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Real Estate Development. Ski Water & Snow. 1+1=3. X Dev

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Eric Towner
7 months
A couple of worthless idiots stole my truck tonight with my wallet in it. The lag in the ford app made it impossible to find them real time. They decided to buy a tv with my Amex at Walmart, I received a notification from Amex instantly. Against dispatches advice to not pursue
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7 months
After they walked out of Walmart, they split up and I followed the truck. My buddy followed tv guy in his Uber. Police tried to pull over the Uber, tv guy bailed and ran away from cop but he recovered the abandoned tv and with my photo was able to identify the guy and is getting…
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Eric Towner
7 months
Their third purchase $9.62 for a monster and some snickers was one too many. Gotta learn some restraint
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Eric Towner
7 months
@TheBizDad Sorry but fear is a massive motivator.
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Eric Towner
1 year
19 years ago today, I woke up at 5am and went to work. I worked connecting main line irrigation pipe for a site contractor who became one of my mentors. I needed to finish the job before my wedding later that day so that we could leave town for our honeymoon. I finished the job…
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Eric Towner
7 months
@jarrell_jeb They call it a soup kitchen
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Eric Towner
1 year
Something that doesnt show up in a GC bid. Cooperative mindset to work with Tenant’s GC and help tenant GC start tenant’s improvements prior 2 substantial completion of shell. If done right tenant will open to public & commence rent within about a week of shell completion #retwit
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Eric Towner
7 months
@ElrondGold Cops let ‘em run away 🤷‍♂️ they have positive ID and home address but still don’t have warrant to bust their door. Society has gone soft on property crimes
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Eric Towner
11 months
Tenant: why is the concrete slab missing? Me: because your GC will cut janky lines all over my perfect slab to install ur plumbing and then he’ll hire a 95 pound meth head with no teeth to try to patch concrete & I won’t be able to sleep that night wondering if that meth head…
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Eric Towner
7 months
@MendySchech It’s all good! There was no way me and my buddies that coach with me were going to let them get away. It’s shocking how hard cop’s jobs are and how easy it is for tweakers to steal in this world
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Eric Towner
7 months
@brim006 I think those are his Halloween lights
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Eric Towner
7 months
@irentdumpsters Utah. I’ve lived here 26 years in the same city. Never had a problem, til last night
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Eric Towner
7 months
@WilDublin His buddy took my truck and ditched it in a neighborhood. This guy tried to stuff that tv into an Uber
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Eric Towner
1 year
Construction is wild right now! Pandemic related restrictions destroyed 30 years of material flow processes. Almost overnight, standard processes for construction were demolished. Wood became more expensive than steel. Electrical components disappeared. We tried materials we’ve…
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Eric Towner
1 year
I get asked a lot… is golfing a necessary skill for Real Estate? Well, it’s not necessary but where else do I get 4 hours with an attorney & banker off the clock? If it’s not golf, ya gotta find something outside of the office to do to form relationships. #RETwit
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Eric Towner
2 years
@xankarn @ambermruffin Have your 12 year old read this
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Eric Towner
7 months
@SteinerStudent One the the criminals and his Uber driver 🤪 my buddy followed him while I tracked down the other guy that led me to my truck
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Eric Towner
7 months
@iBobbyShell @MilwaukeeTool 🤣 dude still has the sticker on his hat. He made 3 purchases from the same Walmart all about 7 minutes apart. #dontdodrugs
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Eric Towner
1 year
Installing sleeves all over your property before concrete and asphalt is absolute must. A lot of engineers forget to add sleeving plan & too many Developers aren’t hands on enough. Sleeving is easy, saves a ton of time and $ in the future. Landscaper and Comcast will thank you…
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Eric Towner
1 year
My favorite post of the year so far 👏 I don’t understand why most people in this pursuit can’t do both. My kids love being involved with my work and I love mixing in work concepts to other aspects of their life. #CRE #RETwit
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Robert Sterling
1 year
Hot take: Your kids don’t need parents with $50M. They need love, sustenance, and basic levels of opportunity. Past that, though, what they need—and what they truly value—is your time and attention. If you can create generational wealth while spending actually time with your…
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Eric Towner
11 months
Hallelujah!!! IFYKYK #CRE #RETwit
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Eric Towner
7 months
If you’re in commercial real estate and don’t have time to coach your kids, you’re doing it wrong #retwit
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Eric Towner
4 years
@mcuban My guess is you wouldn’t have done all that newspaper hustling if you would have had to pay 40% in taxes
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Eric Towner
3 years
@SharikaSoal84 Makes me sick. Congrats journalists everywhere for not vetting the pedo 4 pres
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Eric Towner
1 year
@maxfisherRE Alcohol subsidizes a lot of the cool buildings and entertainment we have. We are proving that there are other ways to capture that revenue and still have nice things. It took over 4 years but we brought Topgolf to the Provo market this year, they sell a lot of Diet Coke!
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Eric Towner
10 months
If you own commercial real estate, and your teenage kids are not the hardest workers in your hood… you’re doing it wrong #CRE #RETwit
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Eric Towner
4 years
@Millstonefarm @SenatorTimScott Same without Boeing and every bailed out corporation. Real relief direct to people is needed. It was govt. Choice to shut down our economy. Govt must provide real relief for 120 days. Forbearance on all housing n commercial loans n utilities is a start
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Eric Towner
3 years
@thewillwitt Takers are flocking to where the makers are
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Eric Towner
1 year
Start them young. My favorite part of development is bringing my kids to site visits. They are so fascinated with construction and always in awe that raw material can turn into a building for a restaurant. stoked to be the first customers at our new Chipotle 🤣 #RETwit #CRE
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Eric Towner
1 year
@crosscheck21 @kayleighmcenany U prolly prefer a circle back answer
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Eric Towner
1 year
@SMB_Attorney Richard Barton founded Expedia which demolished travel agents. Richard Barton then started Zillow which at first had a mission to eliminate the need for residential agents. I thought that it would have a similar effect to Expedia but it wasn’t even close. Life’s a mystery
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Eric Towner
5 months
@shawngorham Massive labor supply problem. the price is whatever the skilled laborers say it is
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Eric Towner
3 years
@cynicalbilly @JackPosobiec A. Systemic racism isn’t real. B. Fees and taxes can’t stop the planet from rising 1.5 degrees
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Eric Towner
1 year
@shawngorham It’s because she is important that I work 🤣
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Eric Towner
7 months
@dinopontino Dispatch lady kept begging me not to confront them. She doubted my skills
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Eric Towner
7 months
@khoury200g Amex had an address for the charge
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Eric Towner
11 months
Me: hello tenant improvement contractor. you’ve overstayed your allowed time to store your conex container in my parking lot, & u failed to place supports under the corners which put divots in my new hot sexy asphalt Contractor: come on man it’s just asphalt (picture a truck…
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Eric Towner
3 years
@EW_HR @ggreenwald @robmendel Or just go back to common sense voting with identification in person or legally requested absentee ballots 🤷‍♂️
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Eric Towner
7 months
@ConnorShowler You seem very giving. I ll send you my Venmo
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Eric Towner
3 years
@crain_larry @The_Papa_Fish @CBSNews u think higher gas prices and crazy inflation don’t hurt middle class 🤪
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Eric Towner
3 years
@allthebestfore1 @NedStaebler @nancykaffer Ned is a complete idiot that lacks any ability to argue or engage in debate without his favorite lazy attack always falsely accusing his opponents as “racists” the hilarious part is that there r people who believe his bs
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Eric Towner
3 years
@karol I ll explain it. Unless you absolutely completely lock everyone in their room, a virus will spread. The only explanation for idiotic inefficient policies that r made to just destroy small business is that there is a push to consolidate the economy to a two class system
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Eric Towner
3 years
@IrvingFordham @Rasmussen_Poll They rule according to law, not according the color of skin
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Eric Towner
3 years
@marija_m14 @janesimple These babies are special. Here’s my son who was born at 24 weeks. I couldn’t imagine life without him.
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Eric Towner
4 years
@babythalmann @kin8744 @TalbertSwan @realDonaldTrump Wait... we finally have a president who is not afraid to believe in God and calls for a national day of prayer. Then you call him evil 🤣 #Trump2020
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Eric Towner
5 months
I am on this app to connect with the brightest RE ppl in the world. If you are on Twitter and not building new relationships that grow you & your business (I don’t understand the newsletter business), why are you here? We closed on the purchase of an awesome shopping center last
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Eric Towner
10 months
@maxfisherRE Until there’s an event that forces someone to sell, everybody is frozen in place. The result, prices stay high due to no inventory. High prices with higher rates 😬 talk about cost of shelter inflation
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Eric Towner
1 year
@RedxRedxWhine @ericareport I thought they wanted student loan forgiveness?
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Eric Towner
3 years
@atlefthandside @RaheemKassam The same reporters that refused to ask Biden any questions of substance or significance. They don’t ask questions pal, they just push narratives
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Eric Towner
3 years
@rogerit678 @ggreenwald @MZHemingway But it can only be done late at night, very late
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Eric Towner
11 months
Once in a while (about twice a year), I start to feel my creative flow start to slow down. I get an urge to be a total jerk to suppliers or contractors. I begin to negatively critique without offering problem solving ideas. Everyone needs to recharge. For me, neverland is with…
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Eric Towner
4 months
@Romi_Bean Clearly Russ way over paid but Stidham 1 TD vs chargers that didn’t care to be there. Meh
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Eric Towner
2 years
@arrowoog @JesseKellyDC Except, US isn’t a democracy
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Eric Towner
9 months
Not many things go together better than Friday nights and high school ball
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Eric Towner
1 year
@realEstateTrent What an incredible time to be alive. Young people that figure out how to focus and minimize distractions have more opportunity than any generation before them.
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Eric Towner
4 years
@cnnbrk That’s because the ads are just the reality that Biden will raise taxes, increase private healthcare and insurance costs, push socialized medicine, defund police. The Biden policies are inherently negative
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Eric Towner
7 months
@gregg1775725420 @greg16676935420 Not gonna lie, would have felt good
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Eric Towner
4 years
@madadric @killenjoke @InTheEther1 @stclairashley I’m 15 feet tall. I demand that Delta must remove two rows in front of mine to make room for my 9 foot long legs
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Eric Towner
4 years
@JohnStrikwerda @joerogan @ggreenwald They allowed disinformation during the Russian hoax for 3 years. They became extremely partisan and have started a path toward the end of freedom of speech.
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Eric Towner
3 years
@calirevoIt @convertdcyclist @JessicaVaugn @RitaPanahi Not if the vulnerable people stay home until vaccinated 🤷‍♂️
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Eric Towner
7 months
Back to Back drive thrus! Want to command higher rent? Demand for drive thru isn’t slowing down. #CRE #realestateX ?
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Eric Towner
3 years
@cat_coake @JackPosobiec Ur correct, you usually don’t wander. You just stand still on highways and stand around burning buildings
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Eric Towner
2 years
@processanalyzer @marcorubio If your tax dollars were funding Rogan’s podcast, you would potentially have a decent argument here. I say potentially cuz most of y’all don’t really contribute any tax dollars
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Eric Towner
3 years
@drewjay Still waiting for the day that lame stories like this are no longer in the news. Way too often, being a BYU fan is embarrassing.
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Eric Towner
3 years
@TekshowPlays @DeanEversole @lsferguson Did u actually read the article? 🤣 the same “fact check” bs. They actually admit several states did stop and also admit that Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated state constitution allowing ballots to roll in 3 days late 🐴💩
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Eric Towner
1 year
@realEstateTrent Framers and landscapers are available more than ever. Plumbers, electricians, good concrete guys, welders… still slammed
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Eric Towner
11 months
@MUnitfranchisee @stevegarthwaite 10k sf multi tenant bldg with two drive thrus. super stoked
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Eric Towner
3 years
@Reuters Cuz there wouldn’t b a crowd anyway 🤣
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Eric Towner
10 months
New tenant store opening! Cost of construction is insane which means rent rates gotta be much higher. Operators are figuring out how to reduce their size to absorb the higher price per foot. This Wingstop is for to go orders only (outdoor seating). #CRE #RETwit
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Eric Towner
1 year
One of my favorite spring jobs is to walk one of our commercial roofs with each one of my kids. We spend almost an hour talking while we search and gather sharp objects that could puncture the roof membrane if stepped on. HVAC guy can now walk around freely to perform maintenance
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Eric Towner
7 months
Happy Sunday! In our house we value four F words… Faith Family Freedom Football (basketball, soccer, dance) I credit everything good in my life to my faith in God, devoted & loving Family, Freedom to make my own path, and lessons learned from a lifetime of playing and
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Eric Towner
10 months
Happy Sunday! Time to recharge. I am a big believer that a day of rest from normal activities helps the mind stay sharp and energized
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Eric Towner
2 years
@PickBaudisBrain @jacksaturday @InformedNJNurse @joerogan Imagine not caring about nuance or detail yet still wanting to project a narrative. Details matter. Try finding a chart for a specific demographic. Perhaps a chart for 15 - 20 year olds of average body mass (You’ll see no difference). Honesty with detail is the way to inform
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Eric Towner
1 year
@bonker_99 @zerohedge Imagine not learning from it
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Eric Towner
3 years
@DianeKn29994342 @JackPosobiec Voted him out to replace him with what? A half brained senile old white guy who sponsored the crime bill of the 90’s and sniffed 10 year old girls hair for the past 47 years?
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Eric Towner
10 months
New store opening! Anyone doubting the continued demand of good qsr concepts is crazy. Congrats @mobettahs one of our favorite repeat tenants #CRE #RETwit
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Eric Towner
3 years
@_go_fast_ @RealMattCouch Healthy ppl aren’t getting hospitalized
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Eric Towner
1 year
@BillBrewsterTBB What a time to be young. I tell everyone I know under 30 years years old that they have no idea how incredible their opportunities are. There is very little competition for them. Their peers simply don’t get it. The ones that hustle and show up early every day will crush it
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Eric Towner
1 year
@SMB_Attorney Athletes know how to work with a team, efficiently communicate in simple terms, form bonds, maintain relationships, meet goals through discipline and consistency. Tell me high school sports fields are a waste of money
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Eric Towner
3 years
@AgWxMan1 @KristiNoem What if science says that ppl who have recovered from actual Covid are equally immune to vaccinated ppl
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Eric Towner
7 months
@itsjames360 @irentdumpsters This is not indicative of my city. 26 years and I’ve never had an issue here. These dudes don’t live anywhere near here. Draper is a phenomenal home base for us
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Eric Towner
3 years
@yesmam47 @MAGA_GRL_4Life Uhhh have you seen the redistricting attempts going on in purple states? Did you actually pay attention to all of the “emergency” voter laws last year? Just cuz they look u in the eye n do it in daylight, doesn’t mean dems aren’t rigging the system
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Eric Towner
1 year
@kempton_timothy Fell in love at 17. Married at 22. Kids at 25. I have 6 very successful friends with similar timeframes. Family life creates commitment, motivation and a deeper reason as to why you are building a business/career.
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Eric Towner
1 year
@MalcolmJess Just begin the conversation with “let me know when the the clock starts”. Small talk is important for our relationship. This business is built on relationships. Supply n demand for great legal is not in our favor.
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Eric Towner
1 year
@charliebilello Price at the store… no where near that big of a drop. Lumber is trading below 2018 levels yet actual building material like osb is 50% higher than 2018 price at the store
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Eric Towner
4 years
@TonyBrunoShow @BradfatherSpeak Im as white as a paper plate. How to interact with a police officer was drilled into my head from my Dad before I turned 15. Cops have zero idea who you are or what you’re temperament is like, they just know that they’d like to make it home to their family safely every night
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Eric Towner
1 year
So, you want to be a developer? Are you good with confrontation? Be prepared to be a respectful jerk. It’s not fun to tell a contractor to tear down their work, re do it and order new material but it’s your job to hold everyone accountable. This siding was unacceptable
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Eric Towner
1 year
@realEstateTrent I was told that the older they get, the more free time I will get back. Nope… coaching sports, car pooling, dance recitals, late night math homework help, teaching how to jump a car, change tires, mow lawn, discipline, family vacations. Kids are all consuming and it’s awesome
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Eric Towner
5 months
Let’s Go Zach!!!!
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Eric Towner
10 months
This trailhead is 2 miles from my front door. Utah is unreal. It’s easy to predict strong growth here #RETwit
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Eric Towner
3 years
@vizz504 @Rasmussen_Poll Constitutional justices don’t have conflicts. That’s a practice reserved fir subjective leftist judges
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Eric Towner
9 months
Salt Lake County is an awesome home base. Very high quality competitive youth sports. And after Saturday games, beautiful mountain getaways just 20 minute drive away. #RETwit
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Eric Towner
3 years
@MissCross_Bones @celldix1205 @washingtonpost Property ownership, maintenance, renting is a job/career/business. How about someone takes away your entire history of work over night without cause
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Eric Towner
3 years
@RoKhanna Yes. Pay more at the pump, pay more at the grocery store, pay more at the restaurant, pay more for electricity, pay more for water, pay more for taxes, pay more for cars, pay more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more
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Eric Towner
5 months
@SMB_Attorney Our first child was born November 2007. He was born at 24 weeks and weighed 1 pound 4 ounces. Our insurance premium went from $300 per month to $2,500 just two months after he was born. Eventually maxed out our insurance limit. Had over $300K of medical collectors hounding me.
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Eric Towner
3 months
There are two types of people on this mountain. Those who are secretly voting for Trump and those who are publicly supporting @realDonaldTrump
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Eric Towner
1 year
@joshnaa2gez Gladiator
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Eric Towner
1 year
Would you rather… A) Develop a strip mall at 8.5% yoc with cash flow starting at year 3. Cost per square foot $600 B) Buy existing 6 year old strip mall, 100% leased (below current market rents) at 7.25% cap. Cost per square foot $300 #RETwit
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