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Rissa
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03-20-2006

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Lady, I had a similiar thing happen a couple years ago. Was transferring a large amount of money btn banks. If the banks transferred it by computer, it would take 5 business days so I got a money order just to be told the other bank was going to put a hold on it. I put up a big fuss and the bank manager agreed to call the other bank directly and the M.O. was put through immediately. It's not your fault that your bank's security isn't up to snuff. Isn't that what their insurance is for? Shouldn't make a customer pay for a money order and then treat it the same as a cheque. If they want to play that game then stop charging for M.O.'s!!!! :-)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Cd, I have used ING for years and I love them

Chewy, that is crzy that a market wouldnt have change, how small a market is it?

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I use Wells Fargo and there is no limit to have free cking...just have to have at least 1 direct dep a month.

Karen, I would ck into a money market acct at ING Direct for your money and 25,000 is a HUGE AMOUNT to me too!! ING has no min, no fee and pays higher interest than any bank

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 5:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Karen,your grandmother must have felt so good knowing she was able to leave her loved ones some inheritance. You enjoy having it. What a gift !
$25,000. is a lot of clams.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
:-) Thanks, Slothkitten! It comes to me in a roundabout way... the entire estate was to be divided between my grandmother's three children. When my father passed away a few years back, she adjusted the will to allow for my siblings and I to split my father's portion.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a wedding to plan... <grin>

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 6:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Going to the chapel
And you're gonna get married



Grooch
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06-16-2006

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 9:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
screw the wedding, plan the honeymoon! <grin>

Karen
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09-07-2004

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
They're one in the same, Grooch. Belize.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 4:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
I love that idea!

Good Luck and Best Wishes!!!

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 4:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Hey! A wedding and a honeymoon in Belize?

I think you should be officially booted out of the gripe thread.

This could be a first.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 7:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
This will be a TVCH honeymoon, right? Everybody will be attending?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
aaaaaarrrrrrrhhhhhhgggggg

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
Serate?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Just griping. I feel better now.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
lmao!

Shashakaye
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05-19-2003

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 4:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shashakaye a private message Print Post    
Why is it that my 20 yr old DD who has been out on her own, working full time and going to school cannot get any federal financial aid because the gov has to go by mine & my hubbys income when we haven't claimed her on our taxes for 2 yrs? But, if she was an unwed mom, she would get all her schooling for free. Our system is just wrong.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
That doesn't sound right. If she's not your dependent, lives in her own apartment/house, and files her own taxes, she should only have to go by her own income. I know when I got married partway through my junior year, I waited to turn in my forms late, so I'd be out of my parents house. Made a HUGE difference.

Spygirl
Board Administrator

04-23-2001

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
Teach, Shashakaye is right. Traditional undergrads must submit their parent's tax information to determine eligibility...but, Shashakaye, she should qualify for an unsubsidized federal loan no matter your income. She will not, however, qualify for pell grants or subsidized loans.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
gripe thread is exactly what I need right now.

I got new neighbors last year Spring. There is a nice deck on the house and each decent day they'd be out there, sometimes with extra guests, playing loud country and western music. Not horrifyingly loud, but enough that i couldnt open my windows or doors BUT oh well, I was having renos done so wasnt here for days at a time.

Anyways, here we are a beautiful 25 degree celcius day, my windows are open, Door open and You got it, they come home- open all their windows - Put the stereo on really really loud so its blasting thru the front windows....then they go to the BACK of the house to visit.

Well, I'm close to their front and I decide I'm not going to let it go and have another summer ruined. So I go over and nicely ask the guy if he could shut his windows or better still, Move a speaker onto the deck with them.

you can imagine how well that went. He was pretty drunk and got really agressive and basically said NO way, we only do this once a week. To which I said, I know, I let it go last year since you were new but this is a quiet neighborhood and your music is blasting out the windows.

He just lipped me off about how no one else is complaining. Of course, I live the closest! and I'm not old and deaf. Anyways, I say that I've lived here since 1991 and it WAS a quiet neighborhood. Of course the guy starts pointing his fingers at a house thru the trees behind my house and says that they had a HUGE party and tons of noise last weekend.

I dont think fast (now I feel Stupid!) so I said that it was Extremely rare for them to make noise and I wasnt here/ didnt notice. I feel really PO'd now because I WAS here. The guys sometimes put on a car stereo while they work. Often you hear just a bit of bass for an hour or so, NEVER late only midafternoon/ early evening. There was no party, the man was lying.

I asked the guy if he ever hears My music or me making noise and he said that he never even sees me. I told him I blast my music but I have the courtesy to Leave my windows and doors shut or bring out a speaker. That is why he doesnt hear me. that rolled off his back and he never commented on it at all.

These neighbors of mine play their music for HOURS and HOURs/ day after day in the Summer.

then the guy says that he is happy I'm FInally doing some yard work, the yard really was bad He sneers. That is when I got Pissed Off.

I have had professional yard care every two weeks for years...and I told him I had the Receipts to prove it.

Anyways, it deteriorated even worse at that point. He said he could play music as much as he liked since it was before 11pm.

'Of course', I said 'Sure, and one day when you are quietly mellowing out I'll bring out my speakers and play opera for you then.' he snips he loves opera- I said 'Great!'


Okay Major Gripe is over.

Now comes the hard part- do I happily play the Opera/ bagpipes/ WW2 Marching Bands/ weird 1983-86 Punk rock at full level a few times to make a point......or should I not do anything so my other neighbors dont get mad at me??

i think either the other people arent home for the whole day so they dont notice the neighbor problem OR they are too afriad to say anything since th man is so BIG and aggressive.

This Was a quiet neighborhood

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
wait til 11 and call cops everytime

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
oh and When I point to the old couples homes which surrounds us to say that they are older and probably dont have the nerve to complain, He starts pointing in generally the same directions saying "they want to come for a Drink, and They want to come for a drink....and THEY also want to come for a drink" to which I said "Oh great, everyone wants to drink with you?"

Yep, the conversation started off politely on my part but the guy was a jerk LOL

IF they've been here for a year and Not one neighbor has come 'for that drink' I'll suggest that they were just being polite and Dont dare to complain about the music as they know he is an aggressive drunk.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
They blast it all day and night then at 11 it goes off almost everytime.

Only twice was it to 12:30 and even then, they turned it way down to a Normal level but I still could hear it.

you see, that is my conflict. I'd love to blast my music Each time I see them on the deck. However, considering the decibels of their music, Mine would probably not compare....and my other neighbors would be going NUTZ.

mind you, If Its before 11pm (Late afternoon for instance) how can anyone stop me from those braincrushing Bagpipe/ Drum Marching band music. LOL

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I'd put a window air conditioner or two on the same side of the house he is nearest. I doubt there is much chance of fixing this by the sounds of it.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 11:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Unfortunately, Sun... Hukd is right. If they're playing by the rules and turning it off at 11, the only options you have are either 1) playing your opera as loud and as often as you can, or 2) getting the neighborhood behind you. You may be able to file some 'absurdly continuous noise disturbance' claim (sorry, don't know what you'd actually call it) if the whole neighborhood was in agreeance.

Until then, I say, pump the Pavarotti. As loud as your speakers will allow. I used to live in a duplex, and they'd play the classical stuff as loud as they could, starting at 6am. I retaliated with Eminem. Didn't take long for them to get the hint.