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The Saga of Tiki Lee's Home Tiki Room - Chapter Eleventeen - pg. 8 |
bigtikidude
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From: Anaheim,Ca.
|  Posted: 2008-11-19 07:18 am Permalink
Sorry to hear the bad news sir.
Jeff(bigtikidude)
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Mongoloid
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Joined: Apr 25, 2008
Posts: 555
From: Long Beach
| Posted: 2008-11-19 07:59 am Permalink
Keep your head up Lee! Gonna be in Vegas for Thanksgiving next week and your store is on my list of stops to make! Aloha
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little lost tiki
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Joined: Jun 12, 2006
Posts: 7459
From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
| Posted: 2008-11-19 08:01 am Permalink
that is a drag,Lee! 
Your room will remain with the memories and the photos you've left on this thread!
Sending you the warmest thoughts and hugs!
Any chance of transforming the storage unit
into a TikiRoom?
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Sophista-tiki
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Joined: Sep 13, 2005
Posts: 1596
From: Seattle WA
| Posted: 2008-11-19 08:54 am Permalink
LEE! so sorry to hear you have to move. Hopefully new and better things are just around the corner. I knew I was thinking about you for a reason. You guys can always come up here and stay with me. Ive got a whole extra appartment.
Dawn
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Tom Slick
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Posts: 1083
From: The Beaches of South Bay, SoCal
| Posted: 2008-11-19 09:39 am Permalink
Lee,
I wish you only the best out of this bad situation. Your room is/was amazing, and will be remembered here forever on TC! Someone else said it(Bongo Bungalow), but it was a good point...YOU created it, and can doit again. It was the room YOU built, and I'm sure it will be back sooner than we all think!
Godspeed, and best wishes brotha!
-Tom
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Mr. NoNaMe
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Joined: May 10, 2006
Posts: 1866 | Posted: 2008-11-19 8:37 pm Permalink
Oh man Lee,
I wanted to visit your place Lee.
Oh Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee,
Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee,
We're talkin' fuckin' Lee.
I had a friend named Lee,
He cast a spell, a spell on me.....
Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee,
I'd propose on bended knee
To Lee Lee Lee, Lee Lee Lee,
Lee Lee,
Lee Lee Lee, Lee Lee Lee,
Lee Lee,
Le-Lut-Le-Le-Le-Lee Lee Lee,
Le-Lut-Le-Le-Le-Lee Lee.....
I am sending good wishes to you and the missus.
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Matt Reese
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Joined: May 09, 2005
Posts: 1114
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2008-11-20 05:55 am Permalink
Sorry to hear the bad news. Just look at this setback as another opportunity for bigger and better things. A new chapter, as it were. I know that's easy for me to say. Really hoping for the best for you guys.
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The Gnomon
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Joined: May 01, 2007
Posts: 1276
From: MD-DC-VA
| Posted: 2008-11-20 06:17 am Permalink
Not sure if it applies to you, nor if the legislation has yet been activated, but I heard that people who were at least 3 months behind on their mortgages would be eligible for anti-forclosure protection. Have you checked into that?
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bananabobs
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Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 824 | Posted: 2008-11-20 10:57 pm Permalink
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On 2008-11-20 05:55, Matt Reese wrote:
Sorry to hear the bad news. Just look at this setback as another opportunity for bigger and better things. A new chapter, as it were.
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I agree Lee, The image of the Phoenix comes to mind. I pray for new open doors for you.
Blessings.
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JenTiki
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Joined: Jun 16, 2006
Posts: 1817
From: An island in the bay
| Posted: 2008-11-21 12:46 pm Permalink
Wow Lee! I'm so sorry. Your room was amazing, and I know you'll soon find another place to create something equally fabulous! Good thing you'll have Frankie's nearby to quench that thirst for good tiki. I'm planning a trip to Vegas in January. Would love to hook up with you and your wife for a drink while I'm there. I'll PM when I have details nailed down. Best wishes to you.
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SuperEight
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Joined: Oct 16, 2004
Posts: 261
From: Palo Alto
| Posted: 2008-11-21 8:23 pm Permalink
My heart goes out to you Lee. I know you probably have those in your life who are going to tell you not to worry, that you will be fine in the long run. You definitely will be fine but allow yourself to be sad for a while. Its not self indulgent. You lost something you cared about.
And look at it this way. The funnest thing about a Tiki room is putting it together. You will eventually get to make a new Tiki room, you will learn from the mistakes you made when you did the first one, and you will put together and even better LEE'S TIKI ROOM VERSION 2.0!
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Swanky
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Joined: Apr 03, 2002
Posts: 4806
From: Hapa Haole Hideaway, TN
| Posted: 2008-11-23 11:49 am Permalink
Hate to hear that Lee. Stephanie and I are in a similar boat. We have an ARM that hits the 2 year mark in February. Our market has been stable, so, we're in reasonable shape, except the damn market keeps changing. We just found out they are not doing any 100% refi's now and we have to figure out how to get 5% plus closing costs saved by by then. Great. Nice notice. But, who knows where things will stand then. So, work on our bar has pretty much stopped. Not spending any more for a while.
Hope you guys land on solid ground.
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mrsmiley
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Joined: Apr 03, 2002
Posts: 3153
From: Las Vegas, NV
| Posted: 2008-11-23 9:29 pm Permalink
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On 2008-11-19 02:36, Tiki Lee's wrote:
Well, the recession has claimed another forclosure victim, and I am sad to say that my wife and I are losing our house, and our Tiki Room with it. Thanks for all your kind compliments over the span of this post. If any of you want to come by and take a peek in person before it all goes away in December, then just let me know and we'll try to hook up before it gets packed away in storage once again for another unknown number of years.
At least my shop at The Charleston Antique Mall will stay open. I guess it's gonna have a great new influx of product really soon...
Mahaloz Friends.
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Damn!- I'm sorry to hear it. i just saw your invitation from a few months ago. i hope you bounce back soon! -Smiley
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mrsmiley
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From: Las Vegas, NV
| Posted: 2008-11-23 9:29 pm Permalink
Razz!
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Tiki Lee's
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From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2008-11-30 12:21 am Permalink
Thanks Everybody...
It's so hard to even imagine a "phoenix-type" redo of the room because things are so difficult right now, but thanks for the positive energy anyway.
Since we are going to have to rent from now on, I seriously doubt that the landlord would ever let me do something this extensively tiki to his house. It just won't be the same, so I probably won't even try to make a tiki room. A piece might go here and there, but the glowing cozy atmosphere will be lost to the ages.
Thank God for Frankie's. At least I can go visit a cool tiki room when I get homesick...
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