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Shane, stop teasing about your weather... :) we're getting 4 inches of snow and I just shoveled the deck.. :(

I dont think you can post a pps.... (power point)

Not to assume anything here, but Im sure Scott meant not to use rhino-stuff or the poxy stuff...... the other mentioned sealers are good.

yup......same thing

Hang in the Lance, it'll all work out..... the market for real estate is in the sellers hands now, its not a buyers market with the sky high prices, it'll level off and you'll be just fine...... everything in life is "peaks and valleys", same with real estate and business..... I bought a house for my dad to live at in Florida last year, and your right about the good ones not lasting, If one is located, there really isnt any time to think about it, if you wait more than a couple hours, it'll be gone....It took me 3 trips down there to hunt, if I found a good one on the internet, it was gone in a day or 2....was really stressful because I sold the property in VA and the old man had to get out.....but it worked out even though I had to spend more than I really wanted to. I bought in a new development from an "investor" that lives in GA, he bought it during construction, sat on it for a few months and sold it to me for a nice little profit......I figure about a third to half of all the homes being built there are being bought by people doing the same thing.....

"Ditto" to what Shane said...............

just as an example, I typed in our zipcode for the heck of it, this is a small single family house, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, no driveway with a garage in the alley behind the street....... this is in a very good neighborhood in the city of Chicago, can you believe this is selling for $380,000.......!!! over a third of a million for a teeny-tiny house here....unreal Jeff, Im glad you started this thread, as I just learned something....see, we are now trying to re-fi our house and we'll be needing a new appraisal for our house, and while I was searching for an average house in the neighborhood, I found this one (the second picture) which is 2 doors down from me on the other side of the street..... cant believe this house is up for sale for $389,800.00....... you cant tell in the small pic, but the house is just the dark brown triangle, the lighter colored part is the neighbors house....what makes me happy is ours is bigger, driveway, taller, all brick etc etc..... we may have appreciated 100K in 2 years.....maybe our loan to value will dig us out of the hole... :cool:

Jeff, that house here would be between 700K and 1 M....... hope it all works out for you, that would be awesome!!! good luck

the Mirage is pretty nice......when we do stay at Harrahs, I like the sports book at the mirage better so Ill cruise over there across the street to make my "wagers".... never stayed there but gave them a bunch of money a few times, LOL. is there any competition out there for you? seems like there should be tons of PW work out there with all the tremendous growth....... we'd go there every month if we could afford it.

the Mirage is pretty nice......when we do stay at Harrahs, I like the sports book at the mirage better so Ill cruise over there across the street to make my "wagers".... never stayed there but gave them a bunch of money a few times, LOL. is there any competition out there for you? seems like there should be tons of PW work out there with all the tremendous growth....... we'd go there every month if we could afford it.

Scott, have a :cool: birthday !!!

Kem, DAMN Right !!!!

and you cant use crappy little cables, spend the xtra dough and use the more expensive heavy cables......makes a difference with the signal that actually reaches the tv

love our Toshiba hi-def.....53 I think....hi-def makes a world of difference, especially for live sports..... the pic was much better than the sony rear projection... .02

Scott.....SWEET job my man...!!! :)

Kem, 2 days after christmas eh? Tell the man to keep his head down, be safe, come home and thanks!! youve got a proud family history there!!!! I was second generation, the old mans got his National Defense Medal from Vietnam, got mine during Desert Storm and my little guy is saving the world from WWII to future combat with the PS2.... :) Happy V-Day to all the vets and families :)

Rob....this time we stayed at the Flamingo for half and the Rio for the other half. we usually stay at Harrahs (great location). weve stayed all over the strip, but like to stay in the middle. I have (actually we both have) our own "get out of jail free cards" in our wallets. there nice bright shiny metal star shaped cards, LOL. and on certain nights those will even get us into the "fabulous" nightclubs to mingle with the elite people, like VooDoo, Ghostbar or the Beach (which is our favorite). Didnt do us anygood at Rum Jungle or Pure, but oh well, and those cover charges are HUGE....we need some LV metro "juice"!!! this trip was so we could officially "tie the knot" so we visited Elvis...was a riot..... we'll be heading back in april for the western national wrestling tourny...you have any juice at the hilton near the convention center?

we just got back from vegas last week....we were there for 7 days (ouch). We're a week and a half late, but have a ball and stay out of trouble...check that, trouble is the fun part there, so, stay out of jail, thats a better way to put it.... we go there 2-3 times a year......

rubber air hose ROCKS..... I use the regular 3/8 polybraid for the xjet, but for the shurflo I switched from the poly to the rubber...way more flexible and doesnt tangle nearly as much, easier to roll etc....its obviously heavier and cant see a reason to use it on the xjet as I only have about 30 feet on that...... about a foot down the line from the xjet itself I have a QC, so after I apply the soap I just disconnect the line and rinse (if Im rinsing with the xjet of course)......this way I can move a lot easier rinsing without the hose dragging around.......

nothing.... chlorine kills mold and mildew

take cover, get the kids in the liferaft, head for the hills, hunker down because HERE IT COMES !!!!!!! lol :)

Shane, thats the lovely results of snow, ice, freeze, thaw, snow plows, salt, sand etc.

Nice Tony :cool:

Ken..E-Spec

Ken, yes I have had to brush......I also brush gutters, so the brush is out anyway. I dont brush everything, no way, no how, but stubborn areas if needed. and the quotes from the article are from a catalog, which is just someones opinions from a company, not right, not wrong, just something in print that is out there....