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Closing Table Etiquette: Safe ” and Taboo ” Topics

In-bounds or Out? Test your real estate (and social) IQ, and see if you know which subjects are in-bounds ” and out-of-bounds ” for home Buyers and Sellers to discuss at closing: A.  The home’s selling price. B.  Any walk-thru inspection issues. C. The Buyer’s plans to remodel ” or raze(!) ” the home post-closing. D....
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Closing Table Etiquette: Safe — and Taboo — Topics

Test your real estate (and social) IQ, and see if you know which subjects are in-bounds — and out-of-bounds — for home Buyers and Sellers to discuss at closing: A.  The home’s selling price. B.  Any walk-thru inspection issues. C. The Buyer’s plans to remodel — or raze(!) — the home post-closing. D. Who the Seller uses...
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Louis C.K.’s New Stand-up Special, “2017”

Mining Taboos (Abortion, Suicide, etc.) for Laughs. Really. Maybe Louis C.K. is saving incest, bestiality, and genocide for his next stand-up special. In this one, titled merely “2017” (it’s a riff on Christianity), he contents himself tackling such taboo subjects as abortion, suicide, beheading, transexuality, and latent homosexuality (if you hadn’t noticed, sex and sexuality loom large...
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