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16 November 2014 | 22 replies
It took everything in me to keep calm.... and it was at night with a flashlight....
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3 November 2023 | 34 replies
I wish I could have talked to a live person through this process as it would have calmed my nerves about potentially losing my money.
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14 August 2015 | 11 replies
Second, calm yourself as these are just small problems that you will have to solve.
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7 December 2017 | 6 replies
The folks I know who live in the Heights are all in cute little houses with big porches on calm and peaceful tree-lined streets.
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23 April 2014 | 13 replies
Regis looking over Hanalei Bay at the mountains with the constant waterfalls.
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11 January 2015 | 1 reply
Any suggestions on calming his nerves?
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26 December 2023 | 132 replies
I have seen nails blown straight into/through plumbing lines, toilets that just about fell through the floor from caulked in water-fall-leaks, and all kinds of stupidity that made that "cheap guy" way WAY-expensive because of all the repairs needed to their "cheap" work.
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28 July 2021 | 171 replies
BUT.. you still have to keep coming back with respect and professionalism, to take the upper road and not get pulled down into the mud with the dirty people, to "trust but verify" and keep calm and collected.
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24 October 2012 | 13 replies
It's a great opportunity to learn not to speak to someone when they are emotional and threatening - have them call back when they are calm.
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10 August 2022 | 1 reply
If there is one thing that investors should value is the ability to approach any issue, with a healthy dose of patience and calm.