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19 August 2016 | 13 replies
I was a meat cutter for 30+ years.
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27 July 2017 | 3 replies
That's especially true if you think this will end up being a deal that's a bit more complicated than your usual cookie-cutter deals.
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4 February 2014 | 25 replies
Adequate parking and proximity to public transportation stops.Current # of years tenants in place in our properties: 26 - 22 - 13 - 13 - 11 - 7 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 2 - 2 - 1/2 - 1/2 - 1/2 - 0 (vacant).Some characteristics of our longer term tenants: retiree, disability, felony in the distant past, limited English skills, bus rider, semi-truck driver with need to park the rig, section 8, low income.
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5 September 2006 | 7 replies
New construction developers have also been hit hard because their shiny cookie-cutter homes have been overpriced for a long while and this is the first time in a few years that they aren't selling.
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6 August 2018 | 5 replies
They provide a cookie cutter model and take very little of your personal needs into consideration.
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11 December 2019 | 5 replies
Chain link can be defeated with a small $5 pair of bolt cutters, in less than 30 seconds you can clip an opening large enough to drive a car through.Cameras are a nice placebo, but they can be defeated just by wearing a hoodie or facemask.
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5 August 2021 | 36 replies
Rigging the hinges with longer screws, toothpicks, or putting in plastic hole anchors, three common quick-fixes, would be too flimsy for my rental properties and probably yours.
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28 December 2010 | 5 replies
If they have to do a lot of roping and rigging to avoid structures it could go up to 1,000.Leaving behind wood can save you a few dollars.
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3 January 2015 | 7 replies
I used a sod cutter to pull up the existing lawn.
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11 April 2012 | 9 replies
A friend of the family is selling it to me for 95k when all the houses in the area that are the same cookie cutter type are going for 120k to 140k.