Luckily, I am prepared and the reserves are there but it ate all the profit for the year. 

We were so poor that when we took a vacation, we drove to Florida from Chicago, ate dollar sandwiches at Mcdonalds, slept in the car because we couldn't afford to rent a hotel, and enjoyed the beaches during the day.Anyway, we decided to buy a foreclosed home for about $80k. 

Those extra costs I ate in the past were "tuition."

I have seen organizations make good real estate deals only then to get ate up with office brats running up the soft cost.

If you wanted to make 10% in one year (2,000) that bill just ate up 25% of your profit and turned a 10% return into an 8% return.

We could slam 2 to 3 houses a day and made a killing, until we ate a job.

Nevertheless do you mean to tell me that you don't see him as being even a ted-bit arrogant in his actions?

I recall saying stuff like this 9 years ago but ate my words, hahaThen a wise man told me not to count my chickens.....

, I picked up a book she had gotten as a present, called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, by Daniel Pool.

Who ate my leftover pizza?