AgentG91

AgentG91 t1_j8tsot6 wrote

We did one with west shore home last year. It was a shower to shower replacement. They didn’t touch the rest of the bath. If they do, and they can, they subcontract that out.

In all, it was $15k. It looks fine, but it’s really overpriced. If I had more bandwidth and was smarter, I would have tried to do it myself, but DIY is what got us into this mess. The previous owner did a shitty layover DIY job updating the bathroom and after 6 months of use, it began leaking into our garage.

I had four contractors out and each one had a guess but because of the mystery meat under the tile floor (that was failing), none of them even gave me a quote, let alone a fuck off quote. West Shore did. It was literally the only quote I could get… in the end, we got lucky because the price we were told is the price we got and west shore had to do some serious plumbing rework because of the mcguyver shit the previous owner had done. They had four people on site including their master plumber scratching their heads at what the fuck they were looking at. If we had used a contractor, our final price would have been massively different than what we were told. I would say, aside from the fact that the work is done within 8 hours, the truth on price is where the benefit is. Still, paying $15k for a bathroom that was already recently renovated is fucking crazy. We did go with one of the slightly more expensive looks, but we didn’t go with the expensive fixtures.

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AgentG91 t1_j1z1ljv wrote

My wife came over with a green card shortly behind her. She’s smart as a whip with a masters degree and knew where she wanted to work. The truth of the matter ended up being that work outside the US is not work to most employers and degrees outside the US are not degrees to most employers. It took a lot of convincing.

She ended up working at Dollar General for 3 months and then got a customer service job and then got a job doing estimates for large scale insurance and after almost 3 years, she finally got to where she wanted to be. Your husband will likely need to “do his time” at any minimum wage job to establish that he’s employable.

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AgentG91 t1_iyaxn5g wrote

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Jesus. You gotta get these off the internet. You can’t just post your private email to a public website. Bots scan pages like this and will demolish your inbox

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AgentG91 t1_iww05c3 wrote

My dad got a hearing aid last year that’s an actual hearing aid and also connects to his phone automatically. Music, phone calls, audiobooks, YouTube, all run straight through his hearing aid.

This is just an advertisement for Apple. Modern hearing aids are much more advanced than airpods

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