Everything posted by CHIEF
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Semester at Sea
On a little more serious note, going through the Suez Canal, cruising off the coast of Somalia to Kenya with 600 potential hostages that their parents would beg, borrow, and steal seven figures to get back, does seem like a pirate's jackpot. CHIEF
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Selling Real Estate
TREC doesn't require an inspection to be shared with the seller, since it was the buyer that purchased the inspection. They usually do if they plan on negotiating. However, if there are multiple expense items that need to be fixed, a buyer can just opt out of the contract during the option period, and not state a reason. Since the seller hasn't seen the report, he doesn't have to disclose things where he is unaware. It is up to the next inspector to find those items. CHIEF
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Selling Real Estate
You are in California, correct? CHIEF
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Selling Real Estate
An old house? Ain't nobody going to wave an inspection. You read the inspection, that now has to be disclosed, you were notified. The best thing to do, is not have the inspection report sent to you, but you are past that now. Fix the problem, take the loss, and put it back on the market. Lesson learned. Hopefully the land is valuable enough to absorb the cost of the loss of equity on the house. Sorry. CHIEF
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Road Rage Incident
I've parked our Ranger at the gate of our deer lease, and averaged over 100 mph driving the wife's car to the gate. It is 210 miles, three and a half hours in my F350 with gooseneck, two hours in her car. Always felt safe. CHIEF
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2021-2022 hunting thread
I'm Jonesing to hunt so bad hunt, I started on page one, and read the entirety of this thread over the last eight to ten hours today. A lot of good memories were made, and a lot of great advice given. CHIEF
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2021-2022 hunting thread
So far we have only used it in the river bottom. The owner of Beltec is on the lease, so we have his skid steer and any attachment that his company makes. He has a t-post sized rock drill, but no one has built feeder pens where it is rocky. The only place we have considered that was rocky, is up on an oil pipeline in the southeast corner of the lease. I don't think my posthole driver could get it done. CHIEF
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Hey Oil Barons.......
Yep, my mother sends me the closing price daily with money signs. Closed at 9.14/mcf last night. CHIEF
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Road Rage Incident
I'm also of the belief, that rural highways in desolate areas, should have no speed limit. It should be perfectly legal to drive as fast as you want on Hwy. 114 between Benjamin and Lubbock. The lanes are wide, there are passing lanes. I've been passed by cars I know were going at least 120, and it never felt unsafe, or scary. I mean it happens all the time on the Autobahn in Germany. CHIEF
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TIL there’s monkey slave labor
Heard they work for peanuts. CHIEF
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Our inventory numbers are up in our neighborhood from about six houses to twenty-seven, at the moment. We are listing agents, and have the Lion's share. Houses are going for asking price, some slightly over, but not the $30k-50k we were seeing last summer. Being a country club community, a lot of the homes for sale are second homes, so no Homestead exemption. Quite a few folks are unloading them as valuations have gone up 30-40%. My mother/broker is taking advantage on a listing from another agent that usually works in town. She is buying a home that has been in architectural digests, absolutely stunning, priced at $222/sqft. It is easily worth $250/sqft, if not more. When my Dad passed she sold their 3400 sqft. home, and downsized to 2200 sqft. now back up to 3750 sqft. She also purchased the riverfront lot next to our six acres with a shop. CHIEF Jr. will build there. We will have three houses, bought and paid for in our neighborhood, and a finished out apartment at the shop, so housing for four generations. This has been our goal since last year, knowing that the only way our descendants will be able to own a home is through inheritance. So no matter their income, they will always have a roof over their head, and no house payment. CHIEF
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
I remember classified ads, in the Statesman in the early 90's, where you could buy all you wanted for $49/acre. Mrs. CHIEF's grandparents, aunts, and uncles lived in Marfa. I tried to talk her into buying 2000 acres out there for $100k, and just sitting on it for a retirement fund. She said that land is just there to hold the World together, and would never be worth jack shit. CHIEF
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
I've never sold a gun. There are a few people in my trust tree that I would have no problem selling to, as I have known them for years, and have been around them while they had firearms. But someone that I don't really know? Forget it. We are meeting at the local gun store for a complete background check, and doing things the right way. CHIEF
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Parasailing death seems like a horrible way to die.
I forgot which movie that is, but want CHIEF Jr. to watch it. CHIEF
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
Some of you apparently don't read anything on this thread since your last post. FF clearly said what he would accept on the last page. CHIEF
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
See O'Rourke, Beto and his "your damn right I'm coming for your AR-15s and AK-47s" and what that did to him politically. Any "now illegal" is essentially "coming for your guns". You make fun of those people, but you are proving them right. Was it right to make alcohol illegal? We repealed the 21st amendment. What is your stance on legalizing drugs? CHIEF
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
I don't know anyone that uses their 30 round mags on an AR, they are too unwieldy. All we carry are 10 round mags anyway. Anytime I see someone "hunting" with a 30 round mag I stay as far away from that idoit as possible. That will never pass, anything that makes "now illegal weapons" will never see the light of day. You can't just make millions of gun owners immediate felons, just because they have responsibly owned a piece of property that you don't like. CHIEF
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
I'm not sure a buy back program would be worth the time and money it would take for the government to implement it. I say that as someone who has never sold a gun, or would sell any of the guns I own. I consider them family heirlooms, kind of like my wife's china. They will be left to my future generations, since they may eventually loose the right to purchase them. Everyone in my circle that owns guns feel the same way. I own a gun safe, so I can keep my guns locked away. I don't have small children, or have any that visit, so we have a few in closets and under beds. But "do you have anyone under the age of 16 that routinely stays in your home? should definitely be a red flag question. CHIEF
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
All existing rifles and magazines are gonna have to be grandfathered in. The only way to get any concessions is no one is going to have to give up anything they already have, or be arrested for having it, or have it confiscated. Simply make it where manufacturers only make 10 round mags from here out. Raise the age to 25 and a Universal background check, and a waiting period for purchase of semi-auto rifles. Close gun show loopholes, and be done. CHIEF
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Getting old sucks
My A1C has been 6.3-6.4 for about four years, it was finally at 8.6 this year. My blood sugar has been 100-114. This year it was 140. I loaded up on ice cream before the twelve hours started before the blood draw. My doctor tried putting me on Metformin. That shit absolutely sucked, back pain, and it felt like my kidneys were going to fall out. So far, I've just knocked out the carbs in my diet, but I am so damn sick of drinking water. I'm thinking of asking the bar down at the 19th Hole if the can get Glucerna on tap. With our demographics, it would be their best seller. Now to get my high blood pressure under control. CHIEF
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Wow, she can lick your scrote will you go to poundtown. CHIEF
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Parasailing death seems like a horrible way to die.
Nice to see there are additional members of the "Fuck Parasailing Club". It looks safe as hit watching them off the porch in Cozumel, but I know better. CHIEF
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
Use to do that at the 360 bridge boat ramp, quite entertaining. People know their shit, and the ramp is protected from a south wind at our marina. But the boat ramp across the lake is angled real shallow across the lake and fills up with Rednecks and trashy people on holiday weekends. You can anchor up in the cove to one side and watch the shitshow. Usually two or three fights, and the sheriff gets called a couple of times. CHIEF
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Sorry, there were about 40 sales associates there. Out of eleven associates that flew in, eight ended up with COVID. Out of the 28 that drove to the convention, only four ended up catching it. Three that flew didn't catch it, but 24 that drove also didn't catch it. Hope that clears it up. CHIEF