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  1. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    I say make a low offer, they can only say no and you can come back and up your offer later if you want. The problem you will run into on a fair number of houses will be they owe just about wht they are asking and can"t come up with the cash difference if they sell for 20% less for instance...
  2. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    It might work differently in other areas, but here"s what was/is happening here. I was working with an agent and her agency was picking up lots of foreclosures to list. The local banks would have a big dump of houses every two weeks or so and divinde them up with several agencies. She got paid...
  3. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    Everyone says don"t mess with foreclosures or short sales if you are in a hurry, but maybe that"s only in certain regions or certain banks. My sister just bought a short sale earlier this year and she put in an offer on Monday and put in the offer she needed an answer by Friday. She got one and...
  4. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    I am no guru and only point out what was worked for me in the past including after the real estate bust. I only buy houses that I personally want to live in and could long term if things really went bust. I would say 95% of this wouldn"t work in any metro area and or anywhere on either coast. I...
  5. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    Just put (2) offers on houses last week. Both accepted the amount. I wound up passing on what I thought was the best deal overall because I could see it was going to be a PITA the whole way. Old man died and left house and land to his son. Son worked at a University and wasn"t married and no...
  6. Borzak

    Home buying thread

    You can put that heavy textured paper over paneling as well then paint it. It comes in basic white. I did that in my parents house and it came out really good. WHen you are done it will have no relation to paneling at all and you don"t have to take it down and all the associated stuff.
  7. Borzak

    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    Tradeable X number of times was discussed in a few other games like EQ etc... every time it"s been the same thing - too much work on the database side.
  8. Borzak

    Loot situation POP quit dicking us around

    Pretty common knowledge that the PoM zone in was put in NToV just because it wasn"t finished at the time. At the last fan faire the developers even said when/if they redo PoM (rumored for a while now) they"ll move the zone in to somewhere more accessable, much like in EW where the ST zone in is.