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    Home buying thread

    And like you said, it"s easy to get done over the phone in less than half an hour. It"s a pretty low barrier.
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    If he"s consistently having to fire people for lying about their experience...yeah.
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Would reference checks have caught the lack of experience Lyrical? How did you find most of your new hires?
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    Salary Negotiation

    Every company I"ve received offers from has put it in writing. Anywhere from gigantic corporations to local startups. It"s at least a page saying what you"ll be making and maybe what your title will be. It would be strange if there wasn"t one.
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    Salary Negotiation

    To go along with what Elurin said, if the job and compensation at the new job are something you want but you"d be willing to stay at your current place if the compensation was better, get the offer from the new company. Tell your current company you want to stay there but can"t do it without a...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Have you been studying at all Elurin? I looked into taking it now so I don"t have to worry about it if I decide to go to bschool in the next five years. The practice GMAT application they have though I got a 650 without studying at all. Any school I would want to go to I would need low 700s so...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Haven"t read Millionaire Next Door, but active/passive investing is something that"s been beaten to death, reincarnated, and then beaten to death again here.
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    I think this might be pretty culturally dependent. My current stepdad who initially was married to a Japanese woman in Japan brought up how it"s a cultural expectation that the man makes the money and the (stay at home) woman sets the budget. I have no first hand experience though. What you...
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    Home buying thread

    My buddy was just looking at buying a 4plex. From what I remember the bank estimates 50% vacancy, although if you can afford it month to month with 0 tenants then it may not matter. How are you estimating utilities? That would require getting the numbers from the previous owner who may or may...
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    Home buying thread

    Agreed, but it depends on the timespan too. If you need that within the next year then it"s worth getting a quote now. If you"re waiting to both have kids and have them grow up to need separate rooms then you have a lot of wiggle room.
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    If there"s one thing I"ve gotten out of undergrad it"s that it"s never a bad idea to do a really basic industry competitive analysis (usually porter"s 5 forces) before anything else. From what you said Heylel, your customers currently have relatively low bargaining power because they can"t get...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Contact your state representative/whoever pays them. Most of them are somewhat sensitive to things that would make the lives of their small business owners harder (or at least, could give the appearance of doing so when you write your newspaper). As far as shit you can reference, try to find...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    I think Lyrical touched on that a lot earlier in this thread when he was talking about aligning the employee"s interest with the company"s. It makes sense (to me, as a bschool student) but almost every company I"ve worked for has not implemented it in a very effective way.
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Go for it. And it seems like a solid idea. I"ve been frustrated with my realtors site a lot, all kinds of retarded frames and unintuitive search options. That said, why are you considering taking on outside capital again? So you can pursue a marketing campaign? It seems like a better way at...
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    Home buying thread

    You pretty much do it the same as any other insurance, just shop around...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Yeah, at least here they told me without equivocation that homebrew in a bar at all (I believe the phrase was any alcohol not sold by the bar) was grounds to lose the license. This isn"t a brewery though, just a music venue with a beer license. It should be easy enough to google the Georgia ABC...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    It"s the same in KY, except I found out with a 5 minute call to the ABC to find out if we could host brew and view nights at a bar and have people bring homebrew. Can"t do it in a place with an alcohol license or the license could be revoked. It"s shitty you got that far before someone let you...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Yeah Kentucky is like that as well. There are a few distributors in the city but I"m not sure at all how open they are to stocking incredibly low quantities. Keep us posted as your figure out more, that sounds like pretty rough odds. I also found this resource when I was looking around:Home...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Where have you been reading about opening up breweries? I thought one of the homebrew forums had a section dedicated to people going commercial but I can"t find it now. I seem to remember a thread awhile ago about some dude who just started out of his house in a 45 gal fermenter or something and...
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    Home buying thread

    Way to come out of left field bro, for a moment imagine the incredibly unlikely scenario where the listing agent is the homeowner. From what I understand from my realtor/landlord contacts they can negotiate lower terms with people without agents because they don"t have to pay the 3% to the...
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    Home buying thread

    Still not bad advice, but depending on who you"re buying from, not having an agent can help you negotiate a slightly lower price. Would still definitely get a buyers agent if only so you get those emails whenever a new home gets listed. I think if you know a realtor they can also get you hooked...
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    Home buying thread

    It"s been awhile, but don"t they require bank statements to approve the loan - bank statements that would presumably show his paycheck or him cashing checks? It seems a little retarded that anyone working in a family owned restaurant or something wouldn"t be able to buy a home.
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    Home buying thread

    Backstory: I"m a 20yo college student in Louisville, looking to buy my first house so here are a lot of questions. Any help would be appreciated. I rent a house in a preservation district near UofL, a relatively expensive but really nice area and already in pretty high demand and only getting...
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    Home buying thread

    From Louisville - everything is cheaper in the midwest, not just real estate. Having 200 grand to spend on a house means you"re doing pretty fucking well here. Also, the reason why prices in Dayton are low is because it"s shitty. Seriously, walk around downtown after 8pm and you"ll see how dead...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    +1. I"m also curious as to what you decide to go with over the slow winter months, especially if you keep up the strategy of giving your guys hours
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    Home buying thread

    +1 for the free pre approvals. One even did it over the phone, gave him some info, took maybe 45 minutes and called me back. You could probably get by without a realtor, but having access to the MLS is awesome. My girlfriend"s dad has his license so I could use his log in and see that someone...
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    Home buying thread

    Depends on the realtor. Definitely ask for recommendations but most good ones won"t have a problem with you shopping around. I talked to maybe 3 or 4 banks. Some of them just ignored state programs that can get you lower interest rates for part of the loan and our realtor promptly informed us...
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    Bertoxxulus Bugged

    Wow, I think I can almost feel parts of my brain shutting down and withering away.
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    what do you make

    or everyones carnival favorite: FUNNEL COCK!
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    Who has top single person burst dps server-wide

    this thread is a true work of art (notice how i didnt say GOOD art^^)
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    Who has top single person burst dps server-wide

    says it all, and its on EVERY ONE OF HIS POSTS i think i deserve a special sticker for that- "Master of the Obvious" anyone?