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hornian

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  1. I had a client who bought in Mueller under the low income program, and her equity was limited when she sold it. Most of the appreciation went to the builder. That’s not to say that she lost money- she didn’t. But it wasn’t a windfall or even a really great investment. It would have been a better ROI to have bought over in Windsor Park using a FHA loan over the low income program she used to buy a new house in Mueller (of course the houses in WP were not as new and shiny as the one she lived in for 10 years in Mueller, and her daughter would have gone to Reagan instead of McCallum, so there were other benefits).
  2. I feel like with the reliance on AC, it’s actually just as bad in summer in the south/west as the winter is in the north/east as far as people congregating indoors with recirculating air.
  3. Austin (at least certain parts) and price per square foot doesn't make sense to me anymore. It's all about the dirt, not the improvements, for many parts of town. I had a divorce case a few years back, before the real estate prices went truly bonkers, and were only plain ridiculous. My client (Husband) bought a >1,000 sq/ft POS in 78704 in late 90s for ball park of $100K, got married in early 2000s, added on and remodeled the house to be about 1500 sq/ft with construction costs of about $100K after they got pregnant, and sold around 2010 for about $500K, and used the proceeds to buy their next house. Wife wanted all the appreciation from the sale to be community property, but we were able to successfully argue that all the value was the land (which was his separate property), not the improvements (which were community property), and Judge agreed. We had to have experts and put on a lot of evidence, but it was for sure the right call - in fact, I'm pretty sure that even with the recent improvements the new owner scraped the lot and rebuilt something else, so the value was almost certainly all in the land.
  4. First of all, fuck you for "the gays" comment. Neg rep. Second of all, that was an entirely different situation, where people were trying to preserve inheritance rights. Finally, there are a lot of reasons for an adult adoption, and the main one I see is that the child was raised by the step-parent, the bio-parent wouldn't sign off on relinquishing his/her rights when child was a minor, and the child wants to legitimize what they see as their real parent when the bio-parent is no longer able to veto the adoption.
  5. I didn’t know Lake Travis was in Harris County
  6. This is for a 3 year contract. Supposedly we already have the fiber to the building it just needs to be switched on. So it’s not like they are going to recoup costs of installing or anything. But there’s only one provider (Spectrum), so I guess no competition is fucking me.
  7. It was his ex wife; get the story straight!
  8. We are trying to get fiber internet for commercial property. We currently have 1Gig down/45mb/s up on coax, that we pay about $250 a month for, but it's not sufficient for the era of zoom. The upload speed is more important than the download for our purposes. Trying to get an idea of whether these are realistic prices for 500 down/500 up. The quote we are getting is $1100 a month (from a Spectrum reseller - unfortunately that's the only option at our location) - are we getting taken for a ride, or is it just that expensive to get those upload speeds on fiber? Gig down/Gig up is even worse.
  9. Unless bio-mom signs a voluntary relinquishment or has put the child in serious danger in the past, the odds of your daughter adopting her step child approach zero. Bio-mom's rights would have to be terminated (voluntarily or involuntarily) for an adoption to proceed, and after that there would have to be a home study done and finally a court would have to approve the adoption. There are some technical grounds for termination of bio-mom's rights if she doesn't support the child, but honestly it's unlikely to go forward unless one of the two things I mentioned before exist.
  10. An hour and a half? Ain't nobody got time for that! <narrator>He found time for that</narrator>
  11. My septic at my old place worked fine. Just saying.
  12. She's lump, she's lump She's in my head She's lump, she's lump, she's lump She might be dead on the city council
  13. When my oldest was about 3 we watched Lilo and Stitch together. There was a dramatic scene where something happened to Stitch, and my kiddo just screamed "Stitch, no!!!" Before that I was never sure if they were actually following the movies when we watched them. Still one of my favorite memories.
  14. If you don’t care about getting chickenshit everywhere, yes.
  15. Yep. It’s a big black cock. No homo.
  16. It keeps putting babies in her.
  17. What a bunch of shitheels. Sometimes I hate white people (and I am as white as they get).
  18. Hey guys, we outed another mouth breathing idiot!
  19. I don’t practice Santeria.
  20. My wife got backyard chicken earlier this year. One of them has turned out to be a rooster. It is free to a bad home.
  21. Now tell me why boxing isn’t as popular as it used to be.
  22. I drove through that shit this morning. Thanks, dad, for not paying a credit card a decade ago and making me represent you in a JP court in Medina County. The $1,600 was really worth me almost dying on the drive!
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