Can confirm. Had neighbors I didnt like at all. Their garage burnt down. Someone provided a dumpster, I went and helped demo it and toss it in the dumpster. Went back to not talking to them after that.
People need help, you help them, whether you actually like them or not.
I was worried it was too long and rambling :D
Theres a lot more to the story, but in short I grew up in Sec 8 housing with no father present and still grew up to be reasonably successful and very fatherly to my own son and my Gfs son. And anyone thats young without a father figure, really.
She’s not ugly; I don’t find her face particularly attractive but I also don’t find it ugly. She has or had a nice body. I’d hate fuck her. If she was just a random person she’d be attractive enough to saddle up and ride my face.
It was a long hard road. I bought the house at 34 years old. Had a kid to take care of at 18 (conceived while 17). Didn’t graduate high school, no college of course. Found a decent job in 2005. Didn’t pay great but also had lots of overtime you may not actually work because of how we billed time to clients, plus mileage pay for driving to each site. Stuck at it. I am now the Field Operations Manager.
The big kicker on buying the house was that I saved 3 years worth of taxes to file all at once and got EIC and all kinds of credit for being the only income in a family of four and not taking any government benefits. I wound up getting about 24,000$ all at once and slapped 20% down on the house. The house I found had had 3 prior sales fall through and desperately needed updating, but was 100% livable with no major or even minor repairs needed. I haggled hard and got it cheap, because housing was still fairly depressed at the time and the seller was motivated to finally have a sale work out.
There were a lot of lucky circumstances that put me where I am, but also a lot of right choices and hard work done to get there too. I have to credit luck a little, because we all k ow one run of bad luck can fuck your whole life up. But I didn’t just fall into it; like with the taxes I knew my ex wife would want to spend the fuck out of the money so I waited until all of the old back support was paid off, and it just so happened that our landlord passed away and we had to move because his daughter wanted to sell the place. Oops, sorry dear we have to buy a house now!
I traveled a lot for work and spent a few years roaming out of state and soaking up fat per diem pay but not spending it like my coworkers. I drove my same work van all around the country; was comfy and reliable but not ‘nice’. Did some side jobs on evenings and weekends and put the money back too. Ate bologna, pb&j, tuna fish a lot for lunch....I almost never ate out or got gas station food and drink after the first year when I calculated how much money I was spending on it all.
I also learned how to do my own maintenance on vehicles and am definitely a ‘car guy’ now from all those years of acquiring knowledge.
So along with some luck and being smart with my money, I wound up able to buy a house with no degree supporting a family of four on one income that wasn’t even that great.
Almost anyone in a place with a reasonable cost of living (IE not the NE or left coast) can do this if they stop wasting money and focus on the goal. Yeah I got that big kick with the tax money, but it was only around 16k that I put down. I had about half of that saved already and it was snowballing quick with all of the things I learned about saving along the way. Putting back 1$ or 20$ or 200$ in an account that only exists to save in works if you stick to not touching it no matter what. I actually still have that original account I put 50$ a month in...and have no idea how much money is in it because I don’t look because it doesn’t exist for spending.
I’m really glad that I tried so hard to succeed that I don’t get any stimulus money for that. Neither does my live in GF. We both make well above 50k in the Midwest.
At least it’s the Midwest and we don’t need the stimulus at all. My mortgage is 430/mo in a nice small town in a nice little 3br ranch. We can do virtually whatever we want between our incomes. Neither of us have been touched by the ‘pandemic’ other than me saving some miles and gas money working from home a couple of days per week instead of commuting 80 miles each day.
You werent wrong. I was hopeful until Jan 20th. Im a hard working established adult. Im not going to grab my guns, slap on my plate carrier and go to war, be remembered as a domestic terrorist, and die over an election. Nope. Im going to go to work every day like I did for 8 years of Obama and protect my home. If they day comes they come to drag me off to a gulag, Ill take some of them with me....the catch is, we 'aint going to the gulag.
One state didn't cost the election.
Correct. A very small number of counties did.
All of November, December and January to investigate provided no standing for one state to sue another over their election laws
Given the context, you seem to imply that 'no standing' equates to 'no fraud' and 'no investigation needed'
EVERY state adjusted their elections and added mail-in ballots because of Covid
About the only accurate thing in this post and its still quite 'intellectually' dishonest.
Getting beat sucks.
No, having a fraudeulent election sucks.
Now fuck off back to Reddit, shill.
It doesn't have to be a big crazy conspiracy; its pretty simple to figure out to harvest/create ballots when you need them.
There really only needs to be a small number of people to pull this off across multiple states. A couple poll workers per country at a single polling station is all it takes.
Forums sliding is real; its happened to me long ago when running a game mod. Id put a lot of work into the content, and most of it was stolen. The thief then created several fake accounts and had off topic conversations with himself in a bunch of other threads in order to move my topic onto the second page. At the end of the sliding, he'd comment on his own topic to put it at the top of page 1 and did this for months to keep it that way. Forum mods wouldnt be bothered to do anything about it either. They were afraid of backlash to ban the guy and somehow plausible deniability existed that over the course of months, countless times, every time I came up with a new piece of content he just happened to do the exact same thing a day or two later.
This technique doesnt work as well with todays social media; yeah we still use forums but they have changed and often feature many many many more threads on the first page than they used to - ala Reddit.
You’re looking at about a 50% weight increase for block over wood, and both have to meet current standards of withstanding 140mph winds. You will need to increase width of your footings for the additional weight too. To stop bullets, you’ll need fully grouted cells as well. You could probably get away with 12” units filled with sand over 8” CMU grouted, but hollow core masonry does not stop bullets. Block [done properly] is a lot more labor intensive than you lead on.