Buy Smart, Get A Home Inspection Before You Make An Offer!

Most people I come into contact with these days who are looking to take advantage of the very  low prices for homes are still very unsophisticated.  Many really don't understand the difference between the selling side commission and the listing side commission for MLS listed houses.  Most don't know the Florida rule that makes most real estate agents act as "Transaction Brokers'  with no fiduciary responsibility to either the Buyer or the Seller!  They just 'facilitate' the transaction.  So I have a lot of explaining to do when I promote myself as a  " Buyers Broker" who gets paid the seller-side commission by the listing agent or when I say I am a "Single Agent" with responsibility only to my Buyer.  But those who get it, really benefit from using a single agent, buyers broker.

For example, one of the techniques I use to work just for the buyer against the interest of the seller is to get a home inspection before I recommend an inital offer for the home.  This gives us an itemized list of everything wrong with the house and estimated repair costs to use in negotiating.  A powerful negotiating tool.

If you are looking to purchase property in Florida, Talk To Ted!  I can advise you on any area of Florida and hook you up with a good, reliable agent in the town to help you find what you want.  The referral fee that agent will offer me will not cost you.  And, of course, if you are interested in checking out Palm Coast, drop me a note at tedleshersr@gmail.com.

I Promise, I'll Get A Vasectomy!

 

Modern technology gives most women just about complete control to prevent an unwanted pregnancy; including 'morning after' pills.  If she needs to have sex without conception, she can find a way to protect herself.  To trust any male who claims he has had a vasectomy is risky, unless she has removed them herself.

Here's a story from a loved relative who's "partner" just kept promising to get one.  I don't know her particular birth control limitations.

 I have other relatives that have birthed and/or finessed a fucking mistake, but this one is particularly touching...

"Once he drove me to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion he insisted I get after he refused to get his promised vasectomy. I screamed at him the whole way there. He sat in stony silence, willing it to be over if he just ignored it. And me.

When we got there I took the keys and left him in the parking lot. I came back an hour later to pick him up and he yelled at me that I was a terrible mother because I wouldn't get an abortion. I cried and sobbed and told him that, while I believe firmly in choice and I also believed another child would be very hard, I couldn't do it after losing (name of child withheld). That they were connected for me and I didn't know how but they were and please stop please please please stop.

He sneered at me. "You are selfish. This just proves how selfish you are. If you cared at all about your children you would do this."

Supporting me was only possible if I agreed with him.

I cried myself to sleep for weeks until the blessed event: the miscarriage. It was a late one - 11 weeks, I think. He had been exceptionally angry the night before. He wouldn't talk to me, but would only growl insults at me. He grabbed me roughly and reminded me how selfish I was and he spat his disgust at me by stripping away any confidence I had as a parent - he knew the most deadly weapon available to him and he knew how to find my emotional jugular. When I went in for another ultrasound the next day there was no more heartbeat and I remember feeling relieved as I was prepped for the surgical removal of all this conflict wrapped up in a dead embryo.

I'll never forget how he was so nice to me on the way to the OR. He held my hand, he hugged me, he was 'so so sorry this had happened, Babe' but I was 'going to be strong and be just fine' and he gave my hand a tender squeeze. I was speechless. But there was a whole audience now, so I just accepted it and was wheeled off to the OR and soon completely unconscious and unable to try and make sense out of that one.

When I stopped bleeding, we went to Hawaii, with hopes of amnesia I suppose."

If  anyone reads this I will let them wallow in their own judgments about right and wrong and the definition of life.  But have compassion for kids who "get caught".  Make the effort!   Point out the consequences! Unprotected fun can be unrelenting hell.  No religious dogma intended.

God Bless and Namaste'

Ted's Not Dead! About the Gout

I haven't posted to this blog lately.  I'm not dead.  But not well.  Got the gout.  Took the cure.  It damn near killed me.

I have had occasional bouts with my left toe over the last couple years.  Sometimes because I've put my foot in my mouth...embarassing but not painful.  But my toe Gout is caused by sharp little needles formed from crystals of sodium urate in the toe joint.  Piss in my toe! 

Gout pain is on the same scale with back pain.  Not Nice.  First time it happened was on a weekend, two days after I was released from Flagler Hospital for something else.  I was too embarassed to wake my wife and tell her my toe hurt, so I left a note and snuck off to the Emergency Room. 

They understood it was gout and admitted me.  A shot and I can't remember what else and after a few hours, I was released.  Local Doc prescribed colcachine and indomethacin.  I puked and pooped for several days, but no gout pain.

So this time, again in the middle of the night, I thought I figgured it out.  It was the big pill, that indomethacin thing.  I thought I remembered getting sick from that before.  So I didn't take it.  I just took the little tiny colchicine pills.  Every 15 minutes for about an hour. 

That was Wed. Night.  Thursday I didn't feel too well.  Didn't eat much.  Went to dinner with four friends at HighJackers. Had three peel-and-eat shrimp and a YingaLing beer.  One crap during the meal.  When the check came I went running out the door.  Puked way over to the side by the airplanes.  Everyone was leaving as I finished up my internal backflush and I snuck over to our car.

The purpose of this blog:  Gout is heredetary.  Find out all you need to know at wikipedia.com  at http://bit.ly/Ad5bU  but know this from Ted...don't take COLCHICINE.  Its bad and lasts forever.  Here's what Wikipedia says about its toxicity:
"Colchicine poisoning has been compared to arsenic poisoning: symptoms start 2 to 5 hours after the toxic dose has been ingested and include burning in the mouth and throat, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and kidney failure. These symptoms may set in as many as 24 hours after the exposure. Onset of multiple-system organ failure may occur within 24 to 72 hours. This includes hypovolemic shock due to extreme vascular damage and fluid loss through the GI tract, which may result in death. Additionally, sufferers may experience kidney damage resulting in low urine output and bloody urine; low white blood cell counts (persisting for several days); anemia; muscular weakness; and respiratory failure. Recovery may begin within 6 to 8 days. There is no specific antidote for colchicine, although various treatments do exist.[6]"
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    I think my dear doctor prescribed this demon drug because I am a charity case using unfunded Medicare Insurance and its Part D drug plan.  The D is for "donut hole".  Fall in and you pay 100% of all costs.  I fall in annually.  So I get all 'generic' drugs.  By law these are allow to contain up to 20% different ingredients than their "identical" brand name products.
  I still feel like shit,  look like shit, can't stop shitting and can only eat mini portions of bland food and drink sips of gater ade.  Left the Good Doctor a voicemail message about my problem.  He will get to it eventually.  God will fix it or take me home, or I go back to the emergency room soon!
TED SAYS:  ALWAYS USE WIKIPEDIA BEFORE YOU SELF MEDICATE.

God Bless You and Namaste'