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Listed our house for sale, 4 showings within first two hours. Two cash offers came in. House sold over asking no contingencies. From listing to under contract in 6 hours, closing in 10 days. Thank you COVID for jacking real estate to the stratosphere in my neck of the woods. Sorry to everyone trying to buy, the prices no longer make sense to me.
Didn't your well run dry last summer? Or was that someone else?Quote:
Originally Posted by easyrdr
Same thing happened w my buddy, divorce, put the house up, bidding war, 50k over asking in a weekend.
No inspection, buyer covering appraisal gap. Her parents gifted them the down payment, plus the rapid appreciation of the house. Cha ching dude is walking away 100k plus in the black.
And now bitching about how expensive all the places he's looking at are. Such is life.
Nope that was me. We moved from Michigan to Colorado. The well ran dry in Colorado. Just sold the house in Michigan.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Van life is just a stepping stone to getting established in a new town.
Within 30 days it's customary to move in with someone else's girlfriend while they are breaking up, ride that wave till she is sick of your bum ass and kicks you out after three months and then you spend the remaining two months of the season couch surfing and bathing in spring runoff. Then back in the van to a new town.
get a job hippie.
sounds plausibleQuote:
Originally Posted by mud
it's not whether you have a girlfriend or not its your place in line
van life is doable you just gotta be smart about it
it's like picking up hookers at a truck stop just be smart
I met this shy Asian guy who dated and then moved in with a cute girl and when they broke up he moved in with her Mom and started dating her. I was dating the older sister of the cute girl and was weighing how crazy she was thinking all of this is perfectly fine.
Drama. Sweet sweet drama.
NYT look at Vienna's model for keeping real estate affordable (share link should bypass the paywall):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/m...smid=url-share
My key takeaway from the author:
- by addressing demand rather than subsidizing supply side (ie vouchers), you avoid creating a subsidized cost spiral
- not means-testing after acceptance results in economic diversity within the public housing, which makes it politically acceptable to actually spend money on and socially acceptable to live there
- most US attempts at subsidized housing have been seriously handicapped by developers' political influence (OK, that's one's not surprising at all)
Your ignorance happens year round though, ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
Ah, wondering if you were unloading the new waterless house because of no water.Quote:
Originally Posted by easyrdr
^ chooses to live in the largest hellscape strip mall in the world.
Starter home hit the MLS in Poky, called realtor to ask to see it and by the time he heard back from the listing agent they’d accepted a crash offer over asking waiving inspection. On a house built in 1922. I guess things are still stupid.
Goddamn rightQuote:
Originally Posted by snapt
It only works if everyone buys in and nearly everyone is ok living in government housing for their entire life. Because anything not owned by the government becomes astronomically expensive, relative to the insanely cheap government housing. And you have to be ok with wealthy people refusing to move and taking advantage of cheap, subsidized, housing for life. I also wonder what happens when all the old rich people refuse to move. Can the government really come up with the money to build new housing for the next generation? They would need to be sufficiently nice to not turn into a ghetto but sufficiently shitty so people don't want to live there for life. From the article:Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
"Every few years, there is a debate about whether the affluent should be forced to give up their Gemeindebau leases — that is, whether the units should be means-tested. The face of this debate, for some, is Peter Pilz, a former member of Austria’s Green Party in Parliament. Pilz lives in Goethehof, one of the largest Gemeindebauten by the Danube River. He moved into a unit as a university student to live with his grandmother, who had been there since the building opened in 1932. Before she died, he took over her contract. (He was, one might say, grandmothered in.) Pilz was elected to Parliament in 1986 and eventually started making more than 8,000 euros a month.
Even in Vienna, Pilz’s tenancy raised eyebrows, making headlines in Austria’s conservative paper, Österreich, which claimed in 2012 that he was paying only 66.18 euros a month in rent. (Pilz says he was paying, including building costs, closer to 250 euros a month.) “Given that Pilz’s income is well over the usual tariff for social housing, it does look like we’re talking about social fraud here,” said the general secretary of the conservative Freedom Party of Austria."
What kind of van does Pilz camp in?
BenzQuote:
Originally Posted by Conundrum
Does he smoke dope
Ski ride bikes hike and live stealth in a ski town?
Or is he a smart guy playing by the rules always making sound welk thought out decisions
Or is he high as a kite posting from a ten million dollar house thinking how good it'll feel to put spandex on a ride his mtn bike on trails out the front door
Life sucks
Do your best to not doosh it up
Shit. Does this dude smoke weed?Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Peter_Pilz.jpg
yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
I got a lime green cop hangtag wired to my rearview threatening an abandoned vehicle tag in one of those on-the-way-to-alpine pullouts because I was parked 9 hours *during the day* for a long ski tour.
the pullout by the airport?? you're high
I'm sober. Stayed there no prob.
To be fair all winter late fall for me.
The summer hong show prob brings a much higher level of scrutiny. Midweek January, not so much.
Midweek January they just want you gone for plowing.
Not if you tell them you are a fry cook working in town and the sheriff told you it's OK to live there. Then you can stay there all winter!Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
But only if you are "upscale" and "do private work for people of means."
Byates, the go-anywhere, sleep-anywhere, shit-anywhere van life gigilo for the rich and famous. Trading BJs for free parking somewhere in a ski town near you!
Don't forget the part where I stretch your wife's throat out while you're at work grinding away to pay for all the dumb shit she has to have..
Yep, I bet there is women constantly knocking on your door to get stretched in your van - parked at a highway pullout.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
Not all places on earth are full of NIMBYs. Nanchang, China, has built so many apartments recently that nearly 20% of the homes there sit vacant. I bet they don't have a homeless or worker housing problem. And you don't need to squat in the woods in a van to get by:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/b...-nanchang.html
In China NIMBYS get put in re-education camps.
We can send neck deep over there to give it a look...
Attachment 459994Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-e...loved-to-death
"
Whether in the red-rock canyons of Utah or the high country of the Rockies, this is a familiar cycle for communities near desirable natural areas in the Western U.S. In recent years, the pandemic-inspired movement of well-to-do remote workers has exacerbated this trend. A new report from Headwaters Economics, a Montana-based research nonprofit, dubs this pattern the “amenity trap,” meaning “the paradox of a place with natural attractions that make it a great place to live but also threaten it with being ‘loved to death.’”
Using local data and specific case studies, the report breaks down the amenity trap into a pressing few categories, including housing, infrastructure and natural disasters. It also discusses policies that have successfully addressed these problems in some of the West’s most coveted destinations."
Couple of nice places in Woodstock VT
Woodstock/9-School-St-05091
No pics of the house :D must need work
Woodstock/234-Randall-Rd-05091
That barn ain't bad but I just couldn't deal with the tourists.
This heart-warming story has it all.
Kind of broke, attractive redhead? Check
Resourceful, tasteful renovation? Check
Gig worker, including Online Dominatrix? Check
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/03/36-y...ream-home.html
This local cartoon is absolutely spot-on.
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Interesting that the Texas governor has proposed to eliminate property taxes. They are pricey there so how does he replace the lost revenue?
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that he actually cares about governance.
Abbott want to Californicate Texass.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Love 'em or hate 'em, property taxes are the most stable source of tax income. When you cut or eliminate that source, you have to make it up with sales taxes and user fees which result in boom or bust cycles which has plagued California for decades post prop-13.
Don't worry - it'll trickle down.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
In a word: volume.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
https://youtu.be/KodqIPMbyUg?t=54