Air Filters for Smokers

[Jeff Thies]

You can turn your nose up, that's OK. What you say shades my opinion of yourself, seems like you don't care. Your choice.

It's a majority black neighborhood, but so is the whole city. The house is tight, wired in 10 gauge and almost all copper plumbing. Hardwood floors in good shape. Low e windows. Kohler kitchen sink, nearly new oak cabinets and GE stove. I've added a lot of closet storage. Sold for 145K in 2005. Working class neighborhood. I paid cash and drove a hard deal, the only way you can buy houses that cheap.

It's not a McMansion, but I have very happy tenants and clear about $600/month. Do the math.

Trying to buy another or two.

This type of investing isn't for everyone, but I can handle it. Probably not many could. I see a market that I can serve and an opportunity. I'm doing the best I can, it's not the conventional path. But I'm not conventional.

Jeff

[norminn]

The tax on my ciggies pays for healthcare for all the obesity-related problems ... diabetes, heart disease, joint replacements, long-term disability.

Prosecute all the lazy bastards who don't cook and who feed their kids nothing but cola, pizza and fast food. With all of the obtuse and irrelevant discussion of second-hand smoke...a problem vastly exagerated...nobody brings up the millions of tons of pollution produced by businesses. People get very in-your-face at the sight of a cigarette, but jump into their gas guzzlers and drive home and light up their fire places and run their dang noisy gas-powered leaf blowers and pollute MY air. I'm not saying smoking is good, or that second-hand smoke does not have risks, but folks these days sing a one-note song and sing it forever. They drive gas guzzlers and dump poison by the ton into the envirnment, but seem to think that air is pure but for cigarette smoke. And never, ever, do I hear of a tax on alcoholic beverages...would probably balance the federal budget but who wants to pay a dime more for the booze they guzzle daily, or think about the health and social hazards of doing so. I'm just sayin'...

Cig. smoking became popular partly as an answer to weight control. It would be ironic, but not terribly surprising, if enough people quit smoking only to discover that doing so, statistically, leads to reducing life expectancy because of the increase in obesity-related illnesses?

[The Daring Dufas]

If you can do a lot of the service and repairs yourself, you can come out ahead. I know a few building contractors who own rentals and the fact that they can maintain the homes themselves without breaking the bank makes a big difference. One contractor I knew was having a problem with a gas furnace in one of his rental units that he bought cheap. The place was in a flood plain and had been damaged by water. He repaired the water damage and rented the place out but it had problems with the horizontal gas furnace in the attic. I checked it out for him and found no problem but it still acted up. On a return trip, I decided to tear it down and find out what in the world was causing the malfunction. I found water in the gas valve and gas line, I also found that the gas meter was full of water from,..... wait for it,....the freaking flood! Nobody had thought to replace the darned gas meter after Noah's drive by! :-)

TDD

[The Daring Dufas]

I thought smoking became popular because tobacco companies provided free cigarettes to soldiers in their rations and Red Cross packages. Perhaps I'm blowing smoke? :-)

TDD

[Steve Barker]

Just FYI, there are plenty of taxes on alcoholic beverages. JACK DANIELS for one pays a whopping $14 a GALLON on every gallon that goes into the aging warehouses. NOT when it is sold, when it is MADE some 7 years before he gets to sell it.

[Wayne Boatwright]

On Sat 18 Dec 2010 11:17:02p, Jeff Thies told us...

DOes that automatically make them smokers?

[Me]

Wayne Boatwright wrote in news:Xns9E557880C984wayneboatwrightxgmai@198.186.190.71:

I never heard of a 14k house. It sounds like a hell hole. If anyone lit up the house would burst into flames immediately.

[Steve Barker]

Pole smokers.

[Jeff Thies]

I've rather enjoyed fixing it up. It has been a good bit of scrounging and creativity. Lot of Hotel grade stuff, $40 Kohler sink, scavenged shutters and such. The house is very secure now, after I read the riot act to the criminal enterprise across the street. Let's just say that they are very respectful now!

One contractor I knew was having a problem

I was told I couldn't get DSL there, it turns out that there was no record of phone service. I'm having the phone turned on, getting DSL, and turning the phone back off.

• ~2K: I've got a friend living there subletting... I'm going to run it like that until I get everything done I want done.

Jeff