Jump to content

LCHorn

Full Members
  • Posts

    2916
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by LCHorn

  1. On a personal level this was my experience, but that also that of the professional appraisers with whom consulted in advance.
  2. I don’t want to make the claim that my personal experience is representative broadly (and I have zero knowledge of what Mackowiack might be saying pre or post election), but I do think system is flawed could use some scrutiny. And yes, TCAD is routinely making inaccurate appraisal valuations. It’s inevitable when they are automating the valuations in what’s an in exact process to begin with. A taxpayer shouldn’t need to be in my relatively privileged position in order to fight their value successfully. I actually saw the notice for that election too late but I would have thought really hard about running for one of the director positions (although it appears that those elected are pretty outstanding).
  3. Thanks for putting me in the uncomfortable position of defending that blowhard, but what about his tweet do you disagree with? My arbitration for my 2023 valuation is Thursday and it’s been a rather unpleasant learning experience. Were I not in real estate and relatively well educated I’d be at a huge disadvantage, and would likely need to pay a third party. I know that TCAD doesn’t set the tax rates, but let’s not act like the various taxing authorities are trying to keep revenue flat in the face of rising values.
  4. I think we, as fans, tend to overvalue our own prospects, but I can’t imagine Toronto making that deal.
  5. Back when we had a servicing portfolio we’d allow it upon request on a conventional loan as long as you had 20% equity based on sales price or appraised value at the time of loan creation (I.e., you couldn’t use appreciation to get to 20% equity). Also, your escrow account is paying you interest, even if it’s not a lot of it.
  6. Okay, just re-watched. I don’t know enough about film-making techniques to know why this is, but there’s something about the way this and Ahsoka were shot that puts the artifice so front and center that it makes it look amateurish.
  7. previous trailer is superior.
  8. Haha, I had someone apply at 5 pm yesterday and I was desperately tempted to try to rush in a lock in but held off (I figured we gained 30 bps yesterday, surely we wouldn't lose it today).
  9. Bregman looks like a terrible way to spend Crane’s money until you look at the expected 3b FA list for ‘25.
  10. If he’s lurking @Crayon1973
  11. I actually have all of his T-shirts. And the bunny slippers.
  12. It holds up and Ebert’s review is one of my favorites of his. There’s a humanism to Ebert’s reviews that is lacking in many of his contemporaries and who get distracted by film making techniques or the rhetoric around the production.
  13. Haha at the guy getting tased at 2:38.
  14. Hey dude, kudos for all that. I could have described it but never so concisely. It almost makes up for you being a Rangers fan.
  15. This is a good point-my main concern is that the Astros are losing chips, period, but they still have money and need to deploy it creatively.
  16. To be fair, that’s mostly who is available on the FA market. His refusal to take on long-term FA deals is also why we’re not paying Springer for his declining performance and Correa’s absences (personally I probably still would have retained Correa for the mix of performance and leadership). I think it’s clear we’re shedding talent faster than it can be replaced and that’s going to accelerate over the next two years. It’s partly why I’m sure he hired Brown-you’ve got to have prospects you can consolidate into lower cost established players like Cole or Verlander. You just can’t rely on your draft skills to produce them. By the time they are FA’s you’re mostly paying for the back part of their career and there’s not much surplus value. Tucker is a little different; I’m sure there’s some caution just because the team might need to be down for a few years to rebuild the farm and young player depth. Why pay Tucker market for six wins if you’re better off losing?
  17. I don’t personally find her all that attractive but I think she’s got more charisma than any other actress under 30. I kind of feel the same way about Chalamet, too.
  18. LCHorn

    BBQ

    Haha, even smarty pants tech investors lose money investing in BBQ operators.
  19. The fact it’s 50-50 is immaterial. The listing agent offered to list it for a reduced rate. It’s customary (but changing) for a buyer’s agent to expect to be paid 3% and obviously they have to be flexible about that, at times. There’s also this presumption (in the recounting) that the buyer was unaware of all of this and lost out on a house because of it. Obviously that might be true, but it also might be true that the buyer was on board with countering that the seller’s agent should give up that extra .5% of their commission. Usually buyers are pretty loyal to the agent hauling them around every weekend and agents are usually pretty good about creating relationships, which is why they are in this business in the first place.
  20. Yeah, that sounds to me like a listing agent who took the listing at a cheap rate and wants the buyer’s agent to make up the difference. Most buyers agents would be happy to do a deal for 2% commission, but being forced to do so with no negotiation I’m sure results in push back. There’s a reason why the otherwise reprehensible big builders go to great pains to advertise their homes with 3% to the buyer’s agent. You don’t want to do anything that discourages a buyer’s agent from bringing the buyer in. Also, you essentially had five offers, four at $2750 below list (because the way to easily negotiate this is have the buyer pay more and the seller rebate it back to the buyer’s agent) and one at list and you took the one at list rather than try to get more money? If I’m an agent and I’ve got five offers, all within 2% of list I’m going to give everyone a chance to increase their offer.
  21. Something about the math on that story doesn’t make sense. Usually a listing agent putting it on MLS at a reduced commission isn’t expecting that to come out of the buyer’s agents pocket. This sounds like a greedy listing agent to me and not something that only just started to happen because of the NAR settlement.
  22. I like that you continue to use his internet handle as his name in real life. If I ever meet @closetojumping I’m going to repeat his handle frequently and over enunciate each time while winking at him.
  23. Yes, but why does HE care so much about that? This is why lazy story tellers always resort to tragic backstories in order to show a character arc. For example, “King Philip’s men burned down my village and and my wife and children were among the casualties. I will not rest until every buggering Catholic meets their end.” I think they needed to re-emphasize that hate near the end to make the abandonment of it feel like character growth. I’m picking nits, though-it’s all there in the first couple of episodes.
  24. Zero regrets letting him go, regardless of the shitty start to the season.
×
×
  • Create New...