God I love the 21st Century, life is so cool:
I know I haven’t blogged for a while, but you can all rest easy knowing that I’ve been a busy busy girl, installing these pneumatic elevators for my parents.
I think one can measure quality of life improvement by how our lives get to be more like the Jetsons:
Okay, I suppose I haven’t … but wouldn’t it be awesome if I had? These things are seriously cool, and I’m particularly intrigued by the “Exceptional price and value” that they describe on their website.
o No costly excavation, hatch or machine room to install .
o Tax benefits
o Increases the resale value to your existing home and can be moved to your new one
o Virtually no maintenance cost nor any lubrication required
Two comments: When getting a new elevator I know one of my primary concerns is lubrication. Thank god they’ve taken that weight off of my mind. And also, what “tax benefits” are they talking about? Is this one of those ways that I can get into deep hoo-hoo with the IRA?
I think one can measure quality of life improvement by how our lives get to be more like the Jetsons:
Okay, I suppose I haven’t … but wouldn’t it be awesome if I had? These things are seriously cool, and I’m particularly intrigued by the “Exceptional price and value” that they describe on their website.
o No costly excavation, hatch or machine room to install .
o Tax benefits
o Increases the resale value to your existing home and can be moved to your new one
o Virtually no maintenance cost nor any lubrication required
Two comments: When getting a new elevator I know one of my primary concerns is lubrication. Thank god they’ve taken that weight off of my mind. And also, what “tax benefits” are they talking about? Is this one of those ways that I can get into deep hoo-hoo with the IRA?
posted by Anna at
5/12/2005 12:01:00 PM
5 Comments:
I want one. Yes, we live in a single story aparment. No, we're not allowed to do major modifications like this. No, I don't have any need for one, but I want one because... umm... they're cool and stuff?
Oh, and the "tax benefit" they're refering to is the medical expense claim that anyone can take. Basically, if you can get a doctor's note saying that you have a medical condition that requires you to have an elevator installed in your home, you can take a tax deduction for any expense above 7.5% of your gross income. Or is it your net income... hmm... maybe it's adjusted income...
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Anonymous, at 6:49 PM
That looks like the laziest damn thing ever. I mean unless you're wheelchair-bound or something, but the way that looks, it seems like a wheelchair wouldn't fit in it. Still cool though, lazy, but cool.
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Anonymous, at 9:47 PM
Hmm... it says it's "impossible to fall." I feel like there must be SOME way for the elevator to fall.
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Dan, at 8:31 AM
Davin Said....
Anna. I don't think elevators will get you in trouble with the Irish Republican Army unless you plan on informing to those English shites. Perhaps the Internal Revenue Service pookie??
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Anonymous, at 9:25 AM
There was actually an article in the newspaper about these (and actually other related competing versions).
It turns out that these cost about $12,000 to install, and that is the same price difference between a ranch with the same square footage as a two story home (with a ranch being more).
That is, if the big thing that makes you want a ranch over a two story home of the same size is the stairs, you can get one of these things added to your two story home and virtually eliminate the stairs. In the end, it's just as much as a ranch.
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Ted Pavlic, at 9:59 PM
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