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My latest pair of new balance are an olive green color.
The funny part is I'm technically a millennial. I do not take being called a boomer as the insult it's intended to be though.
I have some tan fabric-eee Asics that look like running shoes. Horrible shoes, very uncomfortable.
I told the wife I'm buying some white 3/4 top cross trainers next week like I had in the late 80's/early 90's. NO velcro though.
I get what you’re doing, and I understand that you don’t live in the area, but that house is located in a place you would have to worry about being robbed or killed every day. Maybe my grandparents back in the 1940s could have lived there but not today. It’s not a place that you can raise a family. Also I noticed you picked the cheapest home in Portland, only 2 others in the price point and everything else is $500k I’ve been looking at houses to buy and I know you can’t get anything for under $500k that isn’t full of mold, rot, foundation damage, or need of a full renovation in this area. That’s the reason I have decided to move to the Phoenix area where you can get a good house for $300k. There are places like you have stated you can get a good home cheap home, but largely it’s extremely expensive and very difficult to afford
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What does that have to do with anything 😂
Good lord.
It's about the unfortunate young people on this thread, life is too hard now.
Do you ever take a break from your soapbox?
I get that and I'm only being mildly serious with these places. Location is what it is and if moving isn't an option that can be a problem.
I'm mostly just pointing out that our grandparents lived in houses that were so modest by today's standard that they aren't even considered to be an option, so just comparing home prices over time doesn't tell the story. Same thing with rent and apartments.
One of my best friends lived with his parents his entire life. I rode with him and at his track for decades. He never paid rent. Took care of things, but never had to worry about housing etc... Well, his dad passed 4 years ago and now last year, his mom passed. He and his sister are sole bennies. He lives in the house and wants to keep it. One problem...he owes his sister 50% or about $300k...which he has zero ability to pay. He has a bunch of bikes, a nice track, pole barn, toy hauler, lifted truck...but will probably lose the property because he figured he'd just get the house free and clear. Don't be un-prepared and live on your own. Surpises in your late 50's isn't fun if you aren't financially set. So, now he may need a loan he might pay it off by the time he's 90. Not a good situation.
So to look at it a different way he will inherit $300,000 from the sale of the property.
I know, I know , it sucks. Gotta ask questions and plan.
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Yup. But, then the track is gone...pole barns gone...bikes will have to go. He won't be able to get a place like he has for $300k. It's a 100% life change and he will go batshit crazy. Lack of planning, or giving a shit years ago to save a few bucks, has consequences.
This is hall of fame worthy. Honestly best read on here in a long time.
If that was me. I’d sell the truck and toy hauler for the down payment. Get a loan for the difference to pay off the sister. Eventually get another truck and toy hauler once I’ve got the land figured out. Won’t have another opportunity to purchase land with a house and pole barn again at $300k. Not a bad deal really.
You'd think he'd be selling everything he owns to come up with the money. He may I guess. Seems like a no brainer. But, he's a hard headed SOB. When I built my place in 2005, I sold everything I could think of (bikes, snowmobile etc...) to put down as much as possible.
Then he better find a way to buy out the sister or his free ride in life is over.
Does he not have a job and work ? 300k loan would be easy to get on a 600K property so he could buy out the sister.
We bought our house in 2017 for 320k, which at time was expensive. We financed below 3%. Now similar houses in our neighborhood are going for 475k plus and interest rates are 6%? Our wages sure as hell haven’t gone up enough to cover that. The federal government borrowed money for 25 years to keep payments low and now we’re paying the piper, and we are screwing our kids. The president agrees which is why he’s going after Blackrock and others investment firms for buying houses and he’s also begging the fed to lower interest rates.
That said I can agree that our youth need to understand the value of hard work but I have to also recognize that we’re not doing them any favors.
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Same story where I'm at with the increase in home values. How do you reconcile the increased demand that is driving up prices with the statement that it's harder to buy now than it was in the past? Where's the demand coming from if new buyers are prohibited from getting into the market? Any meaningful drop in interest rate will just drive home prices up more.
I moved last year. Went from 2.85% to 6.25%..... not fun doing the math on that one.....
04 was The Best Year to buy a bike. All the 125,s where Great last yr of the steel frame yz, kx had the Stewart success & was a Great bike, an improved RM , KtM was the power house engine, the Rushed threw production CR 125 was an unfinished Jewel. Mod that engine & Holy Shit is it a Quick Rocket That is A Blast to ride. The 250,s were all Great too.
Only grandpa needed to work because he was supporting a family of 5 on a single income as an appliance salesman
Is there any photo or video evidence of the amateurs whose names have been mentioned in this thread?
The demand is from people buying investment properties not first time home buyers. People buying houses just to rent out dont give a damn about the interest rate due to the tax write-off they get so they are able to scoop house up off a very limited market. IMO I think the only way to fix this is to lower rates. A lot of people say that lowering the rates will drive prices up but i have a different train of thought on what would happen. I think that if we lower the rates people will be more likely to sell and move into different houses opening up the market and making it more competitive than it is currently driving the prices a down to a more reasonable number, what damn houses are actually worth not the prices we are seeing now like ($350k for 780sq/ft moldy sack of shit on a 1/4 acre). like i said before this is my opinion
Ding ding ding! that's the point I was trying to highlight.
Also don't need (as much) shit from Amazon or food deliveries if grandma is sewing and cooking at home.
*the demand is from Corporations buying investment properties
Anyone else think it's weird that 7 months ago a top CEO of the corporation owning the most homes in the US (Blackstone) was murdered? And the media brushed it under the rug saying he was a mistaken target?
Someone should call in to the next Pulp show and mention a journalists whose bicycle does the pedaling for them.
This thread delivers.
Since I saw the nice 04 CR125 post here...My buddy in Dubuque has a 1979 CR125 if anyone is interested. I looked at it a month or so ago. Pretty sweet and in pretty killer condition. Keeping with the thread theme...My buddy in Dubuque never buckled his helmet BITD either...because he never wore a helmet.
What exactly are you defending? I’m just catching up on this thread and I can’t say I see any young guns complaining. I see guys relating their experience and slight dismay at the opportunities available, but not complaining.
It seems to me that you are the only one complaining. Complaining that everyone else isn’t applauding the destruction of the American working middle class and the opportunities which made it possible.
It seems to me you are defending economic policies which are decidedly anti-American and run contrary to the values which gave rise to the opportunities and generations that made America great in the first place.
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