The Market has Not gotten as "Soft" here as in other parts of the Country.

Now if anyone even points a paint brush at me I'll chase them down with a baseball bat (LOL)Love RE but I enjoy using options...

They make their profit when you start buying all the tape, rollers, trays, brushes, handles, scrapers, sand paper, buckets, screens and new fangled gadgetry along with a host of other products that may be required to finish all phases of the job at hand.Has anyone ever told you that?

One of my students, a harmless, 60 year old, soft spoken guy had a homeowner in a well-to-do part of Dallas come to the door with a gun!

I've always suspected this thing goes on in sealed bids, but didn't know there was a term for it.....Ray (and anybody else here).....regarding Realtors and their "ethics"First off, let me say this...I realize I'm painting with a rather large brush here, and this isn't representative of all realtors, just some I've met.

Funds are designated for certian costs of the project, excluding land costs.and certian soft costs.

If you know how to use some tools and a paint brush you can do a lot of the things yourself = cheap labour.. haha3) Your question implies that you might not have that much investment experience.

The rental market is soft right now, and with the recent home-buying craze, most people over the age of 25 with good credit now have a mortgage, and aren't looking to rent apartments.

I've also adapted a business model where 10% of every major good deal that goes through, gets funneled directly to these kinds of efforts--kind of helps keep me humble, oriented on what's really important, and makes sure it doesn't get brushed to the sidelines in a money making bonanza.

Among most faculty and students, there is an infantile disregard and disdain for the hard working, innovative people who came before them- the people who actually created, built, and funded the soft, comfortable collegial way of life enjoyed by the people attending and "teaching" at the institution.Someday, probably soon, the warped attitudes and poor judgment instilled in our young people will crumble our way of life if we don't insist on bringing some grown-ups onto campus in order to give a more mature and informed view of the real world.