I recently bought a foreclosed home and the safety sensors at the base of the garage door are missing and presumably stolen by the previous homeowners.

Instead of paying nearly per set to replace them, is there an easy way to bypass the system so that the sensors are not needed.

I don't have any kids and really don't need to have sensors on the door.

A few of my younger relatives was playing with the emergency rope that comes with the garage door and now the button that we usually use to open and close the said door from inside the garage door doesn't work, does anyone know how to fix this?

this is long so if you can't read it all please don't answer-you won't help me if you don't read it all!! thanks!!

been w/bf for almost 4 years. i'm 29 w/3 little girls who we take care of part time. he's 30-no kids, never married.

we've had our ups and downs like any relationship but are due to start counseling this coming thursday to help sort out some minor communication hurdles (nothing to big so i thought).

this past year has been hard on us financially b/c my wages at work were being garnished and i couldn't afford rent at my apt on my own (i was supposed to move in w/him since i only stay at the apt 4 days a month but last Nov he decided he wasn't ready). he's been helping me pay my rent,utilities,gas for my car,etc. just this past month my wages went back to normal and i've been paying my bills ok.

he's been stressing out b/c he states he doesn't have any money left in savings and his property taxes are due at the end of this month which he claims he can't pay.

i left his house sunday like i do every other sunday to go back to my house w/my kids b/c he needed to sleep for work. he hugged me really tight and kissed me goodbye saying he loved me.

about 10 mins after i get home, there was a voicemail left by him that was quite cold asking me where the netflix movies were that we had ordered-he stated he wouldn't have time to burn them unless i brought them back. I called him back stating I would burn them and mail them back. he got upset stating that it was HIS account and he didn't want to go to jail if i accidently put burned dvd copies in the mail-i got mad saying i wasn't stupid and an adult. he demanded i bring them back so to save an argument i said fine and agreed to return them on monday morning.

an hour later he called back stating there was too much going on in his life with work and not being able to pay his bills and that we needed to break up!! I was PISSED and hurt-he knew my kids were with me!!! i started crying and asked him what drugs he was on. then he started getting really mean telling me that he didnt have his cushion (the 3 grand in savings)anymore and it was my fault. if he hadn't helped me out, he'd be fine right now. I got mad telling him he didnt have to stay. then i asked him if he loved me and he said no!! I was crying,screaming and livid at this point. I told him he had lied to me when i left that morning by telling me he loved me and he replied that no he hadn't lied to me. so I asked me why he told me he loved me before i left if he was NOW telling me he didnt love me and all he could say was he didnt know.

then he said that his life has been flipped upside down since he met me and sometimes me and the kids drive him nuts. I was crying so hard by now and wouldn't say anything to him.

he accused me of only borrowing money then made fun of me by saying "you don't know how to budget your money. you don't even have money in your wallet right now do you?!!" I was crying really hard by this point and I screamed that I hated him and hung up.

he called back right away saying he was sorry, was stressed out, would go to our counseling appointment with me and to forget he ever called and said those things.he then stated he knows he has issues. he then said he'd call me tomorrow (he never did).

I showed up yesterday am to try and return the movies like planned but he had shut off the garage door opener so i couldn't get in the house so i returned them myself. i came back that night while he was at work and the house was open. none of our pictures were moved and all of my stuff was in the same spot (he's moved it all into the garage once before when mad at me).

he's been on meds and in counseling before for depression so i'm thinking he still is having issues with that but why call me and get me all hurt and hysterical only to call back and apologize and tell me to forget it all? and then why now won't he call or email me?!!

and on top of it all-he just spent 200 bucks on a new rc airplane yesterday!! all this after telling me he had no savings and couldn't pay his bills!!!! i know this b/c the business email he used we share.

and NO he's not cheating-i have his passwords to all his emails,myspace (which he hasn't been on in 2 years), and voicemail-he gave them to me voluntarily.

and NO I don't want to just walk out. we get along most of the time, he doesn't abuse me, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and takes an active role in helping me raise my girls (he loves them and even goes to parent conferences with me).

will counseling help this?!!! does he need medication?!!

I had this idea to build a 16' x 7' overhead garage door, but I'm not sure what type of wood to use. I'm a theatre technician. So, my idea was to build each segment similiar to a broadway flat. The way I build a broadway flat is by using 1" x 4" pine as a flat frame with the 4" part connecting to the luan panel. I don't think that either of those materials would be suitable for outdoor use, but I would like to use materials with similiar properties. I will be using standard garage door hardware on it, but the flats are just the basic concept.

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Is it possible that the chain just came apart and I do not need to buy I new one? As of right now the door is stuck in the open position. I believe I need to close the garage in order to work on it, but I am not sure how. I tried pulling the cord to close the door manually, but that doesn't do anything. Please help.

I have a condo that I owned. I got married, moved out and rented it out for a couple of years. I bought a primary home with my wife. We have 4 kids. The condo unit that I purchased is in a building with my unit right over the underground garage door opener. It is very loud noise in one of the bedrooms.

When I bought the place, the condo assoc. said they were waiting for a part and they would fix it when it came in. Well, the noise was never fixed.

I have been trying to sell this place for 8 months. I lost my job and my tenant and had to take a new job at a lower salary. So, I had to stop paying on the condo. I am trying to short sale it. No one will buy it though because of the underground garage door noise. Even with a 60K discount (short sale) from market value.

I have contacted the condo assoc. and all they say is they are going to fix it. (but they never do). At this point, I am going to be foreclosed on. My credit will be ruined. I don't want the condo and just want to sell it.

Should I get an attorney? What kind of attorney should I get? What could this attorney do for me? Can they help me get out of the foreclosure deficiency judgement because of this issue? Can they stop the foreclosure from being reported on my credit report?

I will have to file bankrutpcy if I get a deficiency judgement. What should I do?
To the last person who responded, I don't think you read my message. I have been trying to short sale it. The bank has agreed to accept as low as 200k. The market value is 5k. BUT no one wants to buy it because of the garage noise even with a short sale discount! Please read my whole message. SO a short sale WON'T happen.
Also, I can't rent it out for less than the mortgage, because my family does not have enough money to cover the difference. Rental values are about 1200 and my mortgage is 2100.

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My garage door opener does not open until my car is two feet from the door. I have a Liftmaster 3500 series. I have done EVERYTHING the owners manual says to get the door to open with the remote. Replaced batteries, tried new remotes. Moved the remote around my car. The antenna is fully extended and in plain view. What else can I do to extend the range?

I need to know how to build wall in our garage door opening so we can remodel our garage. Hubby is handy, but has never taken on a project like this and wants to make sure he is going to do it right. Anyone have and good sources or ideas?