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anne_hollydaye t1_j6ek3up wrote

We use A.J.Michaels for everything now. I couldn't get Saffer or Michael and Sons to call me back when we had a leak in my bathroom pipes or when my boiler was red tagged by BGE Home.

Don't call BGE Home, btw. They're awful.

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YouAreADadJoke t1_j6ejvck wrote

> Yet, they have had an easier time of getting bill paying jobs, and have gained a foot hold home owning and many middle class life styles.

What makes you think this?

So your opinion is that they would be more successful without the cultural/behavioral/genetic factors that cause the dysfunction?

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S-Kunst t1_j6efzs4 wrote

No. I now work in an industrial manufacturing company, in the county, with mostly white working class men. Most of them live dysfunctional lives and have the same bad habits as the media often place on poor blacks. Mostly its having children they can't afford and having bad relationships with the family. Yet, they have had an easier time of getting bill paying jobs, and have gained a foot hold home owning and many middle class life styles. Yet they are angry, bitter and very short tempered people. The older ones have much to show for their hard work, but the young ones step into bad habits, the same as their parents.

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S-Kunst t1_j6ecyzn wrote

I have had good experiences with Forster Plumbing Co, Harford Rd. They installed all the plumbing in my row house restoration and at a later date, replaced the cast iron soil pipe, which ran across a wall of my back building, then to the street. I had it buried under the basement floor. I also hired them to do some work at my church, which was done swiftly. All the work was done at a reasonable cost.

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Strategery_Man t1_j6e99ef wrote

The home needs to be inspected by an independent/licensed inspector or tradesman. When I flipped a home, BGE wanted a licensed electrician to sign off on the work and provide their license number and any permits pulled. Then, BGE will come out and check the work. The work needs to be inspected by BGE before they will let the juice flow.

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