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People are always looking for the next cool place to live like where they live will fix all their problems. It usually won't even if you cash out and have a million bucks in the bank when you move there, there is a reason it costs so much here, and not there.
I don't know, maybe it won't solve everything, but I think where one lives can solve at least some problems. Like your kid's education or rural/urban social preferences for example.
For sellers, there’s a certain amount of value (a lot actually) for not having to deal with flake/asshole/time wasting buyers.Quote:
Originally Posted by nickwm21
I tried selling my house myself some years back. That lasted about two weeks.
theres also perhaps not relevant here difference between places where”police broke down the door and shot the dog because they had the wrong address” and “sure you were driving 55 in a 30, but I’m gonna let you go” placesQuote:
Originally Posted by AdironRider
RE RE agents:
When I bought my condo my RE-A helped beat down the asking price. The place was trashed and she managed to lower the price by 8K on a 60K asking price. The seller was pissed but signed off.
When I went to sell that unit she had gotten too big to handle the work and one of her agents took the ball, I was hoping to sell for around 99K and my new agent managed to get a bidding war going and it sold for 143K.
I had found a house in town myself and he again beat the sellers down by about 6K. He got some nice commissions, I got what I wanted and he bought me a nice BBQ Grill as a housewarming present.
The $$$ was worth it.
I'd argue the primary difference between those two police actions is the skin tone of the affected party, not the location.
Canada is cheap. Trail BC is amazing but all the skiers have to live up the hill in Rossland to maintain appearances. Alaska is cheap. If you want to be near something on Epic or Ikon and high paying jobs its expensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
I bet the starting wage for a Barista in Starbucks has doubled in the last 5 years in Bozeman and every tradepersons making far more. People who own property there that used to be poor should get that Yellowstone Ranch logo tattooed or Kevin Costners face for what that show did to make basic ass white people desperate to move there and jack up their property values.
every ski bum in Canada has been plugging numbers into mls and coming up with trail so a few years ago a ski patrol bud at the hill said the same thing about Trail, wow its got some really cheap houses on the mls to which I replied well yeah I spent a little time in trail, so maybe you wana look first so they patroled a season at Red and looked at the RE
the cheap houses were from when trail was being built with crooked roofs, with gables that over lap the house next door , and one house had a stream running thru the basement
also there is a smelter right in down town Trail
they came back and bought local
and btw Canada is not cheap
Trail is cheap in the long run, because you get cancer from the mining debris, and die young, meaning you paid relatively few mortgage payments.
So true, the white methheads in the Nevada trailer park should get the same treatment as the rich black guy that lives down the street from Bmills ( tony Atlanta burbs).Quote:
Originally Posted by climberevan
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a few years ago the tanker truck delivering acid or something bad that they use in the mill leaked all over the highway people drove thru it and it splashed on a bunch of cars so about 40 cars were totaled
a lot of really nice down to earth folks in Trail cuz they were all union
FIFYQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
yeah my dad was the foreman at a steelplant in Burnaby where they would get guys from trail and he said they did crazy things, he put it down to the lead
but such fantastic biking and skiing there
This is how I imagine the people in Rossland are looking down that hill
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I wanna know what tune that dude in the back is air guitaring too.
In my head I think it has to be Queen.
Too bad there’s a Canuck prohibition on ‘Murcans buying property, I’d like to get me some sweet exchange rate action on Rossland RE
Isnt that ban only in metropolitan areas like Vancouver?Quote:
Originally Posted by possum
LOL. (In a very sad way)
https://891khol.org/jacksons-new-wor...llion-a-piece/
The gall to call that workforce housing
If you've got enough in the bank that career availability doesn't matter, it does open up a lot of areas that are cheap precisely because there are not good-paying jobs nearby. Of course, that turn means that there aren't a lot of people working for a living to hang out with, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
Workforce housing for doctors and lawyers? How is this not an article from the Onion?
Trustafarian workforce housing
Trail is a very gritty mill town which I could see & smell, it was pointed out the winter in Rossland is really long. Employees would all take company buses up & down the hill together, Someone splained it to me that you are either in this union or that union, so everyone knows what you do/ how much $$$$$ you make, back then groups of Italians or Hungarians immigrated in droves. If you were an engineer you probably didnt live in the house with the stream running thru the basement, i was told there was a nicer section for proffessionals but really it was all just a big stinking bowlQuote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
we had a large systems HW guy who had been there 42 years when i met him, I think he might have been a genius. He and the head of the data center told me the chair at Red mtn was built with parts the ski club " borrowed " from Cominco for a community project and everyone was in on it
from kelowna I made the odd trip to the west Koots to fix some HW maybe go skiing and biking wasnt a thing yet but you would meet old skiers at Red that had been skiing there for 40 yrs and they were still on the same gear, I used to ski with the youngest of the " old bastards " at Big White before the cancer got him
Towns need those white collar professionals and those professionals are only going to stick around if they can have and afford a reasonable place. It may be among the ultimate first-world problems, but it’s valid in the Aspen and Jackson’s of the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Its built for a segment of the workforce; we have places here that are $2-2.5M with work and residency required and are deed-restricted, appreciation-capped.
The trustafarians have rent paid on the condo,
Condo mortgage or got a one-time deposit to buy the $5-10M place.
Yes, but it's defined by much smaller designations. You can still buy a house in Smithers and be XXXer's neighbor, but you can't be Gary's neighbor in Terrace. (although I'm certain there are lots of workarounds)Quote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
Here's the lookup tool
Terrace has Americans on ignore - that fits
And Whistler doesn't. That fits too.
FWIW I have toured those and they are all really well built with some super cool green/efficiency features etc. Worth the price IMO compared to a lot of the crap being built in Belgrade with college dorm finishes etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
I've been working up in Helena a bit lately with some clients. Anywhere that stuff was overpriced there are price reductions, but stuff that's priced competitively is bonkers. Got beat out on a downtown Helena bungalow a couple weeks ago. 10 offers in the first 24 hours. The demand is there for people who NEED a house like those relocating for a job (lots of that in Helena), those blowing tons on rent with a family, etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
Interesting, what was it priced at?Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
Friend has his deceased parents' home on the market for 499, down from 520, and still no bites. House needs updating but has a very good location on upper west side, large yard, and a great view of Mt. Helena.
Under 400k and great location + furnished etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
Your friends parents house needs a TON of updating and the next closest comp that is currently under contract is listed at a lower price, in the same neighborhood, and much better shape inside with what looks like a better yard.....
Totally agree it's overpriced. I would have done a lot of things differently with that house but not my circus, not my monkeys..Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian
No doubt, I wrote the stormwater permit for that project and work with the GC a bit, they do quality work. But as was said, that is a big nut to have to come up with every month.Quote:
FWIW I have toured those and they are all really well built with some super cool green/efficiency features etc. Worth the price IMO compared to a lot of the crap being built in Belgrade with college dorm finishes etc.
WFH turned that concept on its head though.Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
Yeah I was gonna say..Quote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
Gross. If Jackson wants to do that and become whatever the fuck that is where everyone lives in subsidized housing below some threshold I guess that's there business. At that point, your "just the help" and the riches are just making sure that they have attorney's and dermatologists and cardiologist and whatever the fuck else they want. The "workforce" is the product not the customer.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
But the bigger question I got is, where did all the fuckin' money go? A 2/1 for a $1million plus subsidies? That's gotta be over $1K per square foot! I don't think Kevo's painters are working on that project.
Unfortunately, due to land, labor, and building costs, that's what it costs to build almost anything in the county without an insane amount of public subsidy. Which, given the states lack of income tax, no municipality has without a huge transfer tax on wealthy homeowners. Even though it's a blue county, it's a red state, and that birds not gonna fly.
There are a crapload of below market rate units being built right now, we will see how those shake out.
I bet if you put pen to paper you'd figure out that it doesn't. But hey, if you've got any contracts that are willing to pay $200/hr. to trimcarpenters on something like $50/sq. ft. me and my buddy from Driggs will be right over.Quote:
Unfortunately, due to land, labor, and building costs, that's what it costs to build almost anything in the county without an insane amount of public subsidy
To the art trust bro. The art trust. It's incredibly important that the art trust be funded in the billions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles
Not quite. My wife is too specialized to be looking for a job in Jackson but we could never afford something in a town without it being subsidized like that. 1 percenters in terms of income but it will take us years to break 90 percentile in terms of household wealth. And we have no intentions of that being a majority in real estate. We are working class kids who have done well and have worked hard to be where we are at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Self Jupiter
There is entirely too much wealth sloshing around. We are doing our best so our kids aren’t beholden to a corporate fiefdom. I hope my boy can talk about his portfolio on satellites and the asteroid belt one day.
The key here with that is land costs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles
I guess the actual construction could be cheaper.
But even if it were, the total price at the end of the day probably wouldn’t go down any.
I guarantee that they tried to reign in costs.