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My bank is the same, no local branches. I've never needed to try this, but is it possible to go to any bank teller with a stack of 20s and just ask them to consolidate it? Money is money right?

Generally no, only at this bank:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2315

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Yvonne wrote:
He also have been accused of scratching cars with keys. Still I am sorry to hear of his injury.

Yes, our Mini Cooper got scratched by him a few years ago. Also on one of the really cold early mornings last winter, my wife found him sleeping in the entrance hall of our building. (She let him continue to sleep there as it was just too cold for anyone to be outside.) I remember talking to him on Barrow street in 2011 when we were surveying the condo unit, which we ended up in buying. He smashes liqueur bottles on the street to pieces--not sure how often he does this. Last year, I briefly saw him with a new jacket, and I thought he had moved to a different part of town.

Were the scratches XXX by any chance? I had this happen and have been thinking it was him ever since I asked him not to smash his wine jugs on the sidewalk.

The scratch on our Mini is about a 3 inch long straight line. We just put touch-up paint and moved on.

Ah, gee. How magnanimous of you.

The guy's pictured as comatose on a gurney and you are talking about your precious mini cooper.

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He also have been accused of scratching cars with keys. Still I am sorry to hear of his injury.

Yes, our Mini Cooper got scratched by him a few years ago. Also on one of the really cold early mornings last winter, my wife found him sleeping in the entrance hall of our building. (She let him continue to sleep there as it was just too cold for anyone to be outside.) I remember talking to him on Barrow street in 2011 when we were surveying the condo unit, which we ended up in buying. He smashes liqueur bottles on the street to pieces--not sure how often he does this. Last year, I briefly saw him with a new jacket, and I thought he had moved to a different part of town.

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Please. You're playing semantics. It doesn't come out of the buyers pocket. The seller cuts the checks at closing! How is that a shell game? You think a buyer will pay $50k less for not using an agent? The fees are determined by whatever the seller agrees to in the listing agreement. They will pay x% whether or not the buyer uses an agent or not.

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You are obviously in the game yourself and out to con people with the shell game you are playing.

If 6% of sale price goes to the brokers - who pays? THE MONEY COMES OUT OF THE BUYERS POCKET. PERIOD. Argue all you like about who's obligated to pay - it's no different to a sales tax.

Keep peddling your lies, then explain why you can get rebates of up to 60% in NJ? That's $12k back on $20k buyers agent fees. Realtors are going to be in the cross-hairs of the next round of consumer protection regulations. You guys are sharks raping the consumers - and your day of reckoning is due ;)

http://www.2percentusa.com/p_10929-Bu ... ors______list_from_2.html

http://www.thousandsbackatclosing.com/nj-home-buyer-rebate-faq/

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Buyers don't pay commissions to agents. Sellers do.

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And who pays the seller? The buyers realtor and sellers realtor split the commission. If you have no broker the seller's broker typically keeps the lot. With your own broker - you have an opportunity to claw some of that commission back.

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I'm a long time Uber/Lyft user and mostly satisfied... up until recently.

In the last several months, I've had an unusual number of drivers call shortly after they accept my ride to ask where I'm going. This is a BIG no no. It quickly became apparent that the only reason they were calling is that they wanted to go to Manhattan. Some were a little more devious and ask innocuous questions before asking "where to?" Others would just come out and say that they'll only go to Manhattan. Some would refuse to cancel and force me to cancel making it look like they did no wrong. Yes, there's been that many over the past few months.

I was tempted to tell them that I was going to midtown to get him to pick me up. But I don't really have time to waste if they refuse or worse, if they go Uber-ballistic on me.

I understand their dilemma, but they signed up for it.

I always report the drivers to Uber. I always get a credit and they always say they're doing their best to throw out these problem drivers. Since the problem seems to continue unabated, I wonder how much they're really doing. Anyone else have this problem?

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Wow, never realized so many people in JC were scarred from a storm. Who gives a shit what some bored blogger thinks. It looks cool compared to the shitty mess on the corner of columbus and coles.

Are you referring to "Big City Dreams" or the one on Dixon Deli?
Dreams is one of my fav DT.

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No one should pat themselves on the back for tipping even if there is a delivery fee- that fee has nothing to do with the driver. You're supposed to be tipping them anyways.

No, F that! I include the delivery fee in the rest of the tip on Seamless. Im going to need someone who ones a restaurant to explain this to me. Why would that fee go to anyone BUT the driver. Most places raise the price of each item and then they add a fee. It only take one or the other to pay for the Seamless fees. I also would like to point out that without Seamless, most of these shitty take out places would fold. A Delivery fee is not a Service fee.

You can be as outraged as you want at the concept of a delivery surcharge not going directly to the driver but that doesn't change the fact that it's still not a tip.

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No one should pat themselves on the back for tipping even if there is a delivery fee- that fee has nothing to do with the driver. You're supposed to be tipping them anyways.

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I feel like a lot of you keep talking like the business fail $ wise. Please read this article again, the only time it seemed that money was a factor was if they had to decided to hire a real chef to run the place while they were in Seattle. To me, it sounds like they were over it regardless. Byob or Liquor license doesn't matter. Restaurants are hard work and rarely have a big return unless its some big chain place.

Direct quotes from the EATER article:
But honestly, it wasn't really working out. It wasn't financially stable, or the type of thing where we could sustain our family life with our new daughter.

The day that everything started to go downhill was the day that we stopped being BYOB

That day was the beginning of the end for our restaurant. We never just really recovered. We lost customers because it was strictly BYOB.


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It was both a financial decision as much as a personal decision.

Ultimately, there was a point, perhaps, where Thirty Acres and Jersey City maybe weren?t seeing eye to eye.

It was great for me as a cook, but as an owner, and as someone who?s growing a family, it sucks.

Alex and I, it?s only us here ? no investors, all the money, or lack thereof, is ours


I don't know about you, but that sounds like it was very, very much about the financials and the lack of money they were bringing in, but I guess you see it differently.

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There's only been one moped in front of Sushi Tango for the past several months (not mine). The one that got the ticket was a block south of there, by Wayne Street.

And there are three reasons for not parking in the street:
1) They don't have any internal locks for the forks, so you basically have no choice but to chain it to "something".
2) At about 110 pounds, even the SLIGHTEST bump by a car would send it crashing. And they're small enough that an SUV driver wouldn't even see it through their rear window.
3) Parking Authority doesn't issue parking permits for mopeds, so technically we'd be at risk of a ticket if parked in the street for a period of longer than 2 hours.