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To: fishweed who wrote (41399)	11/15/2000 2:31:40 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

When it comes to money, you definitely can't tell a book by its cover. We recently sold a car we inherited......actually newer and nicer than any of our present cars, but we didn't want it. Once we got a buyer to come see the car, I told my spouse to pull the car out in front of the house and not to let the buyer see the older cars we owned, for fear he would wonder why we were selling such a new car and think something was wrong with it. I also didn't want the buyer to see we had a three-car garage full of automobiles. Seems the buyer and his wife had their own strategies for negotiating a price on the car, however. They drove up in a real heap, and the whole time, the wife was protesting as to how she didn't want the car, while the husband agreed to buy it for "his" price, not "our" price. Having sold many things to many people over the years, this ploy was sort of transparent, of course. When they came a week later to pick up the car, they were driving a big, shiny, new SUV. We got a good chuckle out of that after they drove away. (I forgot to check county records for the property tax assessment on their house, which I sometimes do.)

To: fishweed who wrote (41399)	11/15/2000 2:50:44 PM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 57584

OT> Ah! But did the apartment complex have positive cashflow? It could be that she owned the aprartment complex for her sole support, but it did not meet her needs. But in order to qualify for welfare, she would have to sell the apartment complex, her car and anything else of value before she would qualify. And depending on where she lived, ["Welcome to California, now bend over"]. . .she might have been buried in property taxes. In the least, the friend should have felt good that he helped carry a fridge up 3 flights of stairs for a lady that could never have done so. This is why we are to "help those who ask" for our help, without putting them through rigorous qualifications first. Perhaps the most difficult job in the world is being a just judge. Rande Is