Real Estate Disclosure Laws

If you have ever sold a piece of real estate you know that full disclosure of EVERYTHING affecting the property is made in an effort to avoid being sued later, or at least standing a chace of prevailing if sued.

I am not sure how this homeowner would handle the disclosure problem, but I can think of a lot of creative ways that I would do it. Read on.

Fri Sep 4, 9:51 pm ET, Associated Press

UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home. William Maser, 54, fired a cannonball Wednesday evening outside his home in Georges Township that ricocheted and hit a house 400 yards away. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, smashed through a window and a wall before landing in a closet. Authorities said nobody was hurt.
State police charged Maser with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.
No one answered the phone Friday at Maser's home. He told WPXI-TV recreating 19th century cannons is a longtime hobby. He said he is sorry and he will stop shooting them on his property, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

More San Carlos Video

This is a 9 minute video of San Carlos post Jimena.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E40-FolEfv4

San Carlos - Hurricane Jimena

For those of you that do not know what happened to San Carlos with the "remnant" of Hurricane Jimena, I thought it would be instructive to post some photos and captions.

I periodically follow the San Carlos Forum web site and this is the source of most of my information. Jimena stalled almost directly over S.C. for more than 24 hours after crossing over the Baja Penensula and one resident claimed that they recieved 22 inches of rain, and that was before the event ended. They have been cut off from Guaymas and Hermasillo for a couple of days by bridge washouts and the power has been mostly out.

"It's hard to tell, but those are boats from Marina Seca blocking the main road."

This is the main road into San Carlos, near Charley's Rock.

Note the water mark about 3 feet up the wall on this house in Tecali Park.

This is a post on the Forum from a local man with a screen name of EL MATON, apparenly really named Pillo;

"I have pictures bet you dont want to see ,be 17 sailboat and the beach 4 sailboat sink and the bay 7 chater boat sink(mostky cooperativa,and my brother boat AMIGO),no road is broked before la roca,cars and boats and the streets in front EL GUARDIAN STORE ,bet the worst ,real worst THE MARINA SECA whit the biggest damagge boats in side of the oficce becose water come front the mounts make one river and distoyer all he touch"

"Going to be a day or two before we know the situation at Seca. I've attached a shot taken this afternoon of what used to be the two-lane blacktop entrance road. Not a pretty sight." From Charlie on the Forum.

This photo is from Encanta storage, I think.

The current situation there is not good and their most immediate need is drinking water, which could be solved when power is restored. Some areas apparently do have power and internet, which is how the photos are getting out.

Media reports about this situation, at least from where I sit in the Northwest, have been virtually nonexistent.

I just got this from a post on the Forum. Video taken during the storm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbqUwnQ_Jz8

Potatoe vs Potahtoe

http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=4337401001

Short Term Memory Issues

I was thinking that I sometimes have a problem with my short term memory until I read this article on the internet. This fellow has lost so much at such a young age that it is a wonder he can function at all. Or, perhaps he never had a memory to begin with. So many angles to explore here, and the internet just abbreviated the entire episode.

Since these two met at a casino, it also proves my theory that gambling is dumb.
Read on................

Fri Aug 28, 7:52 pm ET, by Associated Press
FERNDALE, Mich. – Police in Michigan say a first date went from bad to worse when a Detroit man skipped out on the restaurant bill, then stole his date's car.
Police say 23-year-old Terrance Dejuan McCoy had dinner with a woman April 24 at Buffalo Wild Wings in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale. The woman says the two met a week earlier at a Detroit casino and she knew McCoy only as "Chris."
The woman told police that McCoy said he left his wallet in her car and asked for keys. He then sped away in the 2000 Chevrolet Impala.
The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak reports that police identified McCoy by a photo he'd sent to the woman's cell phone, and his phone number.
McCoy is charged with unlawfully taking the car, a five-year felony. He waived a preliminary exam and was bound over for trial Thursday.

What happens with free National Health Care

This video would not download, but it is worth a watch. It makes the case against free National Health Care for the insane..................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILD97YEAn6E

Another Life - And paving the way to the Highway

In my former life I made it possible to mine tens of millions of tons of rock that went into, among other things, asphalt paving, but until now I had never purchased any directly for my own account. Indirectly we all have paid for and directly used a lot of rock in our lifetimes. It is just an inescapable part of our world. I used to "harrumph" at people that hated mining and vowed to never allow themselves any participation in this sort of extractive endeavour, at least until they realized that they could not go anywhere without the stuff and that just about everything we use is mined if it is not grown. An environmentalists dilemma.

Anyway, we just paved our driveway in a nod to the relative futility of trying to sell our home in this housing depression. We want to enjoy a little time not having so much dirt and mud tracked around so we are continuing our work sprucing up the place.

In the photo above you will notice that there is a "steam roller" compacting the asphalt and that is what a lot of people still call them even though they have not been powered by steam for a hundred years. It just sounds cool, I guess. Steam had a fairly short life as a significant mode of power.