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PvilleStang

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  1. That red thing was SOLID. Props to whoever built that thing!
  2. Driving in this morning, asshats texting: not using turn signals, doing 55 in a 60 with clear roads ahead of them IN THE LEFT LANE. Can we legalize pit maneuvers for left lane campers already?
  3. Noah Knigga must love going to starbucks...
  4. Was his name DICKER? Or Dickson?
  5. It's not specific to Surly. It does it on almost every site that uses that integration. Microsoft Teams, too.
  6. Wife and I manage 3 units ourselves. She's the numbers guru and deals with getting the tenants and setting rents. I will tell you, buying right now in Austin for a rental is a huge PITA. You can get 5% on T-Bills, or make 3-4% ROI on renting a unit you purchase OUTRIGHT. If you mortgage it, you're lucky to break even right now in the market. That said, we've had better luck not using a management company, rather doing it mom-and-pop style. We use Zillow to post our rentals, which will propagate out to several other sites without having to post to MLS, and do our due diligence on the applicants (background checks through 3rd party websites, a little google stalking, etc.) I'm very hands-on with the maintenance, and tend to solve most issues without calling in pros to fix (HVAC, plumbing, most basic maintenance issues, etc.) $75 / month doesn't seem like much, but that's nearly a grand a year going to another company. My time and mileage can be deducted from taxes, making it worth it in the end. On the tenant side, we've been mostly lucky. Had two bad tenants in the past. One was a single mom who trashed the house on the way out. Her son punched at least 10 holes in the walls of the house, was smoking weed on the roof in the back and disposing of his joints in the gutters before his mom could see. He even managed to spray paint our private property that was stored on site which pissed me off to no end. The other one has had some financial issues but really works to get the rent paid, but had to move out early. She's left the unit pretty trashed so far (although she's not 100% out), and is likely going to cost us during the turn-around. My biggest recommendation going forward is to plan for 1-2 months a year for the property to sit vacant (move-out, turn-around, new tenant). If you can afford the 2 months out of commission, and can do a lot of the maintenance yourself, it's a good investment. And always plan for the county to screw you hard every year on tax increases, because you have no homestead to cover your ass. I'm hoping the years of 20% valuation increases are a thing of the past, but we bought our last property and were making well over the 1% rule, but with rents stagnant and property values still climbing, we're at a 2/3% rent to home value currently.
  7. Only better song for that would have been Good Ol' Boys.
  8. Looks to be overlaid on the screen. When he flips over, the outline on the parachute is pretty telling.
  9. 5th*. And that doesn't include USC, or Notre Dame, or several other big private schools that probably out-do those clowns.
  10. I've gotta go Junk and soul food. Might knock out Chinese (rather than Soul) given Japanese and Thai food is better.
  11. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-district-attorney-running-against-da-jose-garza/ Jeremy Sylestine is running against him. I've seen Adam Loewy give him a few endorsements / shout-outs, but don't know much else about the guy, other than he's not Garza.
  12. I mean, in the last decade, Tech was flirting with losing academic accreditation. I don't think Alabama or Arkansas can hang that banner on the stadium wall. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/accrediting-group-puts-texas-tech-on-probation-1826368.php
  13. I mean, if I'm going to spend $10,000+ either way, I'd prefer lawyer bills rather than medical bills. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
  14. If I'm an hispanic man, no way in hell am I attacking a 19 year old white male wielding a machete. That's one step away from a white boy with an AR 15.
  15. You really do enjoy checking in on those victims? Like the murderer that always returns to the scene.
  16. The coat-tails they've ridden for decades leaving the building, leaving them behind in a room full of cockroaches, rapists, long underwear wearers, cougar high, and the likes.
  17. Man, what kind of tire is that? Grips better than the chick above squatting!
  18. Almost as bad as Cedric Golden stirring the pot with Ewers needs to watch his back with Manning staying around. TCU is gonna TCU, in just the same ways Tceh and aggy will always celebrate a loss of ours.
  19. Where are the Ft Worth cockroaches? Rapelor?
  20. This is how I imagine most Okies live life... But at least you go above and beyond and tip.
  21. I do love they called this the first murder of 2023 on the news last night, like they want to forget Garza's pal that attempted the Murder / Suicide on Oltorf.
  22. I mean, is ANYTHING around here done with common sense?!
  23. I do miss me some brew days, but kids have definitely gotten in the way of that. Might be selling off some stuff in the near future if anyone needs anything.
  24. Just posted this on a group chat, buddy found the decoder for it:
  25. Dude saw the finish line and did his best to push Austin past it!
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