For a $1200 item, the manufacturer should be sending you a shipping label. Period.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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we might have cops that shoot dogs and have to pay for health care, but we'd never let a scam like that fly in the good old us of a!
no joke, that is epic fail on canada.
In countries with... like... good economies, its not that big of a deal. It bothers me when Americans scoff at European policies that WORK because they just saw "aww but we'd have to pay more taxes!" If everyone is more prosperous, you can afford to pay more taxes... so people are better and infrastructure is better all at the same time.
We just can't fathom a balanced economy like that here in America
I just had a conversation about that while recording this weekend. The mortgage on my 3 bedroom house is less than what one of the guys pays in rent for his apartment. We were also really patient about finding the right house for the right price and we saved up a long time to put 20% cash down...and we refinanced a year or so ago when interest rates were really low. Unless you live in an old building that the landlord has owned for a long time, you're almost guaranteed to pay way more in rent than a mortgage on the same place. If the landlord is paying a mortgage on it and (hopefully) the cost of upkeep and property taxes, of course rent is going to be really high.
my landlord tried to talk me into a deal like this when he was trying to sell the house I live in. but I had zero desire to be a landlord, when I buy something there will not be any strangers living on my property.
luckily a Chinese couple bought the property and are letting me stay for the current rent, just have to keep maintaining the lawn and pay them in cash
If I do move I may try renting my house for a few years, see if that is decent spare cash and in case I want to come back for some reason since we have kin here.
Who has time to worry about all that when we spend so much time getting axles and tires replaced because our roads are going to sh!t?
We have nice roads here in Texas I find. Always work being done. Heck in the 2 years I've been in denton they've resurfaced every road I ever though had a problem.
I-35 always being worked on to be resurfaced or widened. That does cause a lot of traffic and I think from south Austin to DFW is supposed to be one of the if bit the deadliest stretches of highway though in the us lol. I had probably close to 10 near wrecks yesterday on that stretch. People drive crazy, fast and without turn signals at unreasonably short distances from other cars and break at anything.
When y'all vote me in as benign dictator, things will be righted swiftly.
sinking money into a depreciating asset is always a bad idea. i hate the fact that i had to buy my car, worst idea ever, but i was forced to because of how much driving i was doing and i couldnt lease one for the mileage i was putting on it. you pay 20k for a car and when youd drive it off the lot its worth 17k lol, just bad. if a house in an area is not going to appreciate, dont buy one, simple as that. but generally property goes up in value. the range in value it goes up is all determined by the area.
i might be the anomaly here living near DC because theres so much work and property is always going up here so i guess im just lucky that im in this area, but i have to imagine there are plenty of areas like this in the US, usually as long as you live in or outside a large metropolitan area.
It is different when you get something like 10 feet of snow a year.
As long as I have a place high up in the regime I am quite ok with this.
Yeah... see the thing about that statement is it totally negates the people that would love to change their situation financially and move, but dont have the disposable income to start that jump.
Its like saying, "Just go to college and get a good job."
Sure, let me pull $20k out of my ass a year and go to school, and then some how balance crushing student loan debt, and pay for a mortgage on property that wont be an investment with a large enough return to afford moving somewhere that will be.
Just ask all the folks who bought houses during the real estate bubble. If they sold their house now it was all be at a loss. It might even out of the next 20-30 years of course depends on the market but that poopie is fickle.
Sometimes, here, they would, if they want to jack up the rent more than would be legal with you living there.
Like I said, it's kinda irrelevant to me that yeah, owning is better long-term, if you can do it (depending on maintenance costs of the house in question... I grew up in one that was kinda always having something that needed fixing, so that makes me leery of owning a house, too), because I will never, ever be able to afford the initial cost.
Quoting myself, because none of you answered this before, as you were all talking about stupid houses.
And some of us would rather not move, but housing is already too expensive to afford unless you make quite a bit more money than I'll ever make.
It's a toothed gear-like stick that moves a round gear-like thingy.
