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Eastwood

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  1. 3 hours ago, pantone159 said:

    The sun looks like a black hole, at least to me. It just looks completely wrong and impossible. The brightness of everything is just broken. It is hard to explain until you see it yourself.

    The clouds parted for us for about 10 seconds, which was just long enough to see the diamond ring. There was a layer of wispy cirrus, so I didn’t get to see any solar flares (if those were visible to the naked eye). Those 10 seconds sent a chill down my spine, I’m not going to lie. My day was extraordinarily busy up to that 30 minute window I blocked off and after, but I was traveling for work that evening and somewhere around 10 pm on my drive, I finally process what I saw and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Seeing a natural wonder so cosmic and rare has had a profound effect on me. Having experienced both the 2017 eclipse and this one, I will 100% vouch for the sentiment that the difference between totality and the fringe of totality is so, so vast. That additional 0.9% you get in totality is absolutely insane. 

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  2. I have extensive experience in this industry and lump me into the camp that thinks this is the right move. The industry brought this on itself, a handful of the realtors I've ever worked with were worth the 6%, and even though it sucks for the hard workers, this industry will be a lot better after an adjustment period. It's time for the industry to become a meritocracy where good work really stands out, not a volume business where any Dick and Jane can get a license just to have access to the MLS and force escrow officers to do 90% of the legwork with the seller or just have access to the lockbox to let buyers in.

    The good ones who actually do this as a career and not a side gig need to hang in there. Once the dead weight is gone, there will be a lot more listings to go around.

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Slight correction: They drew in the *white* parts of Sugar Land.  That really precise cutout in the north-northeast part of the map is where all the diversity lives.

    He's my rep.  I hate it here.  The part of Katy where I live is actually very demographically similar (and geographically close!) to the part of Sugar Land that they omitted, yet we are grouped with fucking Needville and El Campo.

    Don’t forget Wharton. And Boling. And East Bernard. And (rural area filled with olds). 

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  4. So many factors that play in there. What is their current net revenue interest (NRI) for the working interest owners in the existing production? If new leasing is going to take place, what royalty will the Lessors get in the new lease? If it’s 25%, will the operator be okay with a sub 75% NRI if they convey out an ORRI? 

    And if it were me talking, not legal advice or anything, I’d push for ORRI over WI where possible. WI can be a headache from getting billed and having to elect into proposed operations, liability, etc. ORRI is free of those headaches, mostly. 

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  5. 15 hours ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    No need to hop over to SSS, I got some footage from the Starbucks and ID'ed his license plate.

    That license plate is like a rash all over the computer. The car belongs to a known traffic menace. His name is @Eastwood.  He's got a record a mile long.  And he's a Teacher. The address? 1060 West Addison.

    Close. But I'm not Catholic.

  6. 9 hours ago, Chewbacca said:
    12 hours ago, dieucla98 said:
    That's not how math works.
    Edit: Or you're leaving out a key piece of info such as "I now have a homestead exemption or ag exemption or..."

    Yeah, that math don't math unless he's withholding information.

    My first guess was that he has, or just received, the 65+ exemption. 

    I am originally from, and still have family in, small town Texas. I can’t think of a single small town in Texas that I’ve been to, that isn’t a vacation location or commuter town to a big city, that is “nice.” They are all filled with equal parts impoverished people and retirees who made a life in that town when it was possible in the 60s and 70s. People will point to Fredericksburg or Round Top to claim small town Texas is great. Not the Gillette or Tivoli or Corsicana type towns. The towns that industry forgot. 

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  7. 3 minutes ago, nbmishoid said:

    Impact would be 5 plus years down the road.   A whole new world by then.

    I am of the opinion that this sentiment is more of a gamble than a lot of you think. 5 years ago was 2019. Natural gas demand has only increased since then. Renewables continue to earn market share domestically, but abroad is where the meat of the effect of this policy will have on global climate goals. Developing countries want cheap energy and care less than we do whether it is clean or not. LNG was our opportunity to incentivize a cleaner transition. 

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