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Thread: Real Estate Crash thread
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01-24-2022, 07:30 PM #19476
That is an exceptionally ill conceived policy. I've heard about that from someone else, but have never been able to find the actual law(s). Do you happen to know what the laws that control that 3% increase are?
Our local school district pay scale starts teachers $35k and caps out at $65k after 10 years of service with an advanced degree in a place where you can't buy a house for less than $800k. We're not going to have teachers if we don't find a way to fix that.
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01-24-2022, 07:57 PM #19477one of those sickos
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ID politicians are probably just fine with having no teachers. An ignorant population is easy to manipulate.
ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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01-24-2022, 08:20 PM #19478
I just think that there are going to be a shitload of people that went into a bidding war in a place they maybe only visited, if that, sitting there with crappy cable, if they even have cable, in the middle of a dismal winter, with Jack shit around them and the closest food market a half hour away, thinking, to quote David Byrne, what have I done? We've learned recently that their beloved Peloton bikes are now clothes hangers, so that's over, and I'll bet it's only a matter of time before they come to their senses and go home.
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01-24-2022, 08:35 PM #19479Registered User
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benny will shut the fuck up
sometimes you say something that is logical
but whens the last time you been to portland?
fuck portland has been on the up and up for decades
it's an awesome place and would be the bomb to live in the city limits the closer to congress st the better
when J's oyster disappears yeah portland is doomed until then nope
spent my youth getting absolutely fucked up down by the piers and it was awesome
would consider moving there today seriously
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01-24-2022, 08:39 PM #19480
Oh, sure, you and I and a lot of skiers. But most people don't ski. They saw Portland in August, and now they're stuck there in January ready to murder someone.
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01-24-2022, 09:08 PM #19481man of ice
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It's not that bad, the ocean definitely has a moderating influence. Much milder than 10 miles inland. Most days somewhere around 30, plus or minus. Damp cold when it's gray, which is pretty often.
I love that place, we almost bought there before we bought here but big-city amenities within an hour's drive were eventually judged to be a requirement by herself.
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01-24-2022, 10:27 PM #19482Hucked to flat once
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I want to be perfectly clear that I think the education funding in Idaho is abmismal and should be changed. Also that I bet we'd get along in real life. But need to point out that I'm not shocked that someone recently moved to Idaho and then doesn't like how Idaho does it. These houses didn't used to be $800k until a bunch of people moved here.
https://tax.idaho.gov/i-1129.cfm
https://legislature.idaho.gov/statut...h8/sect63-802/
Edit. Look at the local school bonds tied to property value that communities continue to assess on themselves while the R's win votes because they "reduce taxes". It's a lack of political courage from both the politicians and the voters. But, teachers salaries did used to be able to afford houses at one point in Idaho even in the Benny quote "trophy towns". I don't blame people for moving here...seems like some tone deafness coming from some on the cost of living being driven up though.Last edited by Conundrum; 01-24-2022 at 10:51 PM.
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01-24-2022, 10:52 PM #19483
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01-24-2022, 11:08 PM #19484
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01-24-2022, 11:26 PM #19485
The main reason we currently live in JH and not Victor is because we weren’t gonna put our kid into Idaho schools, no way, no how. I still plan on retiring there, though.
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01-24-2022, 11:30 PM #19486Hucked to flat once
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Long time locals that can no longer afford rent? People who would take lower paying jobs but they can't afford to move there while competing with newly minted WFHomers making big city wages for companies not paying local corporate taxes?
Hey, I've lived here my whole life and was raised by teachers. I agree with your political sentiment for the most part. Just thought you could have left the part off about real estate cost after you moved from out of state to a resort town while bringing you and your wife's WFH incomes to the local housing pricing scheme. It's everyone's right to move where they want but I think we can all admit some irony in some of these situations.
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01-24-2022, 11:38 PM #19487
Yep. Used to be you had to be willing to pay the "scenery tax" if you wanted to live in the rural West, and only a certain type of person was willing to make the sacrifice. Now with WFH we are seeing a massive flipflop in what type of people live here. And not to offend anybody but they are mostly not the type of people I really want to live around. That's a very general sentiment but the more I come in contact with the more I think I'm right in my assessment.
Anyway, when it comes to real estate...our kids are fucked.
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01-24-2022, 11:50 PM #19488
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01-24-2022, 11:51 PM #19489Hucked to flat once
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The reason I say what I do is I've met many folks moving here and most say apologetically "We moved here because it's awesome and don't worry, we're not the type of people who move and then try to change things". It's almost like they know that the mass migration might change things but they don't want anyone to blame them. And I don't. I'd probably move too.
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01-24-2022, 11:52 PM #19490Hucked to flat once
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01-24-2022, 11:58 PM #19491
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01-25-2022, 12:06 AM #19492
I moved from one mountain town that got too expensive and busy, to another mountain town that was cheap and empty, which now has became expensive and busy.
Am I part of the problem, or do I get to be indignant towards people who moved after me?
Qualifications:
1. Bought a cheap ass house on a low ball offer. Did a normal mortgage. No bidding wars.
2. I have not registered to vote.
3. I employ 4 people at good wages in town.
4. I am jaded and crusty.
5. I know how to change my own oil.
Disqualifications:
1. Work in Tech.
2. Own multiple GOTOS adjacent vehicles.
3. Get to the mountain early and am part of the early AM liftline arms race.
4. Didn't go to high school here, and brought a woman with me so didn't get to sample the local STDs.
5. Haven't divorced wife to add her to the small dating pool.
Am I good?
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01-25-2022, 12:07 AM #19493Hucked to flat once
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Do you complain about where you moved to?
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01-25-2022, 12:19 AM #19494
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01-25-2022, 12:24 AM #19495Hucked to flat once
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God speed.
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01-25-2022, 12:28 AM #19496
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01-25-2022, 12:29 AM #19497Hucked to flat once
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Guaranteed.
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01-25-2022, 12:32 AM #19498
My understanding of the reasoning was that this was supposed to cap property tax rate increases (to protect long time residents) and tamp down over-exuberance during RE spikes, on the assumption that they wouldn't last.
I'm not going to defend it, either. But to your point: the place is already very different than when this was instituted. I think the imports and time have shifted our politics and now the politicians are leaning into the "fiscal conservative" messaging. But my taxes were lower in WA (though it's been a while now).
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01-25-2022, 01:17 AM #19499
Wayne Hoffman and the Idaho Freedumb Foundation are lobbying to get rid of foregone too. At a time when entities can barely keep up.
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01-25-2022, 06:35 AM #19500
Ha...you guys get it. Remember, their important salary signals that they are smarter than us, they have all the answers and we should listen. They probably don't wave when walking the dog, think all problems can be solved by an infinite email string but won't meet in person and proclaim outrange that the plumber charges $200/hr. and can't get there for a couple of months.
As mentioned, I'd don't hold it against anyone for moving here. I will hold you attitude against you if you are too self absorbed to realize that people that don't early a living locally make it more difficult for some of those that do.
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