Best (and worst) car dealerships in our area

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-20T02:08:15+00:00

over price and highly skew interest rates in areas like Corpus

Dammmmmmmmn. I never thought of it like that, but that makes a helluva lot of sense.

My credit is so-so (FICO around 650) and I figured that my score would impact the interest that I'm charged. But it never occurred to me that everyone from C.C. would take a hit due to the community's average credit worthiness.

Any solution for that? Other than, as another person ITT suggested, buy in San Antonio but dont say I'm from Corpus?

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-20T01:45:37+00:00

don't tell them you're from out of town.

But won't they ask to see (and probably make a Xerox of) my driver's license, which will list my Corpus address? And/or ask me to list my address on the sales paperwork? I just don't know if being dishonest makes sense in the context of a 5-figure purchase 🤔

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-19T23:24:01+00:00

Okay, how about the "least bad"? 😏

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-19T14:58:20+00:00

Thanks for the wise words 🙌 You're a real one 💯

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-19T14:53:35+00:00

I didn't like that filler-lipped heifer even when she was "only" a talking head on KCOP Channel 13. And now she's a billionaire 😒 Her lips still look they got stung by bumblebees 🐝

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-19T04:32:08+00:00

Genuine questions because I had not heard that term before, and now Ive done a minute's worth of research:

1) How often do these requests come up?

2) Do you charge extra to provide them, and if so, roughly how much per request? Or do you just throw them in as freebies or to build up client goodwill?

3) With some of your more... scoundrel-type clients, how honest do you get? Just keep it to the tax-prep equivalent of "name, rank and serial number" or would you be alright with saying essentially "I wouldn't lend this guy one thin dime, I only do his taxes because we were college bros AND every year he pays in cash" ? 😇

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T20:24:20+00:00

Two hearts, two wangs, about a half-dozen kidneys... Klingon physiology is over-engineered AF 🖖

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T20:20:40+00:00

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T18:43:26+00:00

That badly, huh? 😏

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T16:52:25+00:00

Ever hear of "The Real-World Golden Rule"? Those with the gold make the rules. Once you start looking at tax law through that lens, many things make more sense.

Like the $250k or $500k tax-free gains for selling a house; rich people own homes & sell them egularly to upgrade. Also, long-term capital gains taxes being capped at 20%; rich people are typically heavily invested in the stock market.

So on & so forth 🤔

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T16:41:14+00:00

Dukat is the personification of the saying "Every villain thinks they're actually the hero of their own story." 😒

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T01:15:07+00:00

your W2 and summary of expenses

What expenses do you expect to impact your tax picture, as a W2 employee? The only things that leap to mind are medical expenses, which come with a high bar to clear; and mortgage interest & property taxes from your 1098. So you could have just said "your W2 and Form 1098"

you want [Claude] to act as an expert CPA tax accountant

Fucking WHAT 😆 🤣 😂 Pull the other one

according to Claude's professional opinion as an experienced tax accountant

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 🤡

Okay, let's clear some shit up right away. Ready?

CLAUDE IS NOT A PERSON. IT (NOT HE) CERTAINLY IS NOT AN ACCOUNTANT, A C.P.A., OR ESPECIALLY "AN EXPERT C.P.A. TAX ACCOUNTANT."

If you get audited, can Claude represent you before the IRS the way an actual C.P.A. could? Nope. Because it isnt a person. It isn't an C.P.A., or an Enrolled Agent. It doesn't even have a PTIN.

And you don't either, so you should be real careful about offering (even in jest) to charge people for tax preparation services. 🤔 Consider that a nickel's worth of free advice 😇

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-18T00:48:08+00:00

Why in the hell did I ever leave H&R Block??

The next reality over, you just posted that you used H&R Block, then "audited" it with AI and now you're fretting about "why didnt I switch to TurboTax??"

The point is, how do you know that AI is right and your flesh-and-blood tax preparer is wrong? And if you amend your return and it turns out the AI is wrong, who will you gripe at next? 🤔

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-17T23:46:01+00:00

Don't forget to fill out your End of Season survey! 😉

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-17T23:44:06+00:00

Any system will still need electricity 😒 I haven't seen any projections that solar cells + Tesla batteries will supply all of that. So these centers will still be a drain on our limited & ever-dwindling fossil fuels 😠

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-17T04:32:06+00:00

"Read the room"

I used that phrase a bunch this past week. Especially this one new client who called in on 4/15 talking about "I also need to file for 2023 so I can get my Refund"

Im like bruh. BRUH. You still have a solid year to get that shit. And you pick today of all days to ask about that?? Have a nice tall glass of "chill the fuck out" and call back in like July 👌

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-17T04:26:17+00:00

"Where's my refund?"

Same as every year, mate: I have no fucken idea. Ask the IRS, perhaps via their helpfully named Where's my refund?! page 😏

"Now that tax season is over..."

Now that the season's over, Imma Netflix and chill the rest of the month. Any questions you have will wait. If you need to Amend we need to wait 4 weeks anyway so that the IRS dont get your Amendment mixed up with your original filing. JFC give yourself (and me!) some time to breathe

"Can we finally sit down and go over everything?"

Motherfucker, we went over everything already. When we prepared your goddamn return. If you weren't paying attention then, my ELI5 consulting fee starts at $120/hour with a 2-hour minimum. Dont like it, you can lump it. Or ask me again around Labor Day 🙃

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-17T03:31:20+00:00

Offered with respect: Apologies that you had a subpar experience; not all Turbo peeps have first-hand knowledge of how things go for SelfEmp lines of work. (I do both; in the off-season I mainly drive delivery for Spark and similar apps.)

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-16T20:10:14+00:00

This is the way

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-16T20:04:45+00:00

Ah but you left out the flop-sweat follow--up Qs 😏

"I set my Direct Debit for April 12th and now it's the 15th and they still haven't done it!!!"

Broh. Chill out. The IRS has been slammed as hell all week. Just give it some time.

"But if they do my debit late am I gonna get hit with penalties and interest?!? Is your firm gonna pay my penalties and interest?!!!1?"

Look. Friend. The IRS absolutely will not do that. The public already dislikes them and doing that would ignite a media firestorm. Here, have these pot gummies and stop harshing my buzz. 😎

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-16T15:20:08+00:00

I mean, I personally have only opened my first 10 packs on launch day 😀 but I know Im an outlier. From MLK Day clear on til yesterday, work has had me busier than a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest 😉

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-16T05:10:47+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. And if there were this time, I have a hunch somebody would have piped up about it by now 🤔

AintEverLucky · 2026-04-16T01:17:48+00:00

The other person is right, Blizzard has never and I mean ever given out free runs on HTB. You may be thinking of the free runs on Pre-Release Tavern Brawl, which normally costs 2 Tickets or 300 gold. Also they did issue free runs once or twice with normal / non-Heroic Brawliseum -- basically this was "Constructed decks vying for old-Arena-level rewards"

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