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I'm kicking around the idea of getting my son a FJ for his first car. My first car was a '91 4Runner and I had an '03 Taco as well. I drove the 4Runner until it had 200k miles and started to have engine issues/lose compression. I drove the Taco for 130k and only got rid of it because we started having kids and I needed more space. My question is, how many miles are too many when looking at a used 'Yota? The FJs have really held their value and there isn't that much savings for one with 200k vs. 125k miles. Opinions?

This sorry ass motherfucker. He's the one that needs a dirt nap. Traitorous piece of shit.

Correct. Garland should have done a press conference giving his own view of the SC's findings and then sat on the report for a week or so until people saw something else shiny and moved on.

Holy shit, that ice karting looks like so much fun.

I was unaware we shared the same line of work. Or are you stealing them from another one of YOUR competitors?

How bad were you sweating and shaking this morning?

Irma's is where we would go if we didn't have clients with us. I love their food, but yea, nothing close to Vic and Anthony's/Pappas/EV's in price or booze selection. Pitchers of margaritas are always a good idea (at the time). I don't even really think about going to NAPE any more. The whole thing sounds like a huge asswhip to me at this point.

I heard a new one last week - the only potential "bonus" of cigarette smoking is that nicotine prevents covid infections. What in the actual fuck?

Damn I bet that shit hurt. They were all hauling ass.

The night crew was bringing the ruckus! Thanks for the belly laughs.

I just donated $42. They are now up to $170,500 raised.

I'm in.

Damn it. With all the fuck shit going on I forgot all about the fact that the current Speaker doesn't even have a fucking bank account.

My partner handles most of this side of things, but it's a pretty powerful application. I think you can connect it directly to quickbooks so when a tenant submits a maintenance request through Rentredi and a contractor goes out to fix it you input your invoice into that maintenance request and it also sends the info to QB for you. Tenants pay their rent through RR and we get emails when it's paid. It takes prequals and applications when you are trying to find a new tenant so you have all of that in one place too. It works great for us since there's two of us trying to manage things and we can both see all the same data on our dashboard that lets us know what needs to be done.

Has it been a while since you priced these out? A 200 amp transfer switch alone is ~$500, and you haven't paid anyone to come hook it up or bought the generator yet. I agree that everyone who can afford it should look at it, but the whole thing costs much more than a TV. Depending on how big your home is and how much stuff you want to run when the shit goes down you're probably looking at $5,000+ all-in.

I don't think it ever got cold enough inside my house that I was concerned about a full water heater freezing. Were you concerned about that? I guess if the power is out long enough then anything is possible.

That sounds right to me. I'm mainly team no drip because I live out in the sticks and our rural water district has said that if most everyone on the system drips their faucets then it will have a material impact on the pressure available to everyone. These poor guys are constantly playing whack-a-mole with leaks across the entire system and I tend to believe them that the system can't really handle it. If we lose power I'll shut off water with the main key at the road and try to drain everything out of the pipes in my house. That worked for me during the last shit show.

Great point. I'm not sure my kids would have had as much fun with the temps they are seeing this week.

Team drip vs. team no-drip all over again? I'm team no-drip fwiw.

Just like the fishing guides say, "You should have been here last (next) week."

He rolled in like Dexter St. Jaques from the Eddie Murphy bit.

I legit lol'd. Have some rep ser.

I've owned rent houses in Fort Worth in the past and now own two in East Texas and one in Dallas. The bolded has bit me in the ass more than once. As much as it sucks to operate this way, I've never cut someone slack on the rent and not had it fuck me in the long run. It seems like once tenants know that they can slide on payments they will abuse you to the maximum amount allowed. I had a tenant in Fort Worth pleading with me around Christmas to give him more time on his rent and I did. Dude moved out at the end of January and punched holes in the living room walls on his way out after not paying for 2 months. No good deed goes unpunished. My business partner does this for a living full time so we get to use their access to Rentredi.com for managing applications, rent payments, maintenance requests, etc. This makes life so much easier and cuts down on a lot of the administrative BS that goes along with being a landlord. The main thing I have found is that heavily screening applicants is key. It's worth it to do a deep dive on their background/credit/past landlords, etc. before renting to a tenant. Every single time we've overlooked something nasty in their application in order to get someone into a property it has bit us in the ass. We had a guy last year that had a good job but fucked up credit so he got his mom to co-sign the lease with him. He lasted 6 months before getting himself arrested for driving drunk and getting into an accident while driving on the wrong side of the road. His mom ghosted us and we ended up eating the loss because it was going to be too expensive to try to collect.

I didn't think White Privilege was a real thing? Nancy Mace sounds woke af.