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  1. On the buyers side it's not all that bad, just make sure you have someone review it.  What Dbeasy said above is the safest route -- hire a realtor for a flat fee (negotiations, contract, etc) or hire a lawyer to review everything.  As seller pays the realtors, make sure what you're saving on not having a buyers agent is being taken into consideration in the price otherwise you might as well have a realtor.

  2. On 6/19/2018 at 1:05 PM, orangecat92 said:

    New guy to remodeling here.  Getting house ready to sell.  House is Fox and Jacobs built 2001.  Big house for the money, 2700+ s. feet.   I talked to someone and found Surplus Guys in Gainesville. - I live in McKinney.  The deals were so good, I rented a pickup from Enterprise to go pick up stuff.  Sticking with neutral things that I know will help sell the house.  We had a tiny little low down one sink vanity before.  The plumber just left.  We have a nice double sink vanity with granite that matches the granite we picked out from the floor store.  New lighting is waiting to be installed.  

    From Surplus Guys, we got 2 ADA toilets @79$ each, two doors, one front and one rear, for about $1000 total, and previously mentioned countertop and double vanity. 

    Spent a total of just under $2k for that stuff and then went back the same day and bought baseboards.  2$ a stick! - about twice as large as what is in there now.   I had measured 602 linear feet of baseboards, so I bought 640 feet of baseboards.  I looked at realtor.com and to get this type of baseboard, you have to go to a 450k house or more.  We will have new floors throughout.  The only tile will be in the two bathrooms upstairs.  All of downstairs will be some pretty nice laminate.  Carpet upstairs, with a little streak of gray.  New paint throughout, the gray everybody is supposed to like.  New countertops in kitchen, cabinets will be painted and hardware added.  

    If you include the two light fixtures from the bathroom, we bought a total of at least 10 new fixtures(five ceiling fan kits, and the rest plain lights). 

    Got a new roof because of April 13th storm.  New fence coming as well.  Even if a family doesn't like all of that stuff, we've still got a great location. 

    Walking distance to grades 6-12.  Elementary is 2.7 miles away.  Like most F and J, all bedrooms upstairs - 4-2.5-2.  

    There are only two things I know will turn off a buyer, but one is easily fixed.  Popcorn ceilings.  tough - standard for the neighborhood, and the other is the backyard has a slope away from the house, toward the side street.  Oh, and we are on a corner lot.  Not as impressive as cul-de-sac, but still a little better than having two neighbors next door. 

    I need to start counting the days.  Probably 14 days until remodel complete.  Maybe less.  Cannot get here soon enough. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Selling a house eh?  Let me know if you need any help on the sell, the new purchase, or the Mortgage on the new Purchase

  3. On 6/14/2018 at 10:57 PM, UT_OB1 said:

    Holy shit I feel like such a noob. But we’re doing this slow and one house at a time to learn what it is we don’t know. Hopefully I don’t have a panic attack or destroy my liver on the journey  

    For any landlords out there, how do you recommend receiving payment?  I hate physical checks.  PayPal personal/family transfer seems easy to avoid fees seems easy. Are there any drawbacks with that?  I 

    With the sketchy people I would say do a check so there is a solid paper trail.  As you become more familiar with certain tenants you can switch to my personal forms of payment.

  4. Watched the rest of the Facebook quick interviews.  I despise Kaitlyn.. shes a moron.  The 2 buff dudes will do well, and the Aggie seems like she will do good similar to Shelli from BB17.  The Football chick Kaycee? will do well a la Christmas if she can tone it back.

  5. 18 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

    My worse loss at a blackjack table was in Vegas about 5 years ago.  I was up about 8K for the night.  Started with 2K and have about 10K upstairs in the safe.  I bet 1k as my "final" bet of the night.  I get two 8s.  Dealer is showing a 6.  I split.  get two more 8s.  I split again.  get an 8 and a 2.  So i split again.  Dealer says you can only split 5 times.  So that's where I'm at.  There is now 5K on the table in bets.  I get 2s and 3s on all the hands.  So now I have either a 10 or an 11 on each hand.  I double down.  I get 7s and 9s.  So I have basically 18-20 on all 5 hands.  with 10K on the table.  I'm feeling pretty good.  Dealer flips over a 5 and I think to myself oh shit.  I'm proper fucked.  She flips over an Ace so I feel better.  She now flips over a 3.  so she's at 15.  I say wow there is basically only one card that can fuck me.  Just as I think that.  She flips over a 6.  I went on tilt after that and proceeded to lose another 10K that night.  Worst beat of my life.

    That made me sick just reading that.

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