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Lol, quotes for home stuff are just absolutely insane
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:21 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut We need to get brush cleared on my property. My gardener is a nice man but the guys he's been sending lately have been SPS. So I've been thinking about switching to someone else both for my regular maintenance as well as brush clearance. I pay him $110 per month and he charges $300 for brush clearance, which is a once or twice a year job that takes about 2 hours.
I got some quotes to see if I could do it for $200 or so. Sent out a Yelp request. A bunch of these guys are extremely pushy, and they all have these slick quotes they generate using whatever the gardener Clio or MyCase is.
First quote: $700
Second quote, from guy who I told repeatedly that I could not meet him and to drive by and get back to me with a quote over text, who nevertheless disrupted our babysitter when I wasn't home: $1300
Third quote: $900
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Lol |
Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:24 PM Author: citrine doctorate Tariff War! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871698) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:24 PM Author: rebellious yellow kitchen The market has spoken (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871700) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:28 PM Author: Motley Plaza those primadonna handymen/repairmos dont get out of bed for less than $500 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871718) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:29 PM Author: rebellious yellow kitchen and consultants and lawyers deserve $1k per hour to listen to a meeting! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871723) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:32 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner lawmos being overpaid doesn't impact rates for the same work increasing 300%+
although i think OP just needs to find a dude with a truck and not use these lead generation services. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:34 PM Author: Racy den lol @ deserve
go back to giving your wife her paycheck for her companionship services |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:31 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner only way to not get fucked is to know a guy or get grandfathered in like your guy. the dudes using yelp request and angies list are profit maximizing which includes recouping the cost for these leads.
just go on nextdoor or your community facebook group and ask. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:36 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut lol nextdoor is full of frauds who recommend their relatives who actually suck hard
grandfathered in and having that preexisting relationship is required, "knowing a guy" just gets you a market quote in 2025 because they have to recoup the discounts they're giving to everyone that's grandfathered in |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:43 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner even if so you think that's less reliable than people paying for lead generation services?
it's pretty easy to figure out which people are being astroturfed and which aren't. find some dumb bitch who poasts about lost cats or whatever all day and see who she recommendations. pretty easy to spot the boomers who just spend all day on there and whose there just to sockpuppet recommendations. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:45 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut it's not that easy, there's fake accounts on nextdoor. it's rife with fraud because it's free
and no i use yelp a lot, i'm not going after the obvious lead generation services. i'm going after people that have a reasonable number (50-100) of good reviews who seem legit |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:51 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner it being a free tool for lead generation reduces the costs for providers and thus allows them to charge less.
i've had a lot of success using it over angies or yelp. every decent contractor has no shortage of work these days. nextdoor or facebook is the only place you might wind up finding a guy who "knows a guy" if you can't find on organically.
adam carolla had a piece of advice on choosing a contractor: the guy with the brand new truck with wrap is going to be stupid expensive, the guy with the old shitty truck is gonna suck. go with the guy with a 10 year old truck that's still in good condition. he's gonna be cheap and quality.
plus it's two hours to clear some bushes, how are you gonna get defrauded? it's not like it's the type of work you can't inspect yourself. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:45 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut yeah in this case you're right, it was worth a shot. but for anything requiring more skill i could never trust it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872104) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 8:31 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner ty. yeah i wouldn't give the same advice kf you were dropping six figs on custom cabinets. but for brush clearing yeah slide and let do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872356) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:32 PM Author: tantric field loling at you thinking $300 is a lot of money (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871729) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:37 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut that's like one blowjob for your wife on a tuesday night, my bad dawg some of us don't work on our knees and back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871745) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:39 PM Author: tantric field also, great job leaving your kids at home with a babysitter who answers the door when strange workers stop by
you’re a shitty father with zero protective instinct. feel bad for your kids |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:40 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut twist: the babysitter is my mother-in-law, but your wife is still a sex worker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871762) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:43 PM Author: tantric field a helpless old woman (who is presumably as dumb as you’ve said your wife is) will fend off strange workers that you invited to you home? great job “dad”
try not to scream at your kids for a couple of days |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:44 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut do you sometimes ask darnell to watch your kids for a few minutes while you lick his cum out of your wife's diseased snatch? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871771) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:47 PM Author: tantric field funny how you have to make up stories in your head to deflect from your failures as a man and “father”
poor kids having such a stupid and weak person like you as head of household |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:49 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut your wife being a sex worker is not something only i say, well-known on the boart, along with the fact that you literally used to poast here as "pederastrian," are from boston, were a grunt in the marines who couldn't hack it there, and had to self-deport because no woman would touch you in america (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871788) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:51 PM Author: tantric field faggots like you can repeat all the lies you want to make yourselves feel better
but these lies won’t make you a decent father and it won’t make your wife smart
hth |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:52 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut you're so ugly you had to move to ukraine to get your dick wet, sad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871799) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:08 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler ukrainians are subhumans like palestinians (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872024) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:46 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner the wealthiest people i know are cost conscious in this way. no one likes getting ripped off.
"lol at thinking $X is a lot of money" is the type of shit poors say. the zales jeweler saying "if you have to ask you can't afford it" is how they sell garbage to powergoys at 25% APR. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:50 PM Author: tantric field lol no, $300 for brush clearing is obviously cheap compared to 1) spending time getting multiple quotes ($1-2k worth of one’s time) and 2) introducing the risk of a shitty job or worse, outright thieves and criminals doing the job
OP is just dumb as fuck |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:51 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut the 20 minutes i spent on this are worth $1-2k of your wife's time? wow, sounds like quite the high-end whore! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871794) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:52 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner are you so poor that a thief stealing your brush would be a big financial disaster to you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871797) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:56 PM Author: tantric field lol, they knocked on the door when his stupid MiL was watching the kids, which means they were likely casing the place out. are you retarded?
anyways they saw all the cheap shit inside and decided it’s not worth robbing |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:00 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner yeah professional thieves usually leave an obvious trail of breadcrumbs to the places they rob. are you retarded? you're getting BTFO out here and grasping at straws. i don't have a dog whatever feud you two have, but no, i don't think it's likely he was casing the house. why tf would he even need to use a service to find houses? and why would he be posing a gardener that doesn't gain access to the house? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871816) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:02 PM Author: tantric field lol, these scumbags have no identity and police couldn’t find them if they tried. my buddy is a federal agent and got robbed of his personal Glock by some worker he hired to do drywall in they basement. he didn’t even bother filing a report because it’s useless (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871821) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:05 PM Author: concupiscible marketing idea gunner exactly stupid. don't you think that if someone was casing houses they'd be, you know, PRETENDING TO BE CONTRACTORS THAT NEED TO INSPECT THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE TO GIVE A QUOTE?! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871829) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:47 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut lmaooooo yeah retard the guy casing my house would provide his phone number, all his business shit, his license number, website, everything -- you're a fucking genius
the reason i didn't want him to swing by was because i wasn't home, not because he was gonna rob me or my MIL or anyone else |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:50 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut he's retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871791) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:50 PM Author: avocado passionate whorehouse ladyboy this is what children are for (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871790) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:47 PM Author: Exhilarant menage *stares at cellphone*
"grok can't do it" |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:52 PM Author: Jet-lagged Garrison Haunted Graveyard don't you live in socal? how much brush can you possibly have to not be able to just do it yourself? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871798) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:53 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut it's on a hillside (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871800) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:56 PM Author: Jet-lagged Garrison Haunted Graveyard lol so they're going to fall and injure themselves and then your boss is going to sue you and probably assign you to work the case to sue yourself? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871805) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:57 PM Author: tantric field lol, what a weak faggot you are. tell your wife to take an hour off of shaving her back and go do it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871808) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:05 PM Author: Jet-lagged Garrison Haunted Graveyard ur such a weird faggot. fuck off already. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871831) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:02 PM Author: tantric field why does your husband think $300 is a lot of money? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872009) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:47 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872109) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:51 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut sure thing cucky! you feel like a man on this forum? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872119) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:59 PM Author: splenetic library You could invest in a 2K robot that does this for you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871812) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:59 PM Author: Vibrant hyperventilating house Swing by home depot on a Saturday. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871813) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 10:29 PM Author: Up-to-no-good orchestra pit degenerate This is objectively TCR. In my city, there is a gas station where Mexicans looking for odd jobs hang out. In most cities, the Home Depot parking lot serves this purpose. In my experience, they will work hard and work cheap. Of course, my wife is an immigration lawyer that speaks Spanish, which probably helps. YMMV. But I would definitely try this over Yelp. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872619) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:02 PM Author: Sienna very tactful gaping prole taskrabbit is pretty good for a lot of stuff. idk how they even stay in business because the whole model is clearly for you to meet a person on their platform, pay them for one service with a service fee, and then take future deals off platform for cash (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871819) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:02 PM Author: Vibrant hyperventilating house I've gotten pretty decent with basic plumbing stuff because I can't get a plumber to show up for less than $750 (2 hour min) plus $200 / hour after that or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871820) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:48 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut same brother. i do pretty much everything myself. but $300 for two guys on a hillside to take care of it in two hours is worth it for me.
the issue ITT was never the $300, it was the quality i've been receiving from them lately. i was hoping somebody would do it cheaper in exchange for me hiring them to do regular maintenance as well. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:09 PM Author: disrespectful pungent mediation 200 wouldn't even cover gasoline ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871846) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 5:49 PM Author: magenta business firm travel guidebook lol then do it yourself you cheap whining kike prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48871976) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:02 PM Author: tantric field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872011) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:09 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872029) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:10 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler How do you constantly have "brush" that needs be cleared multiple times a year on a yearly basis? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872030) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:30 PM Author: Vibrant hyperventilating house Either: (1) OP lives in a strict HOA, or (2) OP, or OP's wife, is OCD. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:31 PM Author: Vibrant hyperventilating house Just read above that OP is in CA.
Removing brush regularly seems CR so you're less likley to get FIREPWNED. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:49 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut nah, city ordinance. i usually do it just once a year unless we're getting a lot of rain like we did last year or the year before. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872115) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:54 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler Why don't you just bushhog the shit yourself? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872128) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:54 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut i'm busy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872129) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:58 PM Author: Vibrant hyperventilating house Seems like a MCFR weekend project.
You can buy an electric wood chopper from Home Depot / Amazon for $200. Keep it in your garage. Given you're in SoCal, I can't imaging you have enough land for it to take more than a few hours. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut It takes two guys who do it for a living two hours to do it. My time is worth much, much more than doing this for 5ish hours on a weekend to save $300. I also cannot consolidate disposal of all of this brush like they can. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872142) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 8:11 PM Author: Vibrant hyperventilating house You fail to consider the headache of finding guys to do it, scheduling the time, etc.
It may still make sense for you to pay people.
But for me -- I'll gladly do physical labor for a few hours to avoid the headache of finding the guys, scheduling, etc. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 7:01 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler lol lazy muslim, color me shocked! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872143) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:21 PM Author: White point OP sucks imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872052) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:25 PM Author: tantric field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872057) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:31 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872066) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:50 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut not as much as TDNW's wife! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872117) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 6:49 PM Author: turquoise misunderstood school faggotry OP is a bitchmade faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872113) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Chrome sickened parlour skinny woman Just drive around your neighborhood and find some Mexican guys doing similar work on another house and go talk to them. Lol at using Yelp or whatever the fuck for this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872141) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 7:03 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut no shit buddy. the point of this thread was to show how absurd these quotes were, and that there are likely people who fall for this crap, not that i didn't recognize they were absurd nor that i couldn't find someone who could do it cheaper. dumbass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872149) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 8:22 PM Author: Pink Laughsome Church Please leave our country (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872339) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 8:53 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut It's not your country. You gave it to Jews. Sorry white boy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872398) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 8:47 PM Author: Jade Stimulating Giraffe Deer Antler These high quotes exist because you said you're too busy to do it yourself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872387) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 8:53 PM Author: Peach fragrant juggernaut No they exist because people are uninformed and there is basically a run on UMC professional disposable income in every facet of society
I'm too busy to do it myself but I have enough wherewithal to know it can be done for at least as low as $300 |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 10:30 PM Author: magenta business firm travel guidebook ur a cheap jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48872620) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:12 PM Author: self-absorbed milk home Do it yourself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714752&forum_id=2],#48873770) |