If they don’t have this down there you should start it up 😂
OT: Is this the most insane real estate market?
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A lot?? How about 99.9999% of towns don't do that. I had no idea it was even a thing
Create a separate company that only bring the garbage cans from the house to the curb and back.
I thought my nephew In Ridgewood mentioned they bring the cans to the side of the house which I just verified. If you can afford it in the property taxes, go for it.
Residents of SH and AV don't ever need to touch yucky garbage cans!
#sevenmileislandlife
I grew up in east rutherford and the garbage men would return the cans to the side of your house
Don’t know if they still do, this was decades ago
Anyway, in todays world I don’t think you can expect that, let alone demand it
anymore
Latest statistics from CoreLogic through February:
- Housing has gone up almost 20% year over year.
- Average monthly payment on a mortgage has increased $550 a month year over year
Clearly not sustainable and we should see a big slow down in purchasing/demand which should hopefully loosen up the supply constraints.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/home-prices-jumped-20percent-in-february-slowdown-may-be-coming-sp-case-shiller.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
- Housing has gone up almost 20% year over year.
- Average monthly payment on a mortgage has increased $550 a month year over year
Clearly not sustainable and we should see a big slow down in purchasing/demand which should hopefully loosen up the supply constraints.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/home-prices-jumped-20percent-in-february-slowdown-may-be-coming-sp-case-shiller.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
These houses are hard to find now with more people doing flips and inventory is already tight.
Even the “worst house on the block” is so insanely over-speculated to the point where you’re better off just saving the extra cash to buy the better home.
not to mention any major work like a kitchens or advanced bathroom renovations are a complete s***show with shortages and budget overruns. If you need a contractor there is a decent chance your project is delayed 12-18 months if it can be completed at all.
One thing we've noticed while looking is the large number of 4/5 bedroom colonials built between 1975-1985 WITHOUT AC. Can anyone shed light on why this was? What did they think the earth was going to cool or something? Can't imagine why these were built this way, our summer climate is brutal, it's not like we're in Oregon or New England.
more surprising that the any of the owners since then didn't put central AC in after the fact.
My parents home never had AC. My mom finally put a window unit in when she turned 90 a few years back. That generation never had it so they felt they didn’t need it. Depression era thinking
Yeah but the people buying houses 1975 to 1985 and starting families were not the depression era kids . They were their kids . But they grew up with no central AC too
Got the AC on right now! Wife and little one need the house down to 72 or below for sleeping. :)
FYI - Spent Sat afternoon in SH and then stopped off in the OC for Gillian's and dinner at Piccini. Awesome day. :)
I'm at 70 degree's right now with no AC. Could make it cooler if I opened the windows, but it is damp out there.
Too humid to cool down the house. We have southern exposure so any sunshine heats up the house quite a bit. Got to 76 in here today. No good for the bosses.
Saw a headline that a 1,500 Sq ft meth house sold for nearly $600K, which is probably a deal now but multiple times what it would have been without the meth a few years ago. Didn't even think you could sell a meth house before having it de-methed.
Question is, did it double as a pipehouse as well?
you do not want to have to de-pipe a pipehouse
We ultimately got the house. The offer above us fell apart. Out of attorney review.
Our current house is primped and ready to hit the market Friday.
Gillians is a classic if you have little kids. Sadly a guy died there on Monday when he fell while working on one of the rides.
I agree with this. Plus my wife and son have allergies so I rarely ever open the windows. They are much better that way.
Wow, WTF? Which ride? There aren't make big rides there. I remember they had that runaway train rollercoaster, but it was taking down after only a few years. Someone said there was a safety issue. That was a big ride to scrap.
Not much open on Saturday, but enough to keep the little one happy. Also, very small crowd.
I definitely get Action Park vibes from Gillians sometimes lol
Fall protection and safety harnesses are your friend when working up high
62-Year-Old Robert Sanger Dies After Falling From Lift At Gillian's Wonderland Pier In Ocean City, New Jersey
A subcontractor died after falling from a lift while working on a ride at a pier in Ocean City, New Jersey.
philadelphia.cbslocal.com
Bought our Farm in 2012. Don't ask me how, but for once in our life we timed something out perfectly. It wasn't planned just completely by happenstance. Bought it for $350k at 3.58%, my buddy who's an agent (didn't sell us this place) said to me, "as soon as you turn that key you already made $30k".
We've decided to put off some of our farmhouse renovations till the recession hits, we'll get more bang for our buck. We just got hit real hard for the last barn and pasture fencing. Soon guys will be dying for work.
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Bought in October last year in Hunterdon County. This was our first home and it still went a little over ask but got our mortgage at 2.99% basically right before it started to shoot up so we did get a little lucky.
I feel that. More of a western exposure, but the lack of trees and intense sun in semi-arid climate does the same, preheating the house like an oven throughout the day. Gets hotter indoors than out if I don't run the AC, and in summer, gotta use an oven mitt for the metal door know
Been running the AC in the afternoon the past few weeks to get the temp down by evening, then shutting it off before it drops to the 50s at night. Feels wasteful in comfortable spring weather, but not spending the night sweating, tossing and turning!
Couldn't you force your crew to build brick walls for cheaper barns and fencing? The three little pigs prefer brick barns.
Yes, it was an estate sale. The outside farm was completely rundown, every weed had turned into a tree. But I had guys and machines to work on that. The house exterior was in good shape. All I needed was a disco ball, some lava lamps and a bean bag chair, then we were all set on our interior decor. We only have 8.5 acres. But I looked it up to see how we scammed this one, 2012 was considered rock bottom of the housing market. What was good is we were able to buy well below our means and could make everything the way we wanted it.
We got raped on the last Barn and fence this year. 2yrs. ago my Pole barn shop 36' x 60' cost us $30k for the structure (not including everything else) my Barn this year 36' x42' over $50k. The fence I had one done 2 yrs. ago as well, transposed those numbers to this year. This one came out over a 1/3 more. I highly doubt the Mennonite boys from Lancaster were trying to scam me as material costs had gone through the roof.
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Now that you mention Lancaster, who did you use for your fence? I used J-Mar, which isn’t in Lancaster, but very close.
L&B fencing. They're not in Lancaster either, actually East Earl but I call everyone out there as being from Lancaster. 😁 My Pole Barn guys came from the same area, Leola, PA. If you're getting a large amount of linear feet your best pricing is going to be from that area. Pole Barns the same thing, J-Mar and my places are all located roughly in the same area.
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