The noise is about 9 secs to open or close then dead silence. Excellent point on induction motors. Where I live in PA, everything is frozen in time so an antique motor is a real possibility. People do a lot of "homemade" things here so that is another possibility. I know what a vehicle without resistor plugs sounds like. I ran a race car with no resistors in the plugs and remember what the AM radio sounded like. The crackling varied with the RPM of the engine. In this case, the interference would fade as the vehicle drove away which is not the case. This interference has the same amplitude, frequency and duration. It occurs in the early morning and then around 6PM without fail. On weekends it is more random.

I thought I had posted before to your questions, but I must not have pushed the right button to make it stick. To answer your questions none of these agents saw my home before they did their comps. Although at least one of them asked what we were looking at for price and was given an extensive list of our amenities. All Realtors here base their comps on the size of home, the number of bedrooms and baths, and lot size without regard for anything else you may have. They all come in with comps before they see your home. Thus the discrepancy in the scores. I did end up calling the ReMax agent today to let him know that he got the listing. I told him it wasn't a personality contest but a contest to see who would sell my home the fastest. I do not want to stay on the market for another two years... waiting for people to come through! I also told him that I picked him for his persistence. He called me every 6 months after we pulled our home off the market in 2009 without selling. We had listed our home in 2008 for 6 mos and then again in 2009 each for 6 mos. time with two different Realtors. Needless to say the first time it was overpriced...(my husband wasn't ready to move but was humoring me.. bc I wanted to move) but it probably would have sold if we had priced it correctly for the market. In 2009, we priced it where the Realtors told us but the market continued down and we were not going to keep pricing it lower to get rid of it. We were not in the position at the time where we HAD to sell. And in our area nothing in our price range was selling. Besides very few people came through both years bc of the market those two years. Both our agents at the time gave up on doing anything extra to sell our home after 3 mos. We had very few lookers (6 total) as noone was buying in that price range at the time. Unfortunately, this is NOT an entry level home. It has 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, and is approximately 3300 square feet not including a fully finished basement that runs completely below. In the meantime, we have added quite a few things to the home since then: All new Anderson tilt -in windows with Low E glass, new GAF roof tiles, a solar powered roof top system (it generates 60% of our electric power), installed a 14 KW whole house generator (for frequent power outages), remodeled the main bath, new neutral tone rug on stairs and in upper hallway, updated, LR (including updating the fireplace with stone over the brick) and DR, installed a gas fireplace insert in the den fireplace, removed trees in front (for solar system) and installed an underground sprinkler system. In the meantime we already had a lot of built-ins throughout the house including a master bath dressing area with custom built in dressers. Lots of builts-in in the den and in the basement, too. Because of all the upgrades ... especially the solar power system the Realtors all had a problem getting comps. My neighborhood is a hodge podge of different sized (some custom) homes. Ours was a custom home by a well-known builder in the area who now builds the top of the line homes in our area ($900,000 and up). We are not the largest or best home in our area, but we are up there. We decided to start selling at the mid 400s even though we are losing money from all our upgrades. Two of the Realtors placed us over the $500s and we started there the last time and said NO! We just want out to sell fast. There is no work to do on this house because we have already done it all. It is in mint condition. The problem they all had was to incorporate a solar home into their comps. They did not know how to do that. SO thanks for your input> I will keep you abreast of our progress. Right now we have trip out of town right after Easter and cannot put it on the MLS until we get back. We told the Realtor that he could show it if he wants while I am still home, but with 3 cats there is no way I would have it shown while I am out of town. We asked him to put up a sign to generate interest instead that says coming soon with his name on it to generate more interest. I told him if he has anyone he wanted to see the home before we leave town that would be ok.

I've still been wondering about this and decided to search for the terms and read them carefully. You can find the Member Agreement without going through the membership process. Here are a couple of things I found that will keep me from joining. "Nextdoor may offer similar accounts to businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. These accounts do not have access to neighborhood discussions or to messages between neighbor members. You can make choices about receiving messages from organizations at (link omitted). Nextdoor provides organizational members with some aggregated statistics about neighborhood activity and size." AKA unwanted advertising. "Preferences. By default, we subscribe you to messages both for your neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods. You can customize your neighborhood subscriptions at (link omitted)." What I don't like about this is that other neighborhoods will be subscribed to MY neighborhood, and after seeing the huge area assigned to my neighborhood, I can only imagine the number of people then subscribed. Might as well just put the whole town in and be done with it. "Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor (collectively, your “Content”). You give us permission, in the form of a nonexclusive worldwide license, to use, copy, and publish your Content as described in our privacy policy." So I own the rights to my photos but nextdoor.com can do anything they want with those photos, including publishing them as their own. No thanks. From the included Privacy Policy: "Verification as a Resident Of Your Neighborhood. Nextdoor requires members to verify their status as real-world residential neighbors.....by...(1) having a neighbor who already has a verified account....confirm your address, (2) (2) submitting your name and street address (and email address....and then providing us (or a third-party service provider directly) with additional authenticating information....such as a unique code....(or)....we may allow you to use a credit card number or the last four digits of your social security number. .... To help with verification, we may share or confirm your verification information with our service providers. ... We may retain your verification-related information for a reasonable period of time (further down it says 'as long as necessary') even if you do not complete all verification steps." "Facebook Connect. If you register for Nextdoor using your Facebook account, we automatically request your email address and publicly available information, including your account ID, name and gender as well as public information about your Facebook friends. If you revisit Nextdoor while logged into Facebook, we’ll automatically log you into your Nextdoor account. If you don’t register for Nextdoor using Facebook but later attempt to log into Nextdoor using your Facebook credentials, we’ll connect your Facebook and Nextdoor accounts and request the information from Facebook as if you were newly registering. ... If you register or log in via Facebook, we may give you the option to invite your Facebook friends to Nextdoor. Those friends will see some information about you along with your invitation." Great. So every friend, even those I really don't know, on my Facebook page will see my neighborhood if not my exact address. There is a lot about collecting information and sharing it with 3rd parties, their expanding corporate family, and even google. This maybe the scariest part of their privacy policy: "Export of Data (Non-U.S. Residents). By using the Services, you authorize Nextdoor to use your information in the United States and other countries where Nextdoor operates. Please be aware that the privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your personal information in some of these countries may not be equivalent to those in your country."

Carole, here is what we are all trying to show or explain. your photo shower the curb being constructed on TOP of the tile already installed. (i understand the photo of the wall where they were using a cleat to support drying tile, however that is normally not done either) the next photo shows you how a simple water proof liner wraps OVER the curb before mortar bed is poured or tile install. The curb should Absolutely not be built and tiles on top of finished tile. water will seep through. Right this second 2600 square feet of my own personal home is being completely torn out due to a "contractor" remodeling the showers before I purchased the home. They tiled and did not use a liner. The water over a years time slowly seeped through into the walls and wood flooring. to the tune $100k worth of damage and mold building inside the walls. Plus the fact each year I help design, order, and supervise approximately 180 bathroom remodels per year. We are a state licensed contractor who pulls permits. Did your contractor pull a permit on your bath? If so did the inspector come out before the curb, after the curb, etc? there should be a permit pulled when redoing a shower ALWAYS. Of course your contractor is defending himself and has done this for 30y. Which is completely fine. Honestly it looks like they forgot to build the curb and tried to go back and add it. What has happened over the past 30 years is codes and the way we build things has changed over time. see photos. Only trying to help, but if you are happy that's good. We are now saying "don't be surprised if there are future issues" I know you started seeking advice on grout, but we were all trying to do the right thing when we see something done wrong. That's all. Moving on to the next topics