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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
What do you do for a living?
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Good to know I got an insulation guy now. My house is pretty well insulated but Maybe I can come up with something so we can hang out.
Dirt is a clean burning ground
Absolutely, bout to hangout here in the near future with bamaridger for the day and looking forward to meeting you also one day.
LMK what you guys get arranged. @BamaRidger is my homeboy
Me and @sbisteve are semi-planning to hook up soon to go to Cullman to meet his trailer house video cousin (see video below) for lunch. I had to make sure he survived his snake hunt to set a firm date.
Let me know if you are interested in attending.
I remember the GOAT commercial
Ha... can't believe we were all thinking the same thing and our posts are all within 3 minutes of each other.
My dam internet has been off all day and just came back on.
I will set it for you guys to hangout with him one day soon and have a few drinks if you can make it too Croot.
He would make one hell of a politician because he gives two shits less what anyone thinks.
That is a crazy business, had a buddy that ran a Bedzexpress and made 6 figures. He would have 5-6 prepaid visa in his wallet at any given time worth $5-10k each. He got paid about $40k a yeah for the job but all the mattress companies would drop a direct commission to one of his prepaid when he sold one.
I asked him who buys all those mattresses and he was like look out the window, see every person in every car out there driving by. Well they all sleep on a mattress.
My career path.
Dirt poor farm boy
Machinist
Tool & Die maker
Tool Engineer
Buyer of a lot of automotive stuff like micros, chipsets, and printed circuit boards.
Senior buyer buying all radios and navigation systems for one of the big 3 auto guys.
Retired
Dirt poor farm boy
Machinist
Tool & Die maker
Tool Engineer
Buyer of a lot of automotive stuff like micros, chipsets, and printed circuit boards.
Senior buyer buying all radios and navigation systems for one of the big 3 auto guys.
Retired
Familiar with BE. Yes most brands have spiff rewards cards that pay an incentive. Depending on cost, sometimes as much as $200 a bed. And that's on top of their salary and commission they get paid by the retailer.
Mattress Firm last year had over 800 $1M writers. If you don't discount heavily to close the sale, you are clearing six figures a year. Not bad for babysitting furniture.
That is cool. Where do you live? I live 200 yards or so from the marsh in SC
Steel and rebar fab. Fam owns 3 shops along the SC NC coast. Been doing it since 1995.
Custom and small batch Powder Coating. O/O
Houston area. Work in the Galveston Bay system.
BigBucnNole
Elite
Serious talk... if you need any sort of environmental Econ impact studies to help pull in funding, work with state and locals, or help with investor relations, just DM me.
Help Me!!
absoluteUnit
Check out the size of this lad
Peeping Tom. I’ve been doing it for over 15 years. Doesn’t pay well, but it’s honest work
I feel like you and I need to get a beer sometime. I have much to learn.
Manage a high rise office building. It is never boring, but finding good workers (employees and contractors) is the most difficult part of my job.
BigBucnNole
Elite
Was a Financial Advisor for 10 years till I got tired of the grind managing 600 households and the company wouldn’t provide an assistant.
Just started an RIA/REIT two weeks ago. Time to monetize 10 years of relationships.
Just started an RIA/REIT two weeks ago. Time to monetize 10 years of relationships.
dirtytoeddawg
Legendary
Jack of many trades
Currently have my own real estate brokerage & appraisal company. Also farm about 120 acres of pecans & help manage 2 family farms.
Still hold a land surveyors license though I sold that business about 7 years ago & no longer practice.
Looking forward to laying most of it down & concentrating on the farms in the next decade.
Currently have my own real estate brokerage & appraisal company. Also farm about 120 acres of pecans & help manage 2 family farms.
Still hold a land surveyors license though I sold that business about 7 years ago & no longer practice.
Looking forward to laying most of it down & concentrating on the farms in the next decade.
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OPD77
Legendary
Pope, is that you?
OPD77
Legendary
Sounds like a hard livin'.
OPD77
Legendary
Where do you manage said property?
Rube Reaper
Elite
Which Pope are you referring to? Dudley Pope or Gustav Pope?
