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PvilleStang

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  1. Social media ads: EVERY damn add posted on the bookface is some company pairing with an influencer to make an ad. I firmly believe the downfall of our society is SM influencers, and now I get eye-raped with some dumb ass 20-something that has nothing better to add to society than creating an ad with Pantene for cunt hair shampoo and conditioner?
  2. Had that happen with my wife's Christmas present, which was two books I bought off Amazon. it was purchased on the 15th, then a day or two later said it was handed off to a third party shipping company, where it sat for 6 days. Then arrived to USPS in Austin on the 23rd, but wasn't able to make it to the house until the 26th or 27th. For a company that made their start on selling books, why the hell can't you get a book in less than 10 days?!
  3. Make all the changes, THEN do the Historical designation. That said, went there for the first time in ages last Saturday, and was disappointed they changed the recipe on their fries. They used to have my favorites there, but alas, as I was told, the kitchen has changed.
  4. Man, it's still such bullshit the CoA / CapMetro wants to level Dirty's for their crappy rail. If I were Dirty's, I'd find a way to discover oil under the restaurant, and inflate the hell out of the property value and make them pay 10x for eminent domain.
  5. Any creek can be pee pee creek if you drink enough. Or if your 3 year old needs to pee. See: Waller Creek
  6. Also would have gone with...
  7. Needs more pink eye...
  8. They'll become the next coach of aggy and make $77MM for not doing their job?
  9. CPAs are worth the money! Luckily, my wife works in MFH so she knows how to set rents and get it occupied. The fees really do eat into the funds, so we feel very lucky that we can do this stuff on my own. Again, I'm pretty anal with who I let mess with my properties, I don't like contractors coming onsite and doing a quick fix that costs more money than me doing it the right way.
  10. Seems to be his first run-in with APD: 1st is evading arrest. Second is agg assult with a deadly weapon. Third is agg assult with bodily injury.
  11. Don't post about how you're encouraging people to take a walk on the Hike & Bike trail when less than 24 hours prior to that, some kid almost lost his arm to a machete attack. Also, this happened IN YOUR DISTRICT. It's about the same as encouraging people to go grab a froyo the day after the yogurt shop murders.
  12. I mean, how freaking stupid can one councilmember be?! Tone deaf dumb ass, given the Machete had it's live performance on the Town Lake trail not 24 hours prior.
  13. Who do I look like, @Vic Mackey?!
  14. That red thing was SOLID. Props to whoever built that thing!
  15. Driving in this morning, asshats texting: not using turn signals, doing 55 in a 60 with clear roads ahead of them IN THE LEFT LANE. Can we legalize pit maneuvers for left lane campers already?
  16. Noah Knigga must love going to starbucks...
  17. Was his name DICKER? Or Dickson?
  18. It's not specific to Surly. It does it on almost every site that uses that integration. Microsoft Teams, too.
  19. Wife and I manage 3 units ourselves. She's the numbers guru and deals with getting the tenants and setting rents. I will tell you, buying right now in Austin for a rental is a huge PITA. You can get 5% on T-Bills, or make 3-4% ROI on renting a unit you purchase OUTRIGHT. If you mortgage it, you're lucky to break even right now in the market. That said, we've had better luck not using a management company, rather doing it mom-and-pop style. We use Zillow to post our rentals, which will propagate out to several other sites without having to post to MLS, and do our due diligence on the applicants (background checks through 3rd party websites, a little google stalking, etc.) I'm very hands-on with the maintenance, and tend to solve most issues without calling in pros to fix (HVAC, plumbing, most basic maintenance issues, etc.) $75 / month doesn't seem like much, but that's nearly a grand a year going to another company. My time and mileage can be deducted from taxes, making it worth it in the end. On the tenant side, we've been mostly lucky. Had two bad tenants in the past. One was a single mom who trashed the house on the way out. Her son punched at least 10 holes in the walls of the house, was smoking weed on the roof in the back and disposing of his joints in the gutters before his mom could see. He even managed to spray paint our private property that was stored on site which pissed me off to no end. The other one has had some financial issues but really works to get the rent paid, but had to move out early. She's left the unit pretty trashed so far (although she's not 100% out), and is likely going to cost us during the turn-around. My biggest recommendation going forward is to plan for 1-2 months a year for the property to sit vacant (move-out, turn-around, new tenant). If you can afford the 2 months out of commission, and can do a lot of the maintenance yourself, it's a good investment. And always plan for the county to screw you hard every year on tax increases, because you have no homestead to cover your ass. I'm hoping the years of 20% valuation increases are a thing of the past, but we bought our last property and were making well over the 1% rule, but with rents stagnant and property values still climbing, we're at a 2/3% rent to home value currently.
  20. Only better song for that would have been Good Ol' Boys.
  21. Looks to be overlaid on the screen. When he flips over, the outline on the parachute is pretty telling.
  22. 5th*. And that doesn't include USC, or Notre Dame, or several other big private schools that probably out-do those clowns.
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