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Wish us luck, court in 1 hour..............................darn renters!
 

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lol Sissy the judge told us we were too nice to the tenant, We won that is all that matters. This has been a six month process, the only reason we had to be down here. (we were the defendants) But now time to enjoy ourselves, it is over! We hop on a cruise boat for the virgin islands, need the stress relief.
 

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big question OK here goes in cutting wood 45 degree cut makes 4 sides or a box and 22 1/2 makes 8 sides and 15 makes ten sides or corners ,What makes 6 sides .I can't make my brain work today and figured maybe someone can remember there math .I seem to be a tad bit confused and really that is normal for me any ways
 

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here you go sissy:

30 degree angle for each piece.
360 / 6 = 60 60 / 2 = 30 for each of the two pieces
proof: we all know we cut 45's to make a square
360 / 4 = 90
90 / 2 = 45

Happy sawing!
a hexagon has six sides and six angles [picture a six sided circle} now a circle has 360 degrees so a hexagon breaks the 360 degrees into 6 angles of 60 degrees each [360 divided by 6 angles] so each angle is 60 degrees but the cuts on each end of the individual sides has to be half of 60 degrees to fit together to form a 60 degree angle. so cut each end at a 30 degree angle. draw a hexagon while reading this and it will be plain as day. same thing for any other shape simply divide 360 degrees by number of sides to get degrees of angles and then halve the angles to get the angle for each end cut. simple even for me and I almost failed math in high school!!!!!!
 

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I will try a 30 degree thanks addy .Still cannot figure out why I can't get 4 equal sides and have it sit flat .It is for the lighthouse .I tried cutting the angle and just sitting the flat but the bottom then is not flat .confusing thing
 

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lol can understand I fight angles a lot when doing trim work,
 

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hey drove me nuts but half way there .I have 2 projects going at the same time and hard to keep track any more again thanks addy you are a life saver .
 
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Why were you the defendants, Addy? If they were your renters, that seems wrong! I'm glad you "won" as you're right, that's all that matters in the end. Enjoy the Virgin Islands! Wow, that sounds wonderful. Happy cruising .....
 

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Yep I'm glad you won and enjoy your trip, relax and forget about that idiot woman renter!
 

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how did court go

Why were you the defendants, Addy? If they were your renters, that seems wrong! I'm glad you "won" as you're right, that's all that matters in the end. Enjoy the Virgin Islands! Wow, that sounds wonderful. Happy cruising .....

Like the judge said we were too nice to the tenant. 2010 she was broke we let her use some of the deposit for rent (2 months) sucked the deposit way down to 582.50.

She broke lease moved out 11/11 we kept the 582.50 for damages, cat urine stained carpet, broken bathroom sink, broken kitchen tiles. Not going after her for anything else. She filed suit against us saying we had 4790.99 of her money in a escrow account and security deposit (we never had that amount) So to protect ourselves we filed a counter. She hired a lawyer, paid filing fees, and now has to pay us. If she had just left like we told her to she would be money ahead.

My first time ever in court, nothing like the tv court shows, a lot calmer lol. No audience. Poor honey could not say a word since the lease was in my name, condo in my name, he had to sit and be quiet lol, it was hard on him.

The unknown had me way nervous, I didn't care if we won money, most likely will never see it, but if we had to cut her a check I would have been po'd. This has been a 6 month work in progress, now finally done. The court is coming stress is now over, and she can not refile against us except for some totally different issue.

We hop on a cruise boat on saturday, head out for 8 days of no phones, no puter, no court, no crazy renters lol. If you see a hurricane over that way we will be in it ! lol But the boats will go and circle in the ocean far from the storm then get in the mess, so it is pretty safe to be on one. I have never been to the virgin islands, us and british, so a first for me. They don't have good diving on any of the islands, we most likely will do some snorkeling. We usually dive, they must not have good reefs there.
 
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My ex was a builder, specifically log houses. He had a client (I knew her from when I worked in attorney office) who wanted different log siding than he carried, so he got it for her, showed her a piece first, was sure not what she wanted, but she insisted it would be fine. After he got 75% of it on, she said stop, don't like it! Then week later, chased him from the job and filed lawsuit. Said siding was not uniform (that's why he didn't think she would like it!!!), subflooring under vinyl not up to code (he hadn't even started to put it down!), window leaking (it was open), etc. We had to pay her $3,000, but we got all the siding, and someone else took it off! So, pretty sure we won that battle, too, since the siding was well over $10,000. She had attorney, we paid ours less than $1,000. I have a feeling her attorney bill was over $5,000 (she actually hired 2 before she fired second one and settled). She knew she was beat soon as we entered the courtroom. Yep, being IN court is way different than watching. And, it helped that I knew more than most about the legal system. Only been gone after one other time, surgeon, higher than high bill, waited until the last minute, then HIS attorney came to me asking what we would settle for. We told him 1/3 of what he still said we owed. Settled. LOL Felt like we won that one, too!!!
 

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