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Is there a housing shortage across the U.S.? There sure is one where I live. My wife would love to find a house with an in ground pool or on the lake. Ever since the Covid pandemic, people don't seem to be traveling as much and want a pool or a lake house as well where I live. Every time we look at a house with a pool or it's on the lake, it's way over priced! Even when we find a house that we like that is barely in our price range, the owner will get multiple offers that turns into a bid war and on average, the highest offer ends up being around $30K over the asking price. 
This is very frustrating for us! We will both be retiring soon and don't want to get strapped financially. The house we live in now is nice and is almost paid off, but apparently, wifey needs water. Having an in ground pool installed is very expensive now! Starting price is $40K.
This is very frustrating for us! We will both be retiring soon and don't want to get strapped financially. The house we live in now is nice and is almost paid off, but apparently, wifey needs water. Having an in ground pool installed is very expensive now! Starting price is $40K.
Ended up in TN with a house that is remodeled no mountain view no land just a yard have to drive a few minutes to see my mountain view and no creek on the property. We did get a neighborhood rooster that is gorgeous and frequents our yard regularly and I am still building my raised beds for garden in the yard. The house does have a new roof and is quite nice as I would not give on a price we wanted to spend and now our housing costs are less than half what they were in Florida. I am still accumulating money and still watching the houses go up in price which is crazy but we are in cooler weather and we are in TN. I can drive to Gatlinburg in less time than living in Florida and can see my mountains in less than 15 minutes....so I will take this all as a win.... But yes there is a housing shortage....
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Yes I'm up remixing the audio on my drum solo, and editing it down to just a short clip where I think it's the most interesting. I probably won't post it here though. Maybe on one of my facebook drumming groups. I posted the other one in a drum group but it didn't really get any likes I hope its because my audio mix made the volume too low and hard to hear. IDK. I've been developing my soloing skills every day for about a year and thought I had something really good and I've been playing drums for over 40 years. I have all these useless talents and I spent years developing each one and I've been finding out these past few years that people really don't care about them. I should have known. Anyway, its time for beddy bye. Hope you're having a great day.
I'm up remixing the audio on my drum solo, and editing it down to just a short clip where I think it's the most interesting. I probably won't post it here though. Maybe on one of my facebook drumming groups. I posted the other one in a drum group but it didn't really get any likes I hope its because my audio mix made the volume too low and hard to hear. IDK. I've been developing my soloing skills every day for about a year and thought I had something really good and I've been playing drums for over 40 years. I have all these useless talents and I spent years developing each one and I've been finding out these past few years that people really don't care about them. I should have known. Anyway, its time for beddy bye. Hope you're having a great day.-
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Yes I'm up remixing the audio on my drum solo, and editing it down to just a short clip where I think it's the most interesting. I probably won't post it here though. Maybe on one of my facebook drumming groups. I posted the other one in a drum group but it didn't really get any likes I hope its because my audio mix made the volume too low and hard to hear. IDK. I've been developing my soloing skills every day for about a year and thought I had something really good and I've been playing drums for over 40 years. I have all these useless talents and I spent years developing each one and I've been finding out these past few years that people really don't care about them. I should have known. Anyway, its time for beddy bye. Hope you're having a great day.
I'm up remixing the audio on my drum solo, and editing it down to just a short clip where I think it's the most interesting. I probably won't post it here though. Maybe on one of my facebook drumming groups. I posted the other one in a drum group but it didn't really get any likes I hope its because my audio mix made the volume too low and hard to hear. IDK. I've been developing my soloing skills every day for about a year and thought I had something really good and I've been playing drums for over 40 years. I have all these useless talents and I spent years developing each one and I've been finding out these past few years that people really don't care about them. I should have known. Anyway, its time for beddy bye. Hope you're having a great day.
Well I guess everyone is asleep and I was in such a talkative mood and overthinking lol.
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And you are in a rural location. It's much worse inside of the big cities of TN...I'm in Nashville...much much worse here and multiple times more expensive. Finding an apartment is difficult. We have 80+ people moving here each day.
Residential construction is done by the lowest common denominator of the construction world. These are the guys unfit to do commercial/industrial construction...ones that usually have chemical dependant issues to where they can't show up to work on time or sober. The least skilled or knowledgeable. Also illegal immigrants flourish in this trade as they don't have to have papers to work. So English is not their primary language.
Most framing is done in a factory anymore. A jig is loaded and nail gunned together and trucked out to a preformed foundation of some kind.
Stick construction is almost a thing of the past.
Then there's a huge variety in the types of materials used to build a house lately. Heavy wall rigid copper plumbing is almost never used anymore. Pex or cpvc is the material of choice. Thin-walled copper is overpriced and sold as if it's heavy walled copper. Pex is good...but mice can't eat it fast enough and the connections are notorious for going bad.
Then the wiring? Codes are extreme for this area. So your house won't burn down...but don't expect plugs to be convenient or that you can do extra wiring for speakers, computer controls, cameras, or something else easily anymore. So make sure that you have it installed when your home is built.
Today's homes focus on the trim...nice bathrooms and kitchens and outside trim... otherwise they are fairly well neglected.
But that's what can make a home really good...the bones of the house.
Great wiring, great plumbing, good foundation, and good framing. Everything else is cosmetics.
(Even the garbage disposal)
Every house needs maintenance...lots and lots of it. Just like they need cleaning and the lawn mowed.
"Bubba" has done some remodeling everywhere... hasn't thought through any of it. So fixing what Bubba did is sometimes a nightmare. And you want to cry over the loss of poorly used/installed expensive materials that just ended up wasting them.
Residential construction is done by the lowest common denominator of the construction world. These are the guys unfit to do commercial/industrial construction...ones that usually have chemical dependant issues to where they can't show up to work on time or sober. The least skilled or knowledgeable. Also illegal immigrants flourish in this trade as they don't have to have papers to work. So English is not their primary language.
Most framing is done in a factory anymore. A jig is loaded and nail gunned together and trucked out to a preformed foundation of some kind.
Stick construction is almost a thing of the past.
Then there's a huge variety in the types of materials used to build a house lately. Heavy wall rigid copper plumbing is almost never used anymore. Pex or cpvc is the material of choice. Thin-walled copper is overpriced and sold as if it's heavy walled copper. Pex is good...but mice can't eat it fast enough and the connections are notorious for going bad.
Then the wiring? Codes are extreme for this area. So your house won't burn down...but don't expect plugs to be convenient or that you can do extra wiring for speakers, computer controls, cameras, or something else easily anymore. So make sure that you have it installed when your home is built.
Today's homes focus on the trim...nice bathrooms and kitchens and outside trim... otherwise they are fairly well neglected.
But that's what can make a home really good...the bones of the house.
Great wiring, great plumbing, good foundation, and good framing. Everything else is cosmetics.
(Even the garbage disposal)
Every house needs maintenance...lots and lots of it. Just like they need cleaning and the lawn mowed.
"Bubba" has done some remodeling everywhere... hasn't thought through any of it. So fixing what Bubba did is sometimes a nightmare. And you want to cry over the loss of poorly used/installed expensive materials that just ended up wasting them.
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HEAD OVER TO "THE LAST PERSON TO POST WINS" THREADS!!!!!!!
the more you post the more chances you have "winning", and since there are 2 threads make sure to post in both to double your chances
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HEAD OVER TO "THE LAST PERSON TO POST WINS" THREADS!!!!!!!
the more you post the more chances you have "winning", and since there are 2 threads make sure to post in both to double your chances
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Yes, you are correct It was her majesty as a young girl
And good morning, friends
It was her majesty as a young girl And good morning, friends
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