They don't scratch wood like cats.They don't pee on floors like cats/dogs.They don't color in crayon all over everything and break stuff like kids.They don't potentially eat neighbor's pets or bite like snakes could.They don't have potential flooding issues like 50 gallon aquariums.And, really, how many potential tenants even have lizards/reptiles?

She had removed drapery and pulled bracklets out of the wall leaving a huge hole above the window.

That said the stock is probably going to end at around $2.75 on Wall Street for some hope premium over the $2 take-over-price.Now to Citi Bank.

Code enforcement can make you rip down sheetrock to see how the wires and pipes are run inside a wall if they want to, but in many areas, if the quality is reasonable, you end up paying a fine, sometimes twice the permit fee, or whatever makes them happy.

When Moody’s Investor Service warned that lending underwriting standards had slipped to the point that they would begin raising subordination levels on loans it deemed in need of credit enhancement you could see the writing on the wall.

You also are seperating the equity form your home which gives you protection from creditors and you are "putting to work" the money that was "stored" in the walls of your home earning 0% return.

.- The Wall Street Journal.

This is fresh off the presses:Goldman, Morgan to Become Full-Fledged BanksHere's a bit from the article:Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last two independent investment banks, will become bank holding companies, the Federal Reserve said Sunday night, a move that will fundamentally alter the landscape of Wall Street.The move alters one of the models of modern Wall Street, the independent investment bank, soon after the federal government unveiled the biggest market intervention since the New Deal.

To get 220V, two adjacent breakers in the panel are replaced with the "tandem" breaker used for 220V; off of that new breaker, an electrician will have the 2 "hot" legs (usually colored black and red in the wiring), and the neutral (colored white) and ground (colored green or just bare copper) will be connected to the appropriate bus bars in the panel.

Research how many homeowners are in lawsuits with builders over quality issues in newly built homes.If construction has stopped before the property is dried in (has walls, roofs, doors and windows to the point they keep weather out), the framing has been exposed to the weather.