Hey Marnie! See, they all come back. Where else can you get this combination of technical expertise, visual delights, unquenchable whining, and the sheer frequency of pun-hijacked threads?
Steve Desjardins On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:37 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Heh. Well, the condo is finally listed. I've spent the last three > months > (since it was re-painted and re-carpeted -- it's been about six > months > since the final remodels on the kitchen and bathrooms) dealing with > one > niggling detail after another: packing up more to go into storage > for staging, > buying some colorful accents for staging, painting spots that the > painters > seemed to miss (couple of baseboards in bathrooms, two heating > vents), > painting spots that weren't done well, polishing up some brass door > pulls, > polishing all the older chrome remaining in the bathrooms, > replacing the screens, > adding plants and rock outside, hanging a new chandelier, fixing/ > repairing > numerous things... > > Just when I would think it was all done, I'd find something else > (like > poor caulking around the shower). > > This is a somewhat up-scale senior community (that I am moving out > of), so > I know a lot of the buyers will be fussy, older and fussy (the two > often > go together). So I aimed for eliminating a lot of visible small > flaws. > > The hardest thing was getting the turkey poop stains out of the > concrete > on the patio (Clorox gel pen, took three tries each spot. Brush off > with dry > nylon brush, then use soap and water to remove the white spot from the > bleach. That stuff had really penetrated the concrete, as bad as > rust stains. > BTW, direct your handyman/remodel how-to questions to me off list. I > have > become a mini-expert. Heh.) > > Well, the list is endless and rather nauseating. > > Looks sharp, and I never ever ever want to be this intimate with a > condo/apartment/house again. I know where every little scratch is, > every too big > bump in the textured walls are (not really, but it seems like it) -- > where > every little flaw is (or was, with a lot of them :-)). > > If the housing market weren't so tight, I probably wouldn't have done > quite as much. But it looks sharp and everyone thinks it looks > sharp and it > will probably sell. And that was the point. (This is a specialized > market so > it's a little different than other markets.) > > Anyway, I am back. > > It will be a relief to think about photography instead of houses > again. > > So throw those photos at me -- I wanna see some pretty pictures. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > --------------------------------------------- > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used > when we > created them. Albert Einstein > > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just > 2 easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd > =JulystepsfooterNO115) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
