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  1. #20851
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    Quote Originally Posted by fastfred View Post
    there is alot of that around here
    good place to park money
    they don't live there full time she keeps saying they are going to move in soon but her complaint is it's just too big of a house (9k sq ft) and shes not sure the kids will visit as often as they say they will
    so why do you need a four car garage house nine bathrooms movie theatre bar
    they live part time in another house in town that they just bought a year or so ago heck they own four houses in breck she takes turns every year or two living in one of them
    her brother crashes in one of the houses when he's not treking in some far off corner of the world
    she's also the type that drives around a twenty year old beat up car
    this is all for real
    Breck has been a berry berry good investment, but, jezuz, can it go further than that? It ain't Aspen.

    Then again, I skied Windham last week in the Catskills, and there's houses like that trailside. It's a thing.

    Twenty year old beat up car is weird. But, maybe she doesn't have the time or energy to car shop after pouring over appliance catalogs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fastfred View Post
    paying 30 bucks for some artisan wood fired pizza fad needs to go away
    You can get me one for 30 bucks? Count me in!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Twenty year old beat up car is weird. But, maybe she doesn't have the time or energy to car shop after pouring over appliance catalogs.
    Sometimes a car just fits you really, really well and you dont see a reason to change it out. Kinda like the big shots with the swanky offices and old, beat up leather office chairs. I do work with a developer who drives a mid 2000s SUV and is almost certainly worth 9 figures. Plus, you can park/drive a beater anywhere without drawing attention which is really nice for folks who are big shots, but dont want to deal with the attention or attitudes they would get in a nicer vehicle. Or, maybe she likes the reminder of where she came from before the money started coming in.

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    vail is over rated truck stop
    morning star, bachelor gulch, and cordillera are nice neighbor hoods in eagle county
    aspen is international ultra billion dollar wealth and porn stars
    telluride is pricey and remote
    cb is a pretend small western town that is pretend down to earth that has really been ruined by mid level wealth
    so yeah that leaves breckenridge you can hang out here not draw any attention to yourself and do what you want which works out well for some people
    the money is pouring in left and right

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    Quote Originally Posted by californiagrown View Post
    Sometimes a car just fits you really, really well and you dont see a reason to change it out. Kinda like the big shots with the swanky offices and old, beat up leather office chairs. I do work with a developer who drives a mid 2000s SUV and is almost certainly worth 9 figures. Plus, you can park/drive a beater anywhere without drawing attention which is really nice for folks who are big shots, but dont want to deal with the attention or attitudes they would get in a nicer vehicle. Or, maybe she likes the reminder of where she came from before the money started coming in.
    Yeah, a couple of my old landlords were basically rich, but, you sure couldn't tell it from appearances. One guy drove and old 80s Caprice wagon stuffed with crap. Nice guy. He actually gave me Xmas presents. But we're talking about modern status mongers here, right? Why else would someone build a 200 grand kitchen, other than to walk other women through and watch the envy? I doubt they even cook. So, where's the new Lexus?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Breck has been a berry berry good investment, but, jezuz, can it go further than that? It ain't Aspen.

    Then again, I skied Windham last week in the Catskills, and there's houses like that trailside. It's a thing.

    Twenty year old beat up car is weird. But, maybe she doesn't have the time or energy to car shop after pouring over appliance catalogs.
    See it all the time with rich people. It is their way of being "humble".

    That and donating to laughably rich person orgs, like the local "ski team" non-profit to fund their kid's skiing and a tax write-off at the same time. It's charity!
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    Most people I know who manage their money well drive old cars. Lexus and Toyota keep their value well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Breck has been a berry berry good investment, but, jezuz, can it go further than that? It ain't Aspen.

    Then again, I skied Windham last week in the Catskills, and there's houses like that trailside. It's a thing.

    Twenty year old beat up car is weird. But, maybe she doesn't have the time or energy to car shop after pouring over appliance catalogs.
    You obviously haven't been car shopping lately.
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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    Dirt pimp says buying dirt is all time.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/three...153102361.html

    In a new interview, real estate guru and "Shark Tank" panelist Barbara Corcoran hailed the current housing market as the best real estate investment opportunity of her lifetime.
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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    Talking her book, selling at the peak behind the TV screen, I'll bet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    You obviously haven't been car shopping lately.
    Well, on second thought, makes sense. Sink your money into an appreciating asset, avoid wasting it on depreciating assets. There's a reason she's wealthy.

    The world is upside down. Multi million dollar Breck homeowners drive old cars, bartenders and cube jockeys with negative net worth drive 80,000 dollar pickup trucks.

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    Time for my favorite ski RE story, again.

    I was riding the lift at Big Sky, somewhere all the way over in Moonlight Basin, and I admired a nice new house, not too big, but probably easily a few million, slopeside. My chair mate, a young snowboarder, proceeded to tell me a story about his bud who worked in property management in Vail. One day his bud had to get into one of these homes, gets the number and calls the owner. The guy doesn't even put the phone down and shouts, "Honey, do we have a house in Vail?"

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    It’s not upside down. It’s the system we know working as it should. Its a tale as old as marketing. You don’t make billions in profits marketing and selling only to the wealthy.

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    have another client just getting the ball moving for 2023 project
    talking numbers and costs and she was kinda blown away
    she has two properties right now and wants another one
    the architect tells her to sell her townhome to free up some cash
    she says, "yeah that was a total mistake, I forgot I put an offer on that place and my offer was accepted so I figured I had to buy it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    Well, on second thought, makes sense. Sink your money into an appreciating asset, avoid wasting it on depreciating assets. There's a reason she's wealthy.

    The world is upside down. Multi million dollar Breck homeowners drive old cars, bartenders and cube jockeys with negative net worth drive 80,000 dollar pickup trucks.
    Yes. The baristas spend too much on shit.

    And also yes. But real estate isn’t necessarily appreciating. It’s just that everything including real estate is inflating.

    Money is rent seeking to keep value from inflation these days.
    In locations they and other rich people hang out.

    It’s hard to build here for less than $300 a foot.
    So to build 3k sq ft is $900k?

    It’s fucked.
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    It’s hard to build here for less than $300 a foot.
    So to build 3k sq ft is $900k?

    It’s fucked.
    $300 a sq ft is a good deal from the builders I know in town. EVERYTHING is going up. Welcome to the new normal.
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    I think you'd have an easier time understanding people if you remembered that 80% of them are fucking morons.
    That is why I like dogs, more than most people.

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    Conversation starts at $500 sq. $450 sq ft was so 2021.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fastfred View Post
    Conversation starts at $500 sq. $450 sq ft was so 2021.
    Yeah I know. $300 is base minimum here.
    If you use illegal labor and cut corners.

    But plenty of nice houses hit $500 plus

    It’s so fucked.
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by fastfred View Post
    paying 30 bucks for some artisan wood fired pizza fad needs to go away
    My favorite place just went to >$40 for their XL nice pizzas, like a $15 increase. I used to order one a week and live off it for 3 meals.
    No wood fire or "artisanal" BS either.

    Quote Originally Posted by fastfred View Post
    breckenridge you can hang out here not draw any attention to yourself and do what you want which works out well for some people
    I don't even understand what this is supposed to mean...?
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    skiing is hiking all day so that you can ski on shitty gear for 5 minutes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Summit View Post
    My favorite place just went to >$40 for their XL nice pizzas, like a $15 increase. I used to order one a week and live off it for 3 meals.
    You should try getting diagnosed with Celiac like me. Then you can order gluten free and it's half the size at twice the price

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    Contract signings dropped by 4.1% last month from January and were down 5.4% year over year with all four regions in the U.S. seeing a decline, according to the latest data from the National Association of
    "Pending transactions diminished in February mainly due to the low number of homes for sale," said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. "Buyer demand is still intense, but it’s as simple as ‘one cannot buy what is not for sale.’

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    Quote Originally Posted by goldenboy View Post
    You should try getting diagnosed with Celiac like me. Then you can order gluten free and it's half the size at twice the price
    Just make your own with that cauliflower crust. It is actually pretty good. My wife has been gf for a while now and I just go along with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Summit View Post
    My favorite place just went to >$40 for their XL nice pizzas, like a $15 increase. I used to order one a week and live off it for 3 meals.
    No wood fire or "artisanal" BS either.


    I don't even understand what this is supposed to mean...?
    The middle ground between dominos and premium is dead

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldnew_guy View Post
    Contract signings dropped by 4.1% last month from January and were down 5.4% year over year with all four regions in the U.S. seeing a decline, according to the latest data from the National Association of
    "Pending transactions diminished in February mainly due to the low number of homes for sale," said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. "Buyer demand is still intense, but it’s as simple as ‘one cannot buy what is not for sale.’
    I can't believe that guy is still around in the same position. He spewed so much bullshit during the '08 crash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liv2ski View Post
    $300 a sq ft is a good deal from the builders I know in town. EVERYTHING is going up. Welcome to the new normal.
    Wow you can barely build a garage in Tahoe for that price. It's like Monopoly money up here. Completing the project is the hard part right now with so many shortages of materials and labor. Many people don't care about the cost they just want it done. This ride is far from over.
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