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I hear it's owned by the same people that own Pink's. I look forward to seeing what it is. Hopefully, not mexican food. Not dissing mexican food, just have enough.

When my car was totalled, the insurance company offered me fair market value as the car being in excellent condition. I would not accept anything less. And all your out of pocket costs should be paid. Period. I wonder if it having been a brand new car, why you aren't getting what you would have to pay for anohter brand new car. Surely, there is a coverage for that. Insurance companies say no out of hand. It is up to you to be your best and loudest advocate.

And no, you don't want to fake anything. Filing false reports or claims is seriously illegal. However, before signing off for anything, be very sure that you don't have any muscle aches, neck aches etc. Sometimes those things don't appear for awhile. When I fell off my bicycle and broke my ankle, it was four months before the shoulder back pain occurred. I had landed on my shoulder after my ankle broke, but the ankle was such an issue I didn't notice the shoulder/back pain. It wasn't an insurance claim so that wasn't an issue, but that cost quite a bit to resolve and had it been an insurance claim, I would have been out that which they should have paid.

Can we take some animals from the Boston Zoo? They are going to euthanize as many as 20% of their animals due to budget cuts.

Don't you love it? I was riding on Michaux one day just north of N. Main and there was a whole flock of them in the tree behind the fire station. Made my day!

Actually, many of the blocks in Sunset Heights and East Sunset Heights have now established minimum lot size and minimum building line protection. I have just petitioned for it on E. 25th in East Sunset Heights with 80+% buy in by neighbors.

HCAD will have a showing of them somewhere.

Here are a few that are located on Cottage. It looks like the first one already has an offer and is outside your price range, but it's good for comparison. Go to HAR and enter the MLS #'s.

25720334

10881743

Here are others in the vicinity.

49421945

36593314

68339321

Like you mentioned, if you find a decent realtor, he/she can pull up a complete set of listings for your criteria...

realtor: John and Brenda Erickson with Suzanne Anderson. They live in and know the Heights. John has been my realtor on three home sales/purchases. 713-864-4012

As I indicated in the Wash Av. thread, the d-b storm is movin WNW, so Shepherd could see some action, particularly with an outflow boundary.

What do you mean "not-quite"? There are Karen Derr signs with the "At-large Position 1" pasties all over Yale-to-Shep.

[OK..."pasties" may not be the best term, but it is a year of City poll dancing and KD's supporters keep their signs, at least, 3 feet from the street].

pasties...hahaha

porchman is funny man!

I agree, N. Shepherd is ugly. But it is what it is. If you don't want ugly, drive on Heights or Studewood. There are actually fewer used car dealers than there used to be. Where do you suggest they go? They are legal businesses.

Why did you find it sad? Do you find the HSLR sad too? Here is a nice piece on the Prison Rodeo.

http://media.www.hou...en-937824.shtml

more like depressing. While the prisoners enjoyed it, it was just sad to see and imagine prison life.

And after being dragged year after year after year to the Houston Lifestock Show and Rodeo, found it sad too. Poor animals. But even worse was watching my father's home movies with no sound and in black and white of the rodeo. BORING!

We went several times when I was a kid. Not sure why. The prisoners that participated got extra spending money I think and the bulls had $100 bills between their horns. I was very young. I remember seeing the prisoners behind the fencing in their bleachers. My mother had been a character witness for a guy that was wrongfully convicted and put on death row and I remember she was always looking for him in the stands.

Even as a child, I found it to be very sad.

Do you remember any other details about the interior?

I was never inside. My sister was friends with the young lady whose father owned the house. It was quite the neighborhood gossip that he loved the color purple to the point of insanity.

Mr. Cook was mad for purple. Everything inside was purple.

Got house just outside loop in desirable Oak Forest. Never carpeted, all hardwood & kit vinyl tiles. 50s ranch style 3bdrm 1+half bath+2det garage. Wonderful private secluded back yard, mature trees. Was no smoking home for 40 yrs [can't say prior to that]. Be anywhere in town in minutes either by freeway or the streets. If interested, contact me thru personal message. Was home for 40 yrs. Gosh I miss the ol' place!! Miss the hardwoods, quick cooling on hot days, level St Augustine grass yard, simple architecture made by craftsmen. The Woodlands does not offer these amenities at affordable prices:) . But it was time to move near grandchildren. Will sell rent. With real estate as it is, I'm not counting on sale. Am I being realistic? We survived the 80s oil real estate collapse & will survive another.

Hey Oldhouse Lover, I have a friend looking for a house in the loop, Oak Forest would be perfect for her. Are you dog friendly to a responsible pet owner?

Ahhhhh.

I kept finding houses over in that area on my HCAD searches - but tossed them because of the RR tracks.

You think living near railroad tracks is bad? I used to work at a steel forging plant over there off 12th and Hemstead Road. Multiple thousand ton presses, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, weekends and holidays. That's 100x worse than the occasional train. The empty lot across 12th from the plant, supposedly, can never be developed because of the toxins in the ground.

Nope, wouldn't want to live over there for any reason.

Nah, its been Don Patron longer than that. I've been at my current job for a year and a half and it was Don Patron when I was working at Chevron before that.

THat's what the "or so ago" covers.

Just from casual observation, I think that the advent of homes with attached garages was probably linked to a refocusing of consumer preferences from the exterior of the home to the interior. When you don't have to walk around and into your home and appreciate it on a regular and casual basis, what exactly is the point? And in the case of townhomes, you don't even have to bother with any landscaping or really EVER leave an an un-air-conditioned environment to view your home as a pedestrian might.

Any unnecessary expenditure to enhance the appeal of an underutilized exterior is purely to satisfy the owner's excessive affective needs. To the outside world, excess focus on the exterior may signify that the owner is very needy, trying too hard to influence anonymous others. It's a sign of weakness.

Or that he/she is considerate of what their neigbors have to look at and cognizant of what he/she has to look at on their neighbors' house.

Dosn't do it for me. Can we please stop with the adobe (or whatever that is)? It looks hot, dried out and reminds me of fingernails on a chalk board.

here ya go:

Can you get it at the grocery store?

flipper

yep

I don't have a picture, but Easy Off FUME FREE oven cleaner works great on tile countertops and any and all things porcelain.

...as Sheila came in with her trademark red suit and hairdo that hasn't been changed since 1995.

Does anybody remember that old urban myth about the woman that suddenly died and when they went to prepare her body for embalment and took her hair down that was always up in a bum, a nest of black widow spiders crawled out? I think of that everytime I see SJL. Blackwidow spider head.

Several from long ago in my childhood when we used to come to Houston to see my grandparents:

-Kapan's on South Main at Kirby (where the Eckerd's is now), our usual Sunday after church lunch place - good steaks and seafood, and those excellent crab ball appetizers that the guy in the white suit used to bring around to all the tables

-Angelo's, another long gone seafood restuarant

-The Strawberry Patch on Westheimer, the Pappas family's country/home cooking concept (Pappas Bros. Steakhouse is there now)

-Tokyo Gardens, the first place I ever had Japanese

I loved the Strawberry Patch!

Love her or hate her, and most hate her, she knows how to get the cameras, and she knows how to get the cameras on her issues. She gets s#!t done.

too hot to blog.

Lots of toxins in those grounds.

I came back from walking my dog about that time, but I am up on 25th at N. Main. Anyway, a police car heading north went tearing by, siren blazing. Moments later I heard what sounded like gunshots, return gunshots and more gunshots. I completely forgot about it until I read this post. Don't know what it was, but I didn't see anything in the news about it. I will check with some of my PIP friends.