Beepster


Seriously though this place was third world. I'd have been better off in a tent in Mooch's garage.

The tent isn't THAT bad .....AND ......she lets me in the house for dinner 30 minutes every evening......AND.....Saturdays I get to come in for 90 minutes to watch Saturday night live 




The chosen one is the best thing that has ever happened to me 

The tent isn't THAT bad

Mooch4056

Beepster


Seriously though this place was third world. I'd have been better off in a tent in Mooch's garage.

The tent isn't THAT bad .....AND ......she lets me in the house for dinner 30 minutes every evening......AND.....Saturdays I get to come in for 90 minutes to watch Saturday night live 




 The chosen one is the best thing that has ever happened to me 

In that case I'm in. I gotta warn you though... I like to snuggle.

Beepster I can't imagine being in your situation and I wish you the all the best.

I can relate to Herbs views even though there are so many issues with the housing
market I've never understood and never will.

The biggest reason is because of the conventional design. It's just my opinion that people
live in dwellings that have the same dumb design problems from the day we moved out of caves. ( I know that some aren't facing "common" issues)

I could very easily make a list of every stupid thing about a conventional home. Then it is
magnified to an amazing level of insanity when people are stacked on one another. (opinion)
I believe it is much like the viewer in the stands can see the play much better than those
on the field.

Money is without doubt the factor that controls ones selective options.
Then one is faced with choices due to location and availability.

At a young age I remember the impact that "a mans home is is castle" had on me.
By the time I was 18 I could have tested (and passed) to be a plumber and/or a general
electrician. I had the carpentry skills and drafting skills to build a home. There wasn't
anything to do with building a conventional "castle" that I couldn't do and didn't do.

So I helped a friend build his first home. It was a big home on a good size lot...to long ago
to remember the exact dimensions of either.
What I do remember is thinking about how stupid many of the conventional code enforced
requirements where.
We talked and I recommended many alternatives but our hands were tied because we had
to meet inspection requirements and my friend didn't want to spend the time trying to get
our/my modifications approved.
The main issue was that he was borrowing the money from a bank and they would not finance a "custom" home. Simply if he faulted then they figured it would not be easy to
sell it/recover the money.

So....I knew that my "castle" would be at the mercy of conventional stupidity unless I
had the cash and property to do it as I thought it should be done. I wanted control of not
only which direction my front door faced but also what was under my floor and inside my walls...etc. ( so plumbing under concrete is smart conventional design? You have to be nuts to think that is smart....IMO) ...oops...I'm getting wound up now LOL.

From my point of view Beepster.....you are in a position that would scare the living hell
out of me.
First.....not having the cash to avoid all the crazy and down-right stupid issues with a "home".
Secondly....I have always felt that I could face most anything if I had a home base to work from and no reason to worry about losing it.

Unfortunately I never got the opportunity to build ( but it's not over) but I did get a
home base and it's mine. Luckily I got it grand-fathered in so it's also property tax free.
So there is only one cost associated with the house and property which is a city tax of about 17 dollars a year. (excluding utilities naturally)

With this you can understand why your position is so scary to me and that it is complicated
in the fact that should you find a place it is by design to be the thing that irritates me to the bone....it will be a structure that is flawed beyond any logical reasoning mind. It will be
a conventional work of fart.

This situation of yours is not the first I've heard...

Some years back I had a very good friend, he has passed, and we were talking about this as one of his friends had a family and they were struggling with finding a home.

I thought about things for a few days and drafted up a gated community project.
It was designed to include a small non-profit store for basic needs, a community laundry.
A family park that would be in view of all the "homes".
The homes were nothing as we know as conventional. They were shelters designed to withstand tornados. (and ideas I don't care to post) 
The funny part is he got to moving to quick..while he was working on getting the property
he told his wife he was going to clear a large part of their property to build a prototype
dwelling. She went nuts!
Then he passed...after services is when she questioned me if all that was my idea...

So now...I feel for you and wish you the best as I have learned to keep my serious suggestions to myself...and for myself.

Wow!  That was almost a Danny Danzi-esque post there Michael! 

(BTW - I've had one of my homes on HGTV...  That's a story for another time and cost me a good chunk of money!   )

"So what can you do?"

Now that is the question.

Without cash one is at the mercy of laws and regulations.
With cash and depending on location- one can avoid work around them both.

That is when it pays off to know the important and smart ways to contruct a
real home. And with cash...for about 1/3 the cost of having another build it wrong.

I'm most certain now that you and I could list many of the stupid and silly things that
people take loans out for at 3 times the value and windup making payments for their
life in order to own it...if they make it.

Should we post that list it may hurt or insult. Very good reasons not to do so.

Craig...LOL....
 
I applied for a job- well actually I applied for two different jobs that I didn't want- what I
wanted was the knowledge I would get from doing them.
 
One was at a fiberglass tub manufacturing plant- I had the plans to build a car and it needed
a fiberglass body.
The other was at a wiring manufacturing plant. - I wanted to gain contacts and some other benefits.
 
One of the ladies interviewing me stated.."you've had a great number of jobs...a jack of all trades?" and I replied, "No...most all of them I set the bar but don't like the self appointed title of master".
I didn't get the job but I learned and got all that I would have gotten anyway.
It's hard to take a job when one is smarter then the one they'll be working for....and that is just
to easy to have happen for most of us.
The reason....many years ago that many here may not realize is that when I started working and
the way it was before then, a man would get promoted for being good at completing tasks. Then
it all changed....when a worker got good at something they couldn't afford to move him so they would
promote the ones that were in the way and a hassle to fire.
A complication brought on by the winds of change.

Beepster


I don't even have a credit card (by choice) I hate the credit racket so much. If I were to ever buy a car or a house I'd want to have all the cash on hand so those vultures don't even get the slightest chance at screwing me. That however pretty much means unless I write a hit album or best seller book I'll never own a home. The car I might be able to swing one day but there's another overpriced money pit.

Beepster get all of them you can...suitcases full of them and leave them in the case.
They all have a face value.
Now I'm not suggesting anything....but...
imagine have a suitcase full of them and spending a couple of days getting the face value
before departing to a selective retirement local.
 
On a steel horse I ride....I'm wanted....