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I'd also add, if you find a good property manager, don't walk over a 1% cheaper fee elsewhere. Because I have mine spread out, I have three separate managers. The local one failed to properly check a tenant they let move in to one of my houses about 2 years ago, we had to evict that tenant and when we finally got in there she had done over $10,000 in damage to a small 3/2. If you find one who is diligent, it's well worth it. Especially in college towns, you can find companies who do this full time and if you ever have a need for the sheriff to handle anything they usually are well connected and have relationships.
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I had a buddy who has rentals and is also a realtor get me my first agreement. I managed it myself for two years to learn the ins and outs, figure out what legit expenses there would be, then hired a property manager after that. It's a large headache unless you are in the business full time and have time on your hands to go out and do small repairs or let repairmen in, etc.
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Would you rather be left in the woods alone with a bear or a woman?
Mark Davis replied to cmh6476's topic in The Geek Club
Is it an actual woman, you know, one with two x chromosomes? -
Keep up the good work! When I started my second job of my career back in 1998 there was a guy who started the week after me where we had a discussion once in a conference room about lifetime financial goals. We are the best of friends now even as we live in far ends of the country from each other, still bounce our business ideas and investments off each other, etc. Back then, the initial goal was $1MM. After that, it was levels of wealth. The next step up in lifestyle was at $2MM, $5MM, $10MM, $20MM. I still look at those goals and adjust for inflation. Yeah we shot high for 24-25 year olds. Getting to that $1MM is always special, congrats on getting to double that! It truly gives you a sense of security and freedom in life.
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Biden says Americans have 'right to protest, but not the right to chaos'
Mark Davis replied to kilroy69's topic in The Geek Club
I'd be intrigued as to who determined they were wrongfully arrested. I'm pretty good friends with a bail bondsman. Usually people don't have time to have charges investigated when they try to make bail from my experience in being around him when that phone rings. From my recollection of those events, I'd be interested to see where police had the spare time and manpower to arrest people who weren't actively causing problems. But when it comes to bail, especially on anything of scale, how is anyone to know that rapidly beyond just taking someone's word for it? -
Biden says Americans have 'right to protest, but not the right to chaos'
Mark Davis replied to kilroy69's topic in The Geek Club
Case in point -
Biden says Americans have 'right to protest, but not the right to chaos'
Mark Davis replied to kilroy69's topic in The Geek Club
Unfortunately it doesn't take radicalizing very many of these outcasts to take action that could cause a much bigger issue. The problem doesn't stop with just racist or Marxist ideologies, it goes further when Hamas is glorified with the chanting etc. When do some of them decide to take Hamas type actions? Everyone on the right wants to point fingers at the faculty, and I agree there are a lot of issues there. But where are these kids parents? I remember my first semester at college being in a sociology class and thinking my professor was a damn kook when he blamed three criminals poor upbringing on why they raped a woman and why they were less accountable because of that fact. Those values are instilled by parents. Just because some faculty member stated something as fact, it was pretty obvious to me that was just his opinion, one I didn't agree with. So while if I saw my kid out in one of these things I'd go down there and grab them up, it's pretty obvious the parents in many of these cases were asleep at the wheel, don't care, or share some of these looney views. -
Biden says Americans have 'right to protest, but not the right to chaos'
Mark Davis replied to kilroy69's topic in The Geek Club
Try going into your nearest library and spray paint a few walls and break out a few windows. Compare the charges you will get to the ones you're going to see for these folks. -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
A bunch of misfits with no place to belong and no prospects who have been used to find a place to belong by Marxists and Islamists. -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
I was wondering when groups were going to have had enough. Itβs easy to intimidate, harass, and bully people when youβre a group and singling individuals out. When you come back with a group in response itβs a little different. -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
God bless the SEC, these are some homely people on campus -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
Same cast of characters and with same goals. They just move on to the next victim/oppressed group. -
Here's some video of the damn police instigating again at UNC.
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What Do You Think Ruined the WNBA?
Mark Davis replied to EternalShinyAndChrome's topic in The Geek Club
Zero interest ruined it, from the jump -
And here's their fearless leader, more Marxists
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I'm not one to judge. I've logged more hours in Vicksburg MS than anywhere else. When I was fresh out of college my first job was in Jackson MS. Vicksburg was 1 hour door to door from my apartment. There were nights I'd go gamble til 2-3 AM, drive home, then sleep 2-3 hours and go to work. I usually focused hard on the cards but one time I looked around the casino there at 2 AM on a weeknight, boy it was depressing to see the folks who were there. I didn't pull that shift very often. I had a bad habit of gambling hard on football, losing a bunch, then going and counting cards on a late Saturday night to get it back. If I'd only had the sense to not gamble on football and just invest the money from counting.
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The administration at places like Columbia are to blame for this. Had they dealt with this earlier they wouldn't be in this spot now. Now the protestors have no reason to believe any of their threats, I know I sure wouldn't. They obviously feel they can do whatever they want and these administrations will yield to them. So far they are correct.
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Interesting. Never been to AC, lots of Vegas trips and MS casinos. Used to hit a few wherever I was when traveling for work. I did hear at some point AC was struggling pretty badly so they were looser with rules to try and gain customer share.
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Check out these winners from the University of Florida lock up. I wouldn't even trust one of these to wash my car https://thebradentontimes.com/stories/police-make-first-arrests-in-florida-of-pro-palestinian-protesters-at-two-university-campuses,85883
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Finding surrender tables is exceedingly rare these days. You have to find some uncommonly liberal rules to allow it. Years ago I can remember Harrahs on the Vegas strip allowed it but it was extremely uncommon even then. Maybe downtown or off strip properties out there. Even where I cut my teeth counting in Mississippi there were no casinos anywhere there who allowed it. When I first started in the late 90s though you could find dealer stand on soft 17 there.
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I don't support what she did, but I'd let Michael Vick move in beside me before someone who is obviously mentally ill. Besides, I bet Gov. Noem is a hell of a good time if she chooses the house beside me with the pool.
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Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
I must be missing it in the first video, I don't see anything. In the bottom one, isn't that one being arrested at the front the professor who admitted she struck an officer prior to her arrest? There is an Emory faculty member who had video published of her arrest who admitted to that. I'm not sure what the expected outcome is once you do that other than being arrested in a fairly aggressive manner. I do know in the Emory situation the orders to disperse were ignored. I'm not sure what the police were supposed to do when they didn't comply other than arrest people. When you resist arrest, force is used. I don't see anything there that bothers me. -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
There's lots of videos of all these interactions. We both know everyone there has cell phones and are videoing everything from chanting to a bird taking a crap on the nearby park bench. You should have adequate footage if this was occurring, especially "a lot of the times". -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
This ID is a bot that posts the same thing each time correct? -
Violent Liberal Protesters Defy Order to Disperse as Tensions Rise π - Liberals are Pro-Hamas & Anti-Isreal
Mark Davis replied to Maximum Overkill's topic in The Geek Club
You keep going back to the participants not being as extreme as some of the leaders. This would be like excusing some of the Charlottesville marchers actions. Remember being upset over the "Fine folks on both sides" comment? That's the same exact thing. When you associate with extremists, you tend to get lumped in with them. Even so, the words are being spoken. There are hundreds of clips showing this. It's great if a few of those folks really don't believe the rhetoric, but the majority clearly do or they simply wouldn't be there. How many rallies or events do you go to where you don't believe in the underlying cause of its leadership? I don't think I've ever been to one, even when I was a foolish college kid. We don't need to be careful at all. I'm tired of there being no consequences for breaking our laws. I hope they do begin clearing these folks out where they are breaking the law or blocking access for others who have the right to use that property or attend their classes in peace. The further this carries on the worse it becomes and the nastier it's going to be to stop. If you want to avoid a Kent State situation you should want these encampments cleared today, not later. Taking a knee for these folks isn't going to solve the problem.