RockRaines

"restoring family values" is code for making gay marriage illegal right?

once they scheduled a republican debate in Boulder, Co I knew that whole thing was a joke, and it was.

Gotta let Russell run the offense. He's not an off guard.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 05:21 PM) When we redid upstairs bath, they covered up nice hexagonal tile with some sweet black and white vinyl and surrounded it with green plastic tile 5 feet around the walls. Oh, they also framed in the shower with a nice 2 foot soffitt from the ceiling. Served no functional purpose but did make the 6 ft you feel every bit of it. Lol. That's awesome.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 05:14 PM) Old work done well but not to current codes is way better to deal with than hack-job work. Yep. My plumber said he'd rather see nice lead piping other than the patchwork bulls*** we found in my walls. The dude used a f***ing vacuum cleaner hose instead of a pvc vent for a sink.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 04:41 PM) From 247: 2015 - 17th (right ahead of MSU, but this also includes Paul and he's gone already) 2014 - 47th (only 2 players, Finke was not ranked high at all) 2013 - 21st (Groce's first year) 2012 - N/A (no players) 2011 - 17th (almost all busts, Abrams and Egwu were the only contributors) 2010 - 11th (Jereme Richmond, Meyers Leonard, Crandall Head. Only Leonard was good and even then he left before he could be a stud) So nope, no top 10 according to 247 though 2010 was close. I assume most fans expect higher quality classes.

I fully expect some run for Portis.

That one point is going to be huge as Lebron wins this one.

Lebron just scares the refs into calls.

Pass the ball Brooks.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 06:48 PM) I have DirecTV and it's supposed to pour tonight. Damn it I've been waiting for this for so long and now I won't get to see it. This type of rain shouldn't cut your signal.

Has Illinois had a top ten class in the last 5 years or so?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 03:37 PM) Hence the intrigue. My dislike of Thib's is well documented on this forum and one of the issues was (imo) about his offense. I dont think the defense is going to drop off as much as people think. Thibs defensive concepts had been largely adopted across the league and the Bulls still have a lot of experience playing it. I just dont think their entire tape sessions will be dedicated to it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 03:27 PM) This is my completely uneducated guess as well. Im somewhat intrigued to see how they do under a new coach. If they make 3's they can stay with anyone.

Yeah I mean we bought for location, schools, and the fact that it already had been added on and had a dug out basement (I am 6'1" and most of the basements in OP were about 5'9"). The rest you can add over the years. Cannot change the location.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 12:27 PM) Yea I'm not necessarily fighting for on prem vs cloud. And yes, the architect we had on this apparently is an idiot. But, the business doesn't understand the difference and they still believe that our IT would be able to fix the vendor's problems. That's the con of going to the cloud, you lose that control. The only control you will have is whatever agreements you have for SLAs in the contract. That's what frustrates me, that they don't understand this still. And almost nobody enforces these SLA's or even asks for them because its so hard to prove. For example, a cloud security company cites 99.9999% global uptime and will guarantee you that SLA. But for you as a customer what it really means is if you are down, as long as some other company is up, they are still "up." If you want to see a business freak out, take away all of their access to every application because the cloud security broker is down.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 01:52 PM) I basically gutted my place several years ago, and re-did everything. Even changed the electrical outlets. Knocked out a couple of walls, opened up the kitchen, dropped an island in there. New lighting, new appliances, new floors, new toilets, new sinks, new cabinets, new furniture. It's nice now, (and really wasn't a dive before) but if you do something like that, I advise if you can stay somewhere else while it is going on, do so. It got to a point, my wife and I would priceline a room a few blocks away on weekends so we could stay out of the mess. I was so happy when it was done. Now I'm getting the this could be changed, that could be changed by her. I am trying my best to act like I can't hear her. WE've heard the same thing, we are trying to plan the reno during the summer so we can stay in Michigan. Otherwise not having an upstairs or floors on the first floor may kill us.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 12:45 PM) Since we had to put all new hardi board siding on our addition, we figured it made sense to spend the money and replace all the siding on the old house as well and change the color to one we like. Of course, once they removed the old siding, they discovered a whole other layer of wood siding that needed to be replaced as well. The fun never ends, good thing the bank required a contingency fund, it's already almost used up as it is. In my town siding has to go over the old wood siding, you cannot rip out the original unless its completely toast. Such a weird law.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 12:23 PM) I'm so glad I bought a home built in the 1960's that so far has required zero dollars in work, only what we wanted to update (finished basement and an ongoing kitchen facelift). Reading your guys' story and listening to a couple of friends who bought older homes...sounds terrible. We arent really fixing the issues from the 1800's as much as we are the reno's done in the 90's. Of course old homes are built like tanks but they have their own issues. Its part of living in a historic district near a downtown area, you take the good with the bad.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 12:03 PM) It's basically just a coward's way out when you know you're about to get scored on, and it's annoying. It happened a few years ago, game 6 against Vancouver in the playoffs. We ended up winning in OT thanks to Ben Smith (IIRC), but earlier we scored a goal that was waved off because Luongo or Schneider purposely moved the net. Quick uses it as a technique, he practices it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 10:45 AM) Hah. That was my motivation behind not doing any of the work myself My renovation has been interesting. It isn't that any of the work was really done poorly before I bought the house, it's just that so much of it is from a different era. Most of the contractors I have brought in have been sort of marveling at the way most things were done. I'm in a similar boat as you though, Rock. I've got so many massive projects lined up over the next several years: 1) remodel master bedroom and bath 2) remodel guest bath 3) install new fence and electric gate 4) large in-ground pool 5) build garage with apartment above it 6) potential addition to house 7) install large sport court I can only imagine all these things are going to cost me somewhere in the range of $300-350k over the next 6-8 years. Then the day we'll get done we'll probably decide we need to remodel the kitchen we are remodeling at the moment. LOL, we have similar wish lists. I actually have to raise a roof to add the master bathroom and closet but the guest bath, fence and gate, Garage (with office) are all on my list. I'm also digging out the rest of my basement as the previous owner only dug out some of it. My current garage is a real s*** show and I cut mold out of the ceiling on the regular but its gotta last another year or two. I also have to rip out all of the original wood floors next summer. All of the work done to our house over the years started in the 1800's and have been modified over the last hundred years. Talk about different eras of work, jeez. To me its all worth it eventually. Right now if I dont get a new bathroom upstairs I am going to lose my s***.

On another note, today continues the saga of fixing the "self remodeler" problems that we've been doing since we moved in. The guy two owners ago was an electrician and decided he was also a remodeler, a plumber, a mason etc. The electric is good but the rest is just lazy. I'm slowly fixing everything with a huge project next summer including ripping off the roof, adding a bathroom and closet and repurposing a closet into a bedroom as well as fixing all of the HVAC and finishes on the first floor. The plumber today who just began some of the work just laughs every time he finds something else. I feel like im on an episode of Holmes makes it right at times.

It's a bunch of guys who haven't played together and Anaheim has morphed into this chippy trapping team against us. Just horrific hockey.

This looks like a Rat Hockey game. Bunch of dudes just slapping at the puck.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 05:08 PM) Forwarning, normally doing work to your house isn't going to actually improve its value (if it was actually functional). However, if a house is in total dissaray, then someone could buy the house well below the value and then do such work (having the right connections at less than market value) and then get value out of it. In your case, it might really be the fact that if you don't finish the work, you've driven negative value (cause someone else is going to have to do the dirty work) because it is totally not functioning and split apart (vs. even an as is house), so while the net cost of the project might cost you money (vs. where you'd have been if you just sold as is prior to the projects)...it might be the only option to not have sunk that money plus whatever discount for selling an unfinished project. The exception to this is basic stuff to ensure you house shows well, can help ensure that A it sells quickly and be you get the fair value (or a little premium) but rarely in general if you do big remodels (via a contractor with normal pricing) do you get it back (short-term)...long-term you very well might but that would be driven by more general market appreciation. And agree with the other suggestions. Go with a couple established realtors (get a couple opinions to ensure the opinions have been vetted). Of course that value increase depends on what you are actually doing. If you add a bathroom to make a master suite or completely gut and expand a kitchen those are HUGE at adding value or improving negotiation position. Changing from hardwood to bamboo flooring or adding different countertops or something of that sort can be a wash.