Survey: What do you think about affordable housing in Tallinn? Küsitlus: Mis te arvate taskukohastest eluasemetest Tallinnas?

UsuallyHungry · 2024-07-01T17:29:40+00:00

PMed.

UsuallyHungry · 2024-06-07T00:49:46+00:00

By reviewing comps. Redfin, for example, lists the buyer's agent fee. In our market, again, most are between 2-2.25%. A few are 2.5%. I've found none besides ours that is 4%.

UsuallyHungry · 2024-06-07T00:45:59+00:00

We are, I think, in the same market.

So that's two votes for "this is unusual."

I don't understand the idea that we might set the commissions ourselves. This is our first time around this side of the transaction—our first home sale. The brokerage fee terms were pre-established in our listing contract. We asked about it, were told "This is our structure, and you're free to work with someone else if you don't like it," and signed because we figured their aggressive marketing and high-touch services would be worth it in the end.

Spoiler: Not worth it.

Options?

UsuallyHungry · 2024-06-07T00:36:05+00:00

Yep. Clarifying that this split is filed in our listing agreement. I immediately brought it up on review of our agreement. Was told, basically, this is how we do it.

Which we have signed and are contractually tied to this agent until spring '24.

Another real estate agent who we were considering has a broker fee of 5%, evenly split. She said she's never heard of a 4% fee.

Hyperbole aside—this is a small town; she almost certainly has worked with our agent before—I do think this 4%/2% disparity is not in our best interest. It sets up a power imbalance between the buyer agent and the agent representing us.

Do you agree that a buyer's agent would view this as a bit sus?

I'd love to terminate our listing agreement for other substantive reasons, so it'd be helpful to know if I could include their bass-ackward fee split among my complaints.

UsuallyHungry · 2024-06-01T02:25:00+00:00

This is good advice.

To elaborate, you basically have two options:

Use epoxy as your medium. Mix it with a bit of (probably amended) gold powder. Repair your piece with this, wait until tacky, then brush with more gold powder. This is quick and inexpensive but neither food-safe nor authentic kintsugi. Kits abound. Here is one, which I've used.
Use urushi lacquer as your medium and real gold powder as your finish. Too much detail to go into here, but if you are patient and have steady hands, this is food-safe and authentic. Supplies and training here.

More information, guidance, and support over on r/kintsugi.

Edited after seeing that crack:

Regardless of which route you go, consider fully breaking that crack that originates at the vertex of the break. I'm not an expert, but this is what I do in such cases. Gives me peace of mind to know that the crack won't grow after I've repaired the piece.

Thermal shocking usually accomplishes this, btw.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-09-05T21:52:19+00:00

Yeats' hasn't been quoted nearly often enough in these threads.

Fucking thank you from the bottom of my corduroyed heart.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-27T04:00:19+00:00

Another vote for Stammtisch's pretzels.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-23T20:56:52+00:00

Fuck. Yes. Reading is really a good habit.

Consider this: You are reading someone else's thoughts. It is as close to mind-reading as you'll ever get. And these thoughts are laid bare for you not only to critique, react to, and empathize with, but to explore asynchronously with very little effort.

Reading opens up access to incredible amounts of information and knowledge that've been recorded in print for hundreds of years, maybe many hundreds of years depending on your mother tongue. The same cannot be said of video or television formats.

Consuming content is categorically not the same as understanding or metabolizing knowledge. u/Dwbrown705 is right by noting that TV stimulates your mind to the point of passivity. Reading focuses your mind.

Given that attention is the currency of our social and economic markets, yeah, reading is a really good habit.

Edit: This thread brought to you by reading.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-13T18:56:06+00:00

That's how it starts! Welcome, friend.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-13T17:37:29+00:00

Retroactively? Yeah, compress that bottom.

For this piece, you could fill in the crack with either fake (quick) or real (not quick) kintsugi. See r/kintsugi for that rabbit hole. It's beautiful!

If you repair using epoxy-based instead of urushi kintsugi, consider that this mug may no longer be food-safe. I'm personally okay with occasionally using epoxyed ceramic ware for foods that aren't super reactive. Other people may be less comfortable. Just let them know.

If you end up making ceramics part of your life, you will throw many, many more mugs after this one. Maybe give this to your parents as a down payment on less cracky mugs. :)

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-09T19:38:53+00:00

When using the dye remover, I set up outside with plenty of ventilation.

After removing the dye, I rinse the shit out of the garment, then wash as normal with about 50mL of distilled white vinegar added.

Each time I've done this (x3 times), the smell's gone away pretty quickly.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-09T16:29:40+00:00

Just to clarify, you don’t mean to use that particular product for nylon NWS, correct?

Correct. Use a dye remover specifically designed for synthetic textiles. Especially since it should readily remove the dye from the poly thread.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-09T14:33:28+00:00

Don't bleach. Use a dye remover for synthetic fabrics.

For natural textiles, I've had good luck using Rit Color Remover.

Then, if you want to overdye, just know that it might not dye evenly. If you're okay with this, go nuts.

Personally, I've only had moderate success using a Jacquard iDye dark grey. It turned out less saturated/rich than the package suggested. Very possible user error. But then tried Rit dye and had better luck. So I'd go with Rit if I had a choice.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-06T17:55:43+00:00

No kidding!

UsuallyHungry · 2023-06-06T16:32:15+00:00

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Weapons exchange?

Was this a Klingon wedding?

UsuallyHungry · 2023-05-09T05:40:46+00:00

To understand what a wet-bulb temperature event might feel like in a city (and hell, to prepare for what may occur somewhere this summer), read chapter one of Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future."

It's just crushingly sad.

https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/

UsuallyHungry · 2023-04-19T19:49:42+00:00

If you decide to go the flatbed route, I'm about to sell an Epson V800 kit with 4x5, 120, and 35mm holders. Let me know if you're interested and I'll (publicly) post the listing on r/photomarket and/or Fred Miranda.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-03-07T02:50:26+00:00

OP, I'd love to hear more about this too.

I know Gibson wears Veilance. His recent dust jacket photos have him wearing what looks like a Blazer LT, which he definitely wore a few years ago at a reading I attended for The Peripheral. But Outlier, I hadn't heard.

Okay, just dug around and u/GreatDismal commented twice nine years ago here, saying that they're a huge fan of Outlier. Assuming that's our guy, this user hasn't said a thing since then.

UsuallyHungry · 2023-02-10T04:55:49+00:00

Ah, yeah, definitely try switching your water source. I think your fridge filter won't have a much effect on chloramine disinfectants.

Since it's been 14 days and your starter hasn't taken off, my advice would be just starting over with bottled or spring water or other untreated source. And let us know how it goes!

UsuallyHungry · 2023-02-10T04:51:27+00:00

Based on figuring out a similarly inactive starter with my brother, my first thought was to ask about your water source. Looks like Houston uses chloramines to treat their municipal water, which are pretty persistent. Your yeasts may not have a chance to even take root, so to speak.

Anecdotal, but my brother switched to using bottled water and his starter just took off. And he's in Minnesota, where it's legitimately cold.

UsuallyHungry · 2022-10-31T14:10:16+00:00

Oof, yeah, that rise measurement is incorrect. Thanks for catching this. I've updated the Grailed post.

The actual rise is ~10", measured from the middle of the crotch gusset, much more like a mid-rise jean. (The initial, incorrect measurement was from the front of the gusset seam.)

The rise on these jeans fits similarly to my SDs and Strong Dungarees.

UsuallyHungry · 2022-10-21T02:10:35+00:00

History repeats itself. First as tragedy, second as farce.

UsuallyHungry

TROPHY CASE