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#382
07-12-2023, 03:36 PM
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The same force creates opportunities for other people later. Think of how many bad electricians there were out there before youtube took a bite out of everyone's IQ | |||
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#383
07-12-2023, 07:18 PM
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if you hired a bad electrician, thats your own fault for failing to do research on who you will trust your home investment with.
you want a job done right? you gotta hire a company that doesn't need your business, will charge more than the next 3 companies, and get the job done in half the time of any other company. if any contractor has example: two crews, each working 2 other jobs, and he wants to take your down payment to start your job (you are third) this means he is a fly-by-night irresponsible and lazy piece of shit who requires your money in order to finish the other 2 jobs. it's a ponzi scheme, and its extremely common in the remodeling industry. | ||
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#385
07-12-2023, 10:16 PM
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Home inspections are a bitch
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#386
07-12-2023, 10:47 PM
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I just had to take out a home equity loan for the minimum ($45k) at a shit interest rate to cover $23k of home repairs. I luckily got a good deal on the repairs from a contractor who is friend of the family, which included:
- New roof - Entire outside house repainted, all trim boards replaced - New wall and door put in garage - new insulation in attic - gravel in front and back yards If you can do any of this stuff yourself, could save some serious money. I don’t trust the kind of job I would do though. I have to make $350/mo payments for the next 20 years, but I now have one of the nicest looking houses on the block. Not bad for it being 30+ yrs old The first bill (of multiple): | ||
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#387
07-13-2023, 12:06 PM
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The roofing job is fairly easy, with the biggest challenge being doing it by yourself. You just tear off the old shingling with a flat head shovel going up the incline till you get the apex, check for rotting plies and replace as necessary, then start at the cotton and stagger the shingles on each layer above it. It just takes a long time for one person (and the tear down is exhausting), so the contractor beats the clock by having a small team; typically with a drunk hack filling the role of the tear-down guy
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#388
07-13-2023, 01:29 PM
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#389
07-13-2023, 10:52 PM
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WHO’S BEEN CALLING IT?
WHO’S BEEN RIGHT? Ya’ll have NO IDEA how many requests my agency gets from parents regarding their kid not wanting to go to school. Kids have figured out that the schools don’t give two shits and push all of it back on the parent. If the parent can’t physically and safely force their kid in the car, the kid has just temporarily outsmarted the entire system We get so many requests like this during the school year it’s a guarantee to get multiple ones every. Single. Morning. And I’m not talking about repeats “Quiet quitting” ain’t just happening with adults and it’s not quiet either. Some of these kids will raise hell to not go And you can’t hospitalize a kid for not wanting to go to school. And if the kid doesn’t want to participate in behavioral health services like counseling either, guess what? Clinics won’t even bother to waste time signing them up Just refuse everything until your parents can legally kick you out at 18 and be fucked. That’s too many naive kid’s plans these days | ||
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#390
07-13-2023, 10:55 PM
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I remember a 12ish yr old girl who had lost all privileges due to complete refusal to go to school. She had nothing but a bed in her room, no tv, no phone, no nothing. What did she do? Stared at the wall for 8 straight hours every day I didn’t even think a kid had the mental capability to do that | ||
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