u/Legionnaire1856

I have a solid job, I’ve been there for sometime. My credit score is 830. I’m a veteran, I have the VA loan. I was just reading that there are fewer homebuyers currently in the market nationwide than there have been since 2013.

I still don’t believe there’s going to be a huge crash like some people are hoping for, but if the market’s about to go down a little, I would sure want to wait. I know it’s like trying to buy stocks, you can’t time the market. But my landlord wants to sell the little house I live in and he is absolutely delusional about the price.

So I think I’d like to find something that I can own. Are people even making offers under the list price anymore? I’m looking at a house for 300,000 and they just dropped the price by 25K after only two or three months on the market…so I feel like I could get it cheaper maybe? That’s a huge drop.

I sure wish I hadn't bought an Xdrive. There are multiple videos and write-ups for changing out the RWD mounts. It's obviously quite different when you get under the Xdrive car. There was a guy who cut a chunk of subframe out the get the mount out.

I'm assuming the alternative is to drop the subframe? Does anyone have any advice on it? Does anyone have the ISTA path to the procedure?

There are a few videos that show the mount replacement, but only one of them is an X-Drive...and that guy actually took a sawzall and cut a section of his front subframe out to get the driver's side mount out. I will not be doing that.

It's my understanding that the X-Drive is more difficult to get the left mount out. I looked up the procedure in ISTA, but it doesn't seem to mention doing anything differently for AWD.

Also, the procedure in ISTA is pretty extensive, going so far as to remove the fuel line, the DME, etc. to get the job done. Is all that necessary or can some of it be worked around?

And is there a trick to getting the driver's side mount out with X-Drive?

I'm a pretty good shade tree mechanic, and I'll do what needs to be done to get the job finished. But I won't do what does not need to be done if I can help it at all.

Thanks for reading.

I can't find a good pair of high quality, short-cuff gloves to save my life. Everything on RevZilla has people posting bad reviews about the gloves falling apart after 2 seasons, or the fit being terrible. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Another problem I'm running into is that gloves all seem to have a little thin strip of velcro to fasten the gloves with, and I'm 100% sure it's going to wear out and not hold anymore after some use. It's so frustrating...

Everywhere I go, there’s no mint in the produce area.