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D-Cat, if you assume:
1) You have a typical on the DL, ghetto renovation (which includes childlike work, non-code work.)
2) You get the absolutely best engineers report you possibly can without opening up walls.
3) You can get a solid, no bs contractor who can accurately assess the work and the cost based on pre-demolition assessment.
Then, you can estimate cost of renovations.
That, however, is only one half of the story.
Because if you have the right house, the correct cost of renovations, and with that you the right price, get the right contractor, THEN have to think through what the renovation involves in terms your LIFE — the monitoring of the work, the 1,000 small decisions, purchases, and inevitable surprises AND possible disagreements/ renegotiations (fightss?) with the contractor. In looking back, I did pretty much the right things, but it was a tough and distracting process….something that siphoned off energy from my work and had me working on the freaking renovation 24/7. It worked out all right in the end, (I think) but you are taking all the right steps in doing the due diligence.
Well, back to the real world….
“By daveinbedstuy on November 2, 2010 11:48 AM
Brooklyn Couch is right. Abortion is in the hands of the courts and has already been decided.”
It’s been decided by a court that can just as easily un-decide it. Sort of like how that same court once decided that slavery is all good but then decided oh whoops maybe not [WARNING: GROSS GROSS OVERSIMPLIFICATION ALERT]
If you care about abortion, you should care about the presidential election. And frankly you should care about the composition of the Senate, and in particular the Senate Judiciary Committee.
OK…off to lunch to discuss the election, the market and how to rob the lower classes.
One of the primary reasons I voted for Obama was because of the likelihood that he’d be able to appoint people to the Supreme Court.
that job is largely finished and he hasn’t delivered on anything else i was hopeful for. The Supreme Court is pretty secure for tthe next 10 years or so.
No one is asking anyone to tiptoe around Palin, cobblehiller. We’re asking that people demonstrate some subtlety, intelligence and class in discussing her.
Whether you consider this candidate to possess these qualities herself is irrelevant.
BrooklynCouch, you’re a jackass. Feminism is fascism? Really? That’s as nuanced as you can be?
Did we have a ruling on whether references to fascism prove Godwin’s law? I personally think bxgrl calling Sarah Palin a terrorist should invoke Godwin’s law, but I don’t think I have any judicial precedent for that.
To clarify one thing: The president appoints justices of the United States Supreme Court. The right to abortion is a right invented by that court. Thus the president can indirectly influence the continued existence of that right, however you happen to feel about that.
m4l, just commented, thanks. >>>
Craziness on Butler street, Cgar.
For all you people that think we need to politely dance/tiptoe around Palin and/or might vote for her. What, precisely, do you think this would accomplish? Aside from spiting the lefties and others who scorn her.
Gain esteem in the international community?
Strike fear into the international community?
Lower the national debt?
Rid the world of terrorists?
What? Tell me.