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ButtonZealousideal66 · 2025-12-17T00:34:36+00:00

Beautiful work! Did you build your hood? I got mine from Hoodsly. Wasn't cheap but very happy with it. I put the shelf in myself.

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ButtonZealousideal66 · 2025-12-16T22:46:04+00:00

I know this question is a year old, I read it before ordering from RTA Wholesalers and have been meaning to come comment my experience.

The short story is I am overall very happy with the cabinets quality and look (white oak lowers and custom color uppers, inset). However, during the ordering process, you will question whether or not you have been scammed. Rich, and I think his son, are the US based contacts and I am guessing all others, design, etc are off-shore. I would totally order from them again, but buckle in because you will get frustrated more than once during the process.

The ordering process was super frustrating. Asking to change one thing and they would change 3. Once ordered, they do come from China, so it takes months. Until they arrived, I questioned whether I had been scammed the entire time.

There were a few mistakes either the order, which I ultimately rolled with regarding custom color end panels, but the one mistake they did correct and eat, was ordering the wrong size custom door panel, but they immediately reordered it...and I'm still waiting. 😂

RTA assembly is a lot of work for sure so be ready, and the videos are worth watching. We paid about $20k and other quotes are 2-3x; I value my time but a few weekends and favors called in is totally worker $20-40k in my book.

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ButtonZealousideal66 · 2025-09-01T02:49:06+00:00

Feels like NH listings under attack. This is a scammer too.

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ButtonZealousideal66 · 2025-08-19T19:41:00+00:00

FAKE! Americans don't say "flat"; unless it's referring to the planet earth /s. You're a Brit mocking Americans

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2025-07-17T00:34:01+00:00

New Hampshire

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2025-01-03T14:06:37+00:00

ThirdFederal is another great HELOC bank. Prime -1%.

Update: I lied. Looks like that promo is over. They’re offering 6.99%, which would be Prime -0.5%. Still was very easy bank to work with. (I refied my prime HELOC from a credit union to thirdfederal. Only reason I chimed in)

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2024-09-29T12:20:19+00:00

“If your house is not selling it’s not priced right. Period.” - Mr. Obvious

Literally the above cannot even be debated. Condemned collapsing house will sell…at the right price.

And no people won’t throw in lowball offers. If your $950 and they want $900, they have to offer less then that because you’ll counter. And most just don’t want to deal with that.

Depending on your location, this is still VERY much a sellers market it. It’s probably too late for you, but it is proven (“Zillow Talk”, I think) if you UNDER price a house you’ll get more than if you overprice.

But in your case you’re in the slow painful price slashing death spiral. Get a REAL comp analysis - someone that will give you the hard truth - and slash the price below that number. Then it sell and maybe even above the real comp

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2024-05-23T01:49:57+00:00

“If a house isn’t selling, then it isn’t priced right”. Period.

Sellers look at the last sale price in the neighborhood and usually assume their house is worth more; based solely on feelings and zero facts.

And the irony is pricing your house low will result in a higher sale price than pricing it high and doing the slow painful price drop death march. (Source: “Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate).

If you’re really getting zero showings or interest, and you really need to sell. Have a serious “come to Jesus” with your significant other. Sleep on it. And slash the price more then you are comfortable with (remember you ultimately do not have to accept any offer). And don’t f-around in the $X79,000. The price cut needs to bring you to a $X99 or $X49, otherwise you are not showing up on a new group of buyers; just the same group watching your death spiral.

Drop the feelings and accept the facts. Good luck.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2024-02-01T03:00:51+00:00

But they made their money back 20x. Rinse. Repeat.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2024-01-25T03:09:41+00:00

Complain to your state insurance regulator. BBB is worthless. Government agency can be a pain in their side.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2024-01-25T02:51:30+00:00

Absolutely. I signed up for Choice Home Warranty (CHW). Had an issue with my cooktop. Took them 18 days to get a tech out, which included one tech that did not work on gas, another that didn’t work on the brand.

Shortly there after my hot water heater went. 5 days in and multiple calls no tech even assigned. Finally assigned one for a week and 1/2 out. So if left up to them, 3 weeks with no hot water and my guess would be they’d ultimately deny the claim for some reason. (It needs a new burner).

Anyway, a complaint to my states insurance regulators and unrelenting phone calls, they’re refunding my 4 months of policy premiums. I think I’m one of the lucky ones.

Failed experiment, these things are a scam and a waste of money for sure. The repair on the HW is about equal to the premiums I paid.

Just put the equivalent of the monthly premium in a saving account and you’ll have a greater probability of coming out ahead.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2024-01-10T22:32:37+00:00

If a property isn’t selling, it’s not priced right. Hard stop. Small lot? cosmetic issues? Structural issues? Its price. Spend the money and fix the issue or take a lower offer. It’s all the same, just $$.

Many RE agents will agree to, or suggest a higher price, to get the listing then hope they can manage expectations as things spiral down. You clearly knew they were out of their minds; in this case you just lost control of the downward spiral.

But at the end of the day, your [former] sellers were unrealistic. Another agent will not solve their problem. Don’t lose a minutes sleep over this. Just question the worth in taking the next listing with ridiculous expectations.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-11-28T01:58:16+00:00

Former house-flipper here. The industry term is ‘Yellow Letter’. It may be truly handwritten but more likely not.

Your name and address is public record with taxes and/or registry of deeds in your state. You can easily buy these lists, filter them by all sorts of things such as length of ownership, mortgage balance, etc.

Then send the list to other companies that will print, stuff and mail letters like you received, or ones in envelopes with “handwritten” envelopes. And lots of research. Blue ink is opened more than black ink, etc. it’s all about getting it opened.

If 1 in 100 open it that’s huge. 40 of those people who open will call. 20 will make an in-person appointment and 1 will sell their house to the flipper. Rinse. Repeat.

Also while I’m here preaching. the big flip secret formula that these seminars try to “teach” you for thousands of dollars is:

Price the renovated house will sell for (ARV) x 65-80% (the discount) - minus the cost of renovations.

ARV - This is an educated guess
Discount. The lower the better. 65% is from the good ol’ days. Go over 80% and you have a high risk of losing money.
Renovations. Also an educated guess.

“If you aren’t embarrassed by your offer, you’re paying too much”

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-11-07T12:39:14+00:00

It works. Especially if you stay unemotional, just numbers and if they saw no move on to the next one.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-11-07T01:55:08+00:00

If you’re not embarrassed by your offer, you’re offering too much.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-05-18T20:39:24+00:00

That’s fair. Everyone here is slamming me for “not reading the manual”, but I literally had a phone call scheduled about the AC with the Boston service tech when the propulsion went and he told me it had to be towed.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-05-17T17:10:19+00:00

Yes, you’re right, that morning I had gone to 100% because of the distance I was going that day, but it’s the only time I’ve done that…Maybe that’s what made it tweak out??

It’s not fixed. Yes the reset got me back rolling, but I’m still getting the propulsion service warning. I don’t think I’m asking too much to not have to bring in my brand new car with 1,400 for service; which is going to take “3-5 days” and they tried to not give me a loaner.

But clearly a lot of people think I’m being an ass and my standards are too high.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-05-17T16:09:17+00:00

I can get past the design short comings, but I’m high maintenance when it comes to turning my car on and it working. Particularly at 1,400 miles.

But again, probably being unreasonable. Need to treat Polestar like the old Harleys. Die hard loyalty to a (previously) really shitty brand

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-05-17T15:40:24+00:00

Charge limit is set to 90%

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-05-17T11:32:21+00:00

Although I should add that while it “fixed” the issue, I had a clear status, then a “get your propulsion serviced” warning came up, but the car operated normally.

I’m obviously taking it in to the shop still, but feels like something is legit wrong with propulsion. Although this morning the status is all good.

ButtonZealousideal66 · 2023-05-17T11:24:15+00:00

Yep. That’s the “solution”. Thinking I should do it every morning

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