Texsox

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 01:27 PM) We are all skipping over an important part of this. Fine, if you want to spend more family time...but serve out your term and don't run for re-election. Then, everyone wins. She gets to spend more time doing what she wants to do and she doesn't look like a quitter, which, if she runs for president, would be the first thing I would go after her for (or anyone for that matter). If you think the scrutiny is bad as Governor of Alaska/Vice Presidential candidate, just imagine it as President. It's no wonder former President's look like they've aged 50 years in 4 or 8. Sorry, Ms. Palin, but dem or rep, I don't want someone who runs and hides in the highest office of the United States. Great post.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 12:46 PM) That is exactly my problem. After I sent her a long detailed e-mail she said, well it's on several websites, so I don't know what else I can do. Since no one is calling I can't do anything else. Just putting it on the internet isn't enough. And another realtor actually said she was surprised by how nice my house was because the pictures the realtor took and posted were so awful. Part of the problem is that my house is not expensive--it's listed around 59K (which is probably close to the median home price in this area). So her commission won't be huge. Or that's the only thing I can think. What are other agents doing to have those homes shown and why is she not doing that? That would be a great question to ask. Walk through your experience as a buyer. What did that seller's agent do to get you to buy that house? Check out the pictures for yourself and see what you think. Retaking some pictures would seem easy enough. I would also look carefully at the description and how other similar homes are described. You may also speak with the owner of the agency and tell her of your concerns. For Realtors there are two commissions, one for listing and one for selling. They would love to get both, but that seldom happens. But most agents will take someone around to all their listings first. So a buyer may ask for a west side three bedroom, but they will show you an east side four bedroom, for some made up reason. They are hoping the buyer may either fall in love with the place or create some word of mouth advertising. Since your agent is a part timer, and probably does not have many buyers, you are missing out on that dog and pony show. And traffic is a Realtor's best friend. They will drag warm bodies through just to think they are working for you. Hell, I know of one that would buy lunch if his friends would pose as potential buyers and walk through his listings. The most common way for your home to sell will be some Realtor you do not know will pull up all the X bedroom homes, in Y neighborhood, for less than $60k, and will lead some buyer to your door. Your listing agent will not have done much at all. It's a terrible racket.

It would seem very plausible to me that she is taking a few weeks or even a month to clean up all the loose ends, then is hoping to fade back into the role of family. There does seem to be a transition time. Not saying I necessarily agree that is her intent, just saying that makes a whole lot of sense to me. There are questions to be asked and answered. Easier to answer than try to evade them. Tough to quit cold turkey. (whatever the hell that means)

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 11:13 AM) As long as you didn't mean Cubsfan, I'm cool with it. s***, that would get me suspended. I know how serious that kind of insult is around here.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 11:08 AM) I can make you a great offer! You've always been a big time *******. you know, Realtor

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 10:59 AM) I was the target of that post and I didn't find it offensive. I used 7 asterisks to describe Obama. I could have been saying he was an analyst for all anybody knows. I didn't type out the word. You selling some ocean front property in Kentucky

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 12, 2009 -> 12:00 AM) I like my nicknames to contain less than 4 syllables. William "The Refrigerator" Perry, Charles "Round Mound of Rebound" Barkley, Red "Galloping Ghost" Grange, and Ted "The Splendid Splinter" Williams all say hello.

Wearing a Cubs hat would be fun. You can really "cheer" then. Damn we Suck! What a bunch of f***ing losers "we" are! Now it's gonna be another 100 years before we win something. Bring out the f***ing goat. I can't believe the Sox are kicking our ass like we're a bunch of school girls.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 12, 2009 -> 06:16 PM) Ha, this is going to be funny. I can post 10 stupid facebook statuses an hour from people I know. Here's one: Person: "Had so much fun at the Cubs game." And if you play Mafia Wars, f***ing friend me... I only have 2,100 in my Mafia, have I added you?

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 09:11 AM) I was just going to post about the backstrap being the best. Otherwise, I like venison sausage. I had some with cheddar and jalapeno. I could have eaten it until I made myself sick. The sausage and jerky is where the shop really earns their pay. Almost anyone with decent butchering skills can process the prime cuts, it's handling the rest that really counts.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 10:09 AM) My 1st post in the Buster in months ... but if my family had been raked over the coals like Palin's has I'd bail out too. She has her priorities right. Family first, career a distant second. Welcome back. Great point. Is there a double standard here? Would people feel the same way if she was a guy?

QUOTE (Soxy @ Jul 13, 2009 -> 09:06 AM) It was different agents (seller and buyer agents) when I bought it. But I bought with the person I am currently listing with. The problem is that she isn't showing it--and talking to other realtors there were some problems with the way she has handled this from the start. So she gives me the contract, tells me I need to sign it BEFORE we settle on a price and after I sign it we set up a price AND she tells me that she has another full time job as a paralegal (again after I sign the contract). We haven't had any open houses because I still am living in the house. I understand that this is a slow time, but other houses seem to be shown frequently and I will go weeks (the record was 25 days) without hearing from my realtor. She's awful at returning calls and e-mails. I understand this is a slow process--my dad used to build spec houses. But the fact that she isn't showing my house is a problem. Now we have something. In kind of reverse order. Usually she would not show it if other Realtors call, at least not whenever I have sold homes. The potential buyer and their agent would arrive. Do you have a lock box or are you requiring your agent to open the home? Again, with at least dozens, perhaps hundreds of other agents in the market, you should be seeing about the same as your neighbors. Your agent, with a full time job, probably does not have that many buyers they are working with. And again, the person that will buy your house, will be much like you, they will have a different agent. When you bought, what did the seller's agent do? That would probably foreshadow what the local norms are. If you did not see the seller's agent until the closing, if at all, that is probably what to expect from your agent. Next issue, the agent not disclosing their other full time job. I believe this is how you will get out of this contract. I would check with the local Realtor board and see if this is ethical. It seems like something that should have been disclosed *before* signing. Before taking that step, ask your Realtor what marketing plan she has for your property. Besides just a MLS listing, what else is she doing? She stands to make a nice check when it is sold, make her, or any agent, earn it. Will the house be in any market ad sheets? Newspaper ads? Is she making any calls to fellow Realtors she knows? Again, I would not expect her to also find your buyer for you, but she should have some marketing plan in mind for your home.

It is not unusual for your Realtor to have far fewer showings than all the others combined. It is also rare for your Realtor to actually sell your house. Where your Realtor will earn their pay is helping to establish an asking price, evaluating offers, negotiating on your behalf with the other Realtor, at closing, etc. When you bought the house, was the buyer and seller agent the same? Many buyers are suspicious when the agent only takes them to that agent's listings. The other misconception is an Open House is designed to sell your house. It is more a chance to gather in buyers and perhaps sell them that house, but more often it is to sell other homes in their inventory. Sometimes a house is shown to set up a sale at another house. Your neighbor may be getting more showings, but that may be to set up a different sale. Bottom line, buyers are working with dozens and dozens of agents in your area. They tell the agent what they are looking for and the agents try and find a home that the buyer will buy. They want to do that quickly and efficiently. Find out why those agents prefer trying to sell your neighbor's house.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 12, 2009 -> 06:50 PM) Dude, you need to learn how to process that yourself. No use in paying people to cut your meat when you can do it yourself. First of all, a freezer full of backstrap is my dream. Second, my other dream is to hunt on a ranch down in Texas. When I get older, I'm going to take my dad down there for a week long trip or so. I've watched way too many hunting shows and the racks on the deer down there are insane. The ranch hunts down here are crazy, depending on the ranch. Generally a lease will get you all the hogs you want to take; and specific restrictions on the deer. Most of the better leases try hard to manage the herd. Texas does not allow gathering the herd and transporting deer from one area to the other for biological diversity. So the choices become high fence and keep your deer yours, or low fence and allow them to jump from ranch to ranch.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jul 6, 2009 -> 12:25 PM) I know mine is there...and she can continue to take her slow trip to hell. Go Facebook!!! Earlier somehow my relationship update was changed to "married" Wow, talk about pissing her off. She actually thought she would find out about any nuptials via facebook. Like I wouldn't especially enjoy calling her with the good news and listening first hand

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 12, 2009 -> 01:17 AM) For those of you that hunt deer (maybe just Slav and I?), if you take your deer into get processed, what's your favorite stuff to get? Currently eating some jalapeño deer sticks that are just f***ing awesome. You can send all the backstrap to me . . . I am off the lease I had been hunting on and looking for another that will not be too expensive. Y'all up north do not know how lucky you are. Instead of helping farmers by controlling the herd, down here the deer are more valuable than the crops. So we actually buy feed corn to fatten them up before harvesting and pay several thousand to get on a decent lease.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 02:28 PM) I am a pretty insensative person so I see it as a bunch of people who havent cared enough to visit a grave site for years and now that they found out these people did this they act like they are so devastated they wont make it through this. Hence money from settlements is what they are eyeballing with the whole dramatic act that they put on in front of the news. SHIPPS, there are a whole lot of reasons to not visit, but you trust your loved ones remains are respected. There is comfort on knowing they are "resting comfortably". Having said that, I am certain there are some who could care less and are thinking about paydays.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 05:53 PM) it appears that Sarah Palin is the first governor in at least 109+ years to resign office for seemingly no obvious reason. If that proves to be true, I find that so cool.

QUOTE (onedude @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 10:50 AM) no kidding. the nails are the dirtiest part of the hand. clipped my nails all my life, fingers 2 times a week, and toes 1 every other week. One toes every other week?? SO in 20 weeks they all have been cut once??

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:06 PM) I trust that my brother is still buried at Ascension in Libertyville. I have not visited the grave in years, and would be outraged if they sold the lot. It's not like a bicycle that you need to keep locked up and watch. At least I would hope not.

I trust that my brother is still buried at Ascension in Libertyville. I have not visited the grave in years, and would be outraged if they sold the lot.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 10:58 PM) Urine is sterile guys, not really a big deal. Really. Get your piss-money. I'll bet Jake has passed every urine test he has taken.

I'm going to reserve judgment until the killers are caught. There is just a nagging thought in the back of my mind about who may have done this.

There is a special place in hell for these people. Wasn't Dinah Washington on the Nights of Rodanth soundtrack?