NoBanStan

This is sick man. Jealous as hell.

Pretty good turnout tonight.   Perhaps in the future we should set a timer and after X amount of time we play musical chairs so we can meet everyone. Kinda felt bad about shaking hands with people I didn't talk too all evening and saying "nice to meet ya".   FYI, if you were on my side of the room, I'm the guy who told the "my brother-in-law bought an off road segway" story.

Do they know who we are with? Just curious

  Cool, this time we won't sit in two separate groups for an hour without realizing the other group existed :D

I'm down for Shoneys with forward notice for sure. Had fun the last time I went.

I've gotten this call 3-4 times.... one of them even called me by name. That one spooked me, I just played ignorant for a few minutes and then asked "why do you keep calling me that, my name is Albert! They immediately hung up.   Best way to handle these, tell them you run Linux.....

Boehner ordered the flag to be lowering this morning I think.

  Long as we have a "no double dipping" rule.

  I was looking realtracs and zillow mostly, seemed to be several. I'm not opposed to renting for a bit to find the right house. Not preferred mind you.    Like everyone else, I would like to transition right into my new place if at all possible. I'm also not opposed to moving outside of MJ for the right house and school district. My kids are young enough to not be heart broken about it but i worry more about the quality of schools in the area. Mount Juliet seems to be the anomaly in a sea of bad education.

  Yeah this were my minds at. We're wall to wall stuff in this place. Looking to move into something around the $250k range....there's plenty to look at in the area. My goal is fix the obvious and wait on an inspector to find whatever else.

  Yeah I understand that fully. I've had a few people approach me that live in the neighborhood. Not to be mean, but getting a realtor who lives in the same builder community that i'm trying to move away from seems as fruitful as getting shooting advice from a terrible shot.

  Yeah I've thought about this too.

    Yeah the bid war is kinda what we're expecting/hoping for. They're just not building houses in this price range in MJ..everything is 250k+   Carpet Exterior panting Interior painting refinish deck (dunno the term for this) recoat foundation - the builder did some concrete coating over the foundation and it looks kinda haggard I mounted a tv on a wall, need to take that down and refix the wall. Landscaping (tree trimming, shurbs, etc.) I have a big hill out back so I may put in a french drain just to help move water. I don't have flooding or moisture issues, but i'd rather remove all doubt.

  I don't actually have a realtor yet. With the market like it is, I haven't sought one out because I don't want to start getting the "pressure of sale" yet, if that makes sense.   Our place isn't bad, it's just lived in. The carpet has been through a dog and my two kids, still clean but old like carpet gets. There's a few weak spots under it that I need to take care of. It was built in the 90's so its likely just all the years of traffic on the plywood. besides that it's just paint and some yardwork in all honesty.

The wife and I are going to put our house on the market soon. Its our first home and now with kids, we're outgrowing it. We've lived there for about 10 years so there's some updates we feel need to be done before we put it on the market. Carpet, painting, landscaping.. the obvious stuff. All in all I think it's around $5,400 for materials and labor.. i'm not a handyman so i'm going to contract it out.   I'm not a fan of loans, but I've heard this is a good option if you're looking to sell and expect to get your money's worth. Houses in our neighborhood with the same amount of land and floor plan have been selling for about 25-35k above what I paid for mine.... so it seems even with the money I put into it, I would make it back and then some. The iron is hot, these houses are selling before they hit market or within two days of listing. I would like to get in on that before the market craps out.   Just looking for some advice. I trust the TGO opinions way more than just some random banker.   Is the loan a good idea? Are the updates even a good idea? Thoughts? Mount Juliet btw.   Thanks

  I was talking about how the Amazon sale looked like a garage sale with my coworkers. A quick search later I turned up this   http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/15/under-promise-over-deliver/   A slightly better answer would have been "i'm a pervert". :D :D :D

http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/dp/B005MR3IVO   Fun for the whole family! Be sure to read the product description.

  The newer embedded intel chipsets are certainly better than they used to be, but it's a fools errand to try 3d modeling/rendering on one. OP said he had an MSI gaming laptop though. It's likely got an nvidia or AMD card.

Well, hopefully he'll get some hard time for violating his probation. Because rest assured if he doesn't, you've likely made a new best friend.   They're likely a moron who would blame you for going jail instead of their own stupidity. 

    I'm the one who administrates!

2nd opinion for sure man. This is also a good opportunity to strengthen your weak side shooting. Tough, but not impossible.

Well, they're no white walkers.... but that'll do pig, that'll do.

  I do the same thing at work.....   Stan: Please email @all that X will be released this week Comms: What will the users see? Stan:  Well if they're doing X, they could see Y. But if Y is already in place, then they may see Z. But If Z doesn't work, it may be because X and Y weren't updated, in which case they'll need to update X and Y Comms:  So they'll get a popup? Stan:  Yes.....   Later that week Comms: "To all, this week we are doing X. Just click OK on the popup"

  Short quoting your post due to the size.   You've got some very valid information here and those of us who understand it will either agree or have some other complex means of countering your methods, but your average Joe... they're probably looking over this glassy eyed, panicked or just said TL;DR to the whole post. Now, this is presuming you wrote this for everyone, but might I suggest preening this down into something that "Bobbie-Joe Facebook" can follow? I doubt they'll need to know the in's and outs of ASCII or likely ever go read an HTML header.   Please be aware, I mean this constructively.

Just take a USB backup of the OS using windows built-in recovery tools. Then you can reformat it to Windows 7. If something goes wrong, boot to the USB drive and reinstall from the image you took. Easy money.   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive