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20 October 2023 | 4 replies
The harsh reality is that the United States is now $33 TRILLION is debt, at least $1T more than we were 90 or so days ago.
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25 October 2023 | 11 replies
Although it may sound harsh, a large bill can kill cashflow for the month.As for the extra income, talk to your CPA/a tax professional, your scenario may be different than mine.Keep us updated as things move on!!
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10 September 2021 | 6 replies
Amongst all sorts of chemicals it also was corrosive enough to dissolve the lead pipes natural passive layer of PbO2 inside the pipes, so lead could leach into the water.
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4 August 2020 | 4 replies
Yes, this is the "issue" with doing a house hack --- you have to live in your construction zone.Sorry to be harsh, but if you can't afford to pay rent and carry the mortgage on another place, you need to either earn more money or not carry two places.
5 October 2023 | 30 replies
The harsh truth - commercial brokers won't give you the time of day on pocket listings unless they are confident you have the ability to raise the funds to close the deal.
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18 October 2023 | 8 replies
I don't mean to sound harsh, but you already know the answer and are just lying to yourself that there's an easy way out.You have been doing this wrong for three years.
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9 December 2021 | 10 replies
Additionally, efflorescence doesn’t mean there is water actively in the house, but that moisture is pushing ground leached chemicals through the foundation.
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20 March 2019 | 42 replies
I guess I was a little harsh but was never expecting the response I got from lima one today.
17 November 2016 | 28 replies
Now, as I harshly found out, getting any deal here (on or off market) is so hard right now.
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30 November 2017 | 1 reply
Beware that this process is very smelly in a chemically kind of way and you'll probably want to make sure that nobody else is in the house that day.For carpet and granite, I use Carpet Exchange.