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I started thinking about this after a local agent walked through a dated townhouse with me last weekend and said it might sell fine with paint, flooring, and a deep clean.

The rough numbers are $410k purchase, maybe $485k ARV, and $15k-$20k for cleanup. My assignment spread looks pretty skinny once a cash buyer builds in their margin, so I'm considering closing on it, doing the light work, then listing instead. I came across Glass House Real Estate while comparing DC-area brokerages, and their lower-commission full-service setup looked promising for keeping costs from eating the deal.

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way. For anyone doing wholetails around NoVA/DC, how do you decide between assigning, a novation, or closing and listing? Which holding costs surprised you, and do retail buyers get weirded out by a fast relist? I'd also appreciate any cautions on disclosures or contract language across VA, DC, and MD. Not looking for buyers, just trying to pressure-test the plan before I create an expensive lesson.

Bigger health bars and more damage taken isn't difficulty design, it's just tedium or frustration depending on which way you turn the dial. Real difficulty tuning changes enemy behavior, spacing, resource availability — things that require different skill, not just patience or reflexes.

Some games get this right by changing what enemies do on higher difficulties, not just their stats. More should do that instead of the lazy version.

got a 3 year old male German Shepherd mix. he’s smart, loyal and really attached to me, but outside is a different story. the second he sees another dog he locks on, starts pulling hard and barking. sometimes he completely ignores treats and just fixates.

he’s fine with people walking past and doesn’t care about bikes or joggers. it’s mainly other dogs. at home he’s calm and listens well. on leash he turns into a different dog. i’m not a big person so holding him when he reacts is getting harder and it’s starting to make me anxious before every walk.

been working on it myself with distance and high value treats but progress is slow.

how long did it take before your dog started disengaging from other dogs more reliably?

did you notice the biggest change from daily practice or from a more intensive program?

thanks for any advice.

honestly didnt think id ever get here. supply chain issues, backorders, you name it. spent months sitting in a half empty room wondering if id ever have a real dining table.

the good news is im finally at a point where i dont hate being here. its not pinterest worthy or anything but its mine.

the couch took the longest to find. everything i liked was either out of stock or had like a 4 month lead time. still need to do something about the walls. theyre just white and boring and i have zero eye for art. tried to pick out something online and just got overwhelmed. maybe i just hang a mirror and call it a day.

also if anyone has tips for keeping a light colored rug clean with a dog that sheds constantly please send them my way. im losing that battle.

swear I lose my mind a little more every time I open a chart for a new AKI consult and have to scroll past 6 pages of auto-populated lab flowsheets just to find out if the patient peed today.

Epic is basically just a dumping ground for copy-forwarded nonsense at this point. I don't need to see the daily CBC trends from their admission three weeks ago when I'm trying to figure out if they need dialyzed today. It takes me longer to decipher the primary team's 10-page note than it does to actually go see the patient

lately I just keep Around Notes open on my laptop while I'm rounding so I can actually build a concise, coherent assessment before pasting it into the EMR void. It just handles the data chaos so much better so I can focus on my actual clinical reasoning instead of deleting 40 lines of irrelevant vitals

But seriously, when did we all agree that a daily progress note should read like an Apple terms and conditions document? just so tired of the data bloat man. is Cerner any better or are we all just doomed to scroll forever?

I'm a product manager at a growing SaaS company and we get a lot of support calls. Like hundreds a week

For a long time, we relied on random sampling. I'd listen to a few calls here and there. Try to catch issues. It was inefficient. We definitely missed things

Then we started playing around a bit and using CloudTalk and to be more precise their AI analytics. It automatically transcribes every call. It also highlights key topics and tracks the emotional tone.

Now I don't have to guess anymore and that’s the key for me

Like for example, last week, there was an interaction where the client was clearly upset, but he/she did not say the magic words, "I am canceling." The call was not escalated by the agent. Fortunately, we intervened in time to resolve the situation

We’ve also noticed certain trends. Such as people getting upset about the same thing and the AI grouping those together for us

We’re not trying to replace any jobs here. We’re using the system to direct our attention where we need it most

Does anyone else use sentiment analysis when handling customer complaints? Or does it help with time management at all?

Working on a metroidvania and stuck on a design question: should harder enemies show up because the player is supposed to be stronger by that point in the map, or because the story says they've reached a more dangerous area?

Tying difficulty to map progression feels more "honest" but punishes people who explore off the critical path. Tying it to story feels safer but can make backtracking trivial and boring.

How do other metroidvanias handle this

I have a small office in Woodbridge that’s about 160 m². It’s mostly open with a few desks, a small meeting room, a kitchen area and one bathroom. It gets dusty and messy pretty quick with people coming in during the week.

I’ve been doing basic cleaning myself but it’s taking too much time after work. Looking for a reliable service that can come in a couple times a week and keep things tidy.I already checked CleanWise Solutions Office Cleaning and they look like they handle this kind of space, but I’m still open to other suggestions if anyone knows good local options. How often do most small offices around here get cleaned?

My bedroom is pretty simple right now. Light walls, wooden bed frame, and not much else. It still feels a bit bare on the floor.

Looking for a soft rug to put under the bed or next to it. Prefer something neutral that doesn’t take over the room.

Saw a few on RugLove that could work but still deciding.

Anyone put a rug in a mostly minimal bedroom and liked how it turned out?

Something I keep noticing in system design is how protective games are over player equipment. You get a weapon, it works the same way forever

Maybe it breaks after X hits and you repair it. The relationship is static and purely consumptive. But some of the most interesting moments I've had come from systems where you can intentionally damage or compromise your own tools to solve a problem differently

Breath of the Wild nudged at this with physics exploits and weapon throwing, but that felt more like a happy accident than designed intent. What I'm actually curious about is whether a ruleset can be built where degrading or breaking your own gear is a valid tactical choice rather than just a maintenance penalty. Not just using an item until it's gone, but deciding to push a weapon past its limits for one specific moment, knowing it'll never work that well again.

The design tension is obvious. Players hoard. Punishing use feels bad. But there's a real difference between the game slowly taking something away from you and you choosing to sacrifice it for a purpose. That distinction feels like it matters a lot. One is attrition, the other is agency

Has anyone played games where sacrificing equipment felt like a genuine tactical decision rather than just losing a resource?

I'm building an app that needs 1:1 voice and video calling, and I keep going back and forth on how much I should build myself. I understand the basics of WebRTC, but once I started reading about signaling, TURN servers, scaling, monitoring, recording, and everything else, I realized the actual calling part is only a small piece of the problem. So now I need to know how people usually approach this in real projects. Do you build the communication layer yourself because it gives you more control, or do you use a managed platform and spend your time on the parts of the app that make it different? I'm not talking about huge products with millions of users just a normal application where reliability matters and you don't want to spend months maintaining infrastructure. If you've gone through this decision before, what made you choose one approach over the other? Looking back, was it the right decision?

hey guys, currently sorting out the setup for a small coffee and lunch pop up around geelong and trying to lock in our packaging and cleaning stuff. its a lot more to figure out than i expected tbh

were trying to stick to eco friendly/compostable options with the plastic bans, but getting biopak or custom printed cups through the huge food distributors feels SO pricey when your just starting out.

just wondering where other local cafe owners, food trucks or small spots around geelong actually source their bulk packaging. do u buy from online wholesalers like WF Wholesale or is there a local trade warehouse in geelong worth driving to instead? also open to recommendations on delivery packaging that doesnt go soggy in transit lol.

thanks

Looking for honest opinions from people actually working in supply chain / logistics. I’m currently doing OTHM Level 4 Business Management and my college gives the option to specialise in Logistics & Supply Chain Management. Trying to decide if it’s worth going deeper into this area or staying more general.

A bit about me:

• Goal is to build a career abroad (US, Canada, Europe)
• Looking for long-term growth, not just any entry-level job
• Happy to learn new skills, but I’m not a natural “numbers person”

Would really appreciate hearing from people already in the field:

If you were starting your career today, would you still choose supply chain?

What does your day-to-day actually look like?

What skills or certifications made the biggest difference for you?

Anything you wish you knew before getting into this field?

Happy to hear both positive and negative takes. Thanks in advance!

so we just finished a refresh for our finance department. about 60 dell optiplex 7060s. all working, decent spec, i5, 16gb ram. now theyre sitting in our storage room taking up half the space.

my boss asked me to get rid of them but also wants some return on value typical. i thought about ebay but who has time to list 60 individual computers. plus shipping and fees and dealing with returns no thanks

i still have to deal with data wiping though. we use bitlocker so i think we're fine but im still paranoid. anyone have experience with bulk buyers. do they test everything or just shred it all

im actually losing my mind doing security audits this week. looking at our internal accounts and it feels like every single dev just slaps s3:* or literal AdministratorAccess on their roles because they don't want to spend 5 minutes debugging permissions

Its not even that hard to figure out tbh with access analyzer but people are just incredibly lazy when there's a deadline.

I was just reviewing a stack that an external dev team cisin handed over to us for a web portal and every single lambda execution role was perfectly scoped down to the exact DynamoDB arn and specific s3 prefix. It literally brought a tear to my eye

meanwhile my own senior engineers will deploy a random internal slack bot with full root-level ec2 permissions "just in case". How do you guys actually enforce least privilege without the whole engineering department hating your guts?

owned my house in Columbia since 2016. never had any issues with taxes until this year. got my assessment in the mail and my property taxes went from like 2500 to almost 5000. I have no idea how they came up with that number.

I tried appealing but the county denied it. said my house is worth more now because of the market. cool I guess but I can't afford to pay double what I used to.

my mortgage just went up like 200 bucks a month and I'm already struggling. I work full time but everything is so expensive. I'm seriously considering selling at this point.

the house is in decent shape but it needs some work. new AC, some paint, the usual stuff. I don't have the money to fix it up for a traditional sale.

has anyone here dealt with crazy property tax increases in SC? what did you do? sell or just pay it?

my daughter is 4. she saw me looking at jewelry online and insisted on helping me pick something. she chose a stainless steel bracelet a simple chain with a tiny heart on it.

she told me daddy needs something pretty and i couldn't say no.

it's been like 8 months and i still wear it every day. it's not my style at all but every time i look at it i think of her little voice saying that.

kids have a way of changing your style without you noticing.

any other parents wearing something their kid picked out?

been doing 1500 for a few months now and one thing I noticed is that on days I just sit around, I wanna eat everything in sight. like even if I hit my goal, I'm still thinking about food.

but on days I do something active, even light stuff, I feel way less snacky. not even burning that many calories, just moving.

I got a reformer a while back and I've been using it for like 15-20 mins on my rest days. nothing intense, just stretching and some slow movements. and it weirdly helps with the boredom eating? like my brain just chills out more.

could be placebo idk. but I'll take it.

anyone else notice this or am I just making excuses to buy more gym stuff lol

hi everyone i have a 3 bedroom suburban house with hardwood floors throughout and an open living kitchen and dining area. the living room has a grey sofa and wooden coffee table while the bedrooms are pretty neutral with white walls and simple beds. i want to add rugs to every room to make the whole place feel warmer and more pulled together without it looking messy. i got a couple from rug love that fit my style but i need help picking sizes and colors that work with what i already have. should i go for similar tones across rooms or mix in some bold patterns in one spot? any ideas on placement or layering would be great too.