These people spent $85,000 on a kitchen! $350,000 to remodel the whole house!

And then I laugh because the housing market is soft and these greedniks take it in the shorts.

Yes, I'm cruel.

They priced the house at $1,095,000!

It sat on the market for 3 months, they paid an extra $16,000 in mortgage costs, and sold it for $1,050,000. They profited almost $200,000, but still. Jesus.

They profited almost $200,000, but still

I wonder how many flippers don't profit.

They profited almost $200,000, but still

I wonder how many flippers don't profit.

Ask Casey Serin, world's "most-hated" blogger, asswipe, and cautionary tale.

t edit He has recently stopped his self-indulgent asswipe blog.

Steph, so glad you reminded ita.

I have to make a dental appointment. It's going to be bad. I don't like even thinking about it. Or admitting it. Uhg. Can someone else be a grownup for me, because I take better care of my cats and cars than I do of myself. Hell, I probably take better care of my floors.

Anyway.

I'm vibing so very hard for brilliance and a treatment that works, ita. So very glad they bumped you up to tomorrow.

I saw one house-flipping show where the flipped house didn't sell for almost six months, by which time the flippers themselves had fancied it up so much they'd fallen in love with it themselves, so they just took it off the market and moved in. When the show checked in with them a couple of years later, they were somewhat rueful about the money loss but still smitten with their home.

ION, I just made an appointment with an executive assistant recruiter in Oakland, who called while I was in the pumping room all open-shirted and dripping. Thank GOD I don't have one of those fancy teleconferencing camera phones of the future.

Thank GOD I don't have one of those fancy teleconferencing camera phones of the future.

Don't worry about it. Once you get one of those phones, you'll have a fancy mask like Jane Jetson had.

Thank GOD I don't have one of those fancy teleconferencing camera phones of the future.

One of our contractors is long distance, and when he can't be onsite for meetings, he hooks up his webcam and they project it onto a huge screen in the ops room. And they leave it up! So you'll wander in and there will be his giant head, fidgeting and muttering and...gah. Unless you make a lot of noise, he doesn't even know anyone is in the room. I'd so turn off the camera were I him.

I thought that the women's challenge was stupid.

Okay, watching my first women's challenge, and I think you are right.

I'd so turn off the camera were I him.

No kidding! I value the lack of video during phone calls like you wouldn't believe. Even at nearly 39, I still get painful bouts of phone shyness -- if it were all visual too, I don't think I could bear it.