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And Now! I'm on the icy peaks approaching the summit of 600 Club mountain!

Justa few steps........

And I'm there!!! Almost....

yeah yeah , i heard that joke! *snarl*....oh Mominiowa my heart does go out to you, you are a caring wonderful brave lady! may i hug you?? :-4 i really will stop whining about my stupid heart attack now!

I'm officially in the 600 CLUB!!!!#*&@ :yh_dance :yh_money :yh_peace :yh_worshp

David813 wrote: And I'm there!!! Almost....Christ David, you're never gonna catch up to me. geeeze. and i am going blind looking at your posts! aren't you at work? i am calling your boss. :wah:

lady cop wrote: Christ David, you're never gonna catch up to me. geeeze. and i am going blind looking at your posts! aren't you at work? i am calling your boss. :wah: Now don't scare me like that Officer! Oh Yeah, I'll catch up to you! But it's taking everything in me to stay ahead of Hotsauce!

Way to go David.....

devist8me wrote: Way to go David.....:yh_hugs Glory Be To Thee!

Sitting here at work and alone till midnight I just can't help but fill everyone in on something big happening to me very soon! I live in a battered violent neighborhood near the city's core and have had a horrible time trying to sell, refinance, ANYTHING to get out of the area. I owe 29 more years of house payments so I'm truly stuck as the area is KC's worst as far as crime and poverty and no one buys in these neighborhoods.(Except crack) About to double my drinking or start doing hard drugs, I received a letter from a corporation in partnership with the city's minority community development corp. They are leveling my neighborhood and building a 450 million dollar shopping center on top of it! And MY HOUSE IS IN THE BULLDOZE ZONE! They are paying off my mortgage, paying for my move and buying me a property equal in size plus 10%! UNREAL! Luck doesn't usually swing my direction but my dreams have been answered! I'm out of the area and will have another property to start over at! All within the next 90 days! I'll miss my little bungalow but I won't miss being the only cracker in the 'hood anymore! I moved there to get a 1st chance at home ownership from decades of apartment living. I underestimated the amount of stress that's involved with living in a bad area. A new page in a better area. If I lived one block north of where I am I would have been excluded from the project boundaries! This is so great I'm CERTAIN something bad will happen to make up for this incredible stroke of luck.

David i am very glad for your good fortune! but it won't change your recalcitrant miserable personality. seriously, that is great!

lady cop wrote: David i am very glad for your good fortune! but it won't change your recalcitrant miserable personality. seriously, that is great! :)Perhaps a touch of my anger and bitterness will melt away when I'm out of the ghetto! (You'd be surprised at how paranoid one becomes when placed in the minority position. Especially when the Majority are angry, bitter, poor and often violent!)

David813 wrote: Sitting here at work and alone till midnight I just can't help but fill everyone in on something big happening to me very soon! I live in a battered violent neighborhood near the city's core and have had a horrible time trying to sell, refinance, ANYTHING to get out of the area. I owe 29 more years of house payments so I'm truly stuck as the area is KC's worst as far as crime and poverty and no one buys in these neighborhoods.(Except crack) About to double my drinking or start doing hard drugs, I received a letter from a corporation in partnership with the city's minority community development corp. They are leveling my neighborhood and building a 450 million dollar shopping center on top of it! And MY HOUSE IS IN THE BULLDOZE ZONE! They are paying off my mortgage, paying for my move and buying me a property equal in size plus 10%! UNREAL! Luck doesn't usually swing my direction but my dreams have been answered! I'm out of the area and will have another property to start over at! All within the next 90 days! I'll miss my little bungalow but I won't miss being the only cracker in the 'hood anymore! I moved there to get a 1st chance at home ownership from decades of apartment living. I underestimated the amount of stress that's involved with living in a bad area. A new page in a better area. If I lived one block north of where I am I would have been excluded from the project boundaries! This is so great I'm CERTAIN something bad will happen to make up for this incredible stroke of luck.
see, david, it's just what i've been telling you all along: capitalism works.



:yh_rotfl

anastrophe wrote: see, david, it's just what i've been telling you all along: capitalism works.



:yh_rotfl:yh_shame Don't pee on my parade there A!

anastrophe wrote: see, david, it's just what i've been telling you all along: capitalism works.



:yh_rotfl touche!!

David813 wrote: :yh_shame Don't pee on my parade there A!
yeah yeah.



seriously though, that's absolutely faboo news. congratulations.

anastrophe wrote: yeah yeah.



seriously though, that's absolutely faboo news. congratulations.And we can't ignore the SOCIALIST elements to this either! An area with zero economic power and 99% Black gets millions in federal grants to build a hyper expensive commercial development that will take YEARS and years to pay back and become profitable. Anyway, thanx for the congrats. I'm so giddy about it I haven't been able to sleep since the meeting announcing this last night!

David813 wrote: And we can't ignore the SOCIALIST elements to this either! An area with zero economic power and 99% Black gets millions in federal grants to build a hyper expensive commercial development that will take YEARS and years to pay back and become profitable. Anyway, thanx for the congrats. I'm so giddy about it I haven't been able to sleep since the meeting announcing this last night!
you sure they're getting millions in federal grants? but even so - that money is going into evil corporate capitalist bank accounts! you're feeding the capitalist monster!



you should definitely choose your next place based upon home appreciate rates. 'nice' areas almost always appreciate in value faster than the interest is costing you.

Great News David!!

Do you think that can happen to me...We have a sex offender on our street - and then 1 block north 2 in an apartment building...We live in a nice hood but holy cow I sure wish our luck with our house would change...new furnance-air conditioner, water heater, soft water, and hmmmmmm new kitchen to cover up the flooded one when a pipe broke...This house is CURSED!!!!!!! LOL

mominiowa wrote: Great News David!!

Do you think that can happen to me...We have a sex offender on our street - and then 1 block north 2 in an apartment building...We live in a nice hood but holy cow I sure wish our luck with our house would change...new furnance-air conditioner, water heater, soft water, and hmmmmmm new kitchen to cover up the flooded one when a pipe broke...This house is CURSED!!!!!!! LOLI love my little house but it's old (built in the early 20's) and I don't make enough to fix big breaks! I'm not known as a handyman so I have to pay for repairs. Just hope you are in an area that needs a highway, WalMart or Bolshevik Bookstore! You could be next! I just can't get over how fortunate I am. The project has been going on for 4 years and now they have federal financial backing and are breaking ground in November with the new 'village style' mall.

anastrophe wrote: you sure they're getting millions in federal grants? but even so - that money is going into evil corporate capitalist bank accounts! you're feeding the capitalist monster!



you should definitely choose your next place based upon home appreciate rates. 'nice' areas almost always appreciate in value faster than the interest is costing you.I started quaking and twitching after I got my benefits package so my fed dollars quote could be erroneous. The city and feds are financing the project. My brother-in-law, a corporate lawyer (no laughing allowed) went to the meeting with me and he recorded all of it so we can make sure everything was understood. The largest re-develoment project in the KC area since the building of the Sprint HQ campus in the late 90's.

You said Sprint!!!! HAA HAA HAA..Talk about money! My neice had "relations" with the CEO of Sprint from KC :wah: and now has a daughter we call Lil Miss Sprint LOL

Just something random! LOL

mominiowa wrote: You said Sprint!!!! HAA HAA HAA..Talk about money! My neice had "relations" with the CEO of Sprint from KC :wah: and now has a daughter we call Lil Miss Sprint LOL



Just something random! LOLEsrey? How interesting! I know a few of the thousands he laid off and they call him something else!:yh_whistl

Big Congrats David, I wish you well in your new abode, and besure to send out invites to us all when you have your house warming ok

minks wrote: Big Congrats David, I wish you well in your new abode, and besure to send out invites to us all when you have your house warming ok :)Absolutely!!!!

fabo can I bring a shrimp ring???

JAB wrote: Since luck seems to be on David's side, I think he should buy us all a winning lottery ticket! :DOh no. My luck is always countered with something awful so I don't dare start a new bad habit in gambling!!!

It takes many more muscles to frown than to smile, so plese try to smile if at all possible!

Just caught up, David. What great news! Congrats!

David, big time congratulations. I would be scared to death living in a neighborhood like that. Appears someone "up there" likes you. Have any idea where you'll re-locate?

hotsauce wrote: Just caught up, David. What great news! Congrats!Thank you. It hasn't settled in yet, and there is a sad element to it but it's the best thing to happen to me financially in a loooong time. Looking forward to the new pad!

devist8me wrote: David, big time congratulations. I would be scared to death living in a neighborhood like that. Appears someone "up there" likes you. Have any idea where you'll re-locate?It is more stressful living in a ghetto than I anticipated but the house was affordable and I leapt! I'm gonna move to the suburbs on the Kansas side I think. Haven't lived in the burbs since childhood but I'm too damn old for ghetto life and I can't afford yuppie rehabbed downtown areas. Thanx for the congrats. I still can't believe my luck! Now watch me be shot to death right as all this happens!!!

David813 wrote: I still can't believe my luck! Now watch me be shot to death right as all this happens!!!
I'm glad I"m not the only one who thinks like this sometimes. Things could not be any better and there is that nagging thought, "whats about to blow". Nothing ever does but that thought is still there.

Sweet Jesus! My husband will be home tonight after nearly a week gone! Yea!!!!

devist8me wrote: Sweet Jesus! My husband will be home tonight after nearly a week gone! Yea!!!!
yay!!!





There isn't a more annoying sound to me than someone dragging their feet when they walk!!!

Oh JAB....how sad..

Guess what - I wantd to tell you- Way to Go! Without your hard work - we could never get anything done around here....

How was that? - I always hated Prof. Day at our school.. I have a college education BUT I was always the teachers Aide - or JUST the Deaf Ed teacher..Never did get anything like the reg.ed teachers did.. So I know what u feel like..

HAppy DAY Happy Day!!

Hello all...I feel totally out of the loop here. What's been going on? With the new job and my ol' man being on vacation, I've had no time to get here and chat with everyone. It's 3 a.m. right now and there's just a few folks around and I am wound up and BORED! I've had way too much coffee tonight, and it feels so awesome to be working again, I'm bouncing off the walls. How is everyone??!!

Posted by BabyRider:

Hello all...I feel totally out of the loop here. What's been going on? With the new job and my ol' man being on vacation, I've had no time to get here and chat with everyone. It's 3 a.m. right now and there's just a few folks around and I am wound up and BORED! I've had way too much coffee tonight, and it feels so awesome to be working again, I'm bouncing off the walls. How is everyone??!!

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Hi BR, missed you in here. Doing fine on this side, glad you are happy working again. "3" a.m. & too much coffee, wound up- bad combination you'll never get to sleep!! :wah:

Cars :driving:

Hi cars! I'm glad you're doing well. Finding enough things to fill your time?

Actually I didn't have a hard time getting to sleep, it was staying asleep that was impossible! Up till 4, I should have slept till about noon. I was up at 9. It's my day off and I don't want to waste any of it. I've got flowers to plant!!

I hate it when I can't sleep. I think I worry too much.

Thank goodness for sleeping in.

Well - the day has begun and I have an appointment at 1:30 - with the blood doc. - They are going to decide if we are a close enough match...... :-3 My neice will then have her amnio - to take it one step further..Wish us luck..I just know this time it will be a close enough match - I have all these brothers and sisters and no one is close enough....Keep your fingers crossed!!!!!!! :yh_nailbi

will do mom...crossing all fingers on both hands for you! keep us updated! please!

fingers AND TOES crossed for mom