With gentle nudging by Richard & Co., Sarah agreed to meet the notary on Friday morning at 10:00 AM, the same time that we are to do a final pre-closing walkthrough at the house.

The way the Chinese communists make your family pay for the bullet they execute you with.But even at the body shop, the technician fills the scratch and buffs the panel with color-matched paste.

Gently set it down and see if it moves without a lot of intervention.

Really it's just a gentle way of letting me go and in a way that they aren't on the hook for unemployment.

I wouldn't be all that gentle about it.

If the hardwood floors aren't a disaster, but need to be spruced up, try waxing them with a paste wax (Johnsons Paste Wax available at most grocery stores and certainly all home improvement stores) and buff them out with a floor buffer theat you can rent at most equipment rental locations.

Seth-As a courtesy to your borrower, you might consider gently telling him that 100% occupancy is actually a problem.

That emotional issue is the one that you need to bring to the surface so that both of you can share it, face it, and talk about it.The only way forward is through gentle conversation and active listening on your part to talk in depth with her about her past money/security experiences and perceptions.

They gently 'nudge' me by saying "well, when we work for XYZ Inc, they use this system, can we try it for you?"

I am sounding like a jerk here, but it is hard to state what I am about to state and sound kind and gentle...smoking is smoking.