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NEO said:
Right now as far as new builds go I am in the mix on multiple restaurants and c stores and high rise condos. I do a lot of hab but most are already built so I don’t have GC contacts right now for hab but we have about 500 restaurants coming in within the next two years that I am working with ground up and all are same owner. I could get u in contact with that GC and see if he needs help.

Are u drywall? Flooring? Concrete? What’s ur specialty?

GC under 25k is much easier to get licensed in TN than over 25k so small remodels might be an option for u too. Just brain storming.
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Are you in on the new marina?
 
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Orangeburst said:
I saw an F650 at golf course one time and my jaw dropped..it was huge and chunky.
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Yeah I sat in a King Ranch or Platinum trim level one at the Texas State Fair one year. As nice as mine on the inside but it felt like I was in a semi.
 
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NEO said:
Right now as far as new builds go I am in the mix on multiple restaurants and c stores and high rise condos. I do a lot of hab but most are already built so I don’t have GC contacts right now for hab but we have about 500 restaurants coming in within the next two years that I am working with ground up and all are same owner. I could get u in contact with that GC and see if he needs help.

Are u drywall? Flooring? Concrete? What’s ur specialty?

GC under 25k is much easier to get licensed in TN than over 25k so small remodels might be an option for u too. Just brain storming.
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Seems like everything is easier in TN. I built a couple big additions in Knoxville and was amazed and quite pleased about how few times i had to have inspections, and how nice and easy the inspections were. In NC every trade is separate, and depending on which county they can be a real PITA. Everything is better in TN from no state income tax to going to the DMV. NC is a HUGE hassle any time you have to deal with the government. I honestly cant take a full time job in TN right now though unless I absolutely have to. It would require me being away from my wife and kids and only seeing them weekends at best. I have done it before...commuted 4 hours every friday afternoon and again sunday night for over a year but it really sucked driving Charlotte to Knoxville and back every weekend.

Sounds like you have a huge amount of work coming though. Will have to think about that. Thanks again for your help bud. I can run crews/jobs and supervise any trade in construction. As example, on all our apartment jobs we do framing, roofing, siding, windows, doors, decks and breezeways. We used to get flooring and cabinet installs also but our subs got too expensive so we started getting undercut by competition and havent gotten those contracts in a few years. I have a huge labor pool though and lots of contacts in the Charlotte area as far as subs. I have no contacts in TN though in construction.
 
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hog88 said:
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Still in planning stages but I will probably be on the trails or hotel/restaurant based on who wins the bid. Sometimes these huge projects are more of a pain than there worth as they are GOV regulated.

I got sucked into the airport project and was on the repaving job of the runway. I had no idea the headache I was about to endure. The second u enter federal airspace chit gets so regulated. I had so many people require something different and the packages we had to send were overwhelming. They were asking for language that was literally not possible.

We stop bidding on gov contracts a year ago cause of it.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Seems like everything is easier in TN. I built a couple big additions in Knoxville and was amazed and quite pleased about how few times i had to have inspections, and how nice and easy the inspections were. In NC every trade is separate, and depending on which county they can be a real PITA. Everything is better in TN from no state income tax to going to the DMV. NC is a HUGE hassle any time you have to deal with the government. I honestly cant take a full time job in TN right now though unless I absolutely have to. It would require me being away from my wife and kids and only seeing them weekends at best. I have done it before...commuted 4 hours every friday afternoon and again sunday night for over a year but it really sucked driving Charlotte to Knoxville and back every weekend.

Sounds like you have a huge amount of work coming though. Will have to think about that. Thanks again for your help bud. I can run crews/jobs and supervise any trade in construction. As example, on all our apartment jobs we do framing, roofing, siding, windows, doors, decks and breezeways. We used to get flooring and cabinet installs also but our subs got too expensive so we started getting undercut by competition and havent gotten those contracts in a few years. I have a huge labor pool though and lots of contacts in the Charlotte area as far as subs. I have no contacts in TN though in construction.
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Financially I am very blessed. Personal life is FUBAR. I need to get back into church.
 
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NEO said:
Financially I am very blessed. Personal life is FUBAR. I need to get back into church.
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No matter how far i have strayed from God in my walk, when I turned around He was always there for me. Waiting with open arms truly like the prodigal son. I am just a sinner and in no shape to preach to anyone. He's right there waiting for all of us though. It's amazing and undeserved but that doesn't make it any less true. You've always seemed like a good guy to me fwiw.
 
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Good interview. Top 100 LB Rouse who chose us over UGA, Bama, OSU etc. Very smart kid and son of a HS coach.

Learned this past season (his junior) was his FIRST SEASON playing defense ever. He plays both ways at TE/LB. What a talent to play 1 season at LB and be a top100 recruit nationally. Thats amazing. He comes in with fellow top100 rated LB White in 26 and another solid LB Ames? Not sure about his name. Very impressive young man.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
The state bird of Alaska (blood thirsty vicious horse flies) makes me not want to stay for more than a couple of weeks. I had multiple blood trails going down my legs at the same time from those vicious little bastards.
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Maine isn't much better, black Flys (no seeums) are very prevalent there.
 
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UT_Dutchman said:
Maine isn't much better, black Flys (no seeums) are very prevalent there.
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Minnesota has skeeters the size of birds too. I didnt expect the northernmost states to have a lot of bugs...since they are cold blooded and the weather permits only a very short spring and summer to breed and grow. I was dead wrong and its amazing. I guess the small population of humans and vast stretches of wild really offset the cold climate limitations. It seems counterintuitive to me though...
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Minnesota has skeeters the size of birds too. I didnt expect the northernmost states to have a lot of bugs...since they are cold blooded and the weather permits only a very short spring and summer to breed and grow. I was dead wrong and its amazing. I guess the small population of humans and vast stretches of wild really offset the cold climate limitations. It seems counterintuitive to me though...
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It has more to do with humidity. Go to the desert and the total quantity of bugs drops dramatically.
 
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Vol423 said:
It has more to do with humidity. Go to the desert and the total quantity of bugs drops dramatically.
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This makes sense...especially pertaining to mosquitos. Those little bastards with the black and white stripes over here in NC are an invasive species from Africa from what i learned. They can breed in water as small as a raindrop, unlike the indigenous species of skeeters. Yay...

I remember when I was a kid though in TN, NC, and especially on several road trips all the way cross-country there would be large quantities of bugs killed on the windshield from driving at night. I mean LOTS once outside cities. These days there are very few in comparison. Less than 10% in my estimation. I know that sounds crazy...but in my experience it is true. I cannot count all the times my Dad had to scrub and squeegie the windshield at gas stations from driving at night. You could hear the thud sound when big bugs would hit the windshield and see the goop come out of them. This never happens to me. I never clean my windshield. Extremely infrequent. I am the furthest thing from a shrub hugger...but insects form the bottom levels of the real food pyramid. Frogs and lizards eat them...birds and small mammals eat frogs...etc etc all the way up to apex predators like us. I wonder if pesticides or some other factor is responsible for decimating insect populations in the US...or at least the parts that I frequent. There is definitely a BIG difference in flying insect populations from what I can tell. I wonder about birds who eat them etc?
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
This makes sense...especially pertaining to mosquitos. Those little bastards with the black and white stripes over here in NC are an invasive species from Africa from what i learned. They can breed in water as small as a raindrop, unlike the indigenous species of skeeters. Yay...

I remember when I was a kid though in TN, NC, and especially on several road trips all the way cross-country there would be large quantities of bugs killed on the windshield from driving at night. I mean LOTS once outside cities. These days there are very few in comparison. Less than 10% in my estimation. I know that sounds crazy...but in my experience it is true. I cannot count all the times my Dad had to scrub and squeegie the windshield at gas stations from driving at night. You could hear the thud sound when big bugs would hit the windshield and see the goop come out of them. This never happens to me. I never clean my windshield. Extremely infrequent. I am the furthest thing from a shrub hugger...but insects form the bottom levels of the real food pyramid. Frogs and lizards eat them...birds and small mammals eat frogs...etc etc all the way up to apex predators like us. I wonder if pesticides or some other factor is responsible for decimating insect populations in the US...or at least the parts that I frequent. There is definitely a BIG difference in flying insect populations from what I can tell. I wonder about birds who eat them etc?
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When I lived in Durham, NC, the mosquitoes ate me alive, and they were about the size of bats.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Minnesota has skeeters the size of birds too. I didnt expect the northernmost states to have a lot of bugs...since they are cold blooded and the weather permits only a very short spring and summer to breed and grow. I was dead wrong and its amazing. I guess the small population of humans and vast stretches of wild really offset the cold climate limitations. It seems counterintuitive to me though...
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Biggest and most amount of bugs I ever encountered was near Niagara on the us side. Birds is a good comparison. Thought my windshield was gonna crack.
 
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