“We were hoping we could get a fair price for a home now,” says Marcelo Garcia, 33, a senior program manager at e-commerce giant Amazon.

At best Seattle could have flat lined in prices for several years while inflation ate away at it's real value.

They ate breakfast while the crew carried out bathroom fixtures.I called our Realtor and he tried to serve as an intermediary, cautioning us to not get the police involved as that could complicate things.

Martin.I would never ask their advice, if I’m being frank.I’m pretty “ate-up” with it right now.

When River Forest sold for $550k, the holding costs and interest ate up all of the profit leaving us without the construction start up costs (HML works on reimbursement).

I've tried to eat before going to a restaurant to save money... but what ends up happening is I buy food at the restaurant because it smells so damn good, and end up bloated as hell on the couch afterwords, because I ate 2 meals lol.

I simply ate my lose and took it on the chin so I would not make a bad situation worse.

Last year they decided to raise mine by almost $50 and the property taxes went up on it by over $800 last year, which ate into my cash flow.

One of the things I noticed is that the furnace will have a smaller diameter input, so a reducer is used, and there is also a tee and at least three inch drip leg; those are all going to be "hard pipe" pieces - so maybe at that point it is better to stay with hard pipe (I believe it is less costly).And hard gas pipe is not going to have the same vulnerability with lightning strikes as with CSST. 

We ate ramen, TONS of ramen.