“Arantix – first frame featuring patented IsoTruss carbon fiber and Kevlar spider web-like open lattice tube design. Arantix is an extreme hardtail mountain bike with an unparalleled strength-weight ration providing an ultra stiff and responsive bike.

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Lil Wayne is joining the rank of Wyclef with bling debt. Lil Wayne has been ordered to pay his bling debt by court in Miami-Dade. He owes a little over one hundred g’s to the jeweler. He also owes the IRS about a mili a mili in income taxes. There is always the arguement about cash vs credit. I don’t think anyone ever argues that you should put your bling on credit.

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I had posted a while back about a flip I was working on.  It has finally sold (I have money in the bank).  I will be posting soon on the details of the flip.  If you have any specific questions about it, I will try to include answers in the post. 

I am like many others watching the economy now and wondering when the bottom will be hit.  The neighborhood I would like to move into just had 2 foreclosures hit the market today.  Neither are attractive to me (the prices are too high and they are right on the highway).  I am keeping my options open though and intend to pursue an option in the area soon…

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“There are certainly plenty of foreclosed homes on the market. In California, 40% of existing homes sold in the second quarter were foreclosures, according to DataQuick, a provider of real estate information, compared with 5.4% a year earlier.”

I found this stat on cnn. It seems crazy.  That is a lot of foreclosures.  The article mentions that you can find good land deals on ebay.  Has anyone every bought land via ebay?

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I have read about a few auctions in the last few weeks.  There was an auction in Panama City last week where 67 units were up for auction (27 guaranteed to be sold).  The prior week 39 condos were auctioned off in Cali.  These had starting bid prices at roughly 50% the previous selling price.  These could be deals for some that were looking for condos in these areas.  I think the market is getting closer to realistic in some areas, but not exactly deals yet. 

Locally I have seen people trying to get rid of land as opposed to developing it.  I have not seen great prices, but previously these types of deals would have never hit the market.  These would have been things sold to those in the know.  So times are a changing.  The areas that I really would like to get into are not seeing a decline in prices.  They are only continuing to grow.  I am not sure yet if they will be hit at all or if they will be hit at the end of the downward trend. 

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Wyclef seems to be slipping.  He is not up on his jewerly bills from 2002-2006.  He has Jacob the Jeweler (or Jacob the Washer) taking him to court for unpaid bills of over $300,000 in jewelry.  He had bought around $765,000 and was just defunct on the rest of the bills… 

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You got to love when people are anal about things. I had an inspection done this week on a house I am selling. The buyer had it done before buying the house. I had an inspection done before I bought the home and fixed everything that needed to be fixed. So to make it worth this guys time, he had to put some items in the report that I couldn’t help but laugh at.

“There is a 2nd grounding rod that has been abandoned (right side of the house) and represents a trip hazard. The top of the rod should be removed and the hole filled to grade.”

This type of thing could stress a dude out if they didn’t know how to handle things. I also have gutter pads around the house that present a “tripping hazard.”

There was also a complaint about the A/C not cooling the house in an hour. It was 95 degrees the day of the inspection and the A/C had not been cut on for a month. It only got down to 78 in an hour and needs to have further review…

I need to replace a piece of siding, replace a light bulb, replace boiler element in oven… and a few other small things.

The last inspection I had done for a house, came back looking right, the house had piping that was recalled, roof needed replacing, cracked fireplace, siding was rotting, the bonus room the owner added did not come close to passing inspection, A/C handling unit had rotted out, hot water holding tank was leaking, and a few other things. So to know that when I sell a house the biggest problem is a tripping hazard I feel good.  Anyhow I am going to breathe and relax…

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Since I had lost my video camera recently while in Ecuador I decided to get a new one, quickly.  I just bought the Sony DCR-SR45.  I had the previous model and had enjoyed it.  It was easy to use and took great videos.  Here is a link to the one I just bought on amazon. 

I am now looking for a decent digital camera. I had my minolta dimage for 8 years or so. It was a great camera. Minolta stopped making digital cameras a while back. All of the decent cameras that I want cost as much or more than the video camera. Anyone have any suggestions? I want something that takes good pictures and does not take too long between pics to be ready…

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Screw laser surgery to remove tattoos, replace the arm skin.  Pharrel plans to replace the skin on the arms then get some new ink…  This comes form luxist. 

“To Pharrel Williams being a grown man means no longer have fire tattoos on his arms but instead of having a laser treatment to fade or remove the flames the rapper/producer/entrepreneur is looking to have his arms replaced! — well, at least the skin on his arms. There is a revolutionary new procedure where a lab, using a sample of your skin, can grow more skin to be used as a skin graft over the portion where the tattoos currently reside. They just sew it on and voila! You have a seamless, tattoo-less arm that once healed will be ready for new ink designs. Pharrel doesn’t seem to care that it costs upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the procedure and it sounds like he anticipates a new ink job when his lab-grown-sewn-on-skin is good and ready.”

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