Real Estate Crash thread

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

“I solely relied on the word of my landlord, never really read the official requirements, and never called APCHA for clarifications. I’m now suicidal because of a note left on my door. But I look cute in this hat.”

LOL

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

A forever home is a 2 br rental unit? And based on that article, her income when she moved in was $37K. In Aspen. WTF does she do for a living, part time instagram influencer?

pretty much

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristenmcc/

[schuss]

We are saying the same thing. WP isn't Aspen and Granby isn't Carbondale.

We have an option to do it differently but we just put the blinders on and only consider the Aspen Model.

Everyone is wired differently and entirely to their own opinions. I just try and not paint with a broad brush.

I'm working on a kitchen remodel for a teacher and a heavy equipment mechanic. These are the type of people i enjoy being around. I got my fingers crossed that in 20 years. the option for the working class isn't subsidized for GTFO.



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To Foggys point many pages ago, the Aspen model picks winners rather than have a sustainable model with regular availability for working folks.
Periodic winning lottery ticket distribution is not how you solve this.

[J. Barron DeJong]

Weird that someone capable of completing graduate school thought the town would subsidize her for single occupancy of a 2 bed, 2 bath.

I’d assume she’s lying about her ignorance, but she says right up front that she always tells the truth.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Ha...the residents are the product. This is the solution. The chick with the hat is exactly the story the who's who want from their waitress. A very white, very medicated smile. This ain't no resort in Mexico.

Reminds me of when I was rental shop manager. It was time for the pre Spring Break chat about showing up 15mins late in your ski clothes stinking of weed and beer. One of my best employees and friends made the point that , "yeah, but that's what the customers want from their ski tech".

He was right. Gotta maintain the venner that it's all smiles in the up valley ski town. It's good for business.



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[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

she says right up front that she always tells the truth.

should be a used car salesperson with that kind of honesty.

[Danno]

pretty much

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristenmcc/

For fuck's sake.

Fashion, Nature & Sports Model
Vail Resorts · Contract
Skills: Snowboarding · Laughing · Teamwork · Summer Activities · Acting

[Danno]

and a nanny/baby sitter is a "child care specialist"

[Ted Striker]

A forever home is a 2 br rental unit?

Yeah, that's what struck me. The idea that a rental - the very definition of not permanent - could be her forever home is a big disconnect from reality. Add to that the idea that it's subsidized, smh.

But the chef's kiss is really the "poor rich people” with their thousands/millions inheritances pulling a slightly better scam than her cringe. "What do you mean I'm going to jail for knocking over Convenience Stores? My peers are robbing banks"

Don't know wtf her post-grad is going to be, but her parents should demand their money back.

[Foggy_Goggles]

"I move here for a job"

Yeah, which one. Jump inside the bubble and you'll see that this is all day every day. My guess is that the establishment is just fired up that she figured out their racket so quickly and didn't pay by their rules.

This is pretty close to scorched earth. There is a response plan being crafted right now.

Who gonna link this thread in the online comments? That what TGR could become. Like the kids having a food fight during Thanksgiving sitting at the card table in the hallway.

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[Foggy_Goggles]

My can't you live in a rental forever? It's very common in the rest if the world.

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[Danno]

The article is posted on the Aspen Daily News FB page: https://www.facebook.com/aspendailyn...su69WtKRuGPQcl

The comments are not kind to her.

[Ted Striker]

It's very common in the rest if the world.

So is Tuberculosis

[XXX-er]

Even here in small town I know people who could have owned but they just don't want to don't want to own altho with rentals as they are they might be questioning their choices

sometimes its circumstance or bad choices but someones gotta rent my basement suite

her flowers look great and she gave me smoked salmon yesturday

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

The article is posted on the Aspen Daily News FB page: https://www.facebook.com/aspendailyn...su69WtKRuGPQcl

The comments are not kind to her.

Brutal.

[fastfred]

I was gonna pay my car and note until I got high (say what say what?)
I wasn't gonna gamble on the boat but then I got high (uh uh)
Now the tow truck is pullin' away and I know why (why man)

[Ikon_Police]

While I could not care less about someone losing their "forever" apartment of only a few months, she at least hits the nail by calling out the bullshit income manipulation every affordable resident I know of has done.

But yeah, the hat. Hard to sympathize.

Yeah I mean it's all cringe but she is right about the income manipulation game. I know a dude here in "low income" new construction he bought a few years ago. He loves to tell people how he gamed the system etc. He owns a business, had every fucking toy, brand new camper/truck/drift boat/sleds/fly rods/hunting shit/etc etc etc etc. The whole complex is the same shit. On paper he probably makes 10k as an employee of his own S-corp, but the corp is making 150-200k easily I bet and he is the only employee. It's all a game in most mountain towns now. I know of several actually low income people who tried to apply and "Sorry it's all spoken for...." was the answer because they hadn't gone on enough raft trips and shared enough joints with the people in charge of the application process.

[dunfree]

To Foggys point many pages ago, the Aspen model picks winners rather than have a sustainable model with regular availability for working folks.
Periodic winning lottery ticket distribution is not how you solve this.

failure to build adequate housing stock picks winners and losers. Foggy likes to bitch about how Aspen picks the winners because he likes to play redneck culture warrior (see also casual misogyny).

[fastfred]

Yeah I mean it's all cringe but she is right about the income manipulation game. I know a dude here in "low income" new construction he bought a few years ago. He loves to tell people how he gamed the system etc. He owns a business, had every fucking toy, brand new camper/truck/drift boat/sleds/fly rods/hunting shit/etc etc etc etc. The whole complex is the same shit. On paper he probably makes 10k as an employee of his own S-corp, but the corp is making 150-200k easily I bet and he is the only employee. It's all a game in most mountain towns now. I know of several actually low income people who tried to apply and "Sorry it's all spoken for...." was the answer because they hadn't gone on enough raft trips and shared enough joints with the people in charge of the application process.

this is it
I used to have a bunch of employees but no one wants to get a W2 at the end of the year
cause you can't play that game
its all cool till the irs audits you but chances are slim to none
90% of the boss truck is used for business yeah totally like pulling the drift boat to the put in that is also written off as a business expense

[Foggy_Goggles]

Nice IkonPolice...what town IKON.

Hey look Dufree showed just in time for lunch. Should I have ranch or balsamic? I'll bounce back and forth between online shopping for some bedazzled cowboy jeans, berating female admin staff at the build department and plotting my next move to improve my TGR character.

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[summit]

Hah that article....

I moved here less than a year ago an thought my local workforce 2br/2ba would be my "forever home!"(TM, follow me on insta). I did no due diligence and am surprised at the result! This is everyone's fault but mine! The world owes me!

Reminds me of my ex's attitude.

Sounds like this lady probably doesn't even meet the local workers requirements based on her profile. But hey, why wouldn't an instafluencer think that they deserve workforce housing?

[Mofro261]

So is Tuberculosis

I laffed.

[rideit]

That hat. That fucking hipster coachella hat.



Edit: ha! mcphee beat me to the hat callout.

And she IS a liar. Look at those ‘eyelashes’.

[Harry]

Her use of the word “y’all” in her closing paragraph is almost as cringeworthy as that hat.

[Danno]

was thumbing through the FB comments (which are uniformly brutal) and found this:



not sure if that worked, this is the link: https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net...tw&oe=64EAF470

$1400 for a lamp (aesthetics of the lamp is an entirely different story) for someone who makes as little as she does?