty footstools.

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I wondered about that! How does it work, exactly? Elevates the legs?

16 minutes ago, TurtlePower said:

As usual, Janelle doesn’t know how to tidy the place up for photos. The homeowner should have waited until the lazy slob moved out and then taken the photos. 

The last thing potential buyers want to see is this kind of shit. 

And she was a real estate agent! You think she'd know. But I'm guessing she is trying to stay as long as possible. 

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20 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

I wondered about that! How does it work, exactly? Elevates the legs?

It puts you in more of a squatting position. Your knees are then higher than your hips, depending on your height. It’s supposed to ease the strain of going.

I took care of a woman that had one. She had a high toilet, but she was short. It was comfortable for her because then her feet didn’t dangle. 

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itsadryheat

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1 hour ago, TurtlePower said:

Janelle doesn’t know how to tidy the place up for photos

She had a real estate license. They preach living "the faith". You'd think these two items would give her a bit of professional and personal respect for other people and their stuff. Hope the landlord had a huge deposit.

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7 hours ago, Cetacean said:

Well, since they move every 15 minutes I can see why she wouldn't bother to unpack.  Saves time.

 

5 hours ago, xwordfanatik said:

Sucks to be her.

It does suck to be Janelle, and she sucks, too.  Here's just one reason (besides being a lesser wife to the douchebag ex-brother-in-law and stepbrother):

Unless she is going to buy this house (unlikely, based on price and its being listed at all), she will be moving a third time within Flagstaff, within 2-3 years, all while Savannah is still in high school. 

Yet, they moved to Flagstaff for Robyn, to whom Kody promised that she'd never have to move again.  Janelle got really angry when Christine suggested that the family return to Utah and accused Christine of wanting to be close to her children.  Every wife owns an actual habitat (Meri's in Parowan), except for Janelle, who doesn't worry about the instability it may cause her children.

Maybe Janelle will optimize her finite resources and set up a teepee and the trailer that her sons are refurbishing on Prairie Dog Plague Pass and replicate this rental's main house and guest house.  

Also, the next season may have to be based in Christine's and Robyn's houses or the Prairie Dog Plague Pass picnic tables, if Janelle's next rental is in a no-filming zone.

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Twopper

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3 hours ago, ginger90 said:
3 hours ago, DakotaJustice said:

I wondered about that! How does it work, exactly? Elevates the legs?

It puts you in more of a squatting position. Your knees are then higher than your hips, depending on your height. It’s supposed to ease the strain of going.

I took care of a woman that had one. She had a high toilet, but she was short. It was comfortable for her because then her feet didn’t dangle. 

It's either a Squatty Potty or a step-n-go.  With her complaints about digestion, I am not surprised she has one, but I am horrified it is included in the picture.  I know about them as my daughter and SIL received one as  a gag gift from some friends.

Janelle moved from her first rental to be close to two wives, one of whom later moved.  Both Meri and Robyn had houses sold out from under them.  I am wondering if any of the three owners offered to sell the houses to them.  My theory is that they wanted to get rid of the Browns as tenants, possibly because the neighbors complained about filming or about Brown behavior.  There was a scene at Robyn's one time and they showed all the cars in front of and down the street from her rental.  Janelle said that her landlord was okay with her moving--and, presumably, breaking the lease--but my theory at the time was that she was asked to leave.

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smarty

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2 minutes ago, Irate Panda said:


I’m confused there’s a stove in the bedroom or a bed in the kitchen right on top of the stove???

 

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That is considered the mother in law suite in the house: per the listing "features five bedrooms, three bathrooms, AND A SEPARATE GUEST STUDIO OR IN-LAW STUDIO".  Other than being a big room with a small kitchenette and its own tiny bathroom I usually picture a MIL suite to have it's own door to the outside, which this doesn't seem to have.

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deirdra

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Christine is the one scared of toasters.  Janelle is the one who should be since she puts weird things with drippy toppings in hers.  I noticed Christine now has a huge red toaster.  Perhaps her psychologist (or Gwen) is having her do exposure therapy.  The pink elephant in the room is a red toaster that is the first thing you notice when you enter the kitchen and you take deep breaths until you can remain in the room with it, eventually getting to where you feel safe enough to put bread in it and toast it.

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24 minutes ago, crazycatlady58 said:

Why are they taking pictures of the house while she is still living there? Is this normal? It seems incredibly intuitive. 

The owners may not be able to afford to have the house sit vacant and perhaps they were hoping the renters' clutter would distract people from seeing the brass around the shower & closet and plywood kitchen cabinets. It looks like the last updates were done 30+ years ago.

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Sandy W

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9 minutes ago, crazycatlady58 said:

Why are they taking pictures of the house while she is still living there? Is this normal? It seems incredibly intuitive. 

It does seem intrusive but it may have been a condition of her lease when she first rented.  It's usually worded something like...with 24 hours notice to the tenant, the property may be show to prospective purchasers and realtors may be allowed access for the purpose of assessing the property...Having showings while the property is occupied means less risk to the landlord of having the property sit empty and not generating income.  If she is on a lease, the occupancy date for new purchaser could be coordinated to the end of Janelle's lease.

If she was originally on a lease that has now expired, she may be on a month to month rental agreement with similar terms and conditions written into the rental agreement.

In this instance though, if I were the landlord here I would wait until Janelle vacated, giving the owner an opportunity to clean, repair, and paint where needed.  The $1,000 +/- that she is paying in rent plus the cost of rehabbing is peanuts compared to what a prospective buyer would deduct from a purchase price given the condition of the property.

Property values must have skyrocketed in Flagstaff this past year.  It makes Robyn's nest at $900,000 seem like a great investment if the realtor and owner think this place is worth anywhere near $700,000.

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Sandy W

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12 minutes ago, Absolom said:

I probably wouldn't worry about doing anything to make the house look better if the owner was selling it while I was renting either. On that one I can't blame Janelle at all.  How many of her sons are living with her?  Two?  

Unless the rental situation has changed a great deal this past year, rentals are scarce in Flagstaff.  The first thing I would do as a prospective landlord to Janelle would be to check out her previous rental, one look at how she had disrespected this home would cause me to shuffle her application to the bottom of the pile.

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On the upcoming season of Sister Wives as told by a disgruntled viewer :

Janelle has to leave her “rennal”.  We don’t know why, but let’s blame it on polygamy.  As we know, rennals are scarce in Flagstaff.  Of course, we don’t know if that’s for everyone or just people looking for a 23 bedroom and 16 1/2 bathroom home.  Gabe and Garrison live in the trailer, which they surreptitiously park in Meri’s 85 car garage because she’s too busy petting Mosby to notice. Savannah moves in with Christine to keep Truely company.  Kody wonders who this new child is during the one time he visits. Unfortunately, it’s a toss up as to whom he thinks is the new child. Janelle uses this time to make a power move and sets up a tent at Coyote Pass to stake her claim on the drainage ditch beautiful pond. Unfortunately for Janelle, it is not a power move because there is no power or water or utilities in general at old Prairie Dog Pass.

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DakotaJustice

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12 hours ago, Sandy W said:

It does seem intrusive but it may have been a condition of her lease when she first rented.  It's usually worded something like...with 24 hours notice to the tenant, the property may be show to prospective purchasers and realtors may be allowed access for the purpose of assessing the property...Having showings while the property is occupied means less risk to the landlord of having the property sit empty and not generating income.  If she is on a lease, the occupancy date for new purchaser could be coordinated to the end of Janelle's lease.

If she was originally on a lease that has now expired, she may be on a month to month rental agreement with similar terms and conditions written into the rental agreement.

In this instance though, if I were the landlord here I would wait until Janelle vacated, giving the owner an opportunity to clean, repair, and paint where needed.  The $1,000 +/- that she is paying in rent plus the cost of rehabbing is peanuts compared to what a prospective buyer would deduct from a purchase price given the condition of the property.

Property values must have skyrocketed in Flagstaff this past year.  It makes Robyn's nest at $900,000 seem like a great investment if the realtor and owner think this place is worth anywhere near $700,000.

Janelle is paying at least $2800 a month. That's how much it was listed for in 2019. 

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Sandy W

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13 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

Janelle is paying at least $2800 a month. That's how much it was listed for in 2019. 

I thought my $1,000+/-  figure was low but had no idea she was paying that much for rent !  No wonder they have money concerns, many families live on less than that each month including groceries.  Flagstaff sounds like a very expensive place to live.

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Fosca

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Given the current real estate bubble, I suspect the owner can sell it for half again as much as it was worth when Janelle rented it.  And not have to worry about tenants.  

If I were Christine, I'd sell the house and move closer to Mykelti and live in an apartment or a condo or something else small and cheap and pocket/invest the surplus; that may be the only income she has to live on after the show is over.

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15 hours ago, Twopper said:

It's either a Squatty Potty or a step-n-go.  With her complaints about digestion, I am not surprised she has one, but I am horrified it is included in the picture.  I know about them as my daughter and SIL received one as  a gag gift from some friends.

Janelle moved from her first rental to be close to two wives, one of whom later moved.  Both Meri and Robyn had houses sold out from under them.  I am wondering if any of the three owners offered to sell the houses to them.  My theory is that they wanted to get rid of the Browns as tenants, possibly because the neighbors complained about filming or about Brown behavior.  There was a scene at Robyn's one time and they showed all the cars in front of and down the street from her rental.  Janelle said that her landlord was okay with her moving--and, presumably, breaking the lease--but my theory at the time was that she was asked to leave.

I always suspected that was the real reason Meri's first rental was "repossessed," for lack of a better term.  

I thought it was very little to do with polygamy and more to do with all of the vehicles, the camera crews, etc., on what looked to be a very quiet residential street.  

That being said, the owner should have taken that into consideration when agreeing to rent the place to Meri instead of waiting until she moved in and the neighbors began complaining.  

If I lived in a quiet residential area on a small street, I'd have been bitching, too, when the TLC crew, paparazzi, curious viewers, and other assorted crazy people began taking it over.  

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itsadryheat

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43 minutes ago, Fosca said:

Given the current real estate bubble, I suspect the owner can sell it for half again as much as it was worth when Janelle rented it.

I was reading a local real estate forum yesterday, and one of the discussions was about upgrading/fixing/staging a listing. General consensus was because of the insanity in this market and lack of inventory, all owner needs to do is de-clutter and clean up landscaping.  Both of which our gal Janelle did not do. They should have bought those u-haul trucks rather than rent them.

What was interesting was a lengthy conversation how investors and hedge funds are buying any/all properties they can, offering absurd amounts over listing price, many times cash offers, sight unseen, keeping locals out of the game. I receive weekly texts from intrusive men inquiring if my home is open to receiving a cash offer. This in conjunction with people coming from larger markets ie California, Chicago, East Coast have invaded the state and driving up prices and demolishing inventory. Same goes for rentals. High pricing and low inventory.

Janelle's landlord will have zero problem selling. Tough luck for Janelle. Can't imagine where she'll land. If it's this awful in Phoenix, the situation in smaller, college town Flagstaff has to be dire.  With all that TLC money, the love and support of her plyg husband and sister wives the stress will be minimized.🤣😂

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Cetacean

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26 minutes ago, Persnickety1 said:

That being said, the owner should have taken that into consideration when agreeing to rent the place to Meri instead of waiting until she moved in and the neighbors began complaining.  

Is it possible the landlord didn't know the circumstances?  Despite the Brown Clowns believing that they are A-list celebrities, it is conceivable that they were unknown to that owner.

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Persnickety1

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5 minutes ago, Cetacean said:

Is it possible the landlord didn't know the circumstances?  Despite the Brown Clowns believing that they are A-list celebrities, it is conceivable that they were unknown to that owner.

I'm 99% sure she did, because Meri said she had told the owner about her being a polygamist and, being the self-important Browns, I have no doubt a discussion about her being a (Z-list) TV "star" ensued.  

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Cetacean

Cetacean

1 minute ago, Cetacean said:

Is it possible the landlord didn't know the circumstances?  Despite the Brown Clowns believing that they are A-list celebrities, it is conceivable that they were unknown to that owner.

CBS Sunday Morning did a segment on this today.  It's pure insanity.  And people might sell their house for 50K over asking but then cannot find a new home to buy.  Or get a builder to put one up. 

Where the hell are all of these people coming from?  In my rural area, you can't find an empty house.  I think people 1) believe it to be "safer" up here especially during the pandemic (false, little in  the way of health care facilities AND a hotbed of anti-vaxxers) and 2) can work from home so don't need to be tied to an office.  What they don't take into account is the lack of city services, culture, shopping, health care, etc.  So they will drive the market prices up, drive the taxes up, and then bail out.

I can't believe that dump of Janelle's rented for that kind of money.  Man, they sure saw the Browns coming.  And now that the market in LV is white hot, they've lost a shitload of money by sellingk out to hear the angels singingk.

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DakotaJustice

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2 hours ago, Sandy W said:

I thought my $1,000+/-  figure was low but had no idea she was paying that much for rent !  No wonder they have money concerns, many families live on less than that each month including groceries.  Flagstaff sounds like a very expensive place to live.

Not as expensive as the SF Bay Area. I'm paying over $2k for a 1 bedroom, and I feel fortunate to be getting such a deal.  

The real estate market here is just as crazy as anywhere else. I'm currently dating a Realtor, and he told me he was representing a buyer who put a $2+ million CASH offer on a house - not a mansion or anything like that - and they weren't even in the ballpark. It's crazy!

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LilyD

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19 hours ago, Absolom said:

 

I probably wouldn't worry about doing anything to make the house look better if the owner was selling it while I was renting either. On that one I can't blame Janelle at all. 

 

I partially agree with you. However, in my opinion there is no excuse for living in such a mess, especially when you have kids. Neither are frequent moves. Also, the listing may not be yours, but the stuff is. So you present yourself to the world as a slob...

We're with 5 and moved an awful lot as well (military) so I can see what she could be struggling with. The simple answer; buy a lot of plastic boxes with lids, load most of them with stuff you don't urgently need, mark them with 2 colours and small labels (to identify the non-essential stuff, and the not often needed stuff) and stack them in the garage or empty bedroom. The rest of the stuff just goes into the kitchen, wardrobes, sideboards for regular use. It makes for easy moving...

Really, we have at least 30 (probably more) of those boxes and they have been a life-saver through all our moves. One of our better investments lol.

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