A frolic in Cambodia

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Painting is easy. Sanding, prepping, taping, and cleaning up is a pain in the ass, as is waiting in line at the hardware store or Home Depot to buy all the fucking supplies.

I have painted my own rooms, and hired a pro, and I will never do my own painting again. I have more money than time. I would rather fuck, workout, take the dogs to the park, fuck, learn how to play golf, give and/or receive oral sex, iron clothes, shop for furniture or clothes or groceries, masturbate, clean the house, download songs from itunes, post here, or bill, for chrissakes, than prep for or clean up after painting.

I also like that the painter nearly perfected very flawed walls and trim and made nearly perfectly straight ceiling lines when I don't even have straight walls.

Word. Especially if you have an accent wall or the ceiling is left white. Painting straight lines is harder than it sounds. After we painted our old bedroom in a taupe-y beige with an accent wall, the painter left a perfect line between the bedroom wall and the bathroom (no door).

Our neighbors painted their kitchen avocado (puke) green and the line on the wall between the kitchen wall and the living room wall was hysterically funny. Kind of like she was drunk when she did it.
She asked what we thought about the paint. What do you say? Hey, looks great, except for the color and those crooked lines.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Bad painting is so easy to spot, and it's such a waste, especially with expensive paint.

True. I've done a good deal of painting. I worked for a carpenter and we did some painting on the side, so I'm pretty good at it, and quite efficient. I can probably paint a room twice as fast as most people.

Needless to say, I learned practically nothing in the art of carpentry. I know that I'd rather plumb bob RP than paint though.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
A word of caution about bright yellow. I sadly have florescent lighting in my kitchen, and the yellow doesn't look good at all under that lighting.

Have you tried different flourescent bulbs? They come in several different "temperatures" which have a marked effect on the color cast.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Painting is easy. Sanding, prepping, taping, and cleaning up is a pain in the ass, as is waiting in line at the hardware store or Home Depot to buy all the fucking supplies.

I have painted my own rooms, and hired a pro, and I will never do my own painting again. I have more money than time. I would rather fuck, workout, take the dogs to the park, fuck, learn how to play golf, give and/or receive oral sex, iron clothes, shop for furniture or clothes or groceries, masturbate, clean the house, download songs from itunes, post here, or bill, for chrissakes, than prep for or clean up after painting.

I also like that the painter nearly perfected very flawed walls and trim and made nearly perfectly straight ceiling lines when I don't even have straight walls.

See, I guess I don't hate it. I would rather paint than iron clothes, grocery shop, clean the house or shop for furniture.

And you can practically fuck and paint at the same time.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Have you tried different flourescent bulbs? They come in several different "temperatures" which have a marked effect on the color cast.

I've tried everything, and it still feels like my elementary school. I actually rather like the monorail systems, and I'm looking forward to having this one installed.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And you can practically fuck and paint at the same time.

And the bonus is that when you move, you can tell people with some credibility that Jackson Pollack painted your walls.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Painting is easy. Sanding, prepping, taping, and cleaning up is a pain in the ass, as is waiting in line at the hardware store or Home Depot to buy all the fucking supplies.

I have painted my own rooms, and hired a pro, and I will never do my own painting again. I have more money than time. I would rather fuck, workout, take the dogs to the park, fuck, learn how to play golf, give and/or receive oral sex, iron clothes, shop for furniture or clothes or groceries, masturbate, clean the house, download songs from itunes, post here, or bill, for chrissakes, than prep for or clean up after painting.

I also like that the painter nearly perfected very flawed walls and trim and made nearly perfectly straight ceiling lines when I don't even have straight walls.

2. I helped a painter for a summer job when I was a kid. It's stinky, messy and the prep and clean up is awful. I have to admit though, that I get a kind of almost-dirty pleasure out of actually putting the paint on the wall. Especially with the roller. It looks all pretty and velvety. And I like painting white walls with dark paint.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
monorail

monorail, monorail, MONORAIL!!!

(sorry)

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?


And you can practically fuck and paint at the same time.

I am intrigued. And my master bathroom needs painting.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Gattigap
And the bonus is that when you move, you can tell people with some credibility that Jackson Pollack painted your walls.

Well, I am drunk and abusive, but I don't know how you knew that.

[mmm3587]

What's a good method for determining the purchase price premium or discount appropriate to a property with an assessment of $x dollars?

My partner and I are looking at a few rental properties to try to decide which to purchase and I want to have a way of comparing carrying costs of properties with differing purchase prices and assessments. Obviously, I can look at monthly costs, but should I just consider the assessment as an additional cost and consider what equivalent loan that corresponds to for different assessments? In that centris paribus situation, I would guess that I would rather have a lower assessment with higher initial purchase price, right?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by mmm3587
What's a good method for determining the purchase price premium or discount appropriate to a property with an assessment of $x dollars?

My partner and I are looking at a few rental properties to try to decide which to purchase and I want to have a way of comparing carrying costs of properties with differing purchase prices and assessments. Obviously, I can look at monthly costs, but should I just consider the assessment as an additional cost and consider what equivalent loan that corresponds to for different assessments? In that centris paribus situation, I would guess that I would rather have a lower assessment with higher initial purchase price, right?

Translation: I am rich.

Yes, I am bitter. And angry. This sounds exactly like a conversation I overheard one of my over-fed, smugly patronizing partners have with a tax lawyer from another office the other day. And he has a gorgeous trophy wife, is banging a hot paralegal from the real estate group, and gloats about his new BMW. Fucker. I used to tell myself that he was unhappy inside, but I no longer think that that's true after seeing him yesterday morning still drunk from the Bush Cheney victory party the night before at the Hyatt. Life is Not Fair.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by mmm3587
white noise

Heidi suggests that you contact a lawyer who will bill you up the ass for this information and not try to kill the board of your imaginary friends.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Heidi suggests that you contact a lawyer who will bill you up the ass for this information and not try to kill the board of your imaginary friends.

Heidi's too infatuated with lawyers (NTTAWWT). Mmmmm needs an accountant.

More particularly, he needs to consider both the straight bottom-line impact of the assessment on a monthly basis, and the potential imparct on the long term value of the property. A low assessment is good on the bottom line initially, but low assessments can mean shortcutting on maintenance and improvements, and next thing you know your property looks like the inner city and sells for half as much as the property down the road with the extra $50 a month assessment that they've been plugging into improvements the last ten years.

Which isn't to say high assessment = good, but I'd be warry of one siginificantly lower than what seems to be market.

[NotFromHere]

Back when I played soccer, this wasn't allowed.



Benfica's Ricardo Rocha, left, and Stuttgart's Silvio Meissner fight for the ball during the UEFA Cup group G match between VfB Stuttgart and Benfica Lisbon at the Gottlieb Daimler stadium in Stuttgart, Germany.