What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[ultrarunner]

In our old neighborhood we had 2 identical house developments.
The assessors sent 2 different people for each.
In one the house assessments (our development) came out much higher.

When I fought the tax, the town tax guy told me it was stupid, he was forced to use that assessment company and yes, they messed up and nothing they can/would do.

I won the case and my property tax went down about $600/year.

So many people won, they changed the rules that the difference in "valuations" would have to be above $150,000 dollars or the challenge would be thrown out.

If you can't win, change the rules

Our taxes in NJ were going up close to $1000/year, one of the many reasons we moved to PA, where our taxes have gone up about $500 in 6 years, even went down one year.

There are no standard rules on assessments, my Major pet peeve.

Here so many were appealing they nipped that by charging a filing fee to appeal...

Plus by statute board has 2 years from filing to hear the case and another 6 months to make a determination...

I have never lost but it takes time and drags on and on...

 

[ultrarunner]

Maybe not exactly a pet peeve but it does peeve me getting official notices…

This week receive official notice to move car over water meter or utility will have car towed.

I immediately write back asking how soon can they tow the car and profusely thanking them as I have been trying to have this abandoned no plate car towed from in front of the rental house for 6 months even asking mayor and city manager for help but always being told low priority.

Water company writes back and says they actually don’t tow cars and I should report it.

I write back saying reported many times and your official notice said you guys would tow which I thank you for.

Just another over reach I called them on…

 

[jjeff]

No trying to be a blowhard nonn humble or whatever when I lived in a metro area gave a "friend" one of my old beaters (it was only worth a few hundred if I sold it in a dark alley unwashed) lol after giving it to him car was impounded and I kept getting all the impound and parking tickets cause he never registered or changed over the title. So it made my list of pet peeves if someones going to give you something to help you out don't be a "blue falcon" to them.

 

[MoKelly]

Soldering or using butt splice crimp style connectors making a perfect joint only to forget to put the heat shrink tubing on the wire. Could be in stupid things ive done thread also.

You could put electric tape around the connections. It’s what a friend did.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Soldering or using butt splice crimp style connectors making a perfect joint only to forget to put the heat shrink tubing on the wire. Could be in stupid things ive done thread also.

That's when Liquid Electrical Tape comes in handy.

 

[steve tym]

We hand wrap a lot of splices. Butt connector, self molding rubber tape, electrical tape, 3M scotchcote. We put these splices down 1,000' under water, that's over 400 psi.

 

[jjeff]

We hand wrap a lot of splices. Butt connector, self molding rubber tape, electrical tape, 3M scotchcote. We put these splices down 1,000' under water, that's over 400 psi.

What's the shelf life of scotchcote? Used liquid electrical tape before works good but seems to dry out in the container and is unusable when I need it.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Used liquid electrical tape before works good but seems to dry out in the container and is unusable when I need it.

Add some MEK into it. That'll perk it right back up.

 

[steve tym]

I don't know the shelve life of scotchcote, don't think we've ever thrown any away because it was old.

 

[jjeff]

I don't know the shelve life of scotchcote, don't think we've ever thrown any away because it was old.

Apologize for the drift but a Couple questions about scotchcote. How does it handle higher vibration and movement of wiring. Liquid electrical tape doesn't work or hold up well In my experience using it, Hence my use of decent quality heat shrink even if i get ahead of my work i just redo it. Also its 50+ bucks for less than a pint. Anyways never heard of scotchkote til this thread so thanks .