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6 February 2020 | 6 replies
Currently doing a small window replacement job, only 70 windows, supplier got measurements wrong on 4 of them, he ate it, no big box will do that.Good luck.
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26 April 2017 | 3 replies
There's one strip I was interested in, I watched the restaurant at different times, ate there dinner time.
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17 September 2017 | 7 replies
Luckily, I am prepared and the reserves are there but it ate all the profit for the year.
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19 May 2019 | 16 replies
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.
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28 February 2019 | 12 replies
Those extra costs I ate in the past were "tuition."
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2 April 2019 | 57 replies
I have seen organizations make good real estate deals only then to get ate up with office brats running up the soft cost.
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1 March 2019 | 12 replies
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.
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21 December 2021 | 38 replies
We could slam 2 to 3 houses a day and made a killing, until we ate a job.
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14 August 2015 | 22 replies
Nevertheless do you mean to tell me that you don't see him as being even a ted-bit arrogant in his actions?
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2 August 2013 | 13 replies
I recall saying stuff like this 9 years ago but ate my words, hahaThen a wise man told me not to count my chickens.....