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There's an old saying," Even the elves think Santa is a jizz."
Here’s what I think…when I look at my bikes/e bikes…
Well, at-least it’s sorta “moto”. 🤣
You guys read way too much into the few sentences I typed about the 90's and early 2000's.
It was easier to live when houses cost 75k and a new Chevrolet truck was 19k, I don't see how any logical person could disagree.
If I was working in the good Ole days, I would say fuck yea. 19k Chevrolets and 4K KX250's were badass.
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nor Atlanta, nor Dallas, nor Ashburn, Va, not sure which Hillsboro we're talking about but maybe it's NC and you could commute an hour and make it happen 😅
there's a lot of variables to consider here- but your 1st calculation would be income to debt ratio, followed by credit score. That's where it starts whenever we sat with a lender to see what we qualify for. It helps if there are 2 of you breadwinners combined too. Also, what kind of home are you expecting to get into? Don't expect to start out in the best neighborhood in your area. Many go condo 1st as a steppingstone into the market- I did. Fixer uppers are always cheaper. Helps if you don't have child support $ owed every month. Can you tolerate roommates renting from you?
When I was out on my own in my early 20's my 1st rental was a tiny studio but worked for my budget. Moved on from there to renting in a friend's 4-bedroom house in an older suburb within our home area where we grew up. His parents helped him and an older brother by cosigning mortgages, and they rented out rooms to make the payments. Another friend had both parents in real estate helping them get started. I didn't have any of those advantages, but just examples of paths of getting into home ownership.
Sure, if you aren't blowing $800/m on that Tremor lease, and another $400/m for the SxS.
Prosperous times come and go in cycles. I've lived through several and some nasty recessions as well. I see them as needed economic resets along with injecting realism into expectations for the next recovery cycle. Our instant/constant access to mass media can warp our sense of reality and where we stand compared to others when we see story after story of the top celebs and/or earners flaunting their lifestyles that 99% of us don't and won't ever have. I try to tune out as much of that negativity as possible and find I'm generally happier for it.
That's a defeatist attitude.
I bought a used mower and a beat up trailer and started a lawn care business as a side hustle. The first job for my first client the trailer came apart and I had to push mow 2 acres with a 21" mower in the rain. I did it, fixed my trailer and continued on. Grew the lawncare business until it was making enough money to buy more equipment and got into the business I wanted to be in (water well drilling and service). this was in 2021. In 2024, I left the industry I'd been in for 32 years (mainly because in terms of inflation I was making the same money as I had made 24 years earlier in my career). That was April 1, 2024. Im still working for myself exclusively. I work as much or as little as I need.
Don't try to tell me it can't be done, or it can't be done these days.....I just did it. You can too...you just have to want it bad enough.
+ 6 streaming services, upgrading to the newest phone release that comes out every year, couple of Starbucks per day, $100.00+ sneakers, $10.00 per pack cigs, vapes, excessive tats, paying for "experiences" over mundane things like saving for your 1st house, etc.
It was a short time ago men in this country described themselved as a lot of things. Firemen, farmers, builders, soldiers, husbands, fathers, etc.. The current generation has a new description for some of themselves, "Gamer", with no shame. Neither of my grandgathers finished high school, but both worked three jobs most of their lives and built wealth in harder times than the current generation will ever know. I think this explains a lot.
Bro…you can get a $19k truck and $4k dirtbike today! What are you talking about? Oh…it’s not new, so life isn’t fair…
So if you want to buy a home move to a market you can afford to buy a house?
Like I said…some will do what it takes and figure it out…most will make excuses and blame others…
I have yet to say anything about life not being fair, like I said you guys some how take offense to having the opportunity to buy a new Chevrolet for 19k.
You guys keep going round and round with the pep talk, we got it.
Buying more expensive shit is easier, makes perfect sense.
Meh…think I pay $800/month for my “Side by Side” (aka, a Ford Bronco…yes, I call it “my side by side”!) and it’s worth every penny. 4.9%…which seemed “high” when I got it! 🤣 (my pick up is 0%…so you can see why 4.9 was kinda annoying!). $42K in 2023…$46K with all the title and taxes…thanks to some very kind people at Ford.
Why is it my “Side by Side”…well…I didn’t get the warm and fuzzies about any of the SxS’s when it came to driving from the California border to Cabo. Nope…wasn’t “feelin’ it”. Also, I’ve got A LOT of miles and hours in Raptors and there’s places I like to go in the Eastern Sierra and even in Baja where they’re TOO DAMN BIG…& then there’s the price of a Raptor…so…uh, yeah.
While we’re talking about the cost of our stuff, inflation and all that…I’ll state the obvious: value is in the eye of the beholder.
Hammer said those are the locations his jobs were hiring.
Which begs the question, if the pay is good (for the location) and the candidate requirements are not unique, why are there vacancies?
I'm in the builder classification.
Put all the siding on this place myself.
Trim work also.
I take offense when a bunch of desk jockey want to talk about working harder.
Desk Jockey? Never heard of her....
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He said: “We are dying for good workers in many locations around the country. Hillsboro, Ashburn, Atlanta, Dallas, SoCal, Bay area, and a lot more.”
The “and a lot more” is the part you missing…
Here they charge you a fee to get in the track facility. So if mom and dad take their kid to race, they pay 3 gate fee “tickets” and then they will pay a race fee for the kids class or multiple classes
Not sure what RD you are nutz for, but here's mine.
Nice! A couple 77 400D and a Daytona. I have 5 RDs that currently don't run: 1973 RD250, 1974 RD350 (2), 1977 400D, 1987 TZR250R. Had several RDs and earlier models back in the 1970's but never kept any as I was more into dirt bikes. Never got rid of the itch though and once I finished college and was married with house etc. I set out to find 1 RD and 1 ATC250 3-wheeler to tinker with. Started looking and ended up with a garage full of projects and a couple easy to fix runners. Then an RZ350 fell into my lap, and we moved so got rid of everything except the RZ and the 400D and a 350B that I stripped and had blasted and powder coated. Once settled in new house I started "collecting" again and went through more than 2 dozen wheeling and dealing until I got pulled into VMX full time around 2001. RD projects went to the back of the garage. Now I'm thinning the herd on the VMXers and turned my attention to the 5 project RDs after 20 years in deep storage. Going to keep the RD250, (1) 74RD350 (getting refurbished with 1975 Orange bodywork), and the same RD400 I tore down back in mid 1990s. Hoping to have the 350 & 400 on the road this Summer. Everything else gets sold.
Sent you a PM about the TZR
I have a 75 250 and a 76 400 I am restoring too. Plus 4 other custom 400s I will do for a buddy. Always looking for good bones so if you choose to part with any let me know. Long, dark winters here and restorations keep my hands and mind busy.
check your PM
Yeah, respectfully you’re so out of touch. Idiot tier statements that nobody on earth agrees with.
A legit lender would never approve that loan. So one would be looking at property much cheaper that would be a fixer.
You could get a loan with a reflection in the mirror before 2008.
you're not seeing the full picture. Keeping it real here... my parents bought a 1-year-old suburban tract house in 1969 in San Diego for $40k- but the mortgage interest rate was 18%! He was a college professor at SDSU. Credit interest was proportionally higher then too. Unemployment was higher. Our family home was sold in 2001 for $600k just coming off the dot com bubble bust. I disagree it was easier to live overall then- just different.
Sure you could! Easy money then. 120% loans back then for a while too. It was easy for a loan broker to make 25K a month back in those ninja loan days.
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