Cool here in Houston, tornado recovery mode in the city near my new BOL. Our local weather has been crazy variable this past week, so I’ve no idea what today will be like. USUALLY, I’d say cool and clear, warming later in the day. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. 50F when I went to bed.
Spent the day at home doing not as much as I’d like to have done. Even fell asleep, despite getting a whole 5 hours of sleep at night. I’m beginning to suspect I need more sleep than I’m getting 😉
Today I’m driving up to the BOL to check on things, meet with the septic service, and possibly meet with the slab repair guy. I want to meet the slab guy, but he hasn’t committed to a time yet. Hence my waffling on staying up there overnight. If I have to I will, so that I can meet the guy on Friday. I’m sure I’ll find plenty to do to fill my time. Painting, tree trimming, measuring and drawing, or yard work all come to mind for diversion and fun…
On the way up, I’ll stop and do two auction pickups. One is a huge trove of scanners and some related parts, the other is just a light fixture for the new place. I’m saving only $20 on the fixture, but I’ll be going right by the pickup anyway, and every bit helps.
I went to Home Depot and Lowes last night and was blown away by the increase in prices. I was specifically looking for fencing, an antenna support pole (more fencing), and gutters. OMFG. Fencing and plumbing parts are priced through the roof. And 8 ft 2×4 lumber was over $8 a stick. I don’t know how anyone is doing building or remodeling with prices like that. I guess with all the free money, if you’re financing anyway, a couple extra hundred on your monthly payment is doable… until it isn’t. I’ll be checking out a couple of the secondary building material stores around me looking for bargains for the new place. More secondary economy. And I’ll be hitting the old faithfuls- habitat for humanity reStores.
I think you’ll need to be a bit of a scrounger to keep moving forward in the coming downturn. Knowing how to do it yourself, or fix it yourself will be important too, and knowing someone ELSE who could do those things won’t hurt. Being that someone else might be a good place to be…
Stack up some skills. Stack up what you need to practice those skills. Stack up nodes in your network.
Stack.
nick
51F and 59%RH. Perhaps not as damp as I thought it would be. Hopefully the day will dawn clear and sunny.
n
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/boom-russia-now-demands-europe-pay-gas-rubles/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/former-secretary-state-madeleine-albright-dead-84/
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/starlink-blames-excessive-levels-inflation-they-slap-customers-price-hikes
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/food-inflation-primer
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/shanghai-authorities-urge-calm-amid-surge-panic-buying-stoked-lockdown-fears
–it’s not panic buying, it’s prudent buying.
I've noticed a lot more Hughes Internet ads on the big talk radio station out of San Antonio as of late, in the wake of The Real Life Tony Stark (TM) increasing prices and delaying service rollouts.
My client is paying ATT to trench and pull fiber to his house over the next 2 months because starlink is not and will not be available in his county at this time or any specific time in the future.
Oh, and he had to become a business to qualify for the service.
n
Hmmmm. The new "normal" via thedailyupside.com:
Last month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, desperate to kickstart the midtown economy that’s still lagging due to remote jobs, insisted to workers “you can't stay at home in your pajamas all day.”
A slew of new data this week shows that he was wrong, and workers in NYC and around the country are giving him the flannel-covered cold shoulder.
Toast of the Town
Before the pandemic, office workers were the lifeblood of Manhattan, accounting for one-third of all NYC jobs and two-thirds of the city’s gross domestic product. For every overstressed trader who drinks way too much coffee, there was a job for a barista to fire up the espresso machine. But then Covid turned Manhattan — where 70% of the 2.6 million people working there pre-pandemic were commuters — into a concrete jungle without all the animals.
Some politicians and business leaders expressed hope that office life would return to something like normal, but the latest data says it’s just not happening:
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The amount of vacant and about-to-be-vacated office space in Manhattan hit a record-high 17.4% in February, according to brokerage Colliers. The office occupancy rate in New York City — basically the percentage of people turning up to the workplace — was 37% last week compared to pre-pandemic volume, according to Kastle Systems.
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The average office occupancy rate in the 10 busiest US markets was only 39% of what it was before the pandemic. Even in Texas, home to lax Covid restrictions, occupancy rates are only 52% in Austin, 48% in Houston, and 47% in Dallas compared to before Covid.
The good news is, even if Manhattan isn't drawing the same number of workers, it's once again seen as a desirable place to live. The median rental price surged to $3,630 per month in February, or 7% higher than pre-pandemic February 2020, according to real estate firm Douglas Elliman.
Back to Normal, Not to the Office: Attendance at NBA games is 93% of pre-pandemic levels, according to ESPN data. Traffic at TSA checkpoints is 87% of what it was, seated dining bookings on Open Table are 86% of what they were, and movie theater attendance monitored by Box Office Mojo is at 80% of what it was. People might like their pajamas during work hours, but clearly find no trouble getting dressed for more exciting reasons to leave the house.
You Ain't Got No Ice Cream.
Texas sold its regulatory soul to get AT&T to lay fiber in the state.
We had a power outage in our neighborhood for three hours on Monday, and, by the end of the outage, every telecom service was out at my house except for my copper phone line and talk/text on T-Mobile.
So much for the new backup generator at the cell tower around the corner. My guess is that's AT&T’s site, but they all lease space from each other.
I'm not in NYC, but I do work for a Fortune 500 company (last group of 50, but still…). They are about as progressive as you can get. Almost daily messages about inclusion and diversity, celebrating everything weird and different, save the earth, etc.
We are building a new building (after being in our current one for only 7 years). Our group was purchased by BigCo a few years ago, and they have been slowly exercising their might. The design of the new building is being completely driven by BigCo. Lots of "meet-up" spaces, tons of open workspaces for teleworkers to come in and and work at, excessive open gathering areas, etc. Yet in our location, we deal with gov customers and classified data. Our new secure area is smaller, wastes the space that is there, and is in general just a bad design. No understanding of how we work and no cares given.
BigCo is still all in on teleworking, but I see cracks happening. There have been mentions from up high that managers need to start developing plans on having people in offices a couple days a week. I predict that after a year, everyone will be back in the office full time. Of course, our new building won't be configured for that. I'm sure BigCo cares about the peons who will have to suffer. Really.
Well, it's here. Yesterday's high was 88F wnd my patio gauge was at 90. Inside reached 79 and I turned my thermostat from heat to cool and went for 77. And electric rates keep rising. Who do they think is going to pay PG&E's fine for those fires?
In a year, the C-suites will resume canning people for "policy" violations, as they started to do leading up to the pandemic.
That's my concern with bureaucrats like FauXi. "Oh, sorry, your first two are out of date for the booster. Get two more, spread out over two weeks, then six months later, get a booster. Make sure it is all recorded on our official form or it is not valid."
Too much power and influence.
Have you considered buying a red Silverado, just to be on the safe side?
There's a gene for that…
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-identified-people-who-need-little-sleep
A lot of people have automatic billing in place for utilities like the electric bill and never balance their checkbooks so they are oblivious about the cost of electricity. Generally, the number is such a small portion of the monthly expenses that it seems to be "free", a thought process that leads to purchases of Tonymobiles to "save money".
>> (from Tuesday) In the ongoing quest to find all of her father's assets, the wife just found out that her recently passed away (18 months ago) father owns 107 shares of Berkshire Class B stock.
Make a list of your assets for your inheritors ! And she has no idea where the share certificate is of course.
Don't forget to check your state's Abandoned Property website for escheated funds. And any other states they may have lived in/done business in. And avoid any third-party sites that want to charge you a fee to do the searching.
My son just got a check for $2,000 from NYS for accumulated dividends on some Disney stock he had been gifted years ago.
"USPS Orders First 50,000 Oshkosh Ugly Ducklings, Coming to a Street Near You"
See https://www.autoevolution.com/news/usps-orders-first-50000-oshkosh-ugly-ducklings-coming-to-a-street-near-you-184777.html
Sort of funny-looking, but they will have heating/AC and 360 degree cameras. Of those 50,000 ordered, 10,000 are to be EVs.
"The service will have to wait a long time to get them all though, as production is not expected to begin before 2023, in a new facility being outfitted in Spartanburg, South Carolina. " (near our host here, as I recall)
For a USPS vehicle functionality should trump looks any day of the week. Quack, quack.
They look like Pacers.
Agreed. 1000%. Postal vehicles have always been ugly, we just got used to them.
Why does USPS need a custom-designed delivery vehicle? Here in UK, the Royal Mail uses commercial vans for the job.
G.
I went to Home Depot and Lowes last night and was blown away by the increase in prices. I was specifically looking for fencing, an antenna support pole (more fencing), and gutters. OMFG. Fencing and plumbing parts are priced through the roof. And 8 ft 2×4 lumber was over $8 a stick. I don’t know how anyone is doing building or remodeling with prices like that. I guess with all the free money, if you’re financing anyway, a couple extra hundred on your monthly payment is doable… until it isn’t. I’ll be checking out a couple of the secondary building material stores around me looking for bargains for the new place. More secondary economy. And I’ll be hitting the old faithfuls- habitat for humanity reStores.
Coventry Homes is building a 8,000 ft2 to 10,000 ft2 house on 1.2 acres three lots down from my home. They started framing Monday. There is probably $100,000 of wood going into that two story house with two double garages attached to the house.
Clocks go forward by one hour this Sunday, in UK and Europe. The date is harmonised to be the same throughout the region. Why it is different from the date America uses, I do not know.
G.
Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24
Oh no. Oh no.
>> Why does USPS need a custom-designed delivery vehicle? Here in UK, the Royal Mail uses commercial vans for the job.
Because politicians and their need for pork. Nuff said.
My client is paying ATT to trench and pull fiber to his house over the next 2 months because starlink is not and will not be available in his county at this time or any specific time in the future.
Oh, and he had to become a business to qualify for the service.
n
$500/month with a five year contract for 10 / 10 mbps fiber. 1,000 / 1,000 mbps is $1,200/month.
At least that is the service tiers AT&T quoted to me at my commercial office building. I may do it too.
AT&T offered the 1/4 mile trenching to me for free with the five year contract.
They look like Pacers.
Agreed. 1000%. Postal vehicles have always been ugly, we just got used to them.
There will be another 250,000 vehicles ordered as soon as it is clear to USPS that the vehicles will work.
My, that is a big front windshield.
$3 billion for 50,000 vehicles is $60,000 each. Not a bad price. The electric drivetrain makes sense in this case.
The vehicle that they are replacing is just an old 2WD Jeep with a custom body.
My great grandfather used to deliver mail in Pottsboro, TX back in the 1930s and 1940s using a Ford Model A with the accelerator on the steering column. He built a brake pedal assembly on the passenger side and controlled the speed with the column accelerator.
>> Clocks go forward by one hour this Sunday, in UK and Europe. The date is harmonised to be the same throughout the region. Why it is different from the date America uses, I do not know.
Because politicians and the gooberment.
Scroll down to this section: 2005–2009: Second extension
Why does USPS need a custom-designed delivery vehicle? Here in UK, the Royal Mail uses commercial vans for the job.
G.
Oshkosh has built hundreds of thousands of light 2.5 ton trucks for the Army. Fairly good vehicle as long as you don't go over 50 mph. The diesel engine runs off JP4 or JP8 just fine.
USPS is going to buy at least 300,000 vehicles. They will take each vehicle to 250,000+ miles unless they get crashed. They will throw a half ton to a ton of mail in each vehicle every day. You need something a little bit tougher for that kind of duty.
"Biden Says to Expect ‘Real’ Food Shortages Due to Ukraine War"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-expect-real-food-175308088.html
And so it begins.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
I just took three days off from my three businesses. I did check my email almost hourly though and the wife brought contracts and checks home for me to sign so it was not a true vacation. I emailed with a business partner and talked to my CPA amongst other things.
I can tell retirement will not be pretty. I got up at noon, ate breakfast, watched Netflix (The Adam Project) and Hulu (binged 15 episodes of the House tv show), and went to bed at 4 am. The wife did not mention the words “lazy good for nothing” but I could tell she was holding it back.
I was supposed to get my new home PC built that I ordered the parts for back in August. That did not happen. I did get the parts organized on the breakfast table. That got me a nasty look when she came home.
Add in maintenance provided by complete morons.
Changing the oil is a challenge to these people. An EV or hybrid battery pack? Fuggedaboudit.
The EV version is strictly for politics. It won't last long in the field.
My neighbor in the cube farm at GTE was one of the developers of the software the company used to track fleet maintenance. His users were strictly left half of the bell curve, and they were the depot *managers*.
There's a gene for that…
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-identified-people-who-need-little-sleep
And in the future we may turn off that gene. "Beggars in Spain" by Nacy Kress.
https://www.amazon.com/Beggars-Spain-Nancy-Kress/dp/0060733489?tag=ttgnet-20/
Hugo and Nebula award winner back when Hugos meant something. Highly Recommended.
When I retired, I made a conscious decision not to become a TV couch potato. Even though there were lots of shows I could enjoy watching during the day.
So, I watch my laptop screen, doing programming, building/maintaining web sites, and a bit of book writing. Plus all the cooking and cleaning for the two of us. And some fiction reading.
I do get up at the crack of 9, but stay up late (usually midnight). I usually head into the den to watch TV around 7pm.
My first retirement (at age 63) lasted for about a year before I got another job after moving to Utah. That lasted 3 years until we moved to 'just opposite Mutiny Bay WA'.
In addition, a lot of these will go to rural routes, which in our part of the world means hundreds of miles every day on unpaved, ungraded, caliche roads, rocks and ruts, constant clouds of dust when it's dry, mud when it rains.
My rural carrier was just given an official van, so she no longer uses a personal vehicle which they used to reimburse mileage for. She was telling me that with the new van, there's dedicated service for anything it needs, so if she has a flat, they send out someone to change it, and it goes in about monthly for service, including oil changes, frequent replacement of brakes and tires, etc.
Usually, our rural carriers had to replace their tires 3 or 4 times a year with heavy duty off-road types, and brakes as often. She used to replace her vehicle every 4 years or so, and she said it was never worth anything because so worn out by then. She's enjoying no longer having to worry about maintenance or serviceability.
@all:
Thanks for all comments. Looks like I forgot the sheer size of the U.S. again. We in UK would be hard-put to find a route that's more than 800 miles long. @Ray, I think, drove 2,000 miles over a week or so.
The furthest I've ever driven was 1,200 miles, over 3 days, from London to the Costa Blanca, in Spain, and back a fortnight later. I did that 3 or 4 times, when I was much younger. But I wouldn't even contemplate repeating the exercise now, I'm way too decrepit.
But all interesting stuff, nonetheless.
G.
Yeah, common vans…. but here, at the center of the empire, well, we special. 🙂 Suck it commoner.
Just in case…. /s
"Gas prices may be bad now, but three leading CEOs warn there’s a bigger looming fuel crisis that would be a real nightmare"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-prices-may-bad-now-184039147.html
“Europe imports about half of its diesel from Russia and about half of its diesel from the Middle East,” Russell Hardy, CEO of energy trading company Vitol, said at the conference. “That systemic shortfall of diesel is there.”
KitchenAid Mixers….
My Mom bought a K5 when we lived in Mobile. 1969? It was very expensive. Then we moved to Texas in '72 or '73. She made a lot of bread. So much that store bought was a treat.
Mom and sisters made bread on Sunday. Eight loaves. One loaf vanished with lots of butter on Sunday while watching TV.
One of the planetary gears striped and it was three months at the Hobart place in Corpus Christi. It still works. I have no attachments, they all went away when the house was flooded. Pretty much a case of "what is this? I don't know, throw it away". The can opener was cool.
I bought a K5 at Sam's Club way back when Sam's was novel. Good enough for my Mommy, right? It's over 30 years old. Doesn't say Hobart but it's made in Ohio (I think). It just works.
My gate opener did a weird thing. It was closed one night. The next day it was misting and the dogs did their morning duties and right back into the house. Same for the rest of the day.
Finally some "decent" weather and we went up the the driveway to the gate. Gate is wide open. Seemed to be dead. But it opened as it died? Shrug. Google is of zero use.
I turned it off.
Today was warm enough and not blowing like a hurricane so I toted the volt meter and huh. So much for my idea of a bad battery. 13.55 volts and the same with the fuse pulled.
Turned the gate on and it works normally.
The battery can use a bit of water. Maybe a half cup.
I don't know. Perhaps the opener's little brain had a fart.
@paul – perhaps a drive-by remote control attack? Theoretically possible, but easy to do, especially with older doors that don't have 'rolling codes'. Rolling codes are harder to spoof, especially those that have a timeout. I would think that a gate opener works similar to the garage door opener.
Most newer remotes for openers have rolling codes. Some even have timeouts, so you can’t “catch” a code with another device and re-use it later.
If you are worried about it, I'd get a Wyze outdoor camera and stick it on a nearby post. The battery on those lasts for quite a while – months, depending on how many motion events are detected. You do need to have wi-fi signal wherever it is, though. And an app on your phone to control it. You can set up motion detection zones to record movement.
It's actually two pieces – the camera and the receiver which connects to your wi-fi. If stolen, someone can't re-use it – it's hard-coded to the receiver.
Cost is reasonable, under $50. You can insert a Micro SD card to record movement detection beyond the 12 second default (and two minute 'cool down', where it doesn't do any motion detection).
I have one, works good. Sits on the outside porch railing. I also have four others, including a doorbell one.
Re remote control frequencies: There used to be guy who drove past our house weekday mornings on his way to work about 5 am. His communication radio frequency was apparently the same as that of our TV remote. We'd get up and the TV would be on.
He moved or changed radios or routes, and our TV stayed off.
Recently, someone occasionally drives past and turns it on. Not often, just once in a while.
Nothing has ever turned it off, except a power blip.
My neighbors driveway gate had that exact same failure – maybe it’s the fail safe mode for gates, not to lock people *in*?
I have two of them but cannot get them to record any motion. I have the camera disabled from 6:00 AM until 12:00 AM. I don't know what settings I have to have on the camera to get them to record motion. I have a scheduled item to turn on Motion Detection and that is all. Do I need to set something else?
I am not at all pleased that WYZE is starting to charge for recordings, on my local device. If more than a few seconds is desired then paying is mandatory otherwise the cameras have a "cool down", (extortion) period before they will record again.
Greed is rampant.
@Ray: in the Wyze app, select the camera. Then click the Gear icon top right. Then select "Detection Settings". Then click "Detection Zone". Then select the part of the image to monitor (black is 'off'). Then click "Save" (upper right). Make sure the button (just under where you saw 'save') is turned on (swipe right).
Then back-arrow (upper left) once to the "Detection Settings" screen. The "Dectection Zone" should show 'on'. Adjust sensitivity as needed. Then back arrow twice to get back to the camera image.
Motion detection should now work. If you pop in an SD card in the camera, it should record locally (on the card) motion for as long as the motion occurs – no 12 second timeout plus cool-down.
While Wyze does have a subscription for 'in the cloud' recording saving, you can get the "Cam Plus Light" one, and set your own monthly price (even free). That's done via Account, then Services. Select the camera to apply Cam Plus Light to (scroll right to see the 'cam lite' column). (Cam Plus is the premium monthly service.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-warns-americans-food-shortage-gonna-be-real-following-sanctions-russia
The arsehat couldn’t have waited until after I made my normal Costco run tomorrow to proclaim this?
In Vantucky, we lived across the street from a Coast Guard Commander in charge of the station at the Portland Airport. Anytime she would work from home and fire up her radio, my old tube monitor would go crazy. The problem forced the issue of when to get a flat screen monitor.
"Ukraine Blocks Trans Women Refugees: "They Are Men, Must Go Back & Fight""
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-blocks-trans-women-refugees-they-are-men-must-go-back-fight
"Their reasoning might sour some trans activists in the West: Ukraine's martial law requires all biological males between the ages of 18 and 60 to remain in the country and fight. And it makes no exceptions for trans women."
>> Have you considered buying a red Silverado, just to be on the safe side?
@EdH, sorry, not getting the "red Silverado" reference.
FORD be the brand of choice for many here so not much GM discussion.
"WATCH: Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Says She ‘Can’t’ Define What A Woman Is “I Can’t, I’m Not a Biologist”"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/watch-bidens-scotus-pick-says-cant-define-woman/
What a tool !
Mittens is probably gonna vote for it.
>> In Vantucky, we lived across the street from a Coast Guard Commander in charge of the station at the Portland Airport. Anytime she would work from home and fire up her radio, my old tube monitor would go crazy. The problem forced the issue of when to get a flat screen monitor.
So in other words, you wanted to get rid of 'CRT.'
>> Have you considered buying a red Silverado, just to be on the safe side?
@EdH, sorry, not getting the "red Silverado" reference.
FORD be the brand of choice for many here so not much GM discussion.
Red Silverado is what the Houston Fire Department chiefs drive. They have the kaleidoscope of lights also, just like the fire trucks, so you can see them coming a mile away and make room for them.
>> In addition, a lot of these will go to rural routes, which in our part of the world means hundreds of miles every day on unpaved, ungraded, caliche roads, rocks and ruts, constant clouds of dust when it's dry, mud when it rains.
No range anxiety when they get the EV version, right?
Well, got the tank pumped. Took a while to find it. In the end, it was in the front yard like all the original owner tanks. So no upgrade, pure 1974 tech.
It was so full the lid was raising.
At some point the lid broke and fell in, and a foot of dirt did too. We vac'd out the dirt this time. Also 14 pairs of mens underwear. I don't even want to think about that. How did they ever clear the bowl?
No way to tell if the leach field is good except to use it and see.
$350. And it's a 500 gallon tank.
Really hoping it works out.
I did ask about water wells. Sends you need to go pretty deep and it costs about $20 k. I will stock some more filters instead.
N
Rd Silverado, Google the vid from the tornado here of the truck spinning and flipping, but lands on wheels and keeps driving… apparently a16 yo kid on his way to a job interview according to a neighbor up here.
Balls the size of cantaloupes.
N
I drove right by a bunch of tornado damage about 10 miles from this place. House gone, trees ripped up and blown over. Billboards laying down…
N
>> In addition, a lot of these will go to rural routes, which in our part of the world means hundreds of miles every day on unpaved, ungraded, caliche roads, rocks and ruts, constant clouds of dust when it's dry, mud when it rains.
No range anxiety when they get the EV version, right?
That is what the tow truck at the Post Office is for. Gets plenty of range with that big diesel.
My brother-in-law worked at the big Dallas UPS warehouse for 30 years. About 15 years ago, they got a dozen compressed natural gas delivery trucks added to their fleet of over a thousand delivery trucks. The natural gas delivery trucks were only good for about 110 miles in the Dallas traffic. So the delivery guys would run out of natural gas, call for the tow truck, and then finish their delivery route hooked on the tow truck.
Well, got the tank pumped. Took a while to find it. In the end, it was in the front yard like all the original owner tanks. So no upgrade, pure 1974 tech.
It was so full the lid was raising.
At some point the lid broke and fell in, and a foot of dirt did too. We vac'd out the dirt this time. Also 14 pairs of mens underwear. I don't even want to think about that. How did they ever clear the bowl?
No way to tell if the leach field is good except to use it and see.
$350. And it's a 500 gallon tank.
Really hoping it works out.
I did ask about water wells. Sends you need to go pretty deep and it costs about $20 k. I will stock some more filters instead.
N
What did the sewer guy quote you for a new three tank 3,500 gallon aerobic system ?
Sounds cheaper to put in a lake water filtration system for drinking water. Gonna need an activated charcoal filter, an RO (reverse osmosis), and a chlorine injector. We used to use a jug of Chlorox with a squirt per hundred gallons. Plus a few thousand gallon holding tank. Drinking it would clean you right out but all the bugs were dead.
I do not want to know how you counted the men's underwear.
We put 300 gallons per day in our 1,500 / 1,500 / 1,750 gallon aerobic septic system at the house. That is a lot of water for a leach field.
I don't understand. Our TV is a flat screen. It's attached to the computer as a monitor. But it still reacts to his radio.
New Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, TX opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RumujfxRocc
That is a huge building !
@Geoff Powell
Drive 1200 miles east from Toronto and it will get you to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Drive 1200 miles west, (north-west actually) you won't get out of Ontario. Texas looks small. On the other hand, Alaska is bigger than either Ontario or Québec.
When I was much younger, (less than half my current age) I drove to Halifax several times. About 18 hours total over two days. The winter trips were memorable! Never did get a chance to drive out west. I don't drive at all these days.
>> Balls the size of cantaloupes
Stupidity or guts?
Wonder if he got the job.
>> Coventry Homes is building a 8,000 ft2 to 10,000 ft2 house on 1.2 acres three lots down from my home. They started framing Monday. There is probably $100,000 of wood going into that two story house with two double garages attached to the house.
Any indication as to what they will list for?
>> Coventry Homes is building a 8,000 ft2 to 10,000 ft2 house on 1.2 acres three lots down from my home. They started framing Monday. There is probably $100,000 of wood going into that two story house with two double garages attached to the house.
Any indication as to what they will list for?
I don't think that it is a spec home (spec = speculative). If it is a spec home, $1.2 million to $1.5 million. It is a big sucker. I suspect that they are building for a client who already owned the lot.
My house is 3,301 ft2 and 24 years old. Much, much cheaper.
He got the job. He also tried to hide the incident from his family, but was busted when the video went viral. 🙂