Hi John. We have access to good citrus too BUT, you have to be willing to pay good money for them. For instance, I had never seen cocktail grapefruits locally. I found them at a Wegmans about 40 minutes from my house. We have a closer Wegmans, they just don't carry them. Last year or the year before, they were selling one of my top favorite citrus fruits, Minneola Tangelo. They were 4/$5! Yes, the fruits looked really nice bur cmon! Was the peel dipped in 14k GOLD! The cocktail grapefruits were the same, and the large navel oranges(also a top fav of mine) were $1 each and they were in SEASON!! I also got hooked on Meyer lemons. I could drink Meyer lemonade year round but here in western NY, they also sell for a premium. I was buying bags of them for $5 and there was maybe 5 or 6 small to medium fruits per bag. I forgot to mention they were organic, so this must have also jacked up the price. John I think growing your one citrus is the way to go. I now have 5 lemon trees(3 Meyer lemon, 1 each of Pink variegated and Ponderosa), an Oro Blanco and a Star Ruby, and a Kishu Mandarin that probably won't make it. I am hoping I can replace it this year! Lastly, is the new Tango mandarin I just bought a couple weeks ago. I have extremely high hopes for this tree, considering it is 3 1/2ft tall all ready, I should have fruits by next spring :) Andrew

Thanks for the advice. Cool, I have wondered why they bother but I guess it is just advertising Ang I agree with your father. I have seen those ads and you see in small prints that a FICO of over 750 is often needed. One time a credit union worked better, another time it was the dealership. I do think things have changed with financing as I posted above, now they do get a cut so they want you to finance with them but I agree that except in advertised offers, they will try to steer you higher if they can and pocket the difference unless you show them a better offer. However that is on the interest rate, not the price of the car. My needs are very specific such that at any point I can only buy one or two cars that are out there so if there is an incentive great, otherwise the last time my lease was up and I needed that car and nothing else was as good an option. Luann, I totally believe you got a good deal I have never traded in before. On my last car I could not buy 2 year old because the model with 8 seats was not available until 2004 when I bought my car (I have 5 children actually back then it was 3 plus 2 on the way!). The model I am considering also was not available as currently equiped before this year. When I buy a car I go to the various web sites, including any enthusiast web sites such as Sienna Club. Org. They usually have an area where people brag about their best deal and I will usually try to match it. I will pay one visit to a dealership I do not plan to buy at usually the full service high pressure one so I can test drive and see the car and find out which options are definitely available (sometimes they are listed but are not regionally available, avoids the cannot get it nonsense that salesment pull). Then I will go to the various dealer websites within 50 miles. If they give you access to inventory I will check out their inventory. At this point based on the MSRP listed I can tell which cars have the packages I want in their inventory. The reality is if they have 4 blue minivans with leather and only one with cloth you can probably get a better deal percentage wise on the one with leather (assuming you want that). I will then contact whatever dealerships have a decent amount of inventory or are known for discounting. Then I will pay a visit to various dealerships in the area to see what I can get in person from the ones with lots of inventory of the specific car, package and color I want or that I know from experience really will discount. If it all possible I will deal with the guy in the booth rather than the salesperson. I always take the wholesale cost breakdown with me, knowing it is not the true invoice because there is usually a holdback of 2% of the base price Also I have noticed that Edmunds TMV price should be ignored. It is usually higher than what I have paid One thing about the inventory, sometimes things are listed but are not for sale, owners wife is driving it and it will be a demo in a month. So just because the gray is listed, it might not be there when you get there

I thought we had bedbugs about five years ago. It was during the summer, and at first I thought the bites on my skin were from mosquitos. But then I realized they were all under my clothes. And they itched even more than mosquito bites. They were wildly itchy. It was really intense. And they kept coming. I heard around the same time about outbreaks of bedbugs in NYC, and thought I must have been infested. But I hadn't been traveling. I called our state university extension office for advice, and the agent asked if I lived in an old house (yes) and if we'd ever had bats. I told him we used to have a large colony of bats, but they'd left a year or so earlier. He said we most likely had batbugs. Batbugs look a lot like bedbugs, he said, but they live off bats. After the bats left they eventually went looking for another source of food: me! He said they were coming down from the attic at night into my bedroom. This was very easy for them to do because my ceiling is the attic floor, with nothing over or under it. On his advice, I set off insecticide bombs in the attic. That took care of the problem, thank heavens. Boy, did those bites itch! I can barely write about it without scratching . . .

"I think they are bargaining in bad faith. If they are treating all the sellers like this, imagine what a joy they will be going through to closing. If I were their realtor, I would not present more than one offer at a time." Isn't an agent obligated to submit an offer? I'd be pretty P.O.'ed if I were the seller and found out you refused to submit my offer. "As far as attorney review goes, yes, there is a three day "cooling off" period in NJ, but you still have to get your attorney to write a formal letter rescinding the offer. The buyer can't be the one to call off the deal." You can't write your own letter? Why not? I find this hard to believe. Either way the buyer is the one calling off the deal - the lawyer would just be writing a letter at their client's instruction It sounds like they are just trying to sniff out a desperate seller. So what? It's a pretty transparent tactic. I don't think they are really being that sneaky about it. I would be a little extra wary of them becasue it seems a little amateurish and I might be afraid that they would have unrealistic expectations concerning condition or their ablility to get financing. I would demand a quick close in case they flake.