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So the Leak guy has confirmed that he was here for this same issue in 2016 and the owners (whom we bought from) declined to repair it. He is sending us that invoice. My wife called our realtor and she it PISSED. They signed a contract stating the house had no issues to their knowledge so they're in breach. We can go to arbitration for anything under $2000 without actually suing them. We've been instructed to assemble every receipt for what we've spent trying to sort this problem out. That and the estimate for the first repair estimate from the plumber the other day comes to more than $2000 but our gal is confident that when they present them with this they will want to settle rather than have us sue them. I'm not expecting to get every dime back but I think we're done paying for this poo poo out of our own pocket.
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Adiabatic posted:If you weren't leaving I'd have started a campaign to run for the board president's spot at this point, with a bunch of this poo poo as my platform. Door to door, asking residents what they hate about the current HOA. I seriously went down that route, if I wasn't leaving I'd absolutely do it. Nidhg00670000 posted:I'm still not sure what the purpose a HOA actually is? From what I've gathered here in AI a HOAs main mission is to make everyone miserable? In the case of a townhouse complex it's necessary. They take care of landscaping and all exterior building repair and maintenance. They also negotiate a good garbage and snow removal contract, and other stuff like that. Rhyno posted:They signed a contract stating the house had no issues to their knowledge so they're in breach. We can go to arbitration for anything under $2000 without actually suing them. This is good for you, and it's making me think about anything in my own inspection report or history that could bite me when I sell my place next year. As in, report everything I know about.
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Oct 18, 2019 15:03
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Rhyno posted:So the Leak guy has confirmed that he was here for this same issue in 2016 and the owners (whom we bought from) declined to repair it. He is sending us that invoice. My wife called our realtor and she it PISSED. They signed a contract stating the house had no issues to their knowledge so they're in breach. We can go to arbitration for anything under $2000 without actually suing them. We've been instructed to assemble every receipt for what we've spent trying to sort this problem out. That and the estimate for the first repair estimate from the plumber the other day comes to more than $2000 but our gal is confident that when they present them with this they will want to settle rather than have us sue them. I'm not expecting to get every dime back but I think we're done paying for this poo poo out of our own pocket. That's beautiful. You got so lucky by picking the same guy. Good luck nailing them, seems like you have it on lock. LloydDobler posted:This is good for you, and it's making me think about anything in my own inspection report or history that could bite me when I sell my place next year. As in, report everything I know about. Every state is different. Check with a realtor and get a disclosure statement so you can see what your state requires. In Ohio there's a 5 year horizon so you don't have to go all the way back.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I'm still not sure what the purpose a HOA actually is? From what I've gathered here in AI a HOAs main mission is to make everyone miserable? HOAs exist for subdivisions of large, expensive houses with small plots of land where home values are high. (This is not to say that they don't serve purposes in other situations, just what they were created for). They are to ensure that everyone in that subdivision keeps to the same standard of home and land upkeep in order to keep property values at as high a level as the HOA's rules entail. That level of upkeep varies by HOA. The big problem is that HOAs in both instances tend to run towards being very particular about rule enforcement and defending their position of "power". Corporately-run HOAs do the minimum possible to keep their cash flow intact while not at all actually being concerned about property value; ergo their best price/performance ratio comes from fining homeowners where possible for breaking the rules while not actually doing anything that expends money. Privately-run HOAs (which is to say, homeowner-run) have the issue that it tends to attract authoritarian busybodies who get a sense of power and ownership over other's property by being "in charge" and have a tendency to send lots of "fix or get a fine" letters and be very nit-picky about the rules. That usually only dies out when it's people who hate those sorts of people that step in and get elected to serve, but then you end up with anti-authoritarians who only go after the most egregious violations of the rules.
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Oct 18, 2019 15:07
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meatpimp posted:That's beautiful. You got so lucky by picking the same guy. Good luck nailing them, seems like you have it on lock. Very lucky but he's literally the only game in town. We're really lucky that actually bothered to have it inspected. I'm doubly annoyed because they lowballed us on the concession negotiations and they KNEW about this. This kind of poo poo never works out for me. I've been hosed over on purchases so many times because I didn't have a paper trail so this is incredibly satisfying.
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Ah ee ooh Killer tofu Ee ah ee Ooh ee ooh Killer tofu
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Ah ee ooh Am I retarded and missing a joke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAr5tzZxdk
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Rhyno posted:So the Leak guy has confirmed that he was here for this same issue in 2016 and the owners (whom we bought from) declined to repair it. He is sending us that invoice. My wife called our realtor and she it PISSED. They signed a contract stating the house had no issues to their knowledge so they're in breach. We can go to arbitration for anything under $2000 without actually suing them. We've been instructed to assemble every receipt for what we've spent trying to sort this problem out. That and the estimate for the first repair estimate from the plumber the other day comes to more than $2000 but our gal is confident that when they present them with this they will want to settle rather than have us sue them. I'm not expecting to get every dime back but I think we're done paying for this poo poo out of our own pocket. FWIW, a realtor is not a lawyer. You will need a lawyer, and don't expect anything back.
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I'm aware, she's already hooked us up with the guy her office uses for these. I dont even care about getting the money spent back, I just want to be done spending my own money.
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Goober Peas posted:Oh eeh ay Duck Tales! whooh ooh Every day they're out there making Duck Tales! whooh ooh Tales of daring do bad and good luck tales! whooh ooh
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quote:“The only person in the military Mr. Trump does not feel is overrated,” Mr. Mattis said. “That’s Colonel Sanders,” the founder and symbol of Kentucky Fried Chicken. 
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I can not believe this type of poo poo is happening, in real life, in this world in which we live. This poo poo is so weird. I don't understand how poo poo is so weird.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I'm still not sure what the purpose a HOA actually is? From what I've gathered here in AI a HOAs main mission is to make everyone miserable? My understanding is that at least in AZ, cities pretty much forced most developers to start creating HOAs sometime in the 1980s to offload most of the city code compliance work onto citizens. This has resulted in a market where if you don't want an HOA, your options are either old neighborhoods (which are either high end and expensive, or cheap housing thrown together 40 years ago on a shoestring budget) or custom builds on land on the outskirts of town. My HOA has actually gotten better over the years, since some like-minded similar-aged neighbors got onto the board and displaced some crotchety boomers.
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Rhyno posted:I'm aware, she's already hooked us up with the guy her office uses for these. I dont even care about getting the money spent back, I just want to be done spending my own money. IOwnCalculus posted:AZ HOAs
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I just walked into the bathroom to take a piss and noticed both stalls were shut, it was unreasonably warm and humid, and the air was thick with the aroma of butthole. So, I said aloud, "mmmmm fresh poop." Stall #1 immediately farts. Stall #2 sounds like they're trying to stifle a laugh and then I hear a *PLOP-SPLASH* Both stalls erupt in laughter. Poop jokes are never not-funny.
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Ether Frenzy posted:What do you think the lawyer you hire is going to want? A percentage of whatever we'd end up suing for. We're going to try to avoid that if possible, anything under $2K can be handled via a mediation for nominal fees.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I just walked into the bathroom to take a piss and noticed both stalls were shut, it was unreasonably warm and humid, and the air was thick with the aroma of butthole. I loving HATE pooping at work. Without fail, there's inexplicably grease or other questionable maybe poop substances all over the toilet (are techs torquing wheels on with their bare butts? Who knows!) and someone will shuffle in loudly groaning, sighing, and grunting before they get to the toilet before they loudly grunt and groan some more. Christ, I eat like poo poo and I don't have these problems, are people just eating bricks of cheese and copious amounts of Taco Bell for lunch? /rant I just wanna take a ten minute poop in peace after a morning coffee 
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T-Square posted:I loving HATE pooping at work. Without fail, there's inexplicably grease or other questionable maybe poop substances all over the toilet (are techs torquing wheels on with their bare butts? Who knows!) and someone will shuffle in loudly groaning, sighing, and grunting before they get to the toilet before they loudly grunt and groan some more. Christ, I eat like poo poo and I don't have these problems, are people just eating bricks of cheese and copious amounts of Taco Bell for lunch? Every last bit of this is preferable to the insufferable douchebags who watch videos on their phone (or, worse yet, TALK ON THE loving THINGS) mid-poo poo.
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Oh, both of those happen too.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Every last bit of this is preferable to the insufferable douchebags who watch videos on their phone (or, worse yet, TALK ON THE loving THINGS) mid-poo poo. "OH YEAH? THEN WHAT DID YOU DO? THAT'S SO FUNNY!!!" Bonus points for intentionally using the wrong (but only slightly) names. On a separate note ... ugh. I have an ear infection (apparently secondary to the flu, yay) for the first time in years and Oh. My. God. The loving tinnitus. All I can hear in that ear is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Holy poo poo. I was trying to find where that came from and it was a "roast" type setting, but they really weren't pulling any punches to cheeto-in-chief. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/us/mattis-trump.html quote:If Mr. Trump “ doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, both domestically and abroad, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office — Republican, Democrat or independent — the sooner, the better,” wrote Admiral McRaven, the man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. “The fate of our Republic depends upon it.” Rhyno posted:A percentage of whatever we'd end up suing for. We're going to try to avoid that if possible, anything under $2K can be handled via a mediation for nominal fees. A lawyer will generally not do the % gig unless it's big bucks (IE: Worth their time, 20% of $5000 is basically what they make in 2 hours). Is $2K enough? slidebite fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Most likely not. Based on the repair quote it's closer to $3500.
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Pray to every deity that the copper line is still pliable and not stuck so it pulls through that old well line its encased in.
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It's flexing fairly easily down in the basement. It only has a short curve to make it through and the it should pull free. A full trenching and new main line would be $14k.
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Goober Peas posted:Oh eeh ay stevobob posted:I can not believe this type of poo poo is happening, in real life, in this world in which we live. This poo poo is so weird. I don't understand how poo poo is so weird. I learnt that lesson the hard way. From the wrong end.
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A idiot huckster reality TV personality who managed to drive a casino out of business through his utterly inept understanding of how anything works is the president. That's how.
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Rhyno posted:It's flexing fairly easily down in the basement. It only has a short curve to make it through and the it should pull free. ------- Oh yeah - I saw a wreck on the way home today. Handyman in a E250 pulling a utility trailer with a lawnmower and a pre hung interior door was slowing down to make a right turn on a 4-lane 55mph road, old dude in an OG S10 ran slap into the trailer with a pretty big speed differential. Claimed he never saw the thing straight in front of him. I saw it coming from 300 feet back and hit the brakes before they collided. It threw all his trailer load into the road, knocked the trailer off the hitch ball, and bent the hitch up 90°. Trailer was surprisingly (relatively) undamaged, I guess the majority of the force traveled through the frame and turned into heat while bending that 1/2 steel plate on the hitch. S10 was fubar, driver bruised his arms hitting the steering wheel, which is what happens when not wearing a belt. I helped them push the mower out of the highway and clean up. Cop didn't ask for a statement but I left my name and number with the not at fault driver just in case their insurance wants to talk. Tl;Dr: I could have made a pretty sweet GIF, if I ran a dash cam.
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Fermented Tinal posted:going full Ken on my deck's stairs. I not sure whether to be happy or appalled that I understand the reference, here. Suburban Dad posted:Thread title aneurysm, No poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjrTcYMqBM Humphreys posted:Am I retarded and missing a joke? Beat me to it! Ether Frenzy posted:What do you think the lawyer you hire is going to want? How do people stand to live like that? Congratulate me. Yesterday was mine and my wife's 21st anniversary. We lived together for almost 5 years before that, so all tolled, over 25 years of
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Ether Frenzy posted:A idiot huckster reality TV personality who managed to drive a casino out of business through his utterly inept understanding of how anything works is the president. That's how. Not only did he fail to sell Americans gambling, he failed to sell Americans *steak* and *whiskey*, as I recall. Failing to sell *us* gambling, beef, and booze is pretty impressive.
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Darchangel posted:How do people stand to live like that?
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Darchangel posted:Congratulate me. Yesterday was mine and my wife's 21st anniversary. We lived together for almost 5 years before that, so all tolled, over 25 years of No, you congratulate me for 4 years, same day. Grats dude. 
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Congratulate me for 8 years with my wife, but celebrated a few days late.
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Somebody jog my memory: I think I remember a discussion on CVTs where it came up that Nissan's transmissions in particular have (or at least had) an oddly specific sort of "self-destruct" code. It was really specific like 22mph at X% throttle input, there was probably another variable but I don't remember. Anyone know about this and have they fixed it in their newer models?
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blindjoe posted:The first iteration of the transmission had a divide by zero/over writing problem. If you were going under 40 km/hr, and had a throttle position of exactly 10%, it would jump back and forth between the two bands (there are two CVTs, a low range and a high) every scan. And if that happened once, that transmission was hosed. They said it would be fine, but it wasn't. Might be firing up the Formula Ford this weekend for the first time. Need to triple check the oil level as I build oil pressure since I can't find a solid guideline anywhere. GoPro is charging! NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I'm still not sure what the purpose a HOA actually is? From what I've gathered here in AI a HOAs main mission is to make everyone miserable? In theory, to maintain amenities like greenspace and communal infrastructure. Developers start them to in practice control who they let buy into the development, and once the developer fucks off they become a method of old assholes dictating how their neighbors live and worshiping at the altar of 'keeping up property values'.
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Goddamnit. Getting ready to toss the new-to-me taillight on Boxersnax, and... the loving seller (a) cut the harness instead of leaving it intact (the bulb harness unplugs easily, and goes through a rubber grommet that pops right out) and (b) didn't include the mounting nuts (I dropped one inside the car  ).I'm gonna have to do a ghetto splice for now until I get some heat shrink butt connectors (... or maybe just toss the old one back on and run to Harbor Freight to get some heat shrink crimps). The existing brake light socket... works, but the bulb is dim, and the socket is rusted to hell. The socket that came with the ebay housing looks brand new, but now I have to splice it into the existing pigtail because the seller was too lazy to spend 5 seconds unplugging it and pulling a rubber grommet. The weird thing is the existing harness looks BRAND NEW; makes me wonder if a PO bought a new one to try to resolve the bulbs constantly burning out (no dumbass, they were burning out because they aren't meant to work under water...). I guess the upside is I found the only seller that was selling a tail lamp housing with free shipping - $39 total IIRC. The others were asking $35-50 for used ones, plus another $20-40 for shipping.  About to tackle replacing the itty loving bitty bulbs in the seat heater switches. Good lord these bulbs are TINY. e: and done. That was a pain in the rear end; I didn't realize my eyes had gotten to the point where I can't focus close up until I tried to thread the wire through the silicone bulb holders (ripped one, but made it work).  But both lights in both switches now work.  GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I just walked into the bathroom to take a piss and noticed both stalls were shut, it was unreasonably warm and humid, and the air was thick with the aroma of butthole. Several years ago I was in the restroom at work (also shared with customers). One stall was taken, I took the other. The smell from the next stall got to me, I wound up gagging a little. Guy in the next stall yelled out "THAT'S-AH SPICY-AH MEATBALL!" at the top of his lungs. I laughed pretty drat hard. No clue who it was. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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So there is no way I will have the time to do AI:SS this year and am looking to pass the torch. Who is interested in running it going forward? If you are good with excel it wouldn't take too long, but I am not so it was an arduous process. People give you the info on what region they live in, what regions they are willing to ship to, and you put them into spread sheets accordingly. I would assign numbers to each person and use a random number generator to match people up. There is probably an easier way though I don't know it. Apply within
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I'm having an issue with my xB and I'm trying to get some ideas on what might be causing the problem. My last xB (2012) that got totaled averaged 23mpg city. My new xB (2013) has been consistently averaging only 18mpg. The cars are essentially identical besides for a few minor cosmetic changes, so my new xB should be getting at the least 23mpg if not better. Air filter is clean, spark plugs look good (NGK Iridium) and I cleaned the MAF. Car has only 40k miles on it, what am I missing? I'm beginning to think there may be a small fuel leak somewhere.
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