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Good idea.

No, a 'fridge is not usually necessary to get a CO. Stove, yes.

Yes.

None of this CO business in Kansas nor missouri. not familiar with the rest. sounds like bs.

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Really no guidelines, it's between you and the tenant, and of course can pretty much be adjusted by changing the rent.

I'm facing the same question, whether I can or should sell a house in this awful market or try to rent it out to carry for a couple of years, and if so just what to include.

As a landlord renting can either be a breeze or a nightmare, or anything in between. Depends on the tenant of course, and also on events, what happens to break and why.

J.

As long as you know that a bankruptcy can stop a foreclosure dead in its tracks (well at least in Texas). Going thru this now for the 2nd time on a house I hold the paper to.

Slight correction:

"Officials at the Office of the Secretary of State say e-mails circulating about a Homestead Exemption Tax Amendment are fake. "The e-mail in question says voters must choose whether or not to keep the homestead tax cap for people 65 and older. Spokeswoman Ashley Burton said that the e-mails are completely false and that there are no statewide initiatives on the ballot for the May election."

I'm the mortgage holder so that qualifies as #2 but the mortgagee also owes property taxes so while I tried to foreclose and am the first lien holder, taxes still take priority over my position. Of course he stopped the foreclosure with his bankruptcy but the bankruptcy plan still had to include property taxes and my first lien position, then the rest he owes to others. Just as a side note, there is a meeting to dismiss the bankruptcy because he's not following the plan to pay the trustee. Should it be dismissed, I will foreclose. There's a lot more to this story but it's not needed to say here.

No. Well, yes. ;-)

Right and I already answered his post with my 25 yrs + experience managing properties in Texas. How bout you?

Ok, my apologies for rabble rousing.

But we won - so it's a good thing too.

Sorry.

We Texans try to be a light unto the nation...

Is that why I see all the outa state license plates around Houston, Texas? Maybe the last one out of their state shuts down his power grid and then aims for the light .

The seams that connect the lengths of the large box gutters around our house leak. The house is about 10 years old and the gutters are aluminum formed on site. The seams have leaked ever since the house was about 2 years old. I've scraped off the sealant at the joints inside the gutters and renewed it every few years, but the leaks always come back. Time for a new approach -- any ideas?

Tomsic

What type of sealant did you use? How was it applied?

It's a silicone type of sealant -- needs a dry surface to cure and very flexible when cured. I used the usual squeeze gun to apply it and then smoothed it out with a putty knife.

Tomsic

Can you tell how it fails? Good silicone caulk should last longer. Is the caulk itself deteriorating, or is it separating from the aluminum, or both?

Could be. Incidentally, these immigrants learn right away to lay off the horn. Many of the objects of their impatience are armed.

You don't tell what brand of silicone. The only one I will use is DowCorning 795. Gutter work will work much better with butyl rubber caulk - it is difficult and stringy to apply but will last indefinitely. The only good way to work gutter joints is to take it apart, clean, apply butyl, reassemble. Smearing caulk on the surface won't work.

Must be rentals. Last year my rental had Missouri plates when I was in Houston.

On Sat, 05 May 2012 10:24:47 -0500, DanG wrote Re Re: Leaking Gutter Seams:

Just curious about why it doesn't work. Any idea?