Dobela
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The best way to make money on a rehab flip is to do it quickly, as in under 30 days. Otherwise any money you might make is lost in utilities, maintence, taxes, permits and inspections, and more. The longer you spend working on it, the less money you will make.
Our house was well maintained but built in 1963. We have had in the last 2 years expensive electrical repairs, plumbing repairs, and fireplace issues just from age.
The price is not bad, just from what you are saying, IF it is the worst house in the neighborhood, the houses in the neighborhood are selling for much more, it really doesn't need much work, and houses in that area are actually selling. If the homes in that area are only selling for $90K, I would leave it alone. You won't get much profit.
Houses, even flipped ones, are not selling much. People are buying them for rental properties here, but not much else.
Honestly, the best deals usually go fast. If this one has not sold in that many days, with the large number of cash investors out there, I would be very very cautious. It could mean that the market in that area is not good or promising, that the house needs lots more repair than it appears, or some other concerns. The house across from us sold for $75K as a foreclosure. The owner took months to update and repair, then it took nearly a year to sell for $135K. When it was over, he said he did not even break even. Most of his expenses were taxes, electric, yard care, water... Even though he paid cash up front, he said having that much tied up in the house was a mistake and put a real financial bind on the family.
To get the best money on a flip, people are also not going to be looking for refurb from ReStore. They will want new, up to date most likely. Our ReStore rarely has those things.
I asked my dad to look at it, as he flips houses regularly, and he said he would offer no more than $25-$30K. There are just too many risks involved.
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No, moving did not help mine. But I never moved more than 75 miles. Most of mine were caused by hormone fluctuations and ended after I corrected/stabilized my hormones.
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You can tie dye cotton yarns as well using kits made for shirts. Here is a neat tutorial on how to do it. Once you are finished you could crochet or knit up the yarn. Or even use it in other crafts.
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With a notification that "seller is exempt from disclosure," I would never make an offer on that house.
All foreclosures are written this way, or at least all the ones I have seen. If it is bank owned, it could be in bad, bad shape. Any offer I make would have to be based on inspection as well.
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There are so many factors in determining a price. Location, age, value of homes in the area, how much damage that is unseen... I don't know what I would offer
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Continued prayers for you & your family :grouphug:
I agree w/ PP's- as difficult as it is to fathom, its likely your mom feels incredibly afraid and powerless right now. People react so unpredictably different in difficult circumstance...and many times its not always the preferred response.
Prayers for supernatural grace to continue carrying you through this. :grouphug:
I agree, give her slack and forgiveness. My mom almost died a few years back from a horrible allergic reaction called Stevens Johnson Syndrome. She had never been sick before and while some of the symptoms were gradual, they got horrible quickly. My dad, usually the calm, loving, collected, thoughtful, patriarch man that everyone else goes to for advice and guidance, was at a total loss. He missed meetings with doctors, he only took her to the emergency room after I pushed him to do it, and so on. I was so angry for a time, then I realized that he had so much emotion tied up into this - some emotions he didn't quite want to face, so he kind of became a space cadet for a time. He was deeply scared, tired, felt like he had no control... He wasn't prepared for something like this to happen emotionally. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
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I have had sunroofs since the 80s. I love them. Usually though I only open it if I am the only one in the car. Which is just a few times a year now that I have kids and rarely travel alone.I *REALLY* want a sunroof. Dh and I couldn't find a vehicle that suited all our needs that had a sunroof but dh agreed to have one put in after market. I won't lie- I was super excited about this.Now... I'm feeling silly about spending the money on a sunroof.:tongue_smilie: Plus I'm freaked out about leaks. :(
I'm disappointed we couldn't find the perfect vehicle since I know we're going to have our new one for years and years ... and years. :001_huh:
So if you have a sunroof- do you love it? Hate it? Don't really notice it?
Gosh, am I crazy for really wanting one? Wait. Don't answer the crazy part. I think I already know. ;)
As far as leaks, the only ones I have ever heard abomut leaking are the ones not factory installed. Apparently it can be hard to get a good seal. As much as I love my sunroof, I would not want an aftermarket one. Too many potential problems.
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Some birds like them as well. Our chickens loved the last ones we threw out to them.
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I also believe that she should stay with her dh. Want it or not, when he signed up for the military, so did she. While it sounds good to be with family to give birth instead of the chaos of a pending move, and it sounds good for her other child to bond with extended family, she could be creating a bigger mess.
One issue I have is that the older child will miss bonding with his father for those months. While I feel that grandparents and such are important, I believe that daddy time trumps grandma time. He needs that time with his daddy because days are coming when daddy may be gone for a very long time.
If your daughter is really feeling weary, or overwhelmed, maybe you can offer to go to her when the baby is born. You can promise to pack the few items she won't want the military to pack, you can love on the children while daddy does all his transfer stuff, and give mom time to rest up some. But don't encourage her to leave him for several months.
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I think this is it. Back in the 90s when I was teaching middle school, very few teachers were teaching mental math. a few kids were bright enough to do it on their own, but not many. The teachers were so busy teaching to frameworks that were written around standardized tests so that the school could have a higher rating, and the teacher could keep her job, that the focus was not on mental math but rather 'how many concepts can be introduced this year'. Mastery was not necessarily the goal. Hand them calculators, or charts, to help them out, but don't expect more. Money was probably the least taught of any math subject.Either people are no longer properly taught mental math, or if they were they lose it from lack of use. -
Air Force here....
Flight Suits
Different uniforms for different deployment locations
Dress Blues (like a suit, so for day to day needing to dress up)
Mess Dress (like a tux, for formal events)
Ceremonial Uniform *i'm sure there is another name for it* (for honor guard- funerals, weddings, when working a 'detail')
PT uniforms.....
Our closet is packed!
My dh had all of those plus a Chem warfare suit. We finally had to dedicate an entire closet just for his uniforms! Don't forget the special socks, shoes/boots, hats, t-shirts....
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I did not know that. So you could have 3 purple hearts or whatnot and not be an officer? How might your ranking change if you were career military, served well, but never went/to finished college. Your dress uniform would would show your achievements, I assume, but ranks are different, yes?
So 40 year old soldier, lots of ribbons for service, medals..no college degree. He/she would be addressed as....?
You would ask that person what their rank is and how they wish to be addressed. Rank, or position, is determined by many things. How long in the military, which performance tests were passed, how quickly they passed them.... A person with a college degree amy chose to be commissioned and become an officer, or just be an ordinary enlisted person. What you call a person depends on their rank. Rank is shown on uniforms with sleeve stripes, collar pins, uniform style (at times), and that is taught to the person after they enter the military. One requirement is that you are able to recognize rank of anyone you meet.
Ribbons are for a variety of things and don't necessarily have anything to do with rank. You earn them for length of service, where you served, special awards, and so on.
A Purple Heart is a medal given to anyone who is injured or killed in military action. Rank doesn't matter. Wikipedia has a great explanation of it here.
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To be an officer you have to have a college degree. It doesn't necessarily have to come from a military college though.
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When my dh was in the Air Force, he had dress blues, then he had Formal Dress Blues. Some other clothing was determined by work position, depending on his work assignment he may be wearing different clothing for that as well.
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Around here, there are daycares that open at 5 am. I would suggest that she find one of those and have her dh drop the kids off there. During the summer, the same day cares offer summer camp type programs. I would suggest those as well. If she still complains, I would suggest she change her work schedule. Although, here night nurses make time and a half over day nurses so she may not be as willing to do that.
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OP here.
Yes, I've gone back and forth in my mind of whether or not we handled ourselves properly.
On one hand, it is just a broken arm. It happens to thousands of people every day. No big deal.
On the other hand, what if we move the arm around and it's a jagged break that cuts into muscle or through an artery? That's a big deal.
But it's still just a broken arm.
But what about the child: The screaming, the eyes rolling, the white face. Was it just from pain? I think I might have screamed and rolled my eyes a bit during labor (:tongue_smilie:). I wasn't in shock.
But maybe he was. We just didn't know. The word was said a few times by bystanders.
I think the biggest issue was that the daycare worker wasn't authorized to make her own decision and had to wait for the supervisor. That's what was bothering us the most. There seemed to be no policy in place, and each of us was picturing our own child on the ground in a daycare situation and thinking of what we'd want the daycare to do.
We would want them to get our kids to the hospital asap, and we wouldn't want them moving our kids' arms, in case they caused further damage if the bone was jagged and cutting into things. That would mean that we would want some sort of trained person splinting the arm before moving it, hence: ambulance.
Concerning the bolded part, this is true in many day cares. My guess is that the employee was following policy. She was probably told that she should always call the supervisor first. She is probably only making minimum wage as well. Not to mention scared. I worked in one center with a supervisior that was so controlling teachers were barely alllowed to make any decision for themselves. We had to get approval for everything, even the most mundane tasks or decisions.
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I think if the person had training in first aid they would have been more level headed about what to do rather than calling the supervisor and then doing nothing else. The worker should never have been alone with the children in the first place. Ideally and legally there should have been 2 workers. When the incident happened, 1 worker should have rounded up all the other children and called 911 and the mother from the emergency card that they should have had with them.
The other would have hit the sand next to boy, put something on him like a blanket when he started showing signs of shock, talking and comforting him etc.
With proper first aid training, they would have been able to deal with the situation with clear heads right away even if their hearts were racing, instead of not really helping the boy properly. They could not do much for the broken bone but they could have recognized and addressed the signs of shock until EMTs arrived.
I don't necessarily agree with this. I know a first aid trainer, a well trained nurse with many years experience, who did not keep a clear head when her child was seriously injured. She couldn't even find the hospital she worked in a few blocks away.
In all the years I kept my first aid certification up to date, and attended annual retrainings, I honestly don't know that I would have recognized shock right off. Especially when I had 7 other children I was trying to manage, keep calm, and take care of at the same time.
While I think the situation could have been better handled, I can just imagine all the things going thru the poor worker's mind. She has one seriously injured child, and then 7 more she has to keep track of and keep calm while waiting for assistance. She was alone, without help, and now she has a bunch of homeschool moms trying to tell her what to do in a probably not so nice tone. It would be a lot for many people to handle at once. At least she called for help. Some people would just make the kid get up and return to the center before asking for assistance.
And, yes, the state licensing board will know about it most likely. We had to write accident reports for every injury - large or small - and those reports were individually reviewed every year at license renewal. Not to mention the insurance company also expected to have copies of the accident reports as well.
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1 teacher to 8 kids is actually a low teacher to student ratio for our area. They would be allowed to have 15-20 here at that age.
When we took kids out, every center I worked for made me carry the emergency sheets with me so there would be no hesitation in an emergency.
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The nearest Target is 60 miles away. :glare::sad: I won't be going past it again until late September.
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We only have WalMart here and dance season has begun. My dd is 5 but wears an 8-10 in most things. Her dance studio has changed hands. The new owner is allowing the girls to choose their own attire as long as they have the correct shoes and wear tights. The owner works in a job where everything except her underwear is controlled so I guess she is rebelling a bit herself LOL.
Anyway, I am looking for a place with easy returns if something doesn't fit, and good low prices. And, a good selection for a young girl.
Also, any ideas other than the usual leotard and skirt? I love modest.
THanks!
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After you dry them, you can put them in the freezer. I usually use mine within a month or two so I don't know just how long they would last beyond that.
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One of my favorite gifts to give are board books. I pick favorite stories available in board books or buy the wonderful multisensory 'That's Not My...' ones from Usborne. They are long lasting, kid friendly, and useful. Even if they don't use them right away, they will soon need a child friendly library.
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Polite wording for email regarding arrival time for inlaws?
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When I was a kid, we always arrived at the homes of distant family late at night. We couldn't leave until my dad was off work at 5 or 6, then it was a 5 or 6 hour drive... Family was so glad to see us it didn't matter though. But, then, we are Southern LOL.
I would just let the kids sleep late the next morning and tell everyone that brunch was at 10:30. But then I don't keep a regular schedule when out of towners visit.