But... i went to look at the deed recorder's office of NY for my info on who owns the mystery SFR and found there are no phone calls permitted to that office.

I dig in the attic, closets, under sinks, breaker boxes, everywhere there is to look before I make my first offer. 90% chance that if I am showing up to look at a house I am prepared to make an offer I'm just deciding on how low to go.

My offers are always cash and I offer aggressively for properties, but have many times lost out to the mysterious last minute offer that's $500-$1000 higher.

This box is checked, and my realtor is saying since this is checked, they can back out...

Just trying to be a little more out of the box!

There follows another story about little boxes with buttons operated via thumb-power used for... uhm... stuff and junk (picture much hand waving and imaginary thumb-texting.)

if you have flaking grout you can either saw away the chunks and regrout in spots or if you are insistent upon replacing the grout get a grout saw (at any big box store) and start the lengthy process of sawing out every last bit of that stuff.

And you can tag people by typing @ before you type their name, then clicking their name at the bottom of the message box.

Only cost me about $50 per baseboard, another $100 roll of pex, $200 for romex and breaker for box, and $25 thermostat.

Not a shoe box.