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Not for sale.. ever!
Apparently in many developing world cities with shaky property records it's known for fraudsters to make fake real estate deals using buildings they don't own, to the point that in Google Street View it's common to see "this property is not for sale" or similar painted on house walls near the entrance. I've never seen it on a building this large though!
Once I asked google to remove my house from street view and it turned from a normal house to a blur, a bunch of shitty web scrapers thought it was recently renovated, so they started sending me ads for insurance to cover "my new upgrades"
I'm from Colombia, and can confirm, it is somewhat commons pecially in big properties with lots of grass but without buildings.
I'm tired of fucking calls asking if my property is for sale! I fucking live here and it's not on the market.
I rent an old townhouse and I constantly get letters asking me if I’m willing to sell for “all cash”. I always laugh at the idea of going along with it and taking the money
Or when they send non-stop letters saying, "I'll buy your house in any condition." I'm like, fuck you, I take good care of my house.
Do you want to sell your house?
◻ Yes
◻ Ask me again later
Trapped in a Fallout4 quest line.
I sold my house in Oklahoma over a year ago and moved to California. I still get phone calls or texts almost daily asking if I would like to hear about an offer on my home. Or would I be willing to take a cash offer.
I tell them every time, you guys need to update your records.
I always say yes, $10million
One hundred million dollars.
Yes!
I have considered putting a banner like this on my old manual compact. I get post-it notes and flyers asking me to sell every other month.
Yeah the window seals are going moss, but I'll convert that thing to EV before selling, and I'm seriously considering conversion.
Manual transmission EV would be nice...
manual transmission EV
For what reason? Almost all EVs only have a single gear. The high performance ones will have two as most and that’s well into the triple digit mph. Reverse doesn’t require seperate gearing either.
Because it would be cool. There's not much functional reason. But having a gears and a clutch will also go a long way towards preventing people from stealing your car, and it's 100% effective on preventing people from asking to borrow it. For maximum japes you could possibly rig your motor controller's firmware such that it can simulate stalling, too.
From a semi-practical standpoint there may be something to be said for parking any old electric motor you can find in what used to be the engine bay and just hooking it up to the input shaft on the transmission so you can keep all of your existing differentials and axles and so forth, which may be handy on converting a (possibly compact) vehicle that won't have a ready made aftermarket conversion and without having to spend ages faffing around trying to kit-bash new axle mounts into it or find and weld new places to hang motors behind the wheels or between the axles.
I hate automatics. The fact all EVs are automatic puts me off of them.
Most EVs aren't automatic, but rather they literally don't have a transmission. They don't have gears to switch between.
Why is that? It’s not an efficiency thing, EVs are far more efficient than and manual will ever be. It’s not a shift thing, humans haven’t been able to outshift automatics for quite a while and EVs don’t have gears. The only think I ever hear is a flimsy “soul” thing, which frankly EVs give power to masses more than any Mustang GT could. Hell, Hyundai started putting in fake “gear shifts” into their EVs for people who wanted that.
To be honest I had not explored the possibility a great deal on how the transmission would matter in conversion. I know a few companies had explored simulated gearboxes and transmissions for their vehicles, and that was about as deep as my understanding was.
I assumed the transmission and gearbox had utility in EV but it does appear less important. Most conversions from what I saw essentially lock the vehicle in a gear.
Still I feel like there'd be energy to save utilizing those components, but the benefit seems outweighed by the effort. I am no EV expert after all.
Yeah the nice thing about EV motors, they can vary their power output hundreds of times per second so they don’t need a transmission as it can basically do everything a transmission can right from the motor. Some cars even put the motor in the wheel so you don’t need a drive axle. Overall the mechanical complexity of EVs are greatly reduced.
For an EV conversion it makes sense that you’d lock things to a single gear as you wouldn’t want to stress out the transmission from sudden power variances.
It looks like the city could condemn it.
Believe me, there's nothing unusual about this building in the Philippines. You can easily find far worse-looking places that the city won't touch.
Damn now I kinda wanna buy it...
Fuckers are playing chess here trying to inflate their price
I would have never even thought of wanting to buy it before, but now that they tell me I can't, it's all I want to do. C'mon, how much? Everybody has a price. C'MON, TELL ME!
So you have chosen death
