Useless Conversation

[Abagadro]

As long as they think they are covered in a foreclosure, they really don't care about the purchase price.  For a while they didn't even care about that because they just sold it off, but tighter restrictions make them at least care a little. But even then they can pawn a bunch of the risk off on PMI.  And the appraisals all magically come up at the purchase price 99 percent of the time.

[Selby]

Here is the motherfucking cocksucking goatroping email:

You're supposed to meet the person on Wednesday for an appointment on Tuesday?  What kind of strange time warp system do these estate agents have access to?

[Cadaverine]

Here is the motherfucking cocksucking goatroping email:

You're supposed to meet the person on Wednesday for an appointment on Tuesday?  What kind of strange time warp system do these estate agents have access to?

British rail?

[ghost]

On a side note associated with all of this dental stuff...

I thought that ghost might find THIS article interesting.  Apparently dentistry has been practiced for a long time. 

Wow.  That's pretty cool.  Nevermind that it probably didn't do a damned thing.     Reminds me of the old gold foil fillings which were awful. 

Oh, and about the iPad/iPhone-  you're old.   

[Mosesandstick]

GAH!!!  Here is the motherfucking cocksucking goatroping email:

If you'd like to know anything about Vauxhall I live there! I'm also not sure we're considered central London since y'know, south of the river.

I also wouldn't recommend St George Wharf. The flats have bizarre shapes and are really expensive for what you get.

[Signe]

Well, I'd prefer to be closer to the West End but it's been so hard trying to find anything suitable that we've just now widened the search a bit.  Today I found something a bit closer - right near St. John's Square and another in Soho.  Personally, I'd love to live next door to the Intrepid Fox but they moved it and changed it.  It's different now.  But, yeah, I'd love to live in Soho even if I risk the chance of being impaled on someone's hair again.

[Sky]

Like I said: depends on if you have a good agent.  A good one will advise you properly on price.

I agree with you. Then again, good agents are like good contractors in both rarity and professionalism.

This is the kind of thing that's keeping this idea in the mix. I'm a shitty capitalist, because I always look for a fair price and a win/win transaction. And there are NO EBAs in a 100 mile radius (I looked!). How hard would it be to find clients after a year or two of word of mouth?

As far as lenders and title companies level of care, go look at the state of arizona's suburban spawl these days.

[Murgos]

If you don't want to get screwed, you're going to need an attorney anyway.

This.  If you are going to make the largest purchase of your life don't you want someone legally responsible for your interests and knowledgeable on the subject helping you?

Why would you not hire your own attorney?  Also, once it is your house there is nothing stopping you from having a second, far more thorough inspection.  You can even bring in specialists, scope the pipes, peek inside walls, etc...

[Soln]

Ok... honest question.  

I don't like iPhones and tablets.  Touching the screen just seems like a messy and not-very-durable-or-accurate way to interface with a system.  I much prefer a laptop or a desktop.

I'm wondering if this is because I'm just getting cranky in my old age or if some of you younger folks agree.  I spend A LOT of time on my PC at work and don't get joy out of my kindle fire... like zero.  

Lianka and I are on the same page (surface?) as you.  She gave up on the Fire for anything serious.   And I persuaded her to ignore Asus notebooks because of widescale shitty transformers failing.  And Acer weren't an option.  So she took her academic discount and ponied up more on a Mac Air.  I think that was a great decision (especially with Apple Care warranty).  Basically a full size laptop without any weight.  She had trouble carting all her gear and ridiculous textbooks with a full size laptop.  And I don't think tablets are a great alternative for doing anything other than quick reads and tap&peck typing.

[Pennilenko]

You are a bad man for convincing anyone that wasting money on an apple product was a good idea.

[naum]

Recently, gave up my tablet (original iPad) and I do not miss it much, though there are a few certain functions that I miss.

The Kindle Touch supplanted the eReader function last year. And I find web browsing much more efficacious with a laptop, at least the light 11" MacBook Air, driving with a keyboard (and not just for typing text), but simply using hotkeys and gestures.

But here is where a tablet shines:

* on the couch, looking up things, or just general browsing or game playing
* passing time in boring meetings
* a note taking device for meetings (here 7" too small, can type at reasonable speed for quick notes on iPad, though typing up anything more than a few sentences in a burst is pain inducing)
* night/bed reading/game playing

[Signe]

My new doctor looks EXACTLY like Barbie.   

[Lantyssa]

She's made of plastic?

[Signe]

She's made of plastic?

I swear to Hank, she looks it!  I was very intimidated, too.  I couldn't stop staring.  She didn't seem to notice though.  I think she must get that a lot.  Also, she has a very strong Russian accent.  The whole ordeal was an ordeal.  And a little exciting, too.

[Merusk]

Strong Russian accent and looks like a Barbie..

Must be a Russian thing or else Valeria Lukyanova suddenly became a US doctor.

[Nebu]

Must be a Russian thing or else Valeria Lukyanova suddenly became a US doctor.

Holy shit that's freaky.

[rattran]

a Russian lady US doctor in London? madness I say.

[Signe]

The doctor was more tan, had bigger bazooms and wore more make-up but, yeah, like that, sorta. 

I'm not in Russia and I'm confused.

[Trippy]

Some people think you are back in the US rather than in the UK.

[Signe]

Oh.  Well, I thought they thought I was back in the USSR.   

[Samwise]

Oh.  Well, I thought they thought I was back in the USSR.   

 

[WayAbvPar]

Oh.  Well, I thought they thought I was back in the USSR.   

Been away so long you hardly knew the place?

Also, please get some pics of the doc for the T&A thread. TIA.

[ghost]

Interviewing people today.  I love neck tattoos.   

[Hammond]

Is the tattoo one of those tramp stamp style ones with the name of the  mother, sister, brother, cousin etc?   

[ghost]

I didn't talk to her so I didn't get a great look at it.  I'm having the staff pre-screen out any visible tattoos.  


Just for your enjoyment, we had a former employee who had a tattoo of herself on her arm.  She was naked and had a train heading into her mommy parts.  It was awesome.  Of course she wore a long sleeve shirt to the interview......

[MuffinMan]

This is why the top of my chest piece ends perfectly between T-shirt and collared shirt.

[Khaldun]

Some motherfucker kicked in the door to our house sometime in the middle of the day today, ran upstairs past the freaking-out dogs and grabbed all my wife's jewelry (a bunch of nice craft pieces that probably have almost no resale or fencing value--hardly any gold, no precious stones, but still 20 years of $100 craft pieces twice or three times a year adds up on our end, if not for the thief--plus many had sentimental connections for us, of course). Ran out and was gone. Left all our electronics alone--I think is trying not to get spotted with stuff that obvious, because he's been hitting a bunch of places within a mile of us. Fortunately my daughter didn't get home alone from the bus or she'd have been way more agitated than she is now. As it is the dogs are going absolutely apeshit about any noise at all in the front yard. Had to board up the door--wasn't time to get any kind of repair started, and I didn't feel like ripping a new half of the busted frame so I could juryrig a deadbolt. So some asshole got enough to maybe score half a hit of whatever shit he's needing but cost us a whole new door and door-frame, some serious doggie and human agitation, and a chunk of our history.

[ghost]

Some motherfucker kicked in the door to our house sometime in the middle of the day today, ran upstairs past the freaking-out dogs and grabbed all my wife's jewelry (a bunch of nice craft pieces that probably have almost no resale or fencing value--hardly any gold, no precious stones, but still 20 years of $100 craft pieces twice or three times a year adds up on our end, if not for the thief--plus many had sentimental connections for us, of course). Ran out and was gone. Left all our electronics alone--I think is trying not to get spotted with stuff that obvious, because he's been hitting a bunch of places within a mile of us. Fortunately my daughter didn't get home alone from the bus or she'd have been way more agitated than she is now. As it is the dogs are going absolutely apeshit about any noise at all in the front yard. Had to board up the door--wasn't time to get any kind of repair started, and I didn't feel like ripping a new half of the busted frame so I could juryrig a deadbolt. So some asshole got enough to maybe score half a hit of whatever shit he's needing but cost us a whole new door and door-frame, some serious doggie and human agitation, and a chunk of our history.

Something that targeted makes me think you've had someone there recently scoping the place out.  Possibly from the inside.  Have you had anyone strange around lately?

[Khaldun]

The whole neighborhood has had it lately--this is the guy's standard MO, he's hit about ten places in the last three weeks in exactly the same way. Cops think he's the same guy that hit this area six years ago or so (never caught). They think maybe he has a compatriot who walks the neighborhoods and pretends to be a door-to-door canvasser if he's challenged. Not the same as the genuine insider who was breaking in about three years ago--that was a kid up the street who was a heavy drug user, he was pretty dumb about it because his mommy and daddy went to Florida but cut him off from his allowance (he was in his mid-twenties). The cops caught him red-handed pretty fast. The current guy is pretty sophisticated--in and out superfast, gets what he can.

[Hammond]

Sorry that happened,  I am guessing the dogs probably screwed with his plans and that is why he grabbed what he did. 

[ghost]

The whole neighborhood has had it lately--this is the guy's standard MO, he's hit about ten places in the last three weeks in exactly the same way. Cops think he's the same guy that hit this area six years ago or so (never caught). They think maybe he has a compatriot who walks the neighborhoods and pretends to be a door-to-door canvasser if he's challenged. Not the same as the genuine insider who was breaking in about three years ago--that was a kid up the street who was a heavy drug user, he was pretty dumb about it because his mommy and daddy went to Florida but cut him off from his allowance (he was in his mid-twenties). The cops caught him red-handed pretty fast. The current guy is pretty sophisticated--in and out superfast, gets what he can.

There was a string of robberies in my old neighborhood.  It was the same deal-  druggie kid breaking into everyones' homes.  Pretty amazingly, a patient of mine (10 year old girl) caught the dude breaking into a house, called the cops and got him arrested.  She was fairly proud of herself. 

I'm sure there is a standard set of shit that they look for.  My office also got broken into about 8 months ago.  I had a TV on the wall that was pretty big and they broke into the neighboring vacant space, cut a hole in the wall and stole the TV in about 3 minutes.  Of course they broke it all to shit getting it out of the place. 

Sorry to hear about the jewelry.  It's also always spooky getting broken into.  I guess you have to look at the bright side-  at least you'll have some birthday/christmas gift possibilities coming up.  I hope your insurance will help cover the cost. 

[Khaldun]

Insurance will cover the door plus at least some replacement on jewelry, after $500 deductible. So that's not really the issue. Going to complicate our schedules though since our middle-school kid was arriving home by herself and letting herself in for an hour/hour-and-a-half before we got home. Can't do that now since we won't have a new front door for at least four or five days and even after I think she'll be too spooked (and so will we) to do it.

[Lantyssa]

Yeah.  I was freaked out for a good long while after the guy broke into my place.  Kept the axe by my desk until we moved.

[Cyrrex]

Kept the axe by my desk until we moved.

Remind me not to break into your house.

[Sky]

Doesn't everyone keep an axe by the desk?

Guy broke into my neighbor's house a few months ago, I'm surprised he survived. They're retired troopers and a bit peculiar; can't believe he didn't take a full mag from their glocks. Although I think the guy has a browning, I can't keep their weapons straight.

In fact, with the amount of weapons in most houses on my block, we should put up a warning sign. The houses that don't have sport shooting or defense weaponry have hunting weapons. It's almost Texas.