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    Tips for Building a New Home

    We just completed this year long process a few weeks ago. Our new home is a 1950 sq ft ranch with partially finished basement. It is in rural Iowa so there are a few extra costs being outside of a large metro. We ended up being around $190 sq ft. I did around 30% of the work myself. The bid...
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    DISHWASHER RECOMMENDATIONS

    Miele. Best dishwashers I have ever used. No scraping, can let food sit for a week and still comes clean. Worth the extra $$ not to have to wash your dishes first. Also recommend Miele's rinse aid, far superior to any others. All others seem to leave a film.
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    Used Cars- SUV edition

    Those X3 numbers surprise me. Put 100k on one in the last 30 months. Zero issues. Great vehicle, in a different world than the GMC Terrain I had before. Cost of ownership isn't really that high. If you bring it to the dealer for all service it is, but if you do it yourself or use an...
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    New Furnace/Air Conditioner

    I am not sure what brand he would be installing. Haven't gotten that far yet. Was just interested of anyone had done the math if it made sense to replace an old but functioning system. I know other utilities offer similar programs, just not as high of values. I believe Alliant only offers...
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    New Furnace/Air Conditioner

    Another question: Has anyone done calculations to see if it's financially beneficial to upgrade a currently operating system (17 years old) to a new system. New system would be AFUE 95 and SEER 16. With Mid Am rebates total cost would be about 3000. Mid am has had this rebate for a few...
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    Exterior Painter Reccomendations- Ankeny

    Give this an evening bump in case anyone that wasn't online earlier has any insight.
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    Exterior Painter Reccomendations- Ankeny

    Time has come to get the exterior of our 2 story house painted. Anyone have recomendations for painters in this area? Considering doing it ourselves, but want to get a few estimates to see if we will really save that much.
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    NEW DISHWASHER ADVICE

    Miele, you won't ever use a different brand after trying it. My observations have been that the quality of a dishwasher is very highly correlated to price. The base Miele model is far superior to the Bosch mid range models in my opinion.
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    Would you take $350 for one set of the 4 tickets for the ISU session?

    Would you take $350 for one set of the 4 tickets for the ISU session?
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    JTS Lights

    I am pretty sure it's to prevent any shadows on the field. Since when the lights are on at night they are aimed to have no shadows, by turning them on in the day they can wash out any shadows the light casts that may prevent visibility in the game.
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    G7 Directv Dish Settings

    HD Slimline from the house. I live in Madrid and had it tuned in here, so maybe just setting it up again now that I had it working will make it pretty easy. Thanks for insight though, I will use this settings as a place to start if I end up with trouble.
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    G7 Directv Dish Settings

    Thought I would give this a lil bump since I think it got buried under the game threads on the front page last night.
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    G7 Directv Dish Settings

    Just wondered if anyone could pass on the settings (altitude, azimuth) they use for Directv dishes with SWM setups in the tailgate lots. I tried on some earlier games this year, but wasn't able to get it to work and with all the 11 AM games we haven't tried again yet this season. I know you...
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    iowa farm sold for $21,900/acre?!?!

    On further thought another thing that may be at work here has to do with livestock. Many of the large farmers in the area this land was purchased are still fairly diversified. Many of their livestock operations may be large enough that they may not have eenough land to produce enough for feed...
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    iowa farm sold for $21,900/acre?!?!

    Excerpt from the 2011 Farmland Value Survey by Mike Duffy (ISU Economics) "Currently we are not seeing a substantial increase in the amount of debt being used to finance land purchases. The USDA forecasts national farm real estate debt will increase 2 percent in 2011 relative to 2010. Since...
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