Nitrousbird

Off and on the past couple of days, and that's about it.

I was out on Griggs most of today. Got to try my new Liquid Force Omega 143, and I love it. My new Spectra rope is a bit long, so I may have to get a shorter one, as this one can't be shortened much. Last wipe-out jammed a bunch of water into my ear that has decided to make home there. Good day boating otherwise.

I will want mine done probably late summer to the fall - assuming everything else falls into place, which doesn't seem to be happening, but I already have all the software (LT1_Edit and Tunercat, plus Datamaster EE Beta Full).

How much for just the games? Mostly interested in GTA 4

Chase They are well aware that if they don't close on Tuesday, we will NOT be paying the fees. We also have all the documentation leading up to this showing that everything was in order, even the E-mail on Tuesday telling us everything is good to go. This was a total screw up on their part, and totally screwing us.

I don't know WTF to do now: The bank now wants a 2-week extension. They want some condensed letter from our inspector, they want to send their inspector through the place, and seem to want it 100% habitable before we close. WTF...on a way underprice foreclosurer? From what we are gathering, they just started working on our mortgage Wed. afternoon. They had two fucking months. When we try to get them to address the penalties, their response is to call the foreclosurer bank and see what they can do for us. At this point, once we get all the documents in they want, then I am going to get ahold of our lawyer. They have admitted time and again it is there fault, it is 100% internal documentation, and they are fucking us over big time. Vacation, people from out of the country in, etc....we are getting screwed here. I am beyond pissed!!!!!!! My wife is starting to call other mortgage companies at this point as well. I have a funny feeling this will end up with some legal action from us on this........

Mine too, same deal.

From what I've heard of short sales, you need to have a LONG time window to get into contract on one. The banks, for some unknown reason, drag their feet on offers. A lot of offers fall through because the bank takes so long; sometimes up to 6+ months. Half of the mortagage crisis in the country I think could have been resolved with just good customer service. Treating people like they are spending the hundreds of thousand of dollars they are putting out there. Hell, I could say more than half, as good customer service wouldn't allow someone making 40k a year into a 300k house like they were doing during the mortgage boom.

We don't want to look anymore! It took us months to find this place; anything that came close to meeting all of what we wanted was a good 100k more expensive. The two other houses in the neighborhood for sale are 1000 sq/ft less on .5 less acres, and are asking 30-40k more. This house is as close as we could come to all the things we wanted - neighborhood with land (this has 2 acres), vaulted ceilings with an open floor plan, decent garage, and in a good location....this place as it all and then some. I don't think this is a HUD home...I haven't heard any mention of it. We are doing a convential 20% down loan...I mean, we have jumped through hoops on a loan that is about a straight forward as they come!

I think this thread shows the customer service Brian is willing to do for those that go to him. I know that when it comes time to fully tune my car, Brian is the only one I am taking it to. He will treat your car like it is his own.

Jetflea? I always thought it was "Lake Lice." Luckily, the places I normally go to have banned lake lice. Sadly, they banned tubing too, but as long as I can wakeboard I'm happy.

19/20. I was doing it quickly, and for some reason thought "Yield" when it said diamond shaped sign. Once I re-read it, I knew the right answer.

My wife and I are buying a pretty sweet foreclosure. We went into contract about 2 months ago, and had all of the paperwork, inspection, etc. done right from the start - basically we gave the bank that owns the property, our mortgage company (Chase), and the title company all the time in the world to get things cared for. We checked in regularly, and everything was "going fine" or some other statement of no issues. We are supposed to close today. Wednesday (less than 48 hours before closing) the title company says we can't close on Friday. We say that's unacceptable, and WTF is the deal? Because they decided to wait until the last second to do the title work, they found a paperwork error from 6 years ago when the house was built. It seems homes are sold by the parcel description (not the address), and the builder that built our home built the one 2 doors down. That home had the same parcel description of our home (luckily, it was the description of our place and not vice versa). Long story short (and my poor wife making an ass load of calls), the title company agrees to pay the attorney fee for the neighbor and have them sign a quick claim deed...at this point, all is well, and we can close. Now comes yesterday...24 hours before close, the mortage company starts asking for some more documentation. Okay, WTF...you've had two months, and said everything is squared away. After some more phone calls, they basically said you aren't closing Friday, and we basically need to re-start your mortgage process. Ummm, WHAT!!! More calls from my wife (she is awesome with this, I have to say) and it turns out that whomever started our mortgage left the company, then our file just got pushed into some pile. More calls later, and that wasn't fully accurate - everything got done, except the underwriter won't sign it. Why? This bitch decides that "oh noes, it needs paint and carpet." It needs an inspection. We need 1040's. We did what we could, and sent the 1040's, I sent the receipt for the 5 gallons of custom-matched paint for the house I already bought, the contacts we have on carpet, and explained we can't do this work to the house until we own it. Also forwarded the inspection. The mortgage manager is having a meeting first thing today with this underwriter's boss to try and get them to sign it over her head...I guess it has been sitting in her que for weeks, and she just NOW decided to look at it. We don't know if we will close today or not. If we don't close by the 26th, we loose our earnest money and pay a daily penalty...that's thousands of dollars. My wife made it VERY clear that we won't be the ones losing that money because of this screw up. The people working on it now seem to want to get this done, and were working on it up to at least 8:30 last night (still sending us e-mails). This is so pathetic...it is all internal paperwork for them, nothing more. What is worse is my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are flying in today for 10 days to help us prep and move into our new place. Very nice of them...especially at over $600/ticket from Newfoundland. We have everything planned/arranged based on closing today. Vacation time, the works. Needless to say, my wife and I are stressed/pissed. We are supposed to be excited about getting a new home. Instead, we are dealing with nothing but major issues. And I get the funny feeling this isn't the last of the drama we deal with on this transaction.......

Have you tried Autotrader? Costs a little, but we got top dollar for my wife's Sentra last year.

What are the capacity sizes for each unit, and how flexiable are you on price? I will be needing to buy a set this weekend or some time next week.

This is like the 3rd time I have seen them list the 920 for that price...I am willing to bet it will be listed that price again some time next month.

17' Sea Ray I/O Bowrider. We use it a lot. Due to the house closing this Friday, I haven't taken it out yet. I will grab it and bring it to the new house from where I keep it Friday, and probably have it out next week. Last year we were out 1-3 times a week. I have my new Wakeboard (2 last season, new one for this season) that I am pumped to try out. Our condo is only 3 minutes from the Griggs boat ramp, and luckily our new house is only 4-5 minutes from O'Shaughnessy. Didn't get to tube a lot last year due to not being allowed to tube on Griggs or O'Shaughnessy, but since Alumn Creek will be a short drive, we may hit that up during the week to have some fun on the tubes too. I saw a new wakeboard kite that looks sick in Overton's, but don't have a 1k to blow on something like that. Maybe next year. 30' on a wakeboard sounds fun / dangerous!

Sweet car.

Take a look at the results...you would be correct. Newbs. Of course Howard didn't give a fuck, and he will fuck anything. ANYTHING.

We got 4.62% fixed 30 years with Chase for our new house. That's conventional w/ 20% down, so you'd need to have 20% equity to do it. You should probably just shop around, call some banks and take a look at current rates online. You may be a bit screwed if you don't have 20% equity in the place though.

Research has shown that Howard is more important than you.

So basically what you have shown is it took the Mustang until 99 to run on par with the LT1 F-body cars, mod for mod. Decent 60' on street tires though.....

Moser 4.10 gearset for 4-series carrier. Bought for my Moser 12-bolt, but my setup needs to keep the 3.73's, so I have no use for this. Bought it used, though the gears pretty much look new. Previous owner had them in his Camaro, and decided he needed to go a different gearset...I don't think he even did any racing on them just some minor street driving. Comes in a Moser box. Price: $150

And obviously did zero research and have no clue on how to hook it up. Meijer, for electronics. Seriously? And you bought an HDMI cable retail...did it include a jar of Vasoline?

I know, very odd. Yet it has a Firewire and eSATA port. Luckily I don't really use anything USB on this thing other than my Sprint wireless card (I have a Bluetooth mouse/Keyboard)