Rick, Just prior to your placing an order with us for the cages, our stock was depleted by multiple large orders. Normally, the cages take one day to ship from the APOGEE warehouse in Dallas to our location. We offered to immediately credit back your account or optionally to ship your order when the Apogee terrarium cages arrived (usually one day from Dallas) I am personally looking into why the cages took one week to get in and why Cecilia misinformed you about the expected date of arrival. It was probably due to the fact that when we placed our last order with Apogee they were out of stock and we had to wait until their CHINA order arrived. We are looking into manufacturing our own line of Apogee like cages with parasite proof netting. WE apologize for any inconvenience. We would be more than happy to send you a FREE LH38 cage for all your trouble. Please contact Cecilia or April on Tuesday as we are closed for the Columbus day holiday. We look forward to sending you a free Apogee reptarrium. The large pop-up Butterfly breeding cages are imported from China and we have several thousand in stock. Today we have them on sale!!!!!! By the way, if one complaint goes unanswered, a company will receive an arbitrary F rating by the BBB. Our rating is now A with the BBB. I sincerely appreciate your understanding in this matter. Our aim is to please all of our customers. Cecilia has been reprimanded and I personally do not think she will be with the company much longer. Kind regards, Janice EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE / Texagen Life Science Online Life Science, Biotechnology, Nature, and Butterfly Store Customer / Technical Support Phone: 281\-554\-9783 (EAST) 760\-203\-1100 (WEST) Fax: 281\-557\-4340 Email: www.educationalscience.com URLS: www.educationalscience.com www.butterflystores.com www.milkweedplants.com www.texagenLS.com Thank you for selecting Educational Science ~~~~Better Business Bureau Start With Trust Serving Greater Houston and South Texas BBB Business Review Reliability Report for Biogentex Laboratories, Inc. Rating: A Ratings Explanation... BBB issues Reliability Reports on all businesses, whether or not they are BBB accredited. If a business is a BBB Accredited Business, it is stated in this report. Find out more about this business: BBB Accreditation BBB Rating Business Contact & Profile Products & Services Business Management Additional Locations & Phone Numbers Customer Complaint History Government Action(s) Advertising Review BBB Copyright and Reporting Policy BBB Accreditation Back to Top This business is not a BBB Accredited Business. BBB Rating Back to Top Based on BBB files, this business has a BBB Rating of A on a scale from A+ to F. Click here for an explanation of BBB Ratings. Business Contact & Profile Back to Top Business Name: Biogentex Laboratories, Inc. Educational Science Business Address: 610 Clear Creek Avenue, Suite C League City, TX 77573 See the location on a Mapquest Map See the location on a Google Map Original Business Start Date: 12/31/1993 Local Business Start Date: 12/31/1993 Type of Entity: Corporation Incorporated: 1995 in TX Principals: James C. Wiggins, President/CEO Janice Rogers, Administrative Assistant Phone Number: (281) 554\-9783 (281) 334\-2064 Fax Number: (281) 557\-4340 Email Address: jcw\_edusci@msn.com BBB Accreditation: This business is not a BBB Accredited Business Type of Business: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS Website Address: http://www.educationalscience.com http://www.butterflystores.com http://www.texagenLS.com http://www.ealestra.com Products & Services Back to Top This company specializes in Molecular & Cell Biology Reagents & Kits, Biotech & Life Science Kits & Equipment & Biotech Education Kits & Equipment. Business Management Back to Top Ms. Janice Rogers , Administrative Assistant Mr. James C. Wiggins , President/CEO Additional Locations & Phone Numbers Back to Top 1629 Corniche Street League City , TX 77573 See the location on a Mapquest Map See the location on a Google Map P O Box 747 League City , TX 77574 See the location on a Mapquest Map See the location on a Google Map (281) 554\-9783 (760) 203\-1100 (800) 832\-3596 (281) 557\-4340 \- Fax

I LOVE google maps. I use them almost daily (currently looking for a non-HOA neighborhood to move to). You birds-eye-view is very pretty. Love the trees but can't really see the garden much. My garden wouldn't show up at all on Googlemaps since it is tucked around the edges of my small yard. Like you though I have a south facing yard so I've got that going for me. Also the Gmaps for my neighborhood looks about 2 years old. Denise

Using the car in the driveway next door as a measure, it looks like the frontage is slightly less than two car lengths. An excellent experiment -- it clearly proves what we all suspected; that front line may be mistakenly labeled as 85'. Yes to the idea of a professional survey ... but not before I've made a preliminary decision about whether we are really interested in the property. we have found that being friendly with the neighbors trumps 2 square feet of property. Yeah, I'm definitely inclined that way. IF this comes to pass, I'll definitely address things in a civil manner. I'm not "that neighbor". The most important question is what is the buildable envelope for a house in the mid-section area of the property, outside the flood plain line? The location of the two adjacent houses suggests a significant front yard setback line. Setbacks: So the envelope is something like this -- again, this is without any help from a pro, just having "walked it" once and internet-snooped it over the weekend. The front setback does seem quite large to me, but it suits this piece of property since the front is sloped (the high point being marked with the star ... whereas the middle portion is nice and flat, perfect for building. Please check my math! I received the flood plain information from the listing agent this morning in my email, and it isn't an issue: Apparently the land continues to slope downward towards the lots on the other side of the creek, so they're the ones who must deal with flood issues -- the 40 feet required at the back of the lot seems to be enough for safety ... regardless, the house we're going to build won't come close to that point. We're looking at a house roughly 40-ish feet deep, so we could have 100' or more between us and the creek. I'm thinking the house itself will fit easily; a monster like the 4000 sf house next door would be a challenge. I'm thinking that the driveway is the most challenging part of the project. I'm anticipating it'd be set where I placed the arrow. Such a large growth of trees, however, also means filtered sunlight at best, and a challenge for the growth of exterior landscaping and for useful interior natural light. I think the mature trees are one of the best features of the property. Some would have to go, of course, but it would remain a heavily shaded property, and that would affect landscaping choices. I would definitely look elsewhere. You are not desperate, are you? No, nowhere near desperate. I would also like to see the plats, and possible speak to the (Hoa? city?) about the neighbors encroachment before I was sold on it. No HOA to speak to, not in a city. I am going to call the developer -- I don't know how much good that'll do, but I have a few other Qs for him anyway. The neighbor with the long driveway has her house for sale, so not much point in getting chummy with her. The one advantage of a pie shaped lot is more privacy out back. Yes, and with the trees and slope in front, this would be quite a private spot. Remember, like any real estate the cardinal rules are location, location, location and that grows even more important as we age, Really, really think hard about location for a retirement home. Proximity to services, for seniors. medical, your church if that is important to youmany, groceries and shopping. I'm from this area, so I know the services well -- no shortage of shopping, churches, etc. What we don't have is fast food and chain restaurants; yeah, we're a quirky place. I'm not unusual in that my family has lived in this area since before the Revolutionary War, and this county has the highest savings per capita of any county in NC -- but you wouldn't know it to look at us. But I digress ... as for medical, a new emergency room satellite has just been built 10 minutes down the road. We have a small hospital (which I don't like) 20 minutes to the east, a regional medical center 30 minutes to the north, and the biggest hospital in the state (where my daughter is a nurse) an hour to the west. Excellent services for the elderly, which my grandmother used: home health, Meals on Wheels, two senior centers, transportation for the disabled. No, I think the real estate agent hit the nail on the head when she said that this neighborhood is beyond the point that "the city folks" consider an acceptable commute, and that's why they aren't buying. The town to the west (the one to which "city folk" are attracted because it's literally the first spot over the county line) is experiencing an absolute onslaught of quick-houses-on .2 acre lots, and they're selling like hotcakes. This neighborhood is "between towns", kind of in no-man's land ... but it's on the major thoroughfare that connects the big city and a medium-sized town. I wouldn't like to be on the front edge of the neighborhood /on a four-land highway, but this lot is literally at the very back of the neighborhood. I also think some of the neighborhood covenants are unappealing to the local folks: No livestock, for example; that knocks out all the people who are devoted to 4H and want their kids to raise chickens or a goat. No trailers knocks out a bunch of people too. This would increase our commute to about 30 minutes, and it'd mean my husband couldn't come home for lunch anymore (he would definitely miss that); however, if we could own the land this afternoon and moved fast on scheduling a builder, we wouldn't be able to move in for a year ... and we don't want to move until our youngest finishes at the community college and goes on to university. And that puts us at retirement -- we will be retiring young; it's possible that we'd make this commute for a year. Being properly placed for retirement outweighs a short-term commute increase. I appreciate that y'all're making me think of topics I should consider. At this point, I'd say I'm interested enough to pursue more information -- and I think the driveway is the biggest issue of concern.

There are companies that provide digital map data - Navteq is one - but Google may do it themselves. No matter. I think you need to do a search for map support, you're probably limited to the means they disclose. I don't think there are other alternatives. I forgot - for one off visitors, you can also pin your location and then "share" it with them, using the visitor's email address. Digital maps always contain errors and idiosyncrasies. A comparative example - my house is in a gated community for which there's a daytime open front entrance and two always closed back entrances. Depending on the direction I'm coming from, often the easiest access for me is through one of the closed back entrances that operate with a garage door-type RF signal sent by a device or a programmed car button. But not always. The built in Nav system in my not inexpensive German brand car will not take me through the closer open entrance when that's the better choice. Instead, it suggests I drive around to what's the back side of the neighborhood to go through the gate that's closed to the public but that I can open. By contrast, when using Google Maps via Android Auto (same as Apple Car Play) in a different car, when coming from a direction that a back gate is the better choice, it insists I go out of my way to go to the open to the public front entrance. Two different systems, two idiosyncrasies with diametrically opposed consequences. One says one thing, one says the opposite. Once, when visiting the Champagne region of France, when innocently following my Garmin's directions to a center of town location from outside of town and not paying close attention, I realized as the road got unexpectedly narrow that it was routing me along a dirt road through vineyards. It was the shortest route to my destination! Needless to say, I turned around and went far enough in a different direction so that a more suitable route was suggested. Good luck to you, mtv.