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  1. I got it for the first time (I think). Started feeling bad on Friday, then had a buddy who I saw on Tuesday say he tested positive. I immediately took a home test and came back negative, took another the next day and still negative. Meanwhile we are moving into a new house during all this, couldn’t come at a more inconvenient time. Nothing like moving mattresses in the triple digits while feeling like crap. Finally tested positive today.

    Overall it has just felt like a severe and long lasting cold, like others have said.

  2. I’ve hit number or higher on my last 13 out of 15. Have one that came in low bc the neighborhood is geographically small and hasn’t seen much recent activity and the other one bc the place was a piece of shit. Advised one client to buy and the other client to walk bc of the reasons behind the appraisals coming in low being the difference. 

    I was the one in the small neighborhood he advised to buy. It messed up the loan we initially tried to get in on, but we will most likely circle back to that at a later date when our appraisal catches up to reality.

    Just wanted to publically thank Gabe (Wulaw) and his team for his guidance through this crazy process. His insight and ingenuity really helped us make a difficult situation that we feel good About now. We’ve just moved in and are happy we made this decision.

    Side note: moving while it’s 102 out and you have Covid is not so fun.
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  3. I've been running a completely remote company since 2009.   I've long been through all the shit everyone has been learning about over the last couple of years, and was able to find resolutions and workarounds for just about every drawback related to remote employees.  
    The number one action for making it work is no surprise.  It's all about who you hire.  The skillset required to work from home and actually make a meaningful, or even just positive, contribution is not something that most people have.  However, almost every one thinks they are excellent at working from home.  Most of these people are delusional. No one likes having a direct report standing over their shoulder, so it's easy to think remote work would be amazing and you would get so much accomplished without the distraction of coworkers and especially a boss in your direct vicinity. Unfortunately, most people are not motivated in this way.  Some need the whip cracked, some need the camaraderie of coworkers, and some just need to get away from their family for a few hours each day.  It's a small minority of people who are good employees while working from home.  The distractions in a modern home are insane, and most can't avoid them.
    Yes, Millennials and Gen Z are the most overconfident groups when it comes to thinking they'll be solid working remotely because they already live their social lives online.   But they're also the group from which I've found some my best remote employees.   The young man in the OP, based on the information we were provided, is a layabout and should be sent packing.  And any company considering a hybrid or straight WFH situation needs to think long and hard about which employees can handle it and which can't.  Most can't, and I think we'll get to a point where we look back and laugh about that time when people actually worked from home.  Owners and managers are already learning this shit doesn't work unless you build a company specifically for remote work.  Taking an existing set of employees in an existing company and trying to implement it is not going to work out in most cases.
    TL/DR:  Everyone thinks that they're great at working from home.  The vast majority of them are wrong.

    What kind of business are you running? I’ve had the opposite experience managing remote teams in tech. Granted I’m just a middle manager, but the people that sucked in office sucked at home and the people who did well in office did well at home. And I can crack the whip virtually just as easily at home as I can in office.
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  4. 6 hours ago, cam4mav said:

    Arm your kids from neighborhood dogs? Preemptive victim ass bullshit. Teach them to treat animals with respect as they would humans (you did teach them that part right?). Those dogs will be a better judge of character of your kids than your kids teachers, shut the fuck up.

     

    Go clutch your pearls between your bear mace fingers. 

    that lady should've just respected the dog before it ate her face off.  The dog knew she lacked moral fiber!

  5. 5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    I don't think this is a bubble at all.  We are just massively short inventory and that's not just because there aren't enough homes on the market- that's just because there are not enough homes period.  
    Ask yourself this when you think of pricing:

    Will there be more or less people moving to the area in the next 6 months, year, 3 years, 5 years.  Then, ask yourself- with the issues with supply chains and everything else going on is it likely that builders will be able to build so many houses that they both keep up with excess demand as well as provide so much supply that they can tamp down the prices?  When you answer those two questions I think, to me anyway, it's obvious what to do.

    A lot of this depends on your timeline- how long do you want to be in the house?  If you are going to be there for a while and you see a little decrease in value that's not the end of the world. You don't care about your homes value until you sell. I can't imagine it's going to be down if you look, say, 5 years from now or 10 years from now if that's your time frame.

    Finally- look at risk reward.  What happens if you buy your house, it goes down in value a little bit, but you keep your job and continue to make your payments and housing prices recover and then you sell?  A: You make money.

    What about the converse? you rent and wait and wait and we see 5-10% appreciation a year (which would be a major slow down from where we were at).  What's the downside then?  You can't buy and are locked out in the area and are a permanent renter.  That's no good, imo, unless you want to be a permanent renter.  You mentioned having kids though so I doubt that's on the agenda.  

    wow, thanks for the response.  That makes a ton of sense, and definitely clarifies my thinking.

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  6. Looking for some input from the in-the-know crowd here.  My wife and I sold our starter home in Austin last month, made nearly double on it in 5 years.  Hooray.

    We sold in order to a) get more space as we are looking to start having kids and b) get closer to my in-laws as my FIL has MD and they need some help with day to day tasks. We have been looking in the Buda area, west of 35.  But even that area is getting insane, with houses finishing 60-75k over asking (ending up at 625 or so).  Part of me is thinking, is this all too much?  Is this really where things are going to stay, or are we heading towards a bubble?  I have considered just renting in the area and seeing how things play out but I also know that interest rates are only going up and I might just be kicking myself if this isn't a bubble situation.  

    Thoughts on the situation?

  7. Big surprise, the lawyers turned this into a law school discussion 😉

    In my experience being in tech, where you went to school matters at lot less than other fields.  It probably matters at the FAANG level perhaps, but for example our software architect and principal engineer both went to no name schools in the midwest.  Perhaps it is because it requires a more demonstrable skillset than others.  If you can prove you know how to code at a high level, no one cares where you learned it.  Just my observations.

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  8. Just now, SydneyCarton said:

    I can't believe some of you little clowns are still whining and moaning about the empty seats in the SEZ at kick-off, and our worried about the perception of how our fans might look. Nevermind the fact that the football program has been a national laughingstock for well over a decade, is regularly prolapsed by fucking Kansas, and the product generally has sucked so fucking hard that professional fluffers like Burnt Orange & White blush. But yes, lets focus on how embarrassing the empty seats in the SEZ look at kick-off, as opposed to the empty seats in the rest of the stadium, as opposed to the limp dick product that Texas football has put on the field for 12 years now. Jesus, it's a miracle that enough boosters were willing to cut checks to get our facilities out the the mid 1990s considering the ROI on Longhorn fandom these days. But yes, fuck them for not showing up on time like half the rest of the stadium and deigning to sit in the A/C for awhile with their contribution. 

    Fucking football board. 

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  9. I'm going to be in Hungary (among other countries) in September (assuming it's still there, and no I won't be pissed if I can't go/Joyless Behar) and the family has now pitched a short stint into Ukraine, probably to Lviv, and we'll go just to spend some $$.  Hope we can make it.  I'm mostly Hungarian by descent with a little Ukrainian thrown in (great grandpa, remember that night you got smacked on Vodka and went over the border to that Ukrainian bordello?...)

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  10. 13 hours ago, Hate said:


    Yeah, I’m happily married but there is no way I could do that with my wife. I don’t really think we could live like that for 10 days.

    Do you ever think you will return to civilization? Could you ever see yourself living in Katy?

    I thought you said return to civilization?

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