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Whatever they call the light blue color G2 is the one I like

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I just thought I'd update this thread I started last year. I ended up wearing what I had originally planned on wearing to the interview. Non-iron striped dress shirt, Brooks Brothers blazer, non-iron microfiber khakis, brown well-shined dress shoes. No tie. I was offered the job the day after the in...

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Nothing, I go play golf that day if the weather is decent. I have enough stuff and don’t buy gifts for anyone besides my significant other, which I can do online.

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I don't care to share the details but can say it did NOT involve investing, cars, real estate, a business, sex, drugs, or rock 'n roll.

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Even with only 8k miles, no way would I buy that car at the lease end for 27k, nor would I pay 5k for a warranty on top of that. New Hyundai Sonatas are much nicer cars than Civics, come with a 10 year powertrain warranty, and new 2018 leftovers are dirt cheap right now. Probably not much more than ...

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RW73 wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:51 pm
My commute is very short, not an issue.

You might as well just sleep under your desk with those hours.

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I'll never understand people willing to work those kinds of hours and have zero life outside of working, unless you are earning like $500k/yr+ and can stick it out for a couple years and then retire permanently. OP is being taken advantage of by their employer, bigtime. Also like everyone else menti...

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Home Depot will rent a decent 16" electric corded chain saw for 4 hours for around $35, maybe $50 for a full day including damage insurance. Might be a good option for very infrequent/once per year type usage, since they deal with the chain sharpening/oiling/maintenance, and if the chain jumps off t...

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Things to investigate/consider. -Whether the house has public or well water. -What roads the trash trucks take coming and going for the landfill. -Direction of prevailing winds in the area relative to the locations of the landfill and the house. -Whether or not the landfill will be visible from the ...

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I take few photos if any on trips and don’t share anything on any form of social media other than occasionally posting reviews on Yelp using a fake name.

I don’t have a need to derive satisfaction out of posting my travels for all to see, in some game of “look at how cool I am” one-upmanship.

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Have your "shopped" your billboard rental location to other advertising organizations in the last 5 or 10 years? It's possible that an alternate leaser might pay you more money. Would there be issues if the present leaser removed their billboard and a new leaser installed their own? Some of the new...

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But I'm worried for my father's sake. I watched him work his butt off and live a frugal life for decades, and it breaks my heart that all the hard work is now being squandered by this awful activity . He has a good pension so he's not at risk of outliving his money, but I want him to be as comforta...

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Sorry to poke insult at one of your narrowed-down choices, but in my opinion the CLA250 is a cheap unrefined excuse for a Mercedes that was meant to hook in millennial fashionistas to the brand at a price point that makes for a relatively cheap lease. It looks good but that's about it. You pay for h...

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I will leave it to those more knowledgeable in asset allocation, etc. to comment in further detail, but basically yes, I think you are doing great.

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No, but I doubt anyone would say anything about it to your face though.

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I really like the Genesis with the V8. Great cars. But they have horrible depreciation in the first 3 years compared to other cars. Dealer lots around me have a ton of off-lease 2015's with the V8 and low mileage for $25-$28k asking prices that have been sitting for months, half or less of what they...

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If you want a used Mercedes, buy a 1-2 year old one with the Mercedes Certified Pre-Owned Warranty, you get unlimited mileage coverage for 5 years from the car's initial in-service date. Don't buy an out-of-warranty high-end MB like the C63 unless you are knowledgeable about cars and know a good ind...

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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." I would not raise the rent over a 5% difference between current rent and your estimation of market rent. If they leave over the increase, you will lose a whole lot more than 5% on vacancy and will run the risk of getting a new tenant who is not as good ...

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$1100/mo ? holy cow when I was a kid, now 37, I would go outside and play with the neighborhood kids for $0 Similar age here, same experience. I was raised in an upper middle class environment in a top ranked public school district, and I am fairly certain that my parents' entire outlay on "extracu...

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I posted my experience on the other recent thread, but basically, if you have a recent model extra clean car with a clean accident history, that Carmax can put on their lot for sale with little reconditioning effort, they tend to offer a better price than a dealer would on a trade in. They have offe...

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This reminds me of how casinos comp players who have been tracked and proven to have gambled at a certain level. The casino offers them a free room, comped food and beverage, etc. as an enticement to return again, especially if they haven't visited in awhile. They figure the person was proven to be ...

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Repainting the car will probably actually devalue it rather than increase the value, as any dealer/wholesaler will assume the worst in terms of past damage history. So leaving it look messed up is somehow better? A professional determining the value of the car in a trade-in or auction scenario will...

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Repainting the car will probably actually devalue it rather than increase the value, as any dealer/wholesaler will assume the worst in terms of past damage history.

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If you have any sort of a questionable time or event in your personal past, be prepared for some disgruntled resident to discover it and try to tarnish your name with it.

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The 2016 E-class was the last year of the 3.5 V6 engine (E350) which is very reliable. They switched to a 4-cyl for the 2017 E300 and it has less power, I would not recommend it, the interior looks "prettier" and more modern but feels a little cheaper to me, and the 2017 exterior looks too much lik...

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Nate79 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:04 pm
So I assume this requires no sign up for those that have the capability in their cars but don't subscribe?

Right. In my car that hasn't had a subscription in years, I just turn the radio to Sirius and it works during these free periods. Other times it just plays only the preview channel.

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Do people really find the satellite radio to be a good purchase? I lucked out and bought a little Stiletto unit at a garage sale a couple of years ago for $10. Just so happens that it is one of the units that came with a lifetime sub. I have used it off and on, but aren't super impressed with the c...

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Rather than pay mileage penalties, I would just drive the Q50 until it hits the mileage limit, get your next car a few months early, and park the Q50. They may let you turn in the Q50 a little early (saves you a few bucks on insurance) but you would still have to complete the monthly payments. You e...

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Go for it, enjoy the truck

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The Mercedes CPO warranty is good and can be extended for not an unreasonable amount ($2,000?) to basically give you full coverage for 7 years/100k miles or unlimited miles in some circumstances. The 2016 E-class was the last year of the 3.5 V6 engine (E350) which is very reliable. They switched to ...

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I've been playing this stupid game with them for probably 7+ years now: -Call a week before expiration, take subscription off auto-renew and cancel. -Wait for subscription expiration date to pass. -Call and tell them I want the 5 month deal for $25-$30. I always get it. The trick seems to be that th...

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I check it every month but end up changing it only once every 3 months or so.

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Everybody does realize the Town Car has been extinct for years, correct? Certainly "high-end" transportation and a seven-plus-year-old car that's driven daily don't typically mix. “Town Car” became livery industry jargon for any big black sedan used for livery service and not necessarily an out of ...

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My cursory opinion is too many old people, and the white collar jobs, which are not plentiful, tend to offer fairly weak salaries.

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What, you don't have a million yet at 28? What have you been blowing all your money on?

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I've switched jobs for a pay cut to be able to work fewer hours and leave work at work.

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I'm a Millennial and have never used Consumer Reports. The few times I would have, I ran into a paywall and went elsewhere. In the zeitgeist, it's like Reader's Digest or Life magazine. I'm on the older end of your age group, I grew up with parents that subscribed to it like it was a Bible of consu...

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For safety purposes my wife and I never answer a knock/ring at the door unless we are expecting someone and have verified through the peephole that it is that person. Unless it is a police officer in uniform and the marked car is outside.

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The likely main benefit from providing a car service to take the employee home is that it basically gets the employee off the company property immediately instead of having them possibly loiter around causing trouble while “waiting for their ride to show up” etc. When my employer did a mass layoff i...

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When my megacorp does this, they have a black car service drive the employee home from the office.

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How much is your rent per month?

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Have the major dealers really stopped negotiating on the price of used cars. I have been back and forth with so many dealerships and they don't even budge. Is this the norm with the efficiency of internet pricing? My most recent experience with some 2-3 year old certified pre-owned cars has been th...

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I've noticed in my company that people with positive attitudes get promoted and those with negative attitudes don't. Being positive doesn't necessarily mean "sucking up."

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Drug, alcohol, gambling, shopping addiction. The person afflicted often doesn't realize what's going on or can't stop until everything is gone.

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I probably only write about 1/4 of the number of checks I used to just a few years ago. There are still some expenses that I cannot pay or am uncomfortable paying online. I feel I have done my community service for the year by finally convincing my mother to stop writing checks at the grocery store ...

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I have a 25 year old book that is somewhat rare in that it was only distributed to people of a certain organization, and some see it as a collector's item. There are some on Amazon and Ebay for $300-$400 each. I've had mine listed for 6 months for $40 and no takers. Other than some kind of scam, I c...

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I would want to know the real reason why it basically sat from two model years and only accumulated 500 miles. Very odd for a car this common to sit on a lot for that long unless something else is going on like lemon law buyback, etc.

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Don’t stick your face in the opening of the neighbor’s pipe for extended periods of time and you will be fine.

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I did this on a lower-end property; lived in one unit and rented the others. Living on site did nothing to deter the tenants from acting like idiots and beating up the building, nor did it do anything towards getting them to pay on time consistently. The tenants did not contact me any more frequentl...

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Congratulations on being in the great position you are in. Personally if I were you I'd stick with the job you are in now, due to the excellent work-life balance. But perhaps that desire for work-life balance is why I am your age but in a different universe of net worth and income below yours.

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