They crunched the numbers, and found that because it was better and better for
investors, that this means its more affordable. They completely ignored the problem of buying a house in the first place, and like most in the Real Estate
industry here, they forget that houses exist for people to live in, not to use
as speculative tools.
Whether to buy or rent seems to be a very cultural thing. Cultures where people switches jobs quite fast because they are
always looking for somethign better seem to tend to rent; sedentary styled ones seem to prefer purchase.
Really? Who pays for that? If I rent my house to you does that mean I have to sell it to you if you want it? Is your country communist or something? Selling and renting are two different animals. I may never want to sell a property I'm renting. That's my choice as a property owner. Please explain yourself. Maybe your talking about leasing with the option to buy?
Finally bought a house about 2 years ago... After my last divorce I didn't think I'd go into a house again tbh, but rent seemed to go up about 60% in 4 years in my second to last apartment. I moved into the cheapest centrally located apartment I could find and for about 2 years, saved for a down payment. When I was closer to pulling the trigger, I stopped my tax deductions from payroll from 3 cycles and put that extra money with my savings as a down payment on a house.
There's also a huge variance between men and women on this... Single men are far more likely to rent. In general, financial advice is to buy
only if you intent to stay in place for 5-10 years as that's the typical break even to get ahead point.
Tracker1 wrote to Dennisk <=-for
On 7/11/2020 6:56 PM, Dennisk wrote:
They crunched the numbers, and found that because it was better and better
investors, that this means its more affordable. They completely ignored the problem of buying a house in the first place, and like most in the RealEstate
industry here, they forget that houses exist for people to live in, not touse
as speculative tools.
Finally bought a house about 2 years ago... After my last divorce I
didn't think I'd go into a house again tbh, but rent seemed to go up
about 60% in 4 years in my second to last apartment. I moved into the cheapest centrally located apartment I could find and for about 2
years, saved for a down payment. When I was closer to pulling the trigger, I stopped my tax deductions from payroll from 3 cycles and put that extra money with my savings as a down payment on a house.
It wasn't easy, it was uncomfortable and I wasn't always able to do
what I wanted during those 2 years. That's how you manage to get into
a house. That said, the house I bought is now showing only 2.4 years later that it's worth 19% more than what I bought it for. That's
another crash waiting to happen imho. It's unreasonable and
unsustainable to have that level of housing inflation. Not to mention that something like 50% of mortages were late or unpaid the month
before last.
I'm not sure how things will shake out, but I'm not moving for at least another ~3-5 years. I can only hope for my own sake that any bubble doesn't burst before I can sell, and that wherever I wind up moving they're in a dip/burst. I largely agree that investment properties
are, potentially an issue. That said, there's a lot of options and opportunities for people to buy.
growing up. In some ways, I kinda wish I still lived in an apartment so I wouldn't have to worry about any of that. Or at least a nice house without many issues (I bought a somewhat older one), perhaps without a yard or trees.. I've seen people put a slab of pavement in place of grass, which doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Re: Re: Cashless society is b
By: Nightfox to Tracker1 on Wed Aug 05 2020 04:40 pm
growing up. In some ways, I kinda wish I still lived in an apartment so I wouldn't have to worry about any of that. Or at least a nice house without many issues
bought a somewhat older one), perhaps without a yard or trees.. I've seen people put a slab of pavement in place of grass, which doesn't seem like a bad idea.
pavement is expensive though.
you can try having a wildflower garden. that's what people around me do.
i hate cutting grass too. i used to be a pro grass cutter. i cut ballparks and everything. i have an electric mower and it's a pain because of the cord.
then i have a gas mower but i think it needs to be sharpened. then if i use the gas mower i stink like gas.
i hate cutting grass too. i used to be a pro grass cutter. i cut ballparks and everything. i have an electric mower and it's a pain because of the cord. then i have a gas mower but i think it needs to be sharpened. then if i use the gas mower i stink like gas. ---
I moved to a mower model called Equus Ferus Caballus. They are big and unwieldly, but they are fully automatic - you leave them lose in an area and they trim the grass very quickly. If you have a male model and a female model, they will replicate and create a new mower every year. Their residues can be recycled and used for growing a healthy harvest. As a bonus, they provide lots of love and entertainment.
Re: Re: Cashless society is b
By: MRO to Nightfox on Wed Aug 05 2020 11:12 pm
i hate cutting grass too. i used to be a pro grass cutter. i cut
ballparks and everything. i have an electric mower and it's a pain
because of the cord. then i have a gas mower but i think it needs to
be sharpened. then if i use the gas mower i stink like gas. ---
Not just mowing a lawn, but also pulling weeds, trimming tree branches, etc..
Re: Re: Cashless society is b
By: Arelor to MRO on Thu Aug 06 2020 08:37 am
I moved to a mower model called Equus Ferus Caballus. They are big and unwieldly, but they are fully automatic - you leave them lose in an are and they trim the grass very quickly. If you have a male model and a female model, they will replicate and create a new mower every year. Th residues can be recycled and used for growing a healthy harvest. As a bonus, they provide lots of love and entertainment.
yeah but then you got the horse shit to deal with.
Finally bought a house about 2 years ago... After my last divorce I
didn't think I'd go into a house again tbh, but rent seemed to go up
about 60% in 4 years in my second to last apartment. I moved into the
cheapest centrally located apartment I could find and for about 2 years,
saved for a down payment. When I was closer to pulling the trigger, I
stopped my tax deductions from payroll from 3 cycles and put that extra
money with my savings as a down payment on a house.
I bought my first house in 2015 after living in apartments for a long time. I don't really like doing yard work, and I'm not really experienced doing house repairs & such, since I didn't do much of that kind of thing growing up. In some ways, I kinda wish I still lived in an apartment so I wouldn't have to worry about any of that. Or at least a nice house without many issues (I bought a somewhat older one), perhaps without a yard or trees.. I've seen people put a slab of pavement in place of grass, which doesn't seem like a bad idea.
There's also a huge variance between men and women on this... Single men
are far more likely to rent. In general, financial advice is to buy
only if you intent to stay in place for 5-10 years as that's the typical
break even to get ahead point.
I'm glad I've stayed in my house for 5 years now then.. My wife and I have been thinking of finding a new house that would suit us better.
Median house price in Sydney is about a million AUD. Melbourne is a little cheaper, but not much.
Good luck!
People are holding off having children because they cannot afford the home, which means our wise managerial class want to prop the population by bringing in people, or allowing external investors to buy up our real estate.
How people aren't rioting over this, I don't know.
Tracker1 wrote to Dennisk <=-bringing
On 8/6/2020 7:31 AM, Dennisk wrote:
Median house price in Sydney is about a million AUD. Melbourne is a little cheaper, but not much.
Good luck!
People are holding off having children because they cannot afford the home, which means our wise managerial class want to prop the population by
in people, or allowing external investors to buy up our real estate.
How people aren't rioting over this, I don't know.
It will get interresting at the outset of the COVID lockdowns in terms
of labor and how the economy recovers. I hope you guys don't relax foreign real estate investments, it's been a pretty bad result here in
the US with crazy rent hikes over the past decade. A lot of that may
well change with all the defaults on rent etc the past several months,
and roughtly half the population not paying rent or mortgages last
month. Will probably shift over into reforms on the credit agencies, which is way overdue esp regarding medical billing.
Just curious, what are you using to write your messages with? I've been using Thunderbird via nntp, but may look to other clients. Really want
to make one of my own (nntp based bbs message and telnet client, with offline ability).
Just curious, what are you using to write your messages with? I've been
using Thunderbird via nntp, but may look to other clients. Really want
to make one of my own (nntp based bbs message and telnet client, with
offline ability).
I've been using SlyEdit while logged into my BBS.
I wrote SlyEdit, as an editor I wanted to use on my BBS..
Cool, I have that setup for telnet.. I think the long line unwrapping is happening in my client... Some of the messages I was seeing from you
were single quote on a long line. May just be a thunderbird thing.
A while ago, I had updated SlyEdit to not do its own line wrapping. New message text typed by the user is saved as one long line. I thought message readers would be able to do their own line wrapping based on how wide it screen is.. I thought Thunderbird was intelligent enough to do its own line wrapping, but maybe not?
A while ago, I had updated SlyEdit to not do its own line wrapping.
New message text typed by the user is saved as one long line. I
thought message readers would be able to do their own line wrapping
based on how wide it screen is.. I thought Thunderbird was
intelligent enough to do its own line wrapping, but maybe not?
I think this is the best approach since we can't assume everyone is using an 80x25 screen like we always used to do (although I am using that now). It would be simpler to simply wrap those long lines for the display we are currently using.
Mystic was just updated to not truncate long lines at 256 characters and if your paragraph above was written as a long line then that update did what it was supposed to do.. :)
Cool, I have that setup for telnet.. I think the long line unwrapping is
happening in my client... Some of the messages I was seeing from you
were single quote on a long line. May just be a thunderbird thing.
A while ago, I had updated SlyEdit to not do its own line wrapping. New message text typed by the user is saved as one long line. I thought message readers would be able to do their own line wrapping based on how wide it screen is.. I thought Thunderbird was intelligent enough to do its own line wrapping, but maybe not?
On 8/13/2020 8:48 AM, Nightfox wrote:
Cool, I have that setup for telnet.. I think the long line unwrapping is >>> happening in my client... Some of the messages I was seeing from you
were single quote on a long line. May just be a thunderbird thing.
A while ago, I had updated SlyEdit to not do its own line wrapping.
New message text typed by the user is saved as one long line. I
thought message readers would be able to do their own line wrapping
based on how wide it screen is.. I thought Thunderbird was
intelligent enough to do its own line wrapping, but maybe not?
Kind of... for the new part of the message I am typing in, it will wrap based on the input settings. However, the quoted parts, it leaves as a
long line after the > character. Not that it matters much to me, but
may look weird to downstream readers. For example, I didn't modify the quoted part of my own reply, leaving line endings as-is.
It's definitely a T-Bird thing... and I'm connecting via my local sbbs
setup which is doing qwk polling through vert... I still need to work on
the hub a bit at some point. I'm considering just creating a bespoke
NNTP server for holding BBS messages and creating a program to poll vert
to start with. Still want to get it setup so that other nets/sysops can setup additional areas and push/pull and allow for inter-bbs messaging promoting nntp as the transport.
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