Why I love Home Depot

[SteveB]

Well, good. Then keep your cheap ass down there with the chuckawallas and roadrunners. Apparently 40 million people disagree with you. But what do they know?

Steve

[SteveB]

I was just stating the positives.

The negatives:

Heat Smog Traffic HORRIBLE drivers High insurance rates High crime rates High suicide rates Illegal aliens from various planets High housing costs Gangs Other various idiots

Need I go on?

Nowhere is perfect.

Steve

[SteveB]

Yes, Jerry's is still there with it's economy prime rib dinner. Lots of other places with good cheap prime rib, too. If you shop around, there are lots of food and entertainment bargains in Vegas.

Steve

[AZ Nomad]

Getting there is average. Staying there is slightly below average. Entertainment is *very* expensive unless you get a casino to pay for it. Food is average.

[Manster]

Well yeah, but I'm not a shopper really. I go with local advice. I hate the Strip, avoid it like the plague, and stay downtown at the 4 Queens. I was told about Jerry's many years ago. It's an old joint for sure, but the p.rib is hard to beat. Where else would you suggest for good beef and seafood w/o the Bellagio prices?

[Oren]

Not a single person :-))

Expect to wait it out in this market. Keep in mind the "right buyer" hasn't been through them yet. Stay positive...if you can:)

-- Oren

"Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critics."

[SteveB]

"Manster" wrote

I don't know. We live there, and people assume that we eat at all the restaurants.

Do this. Google Review Journal Best Of Las Vegas. It's a yearly local survey, and the people of Las Vegas choose THEIR favorite places.

If you like Italian, DiStefano's at Trop and Pecos is one of our favorites. Great Italian with off the Strip prices. The seafood combo is actually a cioppino like soup dish with lobster, calamari, shrimp, mussels, and other seafood. MONDO portions. All their other stuff is good, too. From the time you hit the front door and the aroma grabs you, it's like going 25 years back to the old Vegas. They have a lounge lizard that performs a few days a week.

Steve

[SteveB]

And I bet you have a GREAT time no matter where you go.

Right?

No?

Maybe?

It's all attitude, and I can see you already have your mind made up.

Steve

[SteveB]

We're going to continue using them as vacation rentals. We have them booked into May of '08 currently. We will be installing a management couple soon, which will lessen our headaches and involvement in their management. This is a lucky situation. Lots of people in Vegas are walking, or just hoping to rent them out and break even.

Las Vegas is running out of land, so I see it starting to swing back in two to three years, then zoom. I don't know if I want to hold on that long. I do have some other things in the pipeline and some first trust deed investments that will hold us until then. Luckily.

Steve

[AZ Nomad]

So far yes, except for LV. I don't smoke; don't drink any more as I'm an alcoholic, so being in smoke filled rooms with drunks playing slot machines bores me to tears. Theater, concerts, and standup were outragiously expensive. I just wasn't willing to pay $150-250/seat. I'll take SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Chicago over LV any time. LV is a useless city.

[G Wood]

It's the natural beauty and peaceful demeanor of the place that draws people from all across the country.

[George]

I do know what sarcasm is. There are lots and lots of people who drank the big box kool-aid and actually believe all of the stuff they are told.

Advertising is powerful and thats why big box places spend 100s of millions telling you how wonderful they are.

[Oren]

Those choices suck. Had you picked San Diego you would have more lawyers.

cheers .. from the brightest city on earth...

-- Oren

"I didn?t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you."

[SteveB]

Well, then, for the rest of us who can still drink and handle the guilt, don't mind spending what we want for an evening's entertainment without having to critique the cost, and who still can do what we want to do without getting sponsor's permission, we salute you!

Steve

[SteveB]

And the sheep swallow. There's nothing better than sheep that swallow. Other than a girlfriend that does ........................ ;-)

Steve

[Edwin Pawlowski]

When I first started going there, traffic was not so bad. Every visit seems worse and the view from the sky just shows more and more lights spreading further and further away. The Strip is just such an incredible mass of people and cars on a Friday or Saturday night I'm amazed that it moves at all.

Vegas still has some of the best shows and restaurants though. While I have no desire to live there, it is one of those places that everyone should experience for a few days.

As for your last item, the "other various idiots", that just adds character.

[SteveB]

Home Depot RE delivered the stuff today that they were supposed to deliver today, but delivered last Friday. In the mix were three 24" cabinets that were not on the order, but the driver DIDN'T want to take back.

I Love Home Depot.

Steve

PS: I gave the driver $20 to cover lunch. And I just about had to hold him down to get it in his pocket.

[SteveB]

I close my eyes.

I imagine what the Strip was like in the 1960's.

(I was a valet parking attendant, and could tell you stories.)

I see what it is now.

I sigh .......................

Last one turn out the lights ...................

Steve

[Manster]

Amen. And thanks for the tip on DiStefano's.