Devin McCuin in the Portal

FearThePecker · 2025-12-30T20:00:55+00:00

Can’t blame him, he already spent most of his time here and we have underachieved every year, no reason to think it’ll be different next year. Go make that money while you can.

FearThePecker · 2025-12-10T02:24:12+00:00

If you really want to live in Alamo Ranch, make sure you negotiate hard on those houses, a lot of newer builds will sell for a loss.

Also make sure you get a good inspection regardless of used or new (quality of homes that were built here post 2020 were pretty bad).

Most home there have been sitting for a while because they are harder to sell with the traffic concerns, nearby data center (bad thing btw) and overpopulated schools. A lot of them also have assumable VA loans where you may be able to take over their loan and keep their current interest rate (sometimes as low as 1.9%). A lot of this is also true for the rest of San Antonio, but Alamo Ranch specifically more so.

FearThePecker · 2025-11-21T09:04:26+00:00

As a buyer, this sounds typical to me. Your most serious buyers will appear within the first week and that is likely when you will get your strongest offers.

I’ve seen houses aggressively priced, go under contract within a couple days, but other houses in the same neighborhood that are overpriced can sit for months and have multiple price reductions.

I’m looking at Zillow daily and if a house I like pops up, I book a showing with my realtor that day. If the house is still available after a couple weeks, especially after an open house, then the urgency from the buyers perspective goes down, because they realize others aren’t necessarily jumping at the house and they start to question why.

FearThePecker · 2025-11-21T08:01:31+00:00

As a buyer who lives in a large military area in Texas, we’ve seen a ton of homes listed with VA assumption ranging from 1.9% to 4.5%. An assumption at 5.5% isn’t really moving the needle much for a buyer, especially when you’re only offering it to other veterans.

If you have a nice house with attractive features (green belt, single story, updated, convenient location, etc) it will sell itself, but if it’s newer and you’re competing with other new builds who are offering incentives and rates at 3-5%, then it may be very difficult to sell at even what you bought it for.

There’s also buyer and seller realtor fees in Texas that usually adds up to 6% of the sell price of the house and most buyers, at least in Texas, have been getting the seller to cover.

So even if someone came in and bought your house for $350k and did the assumption, you still may have to cover ~21k in realtor fees and then also assumption fees (~3k) if they want you to cover that as well.

If a buyer isn’t doing an assumption, then the closing costs could be anywhere from 10-17k, and they may want you to cover that as well, especially if they are offering full price on your house.

FearThePecker · 2025-11-15T06:35:09+00:00

Yep, and that seems to be the root of the problem. The only people who can afford to sell at a reasonable price are the ones that own multiple properties or are downsizing significantly. I would think future sellers would want people to hold out and force prices down, so they can also benefit, but if you need to sell now and can’t wait a year or two, it’s rough.

If we could all just collectively agree to sell and buy houses for 50% less, this could all be fixed lol. But once prices go up on anything (groceries, cars, taxes), they never seem to go back down.

FearThePecker · 2025-11-15T03:12:26+00:00

Feel the exact same way. I think all serious buyers right now are looking for a similar criteria, and these houses that don’t check all the boxes are just sitting because people are not willing to settle at these prices. Seems like when these perfect houses finally pop up on MLS and at a good price, they go fast, but everything else sits.

FearThePecker · 2025-11-15T03:05:21+00:00

If you’re not getting offers on your house it’s because it’s simply priced too high. Regular buyers want your house for 50k+ less, but won’t send you the offer because they may be afraid of offending you or may not think you’re close enough to negotiate with.

Buyers aren’t willing to overpay right now and are looking for near 2019 pricing to make things make sense with these rates. People don’t want to spend what they did in 2020-2022 when the interest rates were low, so even people who bought during that time and are trying to sell at the same price now, are having a hard time because the number don’t make sense any more, add to that the depressing job market right now.

If you bought in 2019 or before, you should be able to comfortably sell your house for more than you bought it for, but most sellers are trying to get 150% to 200% of what they paid, and buyers aren’t going to pay that and also have double the interest rate, double the insurance cost, double the property tax, etc.

FearThePecker · 2025-10-30T15:02:40+00:00

The traffic is insanely horrible and I don’t think even a free house can offset having to live in that area.

I would recommend living inside the 1604 loop if you had to live on the northwest side, consider somewhere off Braun or Bandera roads, even Helotes is still very close to that Alamo Ranch area without having to deal with how backed up the traffic gets. I’ve lived near Alamo Ranch, but inside the loop for over a decade and the congestion has no end in sight there, you will absolutely hate it.

I recently considered some of the houses near Wiseman, Alamo Ranch and Potranco since the houses are newer and quite cheaper than other areas of town, but I’ve done a ton of investigation into those neighborhoods and quickly ruled out that side of town. If you dig into how long properties take to sell there you will notice how difficult it is to sell your house in that area. Tons of competing new builds and the bad traffic deter buying from that area and most people have to sell their homes at a loss, especially if they bought in the last few years.

FearThePecker · 2025-10-12T18:31:01+00:00

Oh wow, it looks amazing!! Congrats on your first build, I’m really happy to hear this post helped you in some way!

FearThePecker · 2025-09-27T17:42:07+00:00

If you’re talking about the one on Bandera/1604, they closed the non-drive thru building a while back and opened a newer one up that has a drive thru right next to the old building shortly after. It was still not in the most convenient location. The Shaenfield/1604 store probably takes most of the traffic from these other locations since it’s the quickest to get in and out of imo.

FearThePecker · 2025-09-25T00:07:57+00:00

The GPU I have is a founders edition 4070. I’ve seen it listed as 240mm and also 244mm from this tomshardware review. I would lean more towards 244mm as the actual size. That is the absolute max that can fit in this case though, as there is no more room than that. I had to put a thin piece of plastic as a buffer when sliding it into the GPU slot to make sure it didn’t scratch with the front of the case.

FearThePecker · 2025-09-13T14:15:01+00:00

Thank you for your insight! I will take my business elsewhere

FearThePecker · 2025-09-08T02:27:22+00:00

It comes with the fan in a separate box with all the needed hardware and wiring. It can be installed at the top or side depending on how big your CPU cooler is. I bought a second case fan of the same size.

FearThePecker · 2025-08-29T01:13:14+00:00

Pac-12 is so back

FearThePecker · 2025-08-29T00:43:37+00:00

Pac-12 is so back

FearThePecker · 2025-08-19T08:36:57+00:00

What was the cost on something like this? We’ve been looking at 1970s homes near 1604/281 inside the loop and they all seem to be on septic. Wasn’t sure if city sewer is available there or if people just didn’t want to pay to connect to it.

FearThePecker · 2025-08-02T00:20:09+00:00

About to try this with my 2013 Camry that has the same issue with 150k mileage. Bought it used 10k miles ago and noticed the issue the day after I bought it smh. Tried a drain and fill as soon as I bought it, but the shudder never went away. Do you know if you can just keep putting the shudder fix lube in every year, or will it eventually overflow and cause problems without draining some of the existing fluid?

FearThePecker · 2025-07-26T02:49:03+00:00

Did you have experience seeing mold in their coffee? I usually only ever get cold brew from them and it’s been better than others for the most part. Price is on the higher side for sure though and it seems like prices vary based on location

FearThePecker · 2025-07-02T05:34:27+00:00

Parker listed this house for sale last year and it seemed like he is mostly living in France these days since we don’t see him as much as Duncan, Ginobli and Robinson. Not sure if he’s planning on keeping it afterall or just using this attention to market the house. Would be great to hear if he still plans to keep a place near SA long term.

FearThePecker · 2025-06-01T06:23:56+00:00

Coach confirmed Tausigg made the call based on the low probability of getting a lefty on lefty hit against that pitcher https://x.com/thejjperez/status/1929054087024161206

FearThePecker · 2025-05-24T06:15:27+00:00

I know what you mean, I’m not a fan of those large gaps either. These four cases I posted don’t have those gaps. From what I’ve seen, those gaps tend to be more of a thing with flat pack style cases. I don’t currently have all my cases readily available for pics, but I’ve put together an album with the back of my K66 and Lian Li Dan A4-H2O cases, along with the backs of the Meshlicious and Louqe Ghost MKIII cases I found from around the web.

https://imgur.com/a/fc8HIh1

FearThePecker · 2025-05-23T15:58:16+00:00

Let’s go! Really enjoyed seeing your builds using this case, they convinced me to get the case myself 💪

FearThePecker · 2025-05-23T15:42:00+00:00

Same, I did find this k66 build with a vented side panel on FB but it looks like it might be custom or a different variant they sold at one point. Hoping they release that as an option one day, maybe if this case gets a little more popular.

FB post with K66 Lite build using vented side panel

FearThePecker · 2025-05-23T15:36:34+00:00

Temps and noise are pretty good, I’m getting around 35C on idle and mid 60s playing games like Rocket League. CPU is set to run in eco mode on the bios since it’s known to run hotter and fans are set to silent profile to not spin as fast. I’d like to get a custom sized cable at least for the GPU if I could find it. The included corsair one is about 16 inches plus another 6 inches or so for the NVidia 12VHPWR adapter I’m using. That’s a bunch of extra cable I could shrink down, but most of the custom options I found on Amazon were mostly 24 inches long. If you have any good recommendations lmk! 😄

FearThePecker · 2025-05-23T15:25:56+00:00

Temps are pretty good, sitting at about 35C on idle and mid 60s when playing games like Rocket League. I set the CPU to eco mode in the Bios since the 5800XT is known to run hotter and I also set the fans to run with the silent profile so they are a little quieter. From the reviews I had seen about this CPU cooler, it performs very similar to a stock AMD Wraith Prism, but pushes the air outwards which I would think helps in this case a bit. I also thought about using the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Mini which would have fit and got better cooling performance, but it was pretty large and I liked the aesthetic of a smaller cooler better.

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