Thanks all for the advice. I'm not going to lie and I really don't want to be accusatory either. I just want to stop getting her e-mails and phone calls about properties that has no relevance to what we are looking for. It's like she just likes quantity over quality. She has taken us to view about 10 properties, and while we're there and we have seen enough ie not for us. She keeps pointing out oh that is nice or this is nice and most of the time we don't agree and just look at each other an roll our eyes. We've even said in a few instances that we don't think it is nice because of this or that. We went and looked at a property that needed to be torn down and rebuilt (an owner built house) that the rafters were spaced to far apart so the roof was wavy and the foundation had 1/4 inch to 1/2 slope in spots, and sheet rock was used on the outdoor porch ceilings and we are telling her that it is too much work to fix it and that we want to just do some cosmetics ie paint and light fixtures. OK ready to move on. No she goes on and on about how it is priced right and would it really be that much work etc. We told her Yes when you will be commuting 3 hrs a day that is the last thing you want to spend your weekend doing. Guess what the next house is that we see. Another one that needs a lot of work. The new realtor is great in that he weeds these out so even if the listing sounds interesting and the pictures look like we want to see it, he's already weeded out a couple that we wouldn't like. I think I will just use musicma's words.

Will a circuit toner signal be attenuated by a transformer? If so, would turning off the power and attaching the toner to the doorbell leads help locate the transformer? Before ripping into any drywall, why not check all accessible junction boxes first? Often (not always), the transformer is not given its own box and just attached to a box that is close to the door switch-bell line. That box should still be accessible and you should be able to tell the one that has the transformer by looking from inside the box. BTW, this is the exact reason that before drywall is installed, I take extensive pictures including closeups of any junction box. Each picture covers around a 4' x 10' section, with closeups being as close in as possible to have the junction box (and incoming wires) fill the field of view.

Mary, I, too, was generally pleased with Mockingbird. Why do you suppose the critics have been either lukewarm or noncommittal? Do you think it's because it is an unauthorized biography? Good grief, the dime-a-dozen bios of dead people get more attention. Perhaps because I love To Kill a Mockingbird so much, I have found every tidbit I've read about Lee fascinating and I always wanted more; but maybe not as many readers have been as taken with either TKAM or its author as I thought. I think I was less surprised that Nelle was a tomboy. I always equated Scout and her creator in my mind. Plus I had southern girl cousins who never fitted in the stereotype of the "starched penitentiary" of southern girlhood. Such an upbringing existed for some, no doubt, but I've always figured it was less common than the popular notion of it. An aside: I visited my Alabama kinfolk several summers, running from 1956 to 1966 (some summers they visited us in Iowa). About the only thing different I noticed between my female cousins and me -- besides our accents -- was they had to wear shoes outdoors (Iowa kids went barefoot), though I had to comply with the shoe-wearing, too, when I was in Alabama because of the hookworms and pinworms that people could pick up from the ground through the soles of their feet. I got in fistfights with my boy cousins right along with my brothers, but that was mainly when we were younger. Looking back, I am always amazed at how little real supervision we had: the grownups turned us out of the house as soon as we finished breakfast, and we didn't go back in except at lunch and supper time -- often we stayed outside at night, too. Perhaps because TKAM evokes such strong feelings of nostalgia in me, I am more enamored than I should be. Mary, I think a lot of the success of TKAM had to do with the timing of the Civil Rights situation. Many non-southerners home in on the racial hypocrisy -- sometimes at the exclusion of almost everything else in the book -- and say, "Uh-huh, just what I thought," because it validates what they think they know about the South and southerners. I imagine Lee's story of small-town southern life wouldn't have impressed northerners in the book business without the racial aspect -- and thank goodness Lee's editor was canny enough to realize something was needed for a wider audience. Southerners would have found Lee's book interesting without the controversy of racial inequalities, but they would've read it, even enjoyed it, and then they would've relegated it to the parlor bookcase to sit along side the little-read and forgotten novels of Stribling and other southern writers of his kind. Stars Fell on Alabama, Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, and of course Gone with the Wind, and maybe a couple of Faulkner's novels would have continued to be the most vociferously discussed southern books. Yeah, that was something: Lee's friends giving her a Christmas present of a "year off to...

There was a time in my life I would have loved this idea. Not so much now. I have my iPod available at all times although 99% of the time I'm listening to one of many audiobooks instead of music. I tuck it into the wide strap of my sports bra up close to my shoulder, and don't even have to use ear buds. I hear it just fine on a normal/low sound setting, with good sound quality. Mobile hands-free entertainment while I buzz around the house doing all those mindless tasks that seem to fill my days.