Do you really know all you need to know about purchasing real estate? With so much to learn about real estate, even veteran real estate buyers are looking for new information. This article can help you by providing tips you may use when you're in the market to buy real estate.
Approach negotiations with great care. A lot of people want to get a good deal, and begin acting aggressively; they end up doing themselves more harm than good. It's best to tell your real estate agent what you want, and let them handle the negotiations themselves. They have experience.
The Internet can be your best friend when house hunting, so remember to use the net to check out homes and neighborhoods. Lots of information about neighborhoods can be found online. Even extremely tiny towns have information available online. Think about the economy situation in the area prior to purchasing property in a town.
If you are thinking about moving, you may want to research the neighborhoods of properties you are interested in online. You will be able to find lots of information, no matter the size and population of the town. General demographics about the neighborhood, such as income levels and age distribution, can give you a good idea of what to expect if you were to move there.
Be open to different possibilities. Sometimes you must choose between two major features if the price of having both falls outside of your price range. If you can't find a perfect house in a certain area, perhaps try a smaller home or a different neighborhood with a better house.
Your Realtor may be able to provide you with a checklist. Checklists cover each step of purchasing your home. They help you through the process of finding the home, making sure you can afford it and securing a mortgage. Having a list like this can be invaluable in coordinating everything to coincide with closing day.
Set aside a fund for unexpected expenses linked to the new property. Buyers find your closing costs via adding your down payment, the bank points, and the real estate taxes that are pro-related. However, there may be additional items such as appraisals, surveys or home association fees.
When you are considering a certain real estate agent, make sure to have plenty of questions planned to address all of your concerns. Ask about things that really matter to you. For example, you might ask if they have sold a lot of homes in your area of interest, and find out the number of homes they have sold during the past year. The agent's responses to these questions will provide you with the information you need to reach a decision.
It is not necessary to buy a home that has more than one fireplace unless the climate calls for it. All you need is one fireplace in the family room. It may be hard to keep up to cleaning multiple fireplace considering that they are barely used anyway.
If there is a house that you are thinking of buying, go to the internet to check the sex offender registry of the house's neighborhood. Although sex offender registries are available to the public, real estate agents are under no obligation to disclose information to potential buyers about registered sex offenders in the neighborhood. It is your responsibility as a home buyer to research the safety of any location you are considering as your next home.
Take note that most foreclosed homes need repairs, so if you come across one keep that in mind. Most foreclosed homes have sat vacant for a period of time, and have not had regular maintenance. A foreclosed home that has been sitting empty for a while may require pest control measures and a new HVAC.
Buy a house with more than one fireplace only if your climate necessitates it. It can truly be a pain to keep multiple unnecessary fireplaces clean.
Look for your dream house. Some investors say that it isn't a good time for buying or selling larger houses, but some disagree. This may be the best time to buy your dream property because housing prices are expected to rise.
If you want to buy a portion of a building, or perhaps the entire building, to open your own business, be sure that the building is in a nice, safe neighborhood. You need to establish your company in a neighborhood that your customer base will be comfortable visiting. Ask Realtors where you should open up shop.
The information provided to you in this article should have taught you a great deal that you can benefit from when purchasing real estate. If you help someone learn to buy real estate more effectively, they might turn around and give you hot tips down the road.
The right core adds the optimum combination of desired properties to a hollow metal door. These may include such qualities as structural integrity and rigidity, sound deadening, fire protection , insulating properties , thermal control and flatness or shape. Garage door parts aren't hard to find but garage door repair and installation will need the help of professionals. But it doesn't hurt to know the basic about the workings of your doors so that the next time it needs repair, you know what to do. Test the stop and reverse safety feature of your garage door opener. Waive your hand under the garage door as it is closing. It should stop and reverse. Once it has reached the full up position, your garage door light should flash. Broken glass outside the door. Even if the window in the door appears fine keep looking. Many times older apartments have transom windows above the backdoor, which can be broken or forced open. A porte de garage coulissante repair might be necessary, because your vehicle might get stuck inside your carport if you do not complete the repairs in a timely manner. Sometime the entrance does not work properly on the sliders that are designed to open and close the doors. This can cause the entrance to work improperly. You might notice that the entrance squeals when you attempt to open or close the entrance when housing your vehicle. The entrance might sometimes be difficult to open or close when you need to get in or out of your carport. Although you can probably operate the entrance manually, sometimes the damage might make it difficult for you to operate even manually. Commercial doors might not be for garages at all, but hooked up to the walls of buildings akin to warehouses or the backs of retail stores. These are normally roll up doors and they are often adjacent to loading docks. A roll up door has many sections, relying on its height and rolls up around a bar on the top of the door opening. That signifies that the track that the door operates in is totally different than that of a residential door. It has no horizontal portion of track. Set bug traps along the perimeter, and especially in corners, to prevent bugs from creating homes near the sensors -- their warm and dry interiors make garages the perfect habitat for unsavory creatures like spiders, ants, cockroaches, and beetles. Over time, these pests can collect in the corners of the garage. Piles of dust, dirt, and bugs are not only nasty... they can block the sensors and prevent the door from opening properly. Placing traps in the corners will not keep the garage pest-free, but should keep them away from the sensitive electronics. The tax credit is not specific to those investing in energy saving garage doors, but also for home improvements that include vinyl replacement windows and solar powered water heaters. There are many things that can be done to the home in order to make it environmentally friendly and the government will reward you for that.
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En el dia del cumpleaños del dolape hay q volver a escuchar este disco y desearle un glorioso B-day.
Wis_H you a gLorious day
Philip Selway - A Simple Life
Por encima del tráfico y las peleas, ¿me escuchas? Estoy justo a un lado de ti.
Mientras las multitudes se desbordan en una fría, fría noche, existe un lugar adonde podemos ir, donde ambos podemos escondernos.
Y peramaneceremos en quietos sin hacer ningún ruido. Apagaremos las luces. Apagaremos las luces.
Y luego nos iremos y desapareceremos en la noche. Apagaremos las luces. Sólo queremos una vida sencilla. Apagaremos las luces, por favor, apaga las luces.
Sobre el camino por el que vamos solos, ¿me puedes ver? Me asusta que te esté perdiendo.
Mientras las multitudes siguen en lo suyo en la fría, fría noche, existe un lugar adonde podemos ir, donde ambos podemos escondernos.
Y peramaneceremos en quietos sin hacer ningún ruido. Apagaremos las luces. Apagaremos las luces.
Y luego nos iremos y desapareceremos en la noche. Apagaremos las luces. Sólo queremos una vida sencilla. Apagaremos las luces, por favor, apaga las luces.
Todos los votos que nos hicimos los volvería a hacer. Yo te dí mi promesa y la vida que tenemos es sagrada.
Jamás te mentiría, no podría mentirte. Esta noche dejamos todo el ruido atrás.
Today was Mom's Day- and as a real radiohead's fan my mom deserved something special. I bought her a top and personalized it for her with some drawings I made on it with this...permanent special marker for clothes or so....And there is obviously A moon upon a stick, and Thom...Climbing up...not the walls this time!...Or may be a somersault...as you like, as you like...
Here's a fifth song from the 1986 demo tape. Recorded at Abingdon School. Baby Radiohead minus Jonny. Saxophone heavy courtesy of Raz! Thanks Kloome !!
FAT GIRL
Here's a fourth song from the 1986 demo tape. Recorded at Abingdon School. Baby Radiohead minus Jonny. First line "Jennifer she wanted more, she wanted everything".
It’s funny how certain music scenes have become legendary – Merseybeat in the 60′s, London’s summer of punk in the 70′s, Sheffield’s Electro 80′s and Manchester’s ‘Baggy’ 90′s. When you break them down, they’re just a small handful of bands making very similar music during a very short but high-profile period.
When people talk about regional music scenes, they never talk about Oxford. Yet Oxford’s tight music community has been steadily producing genre-defining bands of the highest quality and integrity for pushing 30 years.
RIDE – who created (and indirectly named) the Shoegaze genre, TALULAH GOSH – the enfant terribles of Riot Girl, Britpop legends SUPERGRASS, Creation’s Alt-Rock heroes SWERVEDRIVER, current Post-Punk/Math-Rock phenomenon FOALS and – oh yeah – RADIOHEAD all came directly from this one scene. They built and took inspiration from it, they got support and encouragement from it, they cut their teeth in its venues and ultimately were launched into worldwide success from it.
But nobody’s ever heard of it.
So now, all of those bands, along with their less-succesful friends and contemporaries and the promoters, managers, journalists, record label owners and gig-goers who built the scene tell their story.
Anyone Can Play Guitar is not like most music docs. Using the unheard stories of some of the greatest bands and the greatest stories of some of the unheard bands as the backdrop to a truly unique and epic saga of success, failure, good intentions and bad outcomes. It refuses to mythologise and explores what can be achieved with community and the harsh realities of the music industry.
From the DIY spirit of the early 80′s right through to the controversial corporatisation of Oxford’s best-loved venue, ACPG tracks three decades of highs and lows in a punchy, really engaging style.
The film is narrated by cult comedian Stewart Lee
ACPG was made completely independently by film-maker and music video director Jon Spira over the course of three years.
Klootme has added a demo (1986) with On Friday's songs !!!!
The songs are: Girl (in the purple dress) and Everybody Knows
Thank you so much Klootme for your demo and story !! absolutely amazing !!!!!!
About this demo Klootme told me:
"History behind the tape is that my husband was at school with the band and partied with them (before Jonny joined them!). Phil was at Uni with us both in Liverpool. The demo was given to my husband at 17 in school. We used to go and see them play in Oxford and was friends with them. They were fairly inactive from 1987 -1990 as a band. But when everyone had finished Uni they got back together and tried to make a go of it. They went to the States...we went backpacking to India for 6 months.
Six months later we retured from India...saw Colin with a binbag full of laundry at the lauderette....."so much for the States" we laughed......."
I remember seeing them in in Oxford where me and my husband made up an audience of 6!
They weren't COOL.
The rest is history..... "
Acerca de este demo Klootme me contó lo siguiente:
"La historia detrás de este demo es que mi esposo había ido a la escuela con algunos miembros de la banda y se juntaba con ellos (antes de que Jonny se sumara a la banda). Phil estudiaba con nosotros en la Universidad de Liverpool. El demo lo consiguió mi esposo cuando tenía 17 años. Nosotros éramos amigos y solíamos ir a verlos tocar a Oxford.
La banda estuvo inactiva entre 1987 y 1990 pero cuando cada uno terminó el colegio se volvieron a reunir. Entonces ellos se fueron a USA y nosotros nos fuimos de viaje como mochileros a la India por 6 meses.
Seis meses después, cuando regresamos de India, vimos a Colin con una bolsa repleta de ropa sucia en la lavandería traída de USA y nos reímos ¡!
Yo recuerdo haber visto tocar a la banda en la vieja estación de bomberos de Oxford, el público éramos solamente seis personas ¡
No eran nada cool ¡!
El resto ya es historia conocida … "
FRAGILE FRIEND
Here's a third song from the 1986 demo tape. Recorded at Abingdon School. Baby Radiohead minus Jonny. Hear the '80's......Psychedelic Furs, The Waterboys, U2 and The Smiths influence but take note of the very Radiohead ending! Thom's voice as a 17 year old....And Phil's drumming!
Posted by SubSickAlien on October 2, 2010 at 7:00pm
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite Radiohead albums of all-time. It's' hard to believe the most anticipated album in Radiohead's career is officially ten-years old today. I still remember the day I listened to it for the first time. The opening piano-riff to Everything In It's Right Place, Thom's looped-voice exclaming "kid-a...kid-a.." followed by Thom's incredible vocals when singing "Everthing... Everything..." Yes, this could as well be the soundtrack to the 21st century. The new millennium. The age of the unknown. For all of us lucky enough to be alive during the turn of the millennium it really is something remarkable on it's own. Radiohead's opening track speaks volumes without saying much. Sometimes songs don't need to be understood in order to connect with you. Everything In It's Right Place connected with me because of it's full of raw-emotion. I could hear Thom's voice inside my head. We love to believe everything IS in it's right place, but this song is something of a reminder of that and not just a statement. The title track that follows Kid A opens with a what sounds like a music-box. Thom's voice is distorted and one can barely understand what he is saying. Again I find myself lost in this sea of the unknown. Where will you lead us? Are we there yet? Can we see the shore up ahead? One can lose themselves while listening to this song. I feel as if I am lifted from the ground and taken over a desolated land of nothingness. Perhaps the album cover congers up the imagery in my head. The cold, lonely place where intelligent life once roamed the earth. We might spot a polar bear on occasion but there really is nothing here to see anymore. The National Anthem is a call to arms. The song gives me a feeling of resistance. Resistance from the way things are. Not necessarily a resistance one thinks about but more of a collective resistance in regards to everything we as humans are currently doing. Perhaps a spiritual one. This coming long after we've almost given up hope. We will follow that distorted bass-riff wherever it leads us. "Everyone around here... is holding on". The horns emphasize the urgency in the song. The climax is where we need to be. Lost among the many sounds of horns coming from all directions. How To Dissappear Completely the fourth track on Kid A is one of the saddest songs in the album. It feels like someone standing in a crowd full of people but feeling completely alone. It feels like someone stuck in a cubicle for eight hours a day. If feels like someone standing on the edge of a bridge somewhere... Contemplating. "This isn't happening"... It feels like someone thinking of a loved one on a rainy day. The song connects with those of us who for some reason find ourselves in places we never imagined we would. Not feeling completely fulfilled with how things turned out in our lives. The following song is Treefingers. This is the bridge. The elevator. The spaceship. Treefingers will transport us all to where we need to go. During the trip we will slightly forget where we were but will accept where we will be. No questions asked. The ambient sounds coming into our ears will soothe and comfort us until we get there. And now: Optimistic. We have arrived. "If you try the best you can... the best you can is good enough" The song sees the world through a microscope. The big picture. Human kind. Evolution. What have we done to get here? Is this good enough? Has history shown us to be of good moral character? Are we monsters? Is Religion good? Are we in a prison? Have we made any progress? Will we end up the same as the dinosaurs? Is there anything we need to be doing in order to avoid human extinction? As long as we are optimistic, everything will be ok. In Limbo is the jungle. The jungle in our minds. We are "lost at sea, don't bother me" "We are living in a fantasy world" Unlike Optimistic, In Limbo leads us to believe we are ALREADY there. We made it. This is the point where we can't make a distinction between the genius and the insane. Perhaps they are one in the same. Next we have Idioteque. "Who's In bunker?" brings imagery of being in-hiding. In exile. Maybe from the rest of the world. From reality? From the scary things. "This is really happening" Yes, the nightmare we were afraid would one day come is actually here. "Take the money and run" the markets have collapsed. Capitalism went the way of the Roman empire. We made it this far, now we need to have "women and children first". The Titanic is going down. This world we find ourselves in has taken us to this point and now we must deal with the consequences. "Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time" Perhaps referring to the money being taken by those so-called "institutions" we all feel are overseeing it on a daily basis. Sadly, nobody is hitting the panic-button this time around. Morning Bell is the place we are trapped-in. The place in our minds we'd rather not be in. We should be happy, but we're not. We have it all. The house. The wife/husband. The white-picket fence. The kids. Or maybe we should "cut the kids in half", not literally but metaphorically by stating that maybe that will make us happier. "Light another candle". Many people light candles in remembrance of their lost loved ones. Others simply light candles when their power is out. We are in the dark. We can't see where we are going. The suburbs. The homeless shelter. The apartment complex. We can all relate being in a place and not being able to see where we will go from there. The Album ends with Motion Picture Soundtrack. The song itself is the perfect ending to such an amazing album. It brings up feelings of being lonely. Broken-hearted. "I think you're crazy.... maybe" The relationship between two lovers. The feeling gets old. We survived. Maybe not just the end of a relationship between two lovers but that between us all... The point where we all part ways. The end of human existence. Meeting people is easy. Saying goodbye on the other hand.... "I will see you in the next life".
Thanks for taking the time to read this. It reads like a random rant with lots of grammar errors because well, it probably is just that. But my honest opinion it is. Images, thoughts and feelings that flow through my head when I listen to this incredible album. I would like to know what Kid A means to you too.
I was listening to this album while I wrote this. You should listen to it today.
Sweetness you are no fake angel..Angel .. I see you.you are a special freak(not unike me)..sweep me off, the beat ,in the music,and the wordsyou choseto use.I am home.I travel too much..i remain barely there..just near or here.Itake rhyme-no reasonto pass through any season.rustling leaves swept up in a breezea wind carries the songthat are being born inside you nowyou have come along..i am always listeningthe beat bleedsinto the heart of my summerbird.he sings-andalways- i am waitingto listen to my summerbird sing.i will be waiting,listening.never a doubt that this is one of the ones who willsing songsthose that take me along..oin & me up plz;andup &me down & me a round..soothing soundshis bird songcalmedit all downagain.this bird songcalled home againsoft calm songthisis thisyour day to daypouring cocktailsnever to expect anythinginspiringto come into your world .. something that movesthei am.something that iswhat i am -was -will -be..O right!..o my,precious thing, andyou feel you can't wrapyour head around me?not even i am able toquite figure it out..you are no other you-i am another who?you areany other me.due to travel,barely feelmy heels hit gravel..alwaystoo littletoo late ..neverso much.I willstay in touch.muchlight,muchlove,to my friend,my sweetly singingsummerbird.mind you ,in mind ,in mindon you. mind you ,mind ,in mind, mind you. mindon you..
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This is my last ditched effort my last plea my last grovel can the oracle of waste_central end the torment of not knowing? Will Radiohead ever tour Australia again?..........................
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Posted by Leilani E. on December 8, 2008 at 12:40pm
messin around , a lot of playnow it seems that I'm sore all dayYa , you've got me sore from rubbing hard,going for the extra yardand not keeping track ,not looking back...............but I like it.Do it again.please do it againyou've got me as happy as a masochistI like it.I like it.do it again.generate close , hold-me energywhile your fingers are sneaking up the half of mewispering, wicked tounge doing wicked things to flaunt .like telling me any thing you want,where there is communication, holes in fences , over stimulated extra senses.I'll still clutch you< I'll hold you even more this time,grasp you in my hands.and my shaking, twitching. thighsoverzealous, love sick, crazy for you crys .bleeding into dreams , mending our kinetic ties.and all is well and I like it.Do it again.please do it againyou've got me as happy as a masochistI like it.I like it.do it again...........and after tonight .............I might just go outsideand walk, whilst I think of you, the soarnesshints of all those crazy things that we do,in secretwhen, we've got all daywe've got all day.for messing around and a lot of play,
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I figured it'd be appropriate to post a blog here onhow I came to label Radiohead my favorite band of all time:When I was about 10 or 11 years old, I snuck into my brother's roomto listen to some of his music collection. I found a CD that didn't really havemuch decoration on it. I blame my young age for not immediatelybeing captivated upon the first few seconds of listening to it.Anyway, I skipped most of the songs and stumbled upon one that sounded like alullaby for me to go to sleep to. It was the first song I heardin which it touched my soul.The CD didn't have the band name on it (or at least I couldn'tfind it any where) and I didn't want to ask my brother what bandhad made this particular song because then he'd know I was going through his stuff.Time went on.When I was about 14 or 15 I became curious about this CD cover artworkby a band named Radiohead, the album was called Amnesiac.Once again, I was too young and brainwashed into thinking that bands like'Limp Bizkit' were actually good, thus I thought Radiohead were garbage. (!)Later on I would give Radiohead another shot, (this was when I started realizingthat all the music I was currently listening to really sucked) and I boughtOK Computer. By now I'd become smart enough to listen to albums from start to finish.What a rewarding experience...and what to my surprise but at age 16 or 17 I once morelistened to "No Surprises" and immediately recognized it from when I was about 10 or 11!!!!Nostalgia...I'd gotten into Radiohead just in time before Hail to the Thief came out...The rest (I made it my mission to obtain all Radiohead albums) is history.: )Post script:I humbly believe that The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows areall some of the best albums of the last 20 years.Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief are great though, but they seem slightlyflawed compared to the aforementioned albums.In short: Radiohead is the greatest band. Ever.
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