> > I look at house listings out of market ... pretty much never.  In 
market, 
> 
> My poking around has been almost completely due to
> keeping up with the conversations here. Five years
> ago, I did little of this, relying on actual facts
> actually gotten, but it's hard to do as things change
> so rapidly.
> 
I look locally when I'm hunting information on estate or tag sales.  
Googling the house can give me a big clue about if the sale is going 
to be worth the effort or not.  

> > the residence is in the same hands, the better the stuff tends to 
be.) 
> 
> That makes sense and would be what I thought.

It's not 100% reliable, but sometimes if there's been a recent sale 
you can still get a virtual tour of the house.  
 
> By the way, don't believe everything you read, for
> example Investopedia, which has its contradiction
> within a couple lines in the same article on this
> subject, probably owing to insufficient updating.

Can't say I ever looked at it.
 
> > > > Or snot in someone else's soup.  Or someone else's in yours.
> > > Did you see the recipe that accompanied?
> > I forget. Okra? My internet's down again at home; I'm using the 
church 
> > wifi.
> 
> Bird's nest.

Yep. Snot it is.
 
> > > We could probably already power a lot of the country on
> > > methane, if collecting it were easier.
> > Hmmm - some bright young millenial ought to get to work on that. 
> 
> Somebody will no doubt soon. Sewage will have to be 
> dealt with sometime or other, and making it into
> something useful makes more sense than anything else.
> 
I was thinking more of harnessing bean stew, but the garbage pile 
would be highly useful.