GM's thread about nothing (61 Viewers)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Any of you travelers enrolled in the tsa pre-check? How hard is that to do?

I didn't enroll but just got it automatically. I don't know why?

Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to my brother.

Really? From the tsa site, you have to go get fingerprinted and there's a background check.

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure he already had to fulfill those requirements for his job.

 

[Henry Ford]

Any of you travelers enrolled in the tsa pre-check? How hard is that to do?

I didn't enroll but just got it automatically. I don't know why?

Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to my brother.

Really? From the tsa site, you have to go get fingerprinted and there's a background check.

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure he already had to fulfill those requirements for his job.

As did Krista for bar admission.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Any of you travelers enrolled in the tsa pre-check? How hard is that to do?

I didn't enroll but just got it automatically. I don't know why?

Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to my brother.

Really? From the tsa site, you have to go get fingerprinted and there's a background check.

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure he already had to fulfill those requirements for his job.

As did Krista for bar admission.

Is this the thing where there is a separate line where you don't have to take off your shoes, open your laptop, etc...?

 

[YSR]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Any of you travelers enrolled in the tsa pre-check? How hard is that to do?

I didn't enroll but just got it automatically. I don't know why?

Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to my brother.

Really? From the tsa site, you have to go get fingerprinted and there's a background check.

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure he already had to fulfill those requirements for his job.

As did Krista for bar admission.

Is this the thing where there is a separate line where you don't have to take off your shoes, open your laptop, etc...?

Extra bag of peanuts too.

 

[FDAS]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

Very good money in doing this stuff, very ####ty travel and time away from home.

 

[Henry Ford]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

When he decides to bail on the insurance industry and start doing expert work on catastrophic loss adjustment, let me know. Always need those guys.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

No matter how cute she is...somebody out there is tired of her crap

Act casual

How I know when my wife's been cooking

Old people humor

 

[Foosball God]

I'm actually getting money back in taxes this year. I did so by making money on a house I sold that had been a rental unit.

I don't understand this system.

I'm going to make sure to order the premium beer when you come.

 

[GroveDiesel]

This prank is awesome:

http://beta.thescore.com/news/479324

 

[mr roboto]

This prank is awesome:

http://beta.thescore.com/news/479324

That's dedication right there.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

This prank is awesome:

http://beta.thescore.com/news/479324

incredible

 

[GroveDiesel]

What I want to know is if they had it planned to go that long to begin with; or if they were just goofing on him, he bought it so thoroughly that they all just looked at each other and went "how long do you think he would buy it?"

 

[GroveDiesel]

Another beisbol related video. You can see the exact moment the one guy stops believing God is real.

http://deadspin.com/phillies-fans-reactions-to-dan-ugglas-grand-slam-are-am-1563288296

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Another beisbol related video. You can see the exact moment the one guy stops believing God is real.

http://deadspin.com/phillies-fans-reactions-to-dan-ugglas-grand-slam-are-am-1563288296

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Gif run

This reporter is my hero

Finish with style

I'd probably lose it too if there was a penguin in my house

wow.....much relax.....very duc....so soke

 

[General Malaise]

For Frosty, here is Emma Stone on the Graham Norton show being painfully adorable.

We have the same favorite spice girl!

Hizzy Spice?

 

[General Malaise]

I spent all day Sunday working in the yard. Started with an 8 am trip to get shrubs and ended just before dark as I attempted to get the last azalea bush planted (I was thwarted by a nasty root system that even YSR + reciprocating saw yesterday morning couldn't tackle). It was a really long day, made longer by the fact that I cannot locate our spade-tipped shovel and so all holes (2 forsythia, 10 3G azaleas) had to be dug with a post hole digger. My upper body strength is akin to Fuller's lower body strength, so I was exhausted by day's end, but also so very proud of my work and the result.

All of this is to lead to a complaint that on my way to SC yesterday I heard on the radio that it's going to freeze tonight, which may lead to my beautiful plants' demise. Thanks, Obama.

"What are those #######s doing on the porch?"

"Those aren't #######s. It's pronounced azaleas."

Anyway, that's awfully impressive. I hope your plants survive. Can you have someone go cover them?

I've gotten in touch with my father-in-law who said he would go by there and do so. He's also kind of lazy and depressed and sleeps until 2:00 most days, so there have been lots of instances in the past when he just "couldn't get it together" to do something he's told us he'll do. So I'd say it's about a 50/50 shot. If they die, I'll just have Romo re-do it all when he gets home in (hopefully) 3 weeks.

Your FIL is Homer?

 

[General Malaise]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

Very good money in doing this stuff, very ####ty travel and time away from home.

Can you get me an in?

My grandfather worked for the SBA and had to live in disaster areas helping to rebuild businesses with loans. Seemed pretty cool when he'd go to Hawaii for 6 months. Seemed less cool when he spent a year in Brownsville, Texas.

 

[General Malaise]

How I know when my wife's been cooking

 

[Uwe Blab]

What I want to know is if they had it planned to go that long to begin with; or if they were just goofing on him, he bought it so thoroughly that they all just looked at each other and went "how long do you think he would buy it?"

I think it had to happen organically and nothing initially planned. We had a roommate in college so convinced that Dave Matthews was special-needs/mentally-######ed for nearly all of our Sophomore year that he would openly talk of his admiration for him to score "sweet-guy" points with girls at parties.

Him: "I love how the lead-singer of these guys is out there showing how ######ed people can still excel...he's such an inspiration."

Her:

 

[General Malaise]

This prank is awesome:

http://beta.thescore.com/news/479324

incredible

So good....

"HEY! WAY TO GO!!!

 

[General Malaise]

What I want to know is if they had it planned to go that long to begin with; or if they were just goofing on him, he bought it so thoroughly that they all just looked at each other and went "how long do you think he would buy it?"

I think it had to happen organically and nothing initially planned. We had a roommate in college so convinced that Dave Matthews was special-needs/mentally-######ed for nearly all of our Sophomore year that he would openly talk of his admiration for him to score "sweet-guy" points with girls at parties.

Him: "I love how the lead-singer of these guys is out there showing how ######ed people can still excel...he's such an inspiration."

Her:

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Tanner, did you hit up Undie Sunday?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Tanner, did you hit up Undie Sunday?

No idea this went on. But that's how we roll in CONDORSTOWN!

 

[Thorn]

What I want to know is if they had it planned to go that long to begin with; or if they were just goofing on him, he bought it so thoroughly that they all just looked at each other and went "how long do you think he would buy it?"

I think it had to happen organically and nothing initially planned. We had a roommate in college so convinced that Dave Matthews was special-needs/mentally-######ed for nearly all of our Sophomore year that he would openly talk of his admiration for him to score "sweet-guy" points with girls at parties.

Him: "I love how the lead-singer of these guys is out there showing how ######ed people can still excel...he's such an inspiration."

Her:

Sounded like Jorge didn't react to a foul ball near him, Francouer noticed, then they just ran with it.

 

[heckmanm]

work no longer blocking YouTube

golf

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Now you guys can feel as old as I do/am.

What happens when you give today's kids a Walkman.

 

[FDAS]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

Very good money in doing this stuff, very ####ty travel and time away from home.

Can you get me an in?

My grandfather worked for the SBA and had to live in disaster areas helping to rebuild businesses with loans. Seemed pretty cool when he'd go to Hawaii for 6 months. Seemed less cool when he spent a year in Brownsville, Texas.

Who doesn't love working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week?

 

[krista4]

Any of you travelers enrolled in the tsa pre-check? How hard is that to do?

I didn't enroll but just got it automatically. I don't know why?

Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to my brother.

Really? From the tsa site, you have to go get fingerprinted and there's a background check.

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure he already had to fulfill those requirements for his job.

As did Krista for bar admission.

I've only had to do fingerprints for GA bar admission, which was at least a year after I started getting the precheck thing.

 

[heckmanm]

I think if you own a house in > 50% of the airline's destinations, the pre-check thing kicks in automatically.

 

[krista4]

wow.....much relax.....very duc....so soke

Favorite.

 

[krista4]

I think if you own a house in > 50% of the airline's destinations, the pre-check thing kicks in automatically.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

"Good Will Hunting" is on HBO right now. Doesn't matter if you like this flick or can't stand Damon/Affleck.

This scene is money.

 

[Drifter]

1st world problems today. I own 2 properties in CO. One is a condo that used to belong to my wife before we married. It's actually a decent source of positive rental income. The other is the house we lived in when we moved to Seattle. We weren't in a position to sell it when I moved here and the market didn't help much. We've had it rented the entire time and the second tenants have been in it now for around 2.5 years. Nice family, pay their rent on the time, are the occasional pain but, really, pretty damn easy as far as tenants go. The rent doesn't cover all my expenses and I make too much to claim rental income losses as deductions, so while I am building equity equal to the negative delta, I'm still upside down from a cash flow perspective.

Anyway, the Colorado market has skyrocketed. My wife's best friend who is a successful realtor, says the average days on market in our neighborhood is 3 days and she threw a listing number at us that was pretty shocking - about 15% higher than what we could have gotten over the last couple of years. Of course, the house has been a rental for the last 3.5 years and while it's in decent shape, it needs paint and cosmetic touch ups to get it into selling shape.

We started discussing with the tenants to see if they would be interested in buying and we'd cut them a deal to do it without realtors, yada yada yada. Turns out they are pregnant with their 3rd kid and don't think they are in a position to buy (likely credit issues that are almost off their record). He wants to talk about possible rent to own or even paying more rent to just let them stay.

Of course, were the situation reversed and they had an opportunity to move that suited their interests, they wouldn't think twice about how that affected us, but nonetheless, I still feel bad. My biggest worry is that I feel like we are currently in a sweet spot with a hot market and low rates and my spider sense tells me now is the time to unload the house. Rent to Own is an option but I would only do it with a $100 rent increase plus they'd need to come up with $200 mo on a 30 month agreement with a $5000 option fee and I don't know if they'd be able to come up with that money. It would also likely delay my ability to buy a house here in Seattle for at least a year and a half to two years.

The only way it makes sense for me to just keep renting is to raise the rent $250/mo and that still leaves us dealing with the property, potentially losing out on the opportunity to sell at the right time and not buying a place here for the same amount of time.

Am I a #### for following my own self interests here?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Am I a #### for following my own self interests here?

No. It's the real world out there.

Hell, we rented a house from my dad for a few years. Then the market exploded. He and my stepmom knew they could make a killing on it. There was probably no way we could buy it (I don't think I would have bought it anyway since I knew all the stuff that was wrong with it).

I never once held it against them for selling it.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Any of you travelers enrolled in the tsa pre-check? How hard is that to do?

I didn't enroll but just got it automatically. I don't know why?

Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to my brother.

Really? From the tsa site, you have to go get fingerprinted and there's a background check.

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure he already had to fulfill those requirements for his job.

As did Krista for bar admission.

Oh me too!

 

[mr roboto]

Now you guys can feel as old as I do/am.

What happens when you give today's kids a Walkman.

Watch the one where they react to Nirvana and The Beatles.

 

[krista4]

Completely understand why you'd feel like a jerk in that situation, Drifter, but you're not; you're doing the right thing. Maybe since you have a very good realtor friend there, she could help the people find a great new place to live?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Now you guys can feel as old as I do/am.

What happens when you give today's kids a Walkman.

Watch the one where they react to Nirvana and The Beatles.

The Beatles one was heartening. Kids still dig them.

People My Age React to Eminem

 

[kevzilla]

Completely understand why you'd feel like a jerk in that situation, Drifter, but you're not; you're doing the right thing. Maybe since you have a very good realtor friend there, she could help the people find a great new place to live?

Even better question: How much was your offer?

 

[Henry Ford]

1st world problems today. I own 2 properties in CO. One is a condo that used to belong to my wife before we married. It's actually a decent source of positive rental income. The other is the house we lived in when we moved to Seattle. We weren't in a position to sell it when I moved here and the market didn't help much. We've had it rented the entire time and the second tenants have been in it now for around 2.5 years. Nice family, pay their rent on the time, are the occasional pain but, really, pretty damn easy as far as tenants go. The rent doesn't cover all my expenses and I make too much to claim rental income losses as deductions, so while I am building equity equal to the negative delta, I'm still upside down from a cash flow perspective.

Anyway, the Colorado market has skyrocketed. My wife's best friend who is a successful realtor, says the average days on market in our neighborhood is 3 days and she threw a listing number at us that was pretty shocking - about 15% higher than what we could have gotten over the last couple of years. Of course, the house has been a rental for the last 3.5 years and while it's in decent shape, it needs paint and cosmetic touch ups to get it into selling shape.

We started discussing with the tenants to see if they would be interested in buying and we'd cut them a deal to do it without realtors, yada yada yada. Turns out they are pregnant with their 3rd kid and don't think they are in a position to buy (likely credit issues that are almost off their record). He wants to talk about possible rent to own or even paying more rent to just let them stay.

Of course, were the situation reversed and they had an opportunity to move that suited their interests, they wouldn't think twice about how that affected us, but nonetheless, I still feel bad. My biggest worry is that I feel like we are currently in a sweet spot with a hot market and low rates and my spider sense tells me now is the time to unload the house. Rent to Own is an option but I would only do it with a $100 rent increase plus they'd need to come up with $200 mo on a 30 month agreement with a $5000 option fee and I don't know if they'd be able to come up with that money. It would also likely delay my ability to buy a house here in Seattle for at least a year and a half to two years.

The only way it makes sense for me to just keep renting is to raise the rent $250/mo and that still leaves us dealing with the property, potentially losing out on the opportunity to sell at the right time and not buying a place here for the same amount of time.

Am I a #### for following my own self interests here?

I agree with Krista - have your realtor help them find a new place, wish them luck, and let them have enough time to move out. That's more than enough to do for some tenants, even if you really like them.

 

[Drifter]

Completely understand why you'd feel like a jerk in that situation, Drifter, but you're not; you're doing the right thing. Maybe since you have a very good realtor friend there, she could help the people find a great new place to live?

Even better question: How much was your offer?

2% off listing for not having to do sale prep and 2% more either in closing fees or price reduction for eliminating the realtor. Also full refund of damage deposit and pet deposit

 

[Henry Ford]

Now you guys can feel as old as I do/am.

What happens when you give today's kids a Walkman.

This is way better than when I posted the video in the "Wanna feel old?" thread here on the first page this morning.

 

[General Malaise]

Tell them to stop having so many damn kids. Three? What are they, the Bradys?

Oh, wait....

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Now you guys can feel as old as I do/am.

What happens when you give today's kids a Walkman.

True, but staged, built up somewhat. The headphone part was especially lame. Every computer class in school has those headphones

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Completely understand why you'd feel like a jerk in that situation, Drifter, but you're not; you're doing the right thing. Maybe since you have a very good realtor friend there, she could help the people find a great new place to live?

Even better question: How much was your offer?

2% off listing for not having to do sale prep and 2% more either in closing fees or price reduction for eliminating the realtor. Also full refund of damage deposit and pet deposit

K4 is moving to Denver?

 

[YSR]

What is Romo doing again? Building roads in the Congo?

He's a catastrophe insurance adjuster. So he goes to sites where there is major storm damage for 30-60 days at a time (will potentially be longer stints when hurricane season starts). He's in Kansas City now working on hail damage from a recent storm.

Not as glamorous as the Congo.

Very good money in doing this stuff, very ####ty travel and time away from home.

This is a very

 

[kevzilla]

Completely understand why you'd feel like a jerk in that situation, Drifter, but you're not; you're doing the right thing. Maybe since you have a very good realtor friend there, she could help the people find a great new place to live?

Even better question: How much was your offer?

2% off listing for not having to do sale prep and 2% more either in closing fees or price reduction for eliminating the realtor. Also full refund of damage deposit and pet deposit

No, I meant how much was Krista's offer. Because it's a house. For sale. Somewhere.