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2 August 2024 | 53 replies
This is the first time USA is acting like Africa fourth-world country that they blocked presidential candidate by using a "judge".Also take a look at how Elon Musk is treated when they're not voicing the same song as the elites.Something really broken in America.And, in this digital age, with TX now the 8th largest economy in the world among nations, does TX really "need" the Federal Union any longer?
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28 July 2024 | 1 reply
We also had some exposed wires under the house that required some minor electric upgrades to bring to code.
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29 July 2024 | 12 replies
We are giving people and we want to make our tenants lives better with some upgrades here and there.
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27 July 2024 | 10 replies
Upgrade appliances, install new countertops, and modernize fixtures wherever you can.
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27 July 2024 | 1 reply
It needed to be put outside and upgraded to handle the juice of all of the appliances.
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27 July 2024 | 14 replies
My house was built in 2005 - I don't have new white cabinets (like almost every upgraded kitchen now) or granite/quartz countertops but the cabinets are an upgrade from 2005, bathrooms are an upgrade from 2005 base model, no LVP floors, has carpet and linoleum (that looks like tile from a distance).
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29 July 2024 | 17 replies
The upgrades do not add enough value.
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30 July 2024 | 23 replies
If you're doing so willfully, and that can be proven by an examiner, it actually gets upgraded to evasion which can have jail time of up to 5 years.
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27 July 2024 | 3 replies
During the time we lived there we made some minor upgrades/repairs- renovated upstairs bathroom, replaced carpet on 1st floor with LVP flooring, added artificial turf to the backyard, replaced pool pump, and replaced the HVAC system.
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26 July 2024 | 2 replies
An added bonus is I'm not swarmed by day laborers, as well as my trucks don't get broken into.