I have to make a plan first and obviously I have to set a budget and make priorities. We have been looking to get quotes on the parts of the job which we know that we do not want to do ourselves. So first off we have to have some kind of master plan obviously. I have a friend who is a plumber in Essex county NJ and he has given me a rough idea of what I need should cost me. Of course he is down there and he is too busy to be driving up here to help me out. Instead I have to figure out who is going to give me a good deal. I can do some of it, but there is some electrical work that needs to be redone and the big job is going to be to rip out the old tub and replace it with a modern shower stall.
The tub that they have in this place is probably forty some years old and it looks like a real mess. It is not something that you want to be fooling around with if you are a person like me, because it just seems like the cost of having a pro do it is a lot better than the pain of trying to figure it out for yourself. The first thing is that you would have to tear out the old tub and it is not something that is going to be done very easily. It is something that you are going to need some heavy duty tools for, probably a reciprocating saw and a demolition hammer and that sort of gear. Of course after you rip it out you have to figure out how to get the shower put in as soon as possible.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Signing Up for New York, NY ADT Security
There sure has been a rash of weird crimes lately that I have been seeing in the news. I got a notepad and started to keep track about six months ago the crimes that were committed in our neighborhood. I would write them down when I saw them on the news or read about them in the newspaper. I would research ones neighbors told me about to confirm their truth. It got to be a lot of crimes, so I looked into New York, NY ADT security for our home. I think that early warning and having an agent at a monitoring center call for help is important. You never know when you might not be able to call for help.
I got quite a long list of crimes in our area. There was everything from theft to violent crimes. A lot of the stuff involved drugs even though we live in a quiet and clean community. I have a neighbor who says he relies on his dog. I want to offer protection for our dog with the alarm system too. Sure, she barks the alarm when a stranger is at the door. However, we are not home all of the time. She deserves smoke, fire and carbon monoxide detection that is monitored while we are at work. She cannot open the door on her own to get out, so we need to have her protected while at home.
I have a peace of mind knowing that not only is there an alarm system connected at our house, but there is also 24-hour monitoring too. If the alarm does go off, The alarm company would know about it if we were all away at work or school. Alarms give you early warning of intrusion as well as for fire and smoke. Knowing when an emergency is happening as soon as possible is beneficial to survival.
Getting a New TV Provider in Texas
We weren't happy with our current TV provider. They kept increasing our rates and the service itself wasn't even that good. We were paying an exorbitant amount of money for all these channels that we didn't even watch. The packages just didn't cut it so we decided that we would ditch them and try out another TV provider. After some researching we found a pretty solid direct tv in texas. This provider had exactly what we were looking for when it came down to pricing and the channels we wanted. We like specific channels such as comedy central, lifetime, HGTV, etc. They had all these channels in a very affordable package so we signed on. It turned out to be a huge ordeal to cancel our pre-existing cable. They sent us a cardboard box to ship the receiver back in. I decided it would be easier I just took the receiver and dropped it off in person at one of their physical stores. And that's exactly what I did. I think it's a bad idea to rely on the post office and I don't want to get charged for a late delivery or god forbid, a missing package. So after we successfully cancelled our cable we had some guys come out to install our new dish.
Everything went according to plan and they were all very nice. They didn't have to drill holes everywhere or make a mess of our house. I've heard horror stories of installation guys drilling giant, ugly holes into living room walls just to get the cable through the wall. Thank god we didn't have to go through that. Once it was all set up I just called a number and had them activate our service over the phone. Not before long, we had our service ready and were watching TV!
Read more [...]Contractors That Do Roofing Work
I am behind on schedule and I am really going to have to do my best to catch up. I am not sure if it is going to work out, but I am going to do my best to make it work and then I will have to see about some other things. I am really hot right now, because I am nervous. Oh, I just remember I am supposed to call about commercial roof repair in Morris county NJ because the boss wants me to figure out how much it is going to cost to have the roof on this building repaired. I guess it is mostly just suffering from being old. I am not sure if it would not just be better to get a new roof, but that is not my decision.
I think it would save money over time instead of just repairing it and repairing it again if something new happens to it. I could be wrong though, and maybe this is just an isolated incident that is not going to happen again. Anyway, I need to go ahead and make these phone calls, because the boss wants some information by the end of the day. He is really not very happy with me when I am not able to get things done when he wants them done.
I guess that I will just have to go ahead and make these calls right now. I need to hurry up because there are less than 45 minutes left until I am supposed to take my lunch break. I do not want to miss lunch, that is for sure. I have been starving for a couple of hours now and I do not think that is going to change any time soon. It will probably get worse though.
Read more [...]I’m No Longer Afraid of the Dentist
One of the most painful things I went through when I was a kid was having my wisdom teeth removed. Two of them were impacted, and I really should have seen a specialist about them. Instead, my dentist removed them, and it was just painful beyond belief. Because of that, I have only been to the best dentists since then. When I moved to where I live now, that is one of the first things I did. After researching the dentists in my area, I felt most comfortable with what I read at http://www.codenspecialists.com.
I looked over their entire website, and it was actually the part on wisdom teeth that made me want to go to them. Though mine have been gone for nearly ten years now, it is very easy for me to recall the pain and fear that I had when I went through the extraction of mine. I could tell just from their page on wisdom teeth that the process with them would be completely different than what I went through. They explain not only the process of extracting them on their site, but why it is important to do so.
I did not even know that so many other problems can be caused by impacted wisdom teeth, and it was just really nice finding a dental website that explains everything down to the smallest detail like this. I was able to schedule an appointment to be seen by them for my first examination and cleaning, and I was even more impressed once getting to their office. Their entire staff is professional and friendly, and I hope that I don't move again because I don't think I can find another dentist like the one that I have now. I'm not even afraid to go to the dentist anymore now!
The Perfect Three Bedroom Condo
When I was hired on at a great company, I knew that I was going to have to move unless I wanted to make an hour commute each way, and that is without a lot of traffic. I am not the type to want to sit in traffic for even a few minutes, so it was imperative that I find a place to move into as soon as possible. I found http://www.condogallery.com.sg/seventy-st-patricks/ when I started looking at this site that has condo developments listed in a number of different ways.
I wanted to be in District 15 since that is where I work now, so I only looked at developments there. The first one I looked at was Seventy St Patrick's, and it is just absolutely perfect for me. I actually consider myself very lucky to have found this, because they were already nearly sold out when I found them. They had sold over 70 percent, and I knew that the last 30 percent would not take long to sell either with everything that this development offers to its residents.
Even though it is just me, I still wanted to have at least a two bedroom unit. I knew that I would not always be single, and I did not want to have to move again once I did find the perfect girl to marry. For that reason, I started looking at the three bedroom units too, since I knew kids would come along one day too. When I saw the three bedroom premium units, I knew that I had found my new home. I don't know how long it will take to find my bride, but I have our dream house ready for us when I do. Life really is shaping up so good for me, and I could not be happier.
Cheap Prices on Apartments for Spring Pointe
I am going to be seeking out a new apartment to live in. Me and my girlfriend are looking to live in a one bedroom apartment, that is available for a good price. We are going to be moving out of the current apartment that we live in, because it is a studio apartment, and because it is in a bad location. After a bit of searching I found, http://www.springpointeapartments.com and I have been looking at the apartments that are available on this website.
They look like they are pretty ncie, and in particular, they look like they are a lot better than the apartments that we are currently living in. I wish that we were living in apartments that are newer in nature. That would probably be ideal. However, we did not have enough money to buy apartments in a more ideal location, and of a more ideal state, or condition, than the ones we are living in, at the time.
We have more money now, in part because I have a better job, and so it is going to be possible for us to get a place that is a bit nicer, and maybe we could even afford to live at a place like Spring Pointe. I am not sure exactly how much there apartments cost, but I am sure that they are going to be more expensive in their price than the apartments which we are currently living in. But the question is how much more expensive are they going to be. That is a big deal, and it could mean the difference between whether we are able to afford them, or if we have to keep looking. For my part, I would like to get this search for a new apartment finished as quickly as we can.
Read more [...]The Price of Our Freedom
When I was looking for a new place to call home after moving into the area, I surprised myself by not finding a place before I moved to the state. It's kind of an old habit of mine that I picked up when I was couch surfing during my early 20's and unfortunately this time around I was stuck crashing in my car for a month! I thought I was going to be able to find a place a lot easier than I did but when everything was starting to look kind of grim I came across the Waterford apartments in a local listing magazine.
It wasn't exactly what I was looking for but it was definitely better than nothing. It's kind of crazy how much apartments have gone up in price, as well as the general cost of living, but amazingly our wages are somehow staying the same, Huh! You'd think that there would be some kind of conspiracy going down to keep us working hard, enslaved to the wage so we're too busy to question the crazy things that are going on in the world even at this moment. Lucky that we have the Internet, right?
Oh, that's right, the Federal Government is trying it's best to split up the Internet while the NSA does everything thatthey can to bug it! Ha! Some kind of 'free' world we live in, right? It's like the American government really doesn't care about the people and instead just wants absolute control and power. I guess that's the kind of 'change' we voted in, isn't it Mr. President? At least I can say I've got a roof over my head unlike so many in the world right now but who knows if that means that I am actually a free man or not.
Finding Prices and Info on Home Insurance
I am about to buy a house, but I have to take care of some things before I do that. One of the big things that I need to do, is to figure out my home insurance situation. I have no idea which company will be the best for home insurance, and offer the best deals. I have been on the Internet, looking for helpful information, and I have came across, http://homeinsurance-deals.com/. It is a site that is for comparing different deals on home insurance.
I want to get a good policy, that has a good amount of coverage. When I was growing up, my parents house was damaged in an accident, and it turned out that the damages were not covered. It was pretty devastating financially, and I can still remember how upset my father was about the whole situation. I am rather sure that he did not even realize that he was lacking in coverage.
Even though that dreadful thing happened to my parents, I do not remember exactly why they were not covered. Further, I have never owned a house before, and I do not know enough about coverage in general. I need to figure out what my liability would be like for different types of accidents and possible damages. For example, what would be covered if someone were to wreck their car into my house? Hopefully, they would not be able to sue me for their injuries in such a situation. But I would not be surprised, if they could, because the American judicial system works in strange ways at times. Anyway, there are a lot of questions that I have, so I am going to get about to finding some answers. Then maybe, I will be in a position to pick a good policy for my house.
Read more [...]I Got an Adjunct Job at Tennessee
I spent the day looking for apartments reasonably near the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Of course I am not looking at the sort of apartments where the students live, not after having lived there myself for all of seven years at different campuses. It is a lot of fun when you are that age, but now I am too old and I need to think about career stuff. I have already looked at the knoxville pointe apartments and I am going to try to see if I can get in there. It might be a bit past my budget and I do not need a two bedroom place right now. That is what they have available at the moment. It is either a two bedroom place or a three bedroom place there, but that is a bit too expensive and a bit more than I can afford.
It is hard to say how long the job is going to be here. If you are an adjunct professor that means that you are under contract and that you are disposable as well. So it could be one semester or two, or it could turn into a long term job. I am not sure whether or not I am going to be here after this semester though. The summer semester is when a lot of the tenured professors go and do other stuff, plus there are not that many courses on offer relative to the other seasons. It is not as though I can complain though. I just have to take what I have and live with that. I am interested in trying the fishing here, although I am not sure where I get the money to get a bass. They have a huge reservoir here with striped bass and walleyes.
Read more [...]Preventive Security is Worth a Lot
Learning from Our Investment Mistakes
Knowing when to invest is an important part of, well, investment! I have a couple of friends who consider themselves investors but in reality they are only children playing with money, in terms of what they are able to get in their return. They do not focus wisely on their funds, instead throwing out their cash in high risk investments with little to no research given. With the aid of http://sanctuaryathighland.com I have started to invest in real estate - a medium of investing that I did not expect to actually ever do. I have been cautious with my money but with their guidance I have started to invest more into property real estate, seeing returns up to three hundred percent when developers seek to purchase the property. With the profit that I make off each property I turn around and invest back into a new plot of property that, I hope, will continue to make as much money as the previous!
It's risky but as long as I'm not sinking my entire life savings or credit into this, I think I will be able to do well. That's the problem that my friends seem to have; they are willing to throw nearly every cent that they have to their name into these ventures, depending highly on the credit that they have despite the fact that they manage to bankrupt nearly every venture that they go into together. Somehow they are able to continue finding lines of credit whenever they open up a new company or investment firm, as they like to consider themselves. Personally, I tell everyone I know to steer clear of them if they value their money at all. I guess some people are just built to never learn from the mistakes that they make, since they keep making them!