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yeah there are certain rules that society has to follow. if you show up to a job interview without a suit and tie, it better be at mcdonalds, otherwise your just a hobo. i always wear suit and tie to interviews, and i never wear jeans to work, even though most of my colleagues do. that could...

5 more letter after my name now for only $168. that's only $33.60 per letter, a real bargain! The P. and the E. cost me several thousand dollars each haha :)

hang in there man, almost everyone goes through this type of stuff during there career, probably several times. im 32 and ive already done it 3 times. took me 4 months after graduation to get a job, then 2 years later i got laid off and it took me 3 months to get a job. i was there 6 years and...

So we ended up getting the second house! We close on Feb 4th! After the inspection i was able to get the seller to agree to replace the entire roof, install all 3 chimney liners (2 for main fireplace, 1 for utility), pull out some dead trees, rod out all the plumbing and a few other little...

so we had the full home inspection over the weekend. structurally the house is pretty sound. there is one basement wall that is bowing inward very slightly. we had a structural engineer look at it not jsut the home inspector. he said that its not any immediate issue, but it could become one...

Put in an offer on a house one block away. was almost twice the price and needs updating, but structure is good (as far as i know, will have inspection prior to final agreement)

college should be banned too. if you cant pass the PE right out of high school, then you just aren't smart enough to be an engineer. college is just a crutch.

wow. im reading this and feeling like i got really lucky! i took the test once in oct 2011, 7 years after graduation, and passed it. just reading that score report scares me and makes me wonder how i passed haha. i was working full-time for a GC and in grad school when i took it, in a real...

in this are almost all the houses look just like this one. but, they don't go on sale that often since its one of the most historic neighborhoods in KC. All the houses are in the range of 1500-2200 SF depending on how much they built out the attic and basement. There are about 4-5 on the...

im loving the funhouse door, how they just shaved off like 1.5" on one side so that it would close with the crooked frame.

THE PROBLEMS ENJOY!!!!

THE HOUSE

this guy is setting the new standard for bitter!

ok gentlemen. met with my SE at lunch today. basically, the garage is an addition and the slab is sinking at the back and pulling the whole thing off the house. the back stairs that were sinking were also an after-the-fact addition, and are not supported by the house's foundation so they are...

its in kansas city missouri.a lot of the houses in the area have had settlement, but i think its due mostly to the age of the houses. the soils are pretty much midwest red clay types that generally are pretty good.

interesting. thanks for the info. im just wanting to at least look into the home as much as i can until i hit a roadblock. that might end up being it. but hey, im the type of guy who runs things to ground before giving up!

was built in the 1930s, as was basically every home in Southern Kansas City, MO

come on guys, someone has to buy this house! who better than an engineer :) especially an engineer with 130k to blow on fixing it! i mean, people seem to have bad feeling about stuff like this, but i think its because it happens to their house that they already own and they have to come up...

There aren't many houses on the market in the area i am looking. there are like 3. one is completely brand newly renovated and about 30k above my budget. The other needs a total cosmetic upgrade and is only 10k below my budget. This one obviously has issues but is 130k below budget...

Hey guys, So i'm looking at buying my first home. I found a house that I LOVE, but it has definite foundation issues. There is some definite separation of the brick near one corner of the house, and the back staircase is leaning 4" to one side over the 5' width. There's also a big crack in...