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Why on EARTH would your parents sign you up to be a Croatian citizen when you could be a Canadian citizen??? Crazy canuks...

Im already thinkin' bout the college town where I got mah undergradumacation. Its about 3 hours away and fooseball season would give me an excuse to take a day off and cruise by the houses on a Monday or whatever.

Nope...I'm not!

lol I still do stuff outside of CS. I golf, play soccer, watch movies w the wife, go river tubing, do chores, work out, read, etc. But I still think about CS:S way too much.

Just got the wife a new camera, fireworks shots looked nowhere NEAR that good. Must be a nice camera

Right now Im thinking about Italy and dualy killz. I LOVE dually killz. I can shoot them so fast...ahhhh. And Im thinking about super flanking. Sometimes I will get one on Inferno when I come up and have like 3 or 4 guys with their backs to me. I got a 3 fer just yesterday...was so fun!

I'm halfway through Kiyosaki's book lol. Ever toyed with the idea of vending machines? Anyhow, Im charged up. Just need a little time to be "ready" financially to start buying REAL assets.

good post! Happy Bday, <3 ya lots 'Merica!

First buy a riot shield ala 1.5

Truck example. Doesnt sound complicated. Sounds BEAUTIFUL!

I like the "team" scenerio you have set up for the properties that need work. One small advantage I might have is that I know a number of people in the home building industry. I could probably work a similar deal for Saturday/Sunday workers. I will definately be lurking in this thread. Good stuff!

How about buying a run down property in a decent area, contracting out the fix-up work on the house and then "turn & burn"? Does that work? p.s. My job won't afford me the time to do the fixing up myself.

1. How do you manage the properties? Especially down the road, when you might have a good number of properties and a full time job that you need to show up for? 2. Is the idea to keep the properties as rentals indefinately or just until you realize a significant increase in the house's value? 3. How do you ensure that you are going to get a renter into the houses? We will be in the position in a year or two to buy another house and keep the one that my wife and I live in. I STRONGLY suspect that our house will greatly appreciate within the next 5 years or so, but I do not want to carry that mortgage payment AND the high taxes for the area without knowing that I will have a renter in the house...

That's why I dont dive at the bottom of dams in big lakes. Big ol' cat might mistake my spindly legs for a couple a' big worms?! YIKES!

Wow Duke...that Matrix post REALLY hit home for me. That IS/HAS BEEN my life's plan. ..HOWEVER: Just like Neo, I have always gravitated toward the idea of "stepping out" a little financially, because I so often see people who are making their money really work for them. I want to be one of those people. Really. I think I am at the perfect age/stage to begin this, at least outlining a plan.

Ok, so what is the answer?

im listening...

Isn't Maggles retreaded?

Thx Primus. Im not really that upset, but I was that day. Poor wife upset that her new car is all dinged up. Never fun dropping $500 you weren't planning on. Scary to think what could have been... It's well behind us, just a pet peeve that I even had beforehand though

ugh...

lmao, this thread is funny...good one Swoop. Fat, I'm right there too man! If you find yourself "meeting" a lot of new people whilst golfing because you are hitting your 3rd shot off their tee box back towards your green...you probably are not a great golfer. I am simply horrendous. You would need about 10 different colors and a color key to decypher my round of golf...

approx. $1000 damage Im glad I went ahead and called the insurance company! Yeah Fat, she was upset and that's what I told her. Thank God she didn't swerve or overcorrect.

no pic, gunny

Thanks Lunk, but we just went w/ insurance. The crack was pretty bad and I pheared some damage to the underbelly (linkage/radiator/etc). Fat, you are right in a way. I have always respected the role of the big trucks in our economy. EVERYTHING we use was brought to us by a truck. Also, I have always been the type to let the poor rig in front of me when they wanna change lanes (I always get the trucker "thank you light blink") because I know that they are doing their job when they are driving and I wouldnt want that job! I know the term "alligators or gators", but does NOT always work. The wife was not hit by a freshly thrown tread. She was making a lane change from behind a rig (who was driving in the passing lane even the next 2 lanes were open) and checking her blind spot as she merged into the next lane. She only had a split second to react to the tread in the road, so there was nothing that a reasonable driver could have done in this situation. She hit a huge tread right in the middle lane of the loop in Dallas. Regarding the money savings to us for the unsafe practices of many freight carriers...well the $500 that we will pay cash tomorrow negates that savings to US for this year. But I would hope that most people would put their safety and the safety of their families before a few cents savings on laundry detergent. Many carriers run safe trucks and still make a profit. Many freighters, however, do NOT run safe trucks and that is not fair to the american motorist OR even to their own drivers who are made to drive unsafe rigs.