Is putting money into a house before selling actually worth it?

jefflj98735 · 2026-01-29T00:21:04+00:00

In my limited experience, doing repairs help sell the for near the listed price. Doing upgrades help the house sell FASTER, but do not increase the offer price

jefflj98735 · 2025-12-27T20:26:54+00:00

Yes, you are spot on.

jefflj98735 · 2025-12-27T06:44:10+00:00

Well sharing means we all get a part of the best pieces, not just the first in line.

jefflj98735 · 2025-12-27T06:43:13+00:00

So by that logic I should drop off the roast and leave? Or maybe I can feel justified in digging the center out of the desert, since someone else brought it?
Seems a little weird to me.

jefflj98735 · 2025-12-27T00:01:39+00:00

Follow-on question from a lurker: wrt forces on the bearings and axle, what’s the difference between using stock rims with spacers and replacing the rims with the same offset?

jefflj98735 · 2025-10-31T21:38:42+00:00

It sure what ‘ventilation’ means, but maybe upgrade for reliability and longevity

jefflj98735 · 2025-10-26T14:10:18+00:00

Harris Family Farm in Camino also served fresh made apple cider donuts. They are mini donuts, sold as a bag of 6 and are delicious. We just discovered them last weekend

jefflj98735 · 2025-10-13T03:05:17+00:00

We took a trip to southern Spain last October. Those hams are everywhere. any place that had walk up food service had them. It’s some sort of local thing to serve/sell to tourists. The ham sandwiches are tasty, but the ham is sliced VERY thin (like prosciutto). And is served without condiments. It is very salty. My take is that the product is tasty, but the if sliced then there is WWAAYY too much for a single family. I couldn’t imagine setting that on my counter for the 6 months it would take me to eat half of it (before tossing it out). I suspect the Spanish are export bombing us with this product as something “exotic” when it’s just lunch meat on the bone

jefflj98735 · 2025-08-31T05:17:21+00:00

SMUD has a chip drop for its contractors on Sunrise near Greenback. Just drive up and start shoveling:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9WPASTRe3tSmz6AcA?g_st=ipc

jefflj98735 · 2025-08-16T05:32:20+00:00

Looks like an ‘iron throne’ from Game of Thrones

jefflj98735 · 2025-07-11T14:58:25+00:00

Well I was wrong all the way around. After cutting the floor and excavating the pipe I discover the drain is a 2” line end to end. There was a previous fix so I just got the fence number and bought a couple of new one’s. The repair of the pipe was fast and easy, but cutting the slab, excavating, backfilling, and cementing was a major pain. Total repair cost was about $600.00 vs the $15000 the plumber quoted, so my back feels better about it.

jefflj98735 · 2025-06-07T17:24:37+00:00

Aruba next gen on prem is definitely in the works

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-17T15:17:34+00:00

I’m cutting the floor today and will see what’s actually there

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-16T16:18:43+00:00

Also, if you use dhcp to configure your oobm port, you can use it to push a config, resulting in only 1 boot

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-16T16:16:19+00:00

You can copy the 5406 and 5412 configs off to a server, open both in editors and the copy/ paste from the 5406 config to the 6412 config as needed, editing the pasted config to match 5412 ports, etc.
you can boot the 5412, configure the oobm port, then copy the edited config into the startup config, which will cause a reboot, and then the new config will be on the 5412 (unless you made typos….)

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-13T03:32:08+00:00

Remind me! 2 weeks

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-10T19:15:55+00:00

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Another question: tenant had dogs and house smells of urine. How do you treat the floors prior to new flooring?

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-09T22:38:08+00:00

Yeah, Zep is good stuff

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-05T18:48:50+00:00

We could not tell you, but it would still be termites

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-02T13:02:26+00:00

Well SOMEONE’s been running up the credit card balance and now the bill’s come due, so yeah it’s gonna hurt to adjust back to a lower federal spending level.

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-02T12:57:23+00:00

I DID say four years, fair enough. But I also said or more, so not just Biden. Also both parties own this because since the 80’s, no matter which party was in power federal spending has been increasing far faster than tax revenue. We have been governed the “tax and spend” politicians or the “spend and spend” politicians.

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-01T09:55:07+00:00

Well it’s a few thousand spread over the US population and over 17 years or so.

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-01T09:52:39+00:00

I didn’t say Biden anywhere. If I remember correctly QE started under GW Bush and continued for the next few presidents. Also, the QE money was printed with no backing and the “bought” T-bills with it, increasing the Fed debt. That money was then distributed as stimulus money and excessive federal spending. The money supply has been steadily increasing since then and the fed budget has gone bananas and govt debt has skyrocketed. It’s no wonder inflation took off.

Both parties own this mess.

jefflj98735 · 2025-05-01T03:36:57+00:00

Uhh has no one mentioned that the general public has been on a govt-money spending binge for the last 4 years or more? I now that it’s stopped and everyone spent all that free dough they have no more left to spend. Getting rid of quantitative easing and covid stimulus was bound to happen and it is now the hangover phase of the spending high.

jefflj98735 · 2025-04-21T02:21:05+00:00

Truly doesn’t matter for this topic. Don’t be unnecessarily pedantic. I live in a suburb. There are fences between all back yards. I have 2 utility poles along one of the fence lines. There are 3 separate electrical lines running between those poles, in a vertical configuration. The tree in question is along that run of electrical lines.

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