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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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This is obviously a taunt but... Why?
Because you came out swinging with "I own two houses" Mr. Moneybags, lmao
One of which had been laying vacant for 30 years and the other for nearly 50.
It's not like I had money gathering dust on the mantelpiece and bought mansions. I went out to buy what I nobody else would. Because it was too old, too shaby, too much of assle to fix.
If you're buying up derelict properties, renovating them, and then selling them, you should get an exemption from property taxes entirely. Many communities already offer such exemptions, and even if they don't, you're getting a de facto exemption as it is because the houses aren't worth shit until you fix them up.
I'm buying to live there and house my family and I get no exemption because the moment I declare the renovation it triggers a revaluation by the tax and income state department. And I should not get it. It is a property and it has intrinsic value. Deductions should apply if by some reason a person can't pay the taxes - unemployment, sickness, low income - but never an exemption. Even less if we're talking in flipping houses, where renovations can push up the value to ludicrous levels. Never. Ever. It's unfair.